Courtrai judicial authorities are striving to solve three murders and six attempted murders at the Rozenberg nursing home in Oostrozebeke, West Flanders, in 2020 and 2021.
All the home’s employees have been asked to provide DNA samples in an attempt to unmask the perpetrator, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.
This DNA will be matched against samples retrieved from suspect insulin pens seized as part of the investigation. Investigations have shown that genetic mix from a man and a woman have appeared on all the victims cases.
All victims targeted in murder attempts had been diagnosed with hypoglycaemia, an abrupt drop in blood sugar due to an insulin overdose.
As none of them had diabetes, insulin was not part of their prescribed treatment. It was also found that the insulin did not come from the nursing home’s pharmacy, indicating it had been brought in from outside.
To identify the guilty party or parties, plans have been made to compare these DNA profiles with those from the entire staff and everyone with direct access to the care centre, including the cleaning team.
It’s expected nurses will likely be the ones first subjected to this examination.
Should this investigation yield no result, the focus will shift entirely to a wider group of women, roughly 40 in total, associated with the nursing home.
The three murders took place in 2020, while the murder attempts continued in summer 2021.
