WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — A former nurse’s aide convicted of killing five elderly patients at a nursing home in Walker nearly 40 years ago has asked the governor for a pardon.
The Michigan Innocence Clinic has filed a petition for clemency for Gwendolyn Graham, now 62, who was convicted of suffocating the patients at what was then Alpine Manor Nursing Home. The clinic’s argument: The murders never happened.
“Using dark humor in the workplace is not evidence of criminal behavior,” Innocence Clinic attorney Olivia Vigiletti wrote in a 642-page petition filed with the Michigan Department of Corrections’ parole board…