Rachel Waters gave morphine to her dying mother to ease her in her final hours. Then came the murder charge
Rachel Waters was in her apartment in Queens, watching food reviews on YouTube, when a nurse called: her mother was dying.
She needed to get to the memory care facility in Evans, Georgia, immediately. A physician had said Marsha could pass within hours.
The call was devastating, but not unexpected. Marsha Foster, 74, had advanced Alzheimer’s disease and multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer. She had been in hospice care for nearly eight months and weighed just 80lbs. Her spine was so weakened by the disease that she was permanently hunched over at a 90-degree angle.
When Rachel arrived at Marshall Pines Assisted Living and Memory Care, she found her mother nearly unresponsive. Marsha’s eyes wouldn’t close, her mouth was drooping, and her toes had started to turn black – the result of reduced blood flow as the body begins to shut down. In accordance with her “do not resuscitate” order, she had not been given food or fluids for about a day.
