3 decades later, Alpine Manor killer released from prison

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WOOD) — One of two women convicted of murdering several elderly patients at a Walker nursing home in the late 1980s is free.

Catherine Wood was released Thursday morning from a federal prison in Tallahassee. She is expected to go live with family in South Carolina.

In 1987, Wood and Gwen Graham killed at least five patients at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home, where both were nurse’s aides. Wood testified against Graham at trial, saying she was the lookout while Graham smothered the victims. Graham was ultimately convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of Mae Mason, 79, Edith Cook, 98; Marguerite Chambers, 60; Myrtle Luce, 95; and Belle Burkhard, 74.

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