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WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Elizabeth Wettlaufer, she of no hallucinations or psychosis and with full insight into what she was doing, has no lessons to give.

She is, as duly pronounced by the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, an adult with anti-social and borderline personality disorders and mild alcohol and drug issues.

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It is hardly an extraordinary description in the modern world, though Wettlaufer would undoubtedly contest that.

As evidenced by the rapt way she watched herself in her videoed police confession from the prisoner’s box in a Woodstock, Ont., courtroom on Thursday, she believes herself a rare specimen.

From 2007 until August of last year, when she voluntarily walked into the psychiatric hospital and began confessing, Wettlaufer operated as Canada’s most prolific female serial killer, giving insulin overdoses to the elderly, spectacularly vulnerable, frail and often mentally confused charges in her care.