Edith Cook, 98, was a White woman living at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home in Walker, Michigan, when she died during a stretch of nights that later came to be remembered with dread. In the quiet routines of a care facility—dim hallway lights, soft voices at nurse stations, doors cracked open for checks—her passing initially blended into what people expected from a place filled with frailty and long illness: another death that seemed, at first glance, to be natural.
But behind the ordi
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