Dorothea Waddingham
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Dorothea Nancy Waddingham (1899 - 1936) was a nursing home matron and convicted murderer in the United Kingdom. She was tried and convicted of using morphine to poison two patients: 89 year old Mrs. Baguely and her daughter Ada Baguely. The purported motive behind the murders was to gain the Baguelys' estate, which amounted to 1600 pounds. After a post-mortem of the patients revealed they had been given morphine contrary to medical orders, she and her husband, Ronald Joseph Sullivan, were arrested. In trial, Sullivan discharged for insufficient evidence. Waddingham, however, was convicted and hanged in 1936, having confessed to the crime shortly before her execution[1].
