A Murder Mystery

This is the plot line. The story takes place in a board and care where several old, frail people live with one lovely young woman. (No, this isn't about Snow White.) One day a resident with severe dementia is brought to the hospital with a broken hip. The hip is surgically repaired, but as so often happens with people in their nineties, he developed pneumonia and is not responding to treatment. Death is imminent.

The young woman from the board and care visits the old man in the hospital every day. She often cries and is beside herself with grief over the man's impending death. She strikes up a friendship with the daughter and they spend hours a day sitting together in his room, trying to comfort each other.

The young woman one day can't stand it anymore and needs to clear her conscience. She tells the daughter that her father didn't fall, but was pushed by an employee at the home. She witnessed the act and has also seen other residents pushed resulting in broken hips.

That day, the woman goes home to the board and care and suffers "a fall." She is now in a coma at another hospital. Is this a coincidence or did the people at the board and care find out that she ratted them out?

Doesn't this sound like the bad plot for a murder mystery? This is the story that the day shift nurses told us.

A social worker was asked to investigate. The actual story isn't nearly as interesting. The young woman had suffered a head injury and been in a coma, but that happened several years ago. The old man hadn't been pushed, but had gotten into a struggle with a nurse who was trying to keep him from escaping. While wrestling with the door, the old man lost his balance and fell. It was an accident. End of story.