Over the course of nine years ending in 2016, Wettlaufer, a registered nurse in Southwestern Ontario, killed eight and attempted other murders by injecting her victims with insulin.

The inclusion of a London nursing home among three across the province ordered to stop taking new residents underscores the need to tackle systemic issues in long-term care, a local MPP says.

A pastor prayed over Elizabeth Wettlaufer and told her not to kill again. A lawyer advised the registered nurse to take her murderous secrets to her grave. A Narcotics Anonymous sponsor dismissed her insinuations of harming seniors as the talk of a "pathological liar," while an ex-boyfriend attributed her confessions of killing nursing home patients to a "psychiatric episode."

It was an emotional day in court for family and friends of the victims of Elizabeth Wettlaufer, the former Ontario nurse who pleaded guilty Thursday to the first-degree murder of eight seniors.