Australia - Brenda and Lynton Anderson, married, both 94, allegedly murdered a year apart, South Australia, 2022-2023 *daughter charged*

[SouthAussie]

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They've named her.

Oh boy. A daughter. That is very sad.

 

[Kemug]

Well at least they never knew, I suppose.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Is there a chance that they're mistaken

 

[Kemug]

Is there a chance that they're mistaken

Well we can hope so Tootsie, but sadly experience has taught us that they probably aren't.

 

[Kemug]

The arrested daughter is an aged care worker!

 

[SouthAussie]

The arrested daughter is an aged care worker!

Oh no.

I wonder what she dosed them with ... a “prescribed medication” that shouldn’t have been in their systems. Link

I have probably been reading too much of the Nurse Letby thread, but I hope there were no others.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I wonder if it might be not about money, but because their health was declining and she thought they were suffering.

Edited to say I don't know if their health was declining.

 

[Kemug]

Just what every family wants - an aged care worker who plays God!

 

[CooperDyl]

I wonder if it might be not about money, but because their health was declining and she thought they were suffering.

Edited to say I don't know if their health was declining.

This is what I’ve been thinking. Was it a murder for financial gain (or otherwise), or was it an attempt at a ‘mercy kill’?
Hard to know the motivations behind it, perhaps the parents had even asked for it. Either way, if the law has been broken I’m sure the accused will be punished justly.

 

[Kemug]

The daughter might claim it was a mercy killing even if it wasn't.

 

[Kemug]

Working in aged care probably means access to medications.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Here's a case from 2018

NSW woman avoids jail after poisoning elderly disabled mother

www.9news.com.au

 

[DS2021]

I doubt this is financially motivated imo. Not to be blunt, but at there age, it would have been easier to just wait for nature to take its course.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I am still not clear on WHEN they realized the mother's death was foul play.....

Was the daughter under suspicion soon after mother's death?
Or did it come to their attention after the father's death?

 

[musicaljoke]

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[Crumble]

Just saw they charged the daughter. She lives at Craigmore which is an hour away from her parents house so not that close.

Just thinking out loud.

Daughter works as a carer so no doubt would have seen what some bad aged care facilities look like (possibly wanted to prevent her parents from going into a nursing home?) Even so, home care can be increased. Mr and Mrs Anderson to my knowledge, before their deaths, were still living in their home and receiving home care services. These services can be expensive though if you are self-funded. Mrs Anderson had presumably lived the past year alone at the Hackham house.

Mr and Mrs Anderson were poisoned 1 year apart. It seems cruel to have 1 die while the other lives (prioritising covering up the crime by comitting them separately)?

Mr Anderson was found unconscious at their home by a carer. For a mercy killing it just seems so callous?


All MOO

*a correction to my earlier post, I was referring to there being cameras across the road from the Anderson's property but since it was the murder of Mr Anderson that occurred at the house, which was over a year ago now, I guess the cameras may not have been checked? But then again... the police claim they have a toxicology report from Mr Anderson, so the fact that they have that makes me think they were suspicious even back then? I guess we will have to wait to learn more.

 

[SouthAussie]

*a correction to my earlier post, I was referring to there being cameras across the road from the Anderson's property but since it was the murder of Mr Anderson that occurred at the house, which was over a year ago now, I guess the cameras may not have been checked? But then again... the police claim they have a toxicology report from Mr Anderson, so the fact that they have that makes me think they were suspicious even back then? I guess we will have to wait to learn more.

I think it goes like this, from everything that I have read .....

Mr Anderson died on 1st May 2023 - just two months ago.
Mrs Anderson died on 16th March 2022 - a year and 4 months ago.

The drug was given to Mr Anderson the day before he died, while he was at home. He then died at Flinders Hospital the next day.
Mrs Anderson was given the drug while she was in Noarlunga Hospital, 4 days before her death. Some time between the drug being given to her, and her dying, she was transported to Flinders because that is where she died.

If, as you say, there is current CCTV across the street from the home - I think it is possible that the police have footage, if they caught it in time before it was written over.


Both victims died at the Flinders Medical Centre – Mrs Anderson on March 16, 2022, and her husband on May 1, this year. Link
“It will be alleged both died from drug overdoses after being deliberately administered medication”
“In Mrs Anderson’s case, while she was being treated as a patient at the Noarlunga Hospital on 12 March 2022 and when Mr Anderson was at his Hackham home on 30 April, 2023.” Link

 

[SouthAussie]

Just saw they charged the daughter. She lives at Craigmore which is an hour away from her parents house so not that close.

Just bouncing off your post again ... I see that 12th March 2022 and 30th April 2023 were both Sundays, I am guessing the daughter drove from Craigmore to visit them both (and give them the drug that killed them) on a weekend non-work day for her.

 

[musicaljoke]

The daughter might claim it was a mercy killing even if it wasn't.

Yes, possibly the daughter will try to claim that it was simply assisted suicide. Does Australia have laws regarding how that would be carried out? I would expect that at the very least, there would be consent given in writing. I assume nothing like that was found.

 

[SouthAussie]

Yes, possibly the daughter will try to claim that it was simply assisted suicide. Does Australia have laws regarding how that would be carried out? I would expect that at the very least, there would be consent given in writing. I assume nothing like that was found.

The deaths of Mr & Mrs Anderson happened in my state, and we just commenced voluntary assisted dying over the past couple of years.
It is now enshrined in legislation, through the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021. But I think it only really became accessible to us on 31st January this year. With lots of legal stipulations.


From 31 January 2023 the Voluntary Assisted Dying Pathway (‘the pathway’) is available to eligible South Australians pursuant to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021 (SA) (‘the Act’). This is the only legal way to access any form of euthanasia in South Australia.

Voluntary Assisted Dying Pathway

www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au