PA Nurse Charged With Murder For Killing 2 Patients; Confesses to 19 Other Attempted Murders

A former Pennsylvania nurse arrested earlier this 12 months on murder and different expenses, has confessed to authorities that she tried to kill 19 different individuals.

On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Lawyer Basic’s Workplace confirmed Heather Pressdee, 41, was hit with a dozen of recent expenses after she was beforehand accused of getting prescribed extreme quantities of insulin to sufferers, which additionally resulted within the killing of two sufferers and hospitalizing a 3rd, PEOPLE reported.

“Today, the Office of Attorney General filed charges regarding mistreatment of 19 additional patients at five different care facilities between 2020 and this year,” a November press launch reads.

“Pressdee is accused of administering excessive amounts of insulin to these patients, some of whom were diabetic and required insulin, and some of whom were not. In total, seventeen patients died who had been cared for by Pressdee,” the discharge added.

The Pennsylvania Lawyer Basic’s Workplace stated Pressdee, of Natrona Heights, had admitted to making an attempt to kill 19 different sufferers with insulin at 5 completely different rehabilitation facilities.

“It is hard to comprehend how a nurse, trusted to care for her patients, could choose to deliberately and systematically harm them,” Lawyer Basic Michelle Henry stated in an announcement.

“The damage done to the victims and their loved ones cannot be overstated. Every person in a medical or care facility should feel safe and cared for, and my office will work tirelessly to hold Pressdee accountable for her crimes and protect care-dependent Pennsylvanians from future harm.”

Pressdee’s victims ranged in age from 43 to 104. “Pressdee typically administered the insulin during overnight shifts when staffing was low and the emergencies would not prompt immediate hospitalization,” the discharge added, with Henry additionally calling the allegations “disturbing.”

Pressdee has been charged with mistreatment of twenty-two sufferers and two counts of first-degree homicide, 17 counts of tried homicide and 19 counts of neglect of a care-dependent individual.

In accordance with authorities, the alleged crimes occurred at a number of services, together with Concordia at Rebecca Residence, Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation (Guardian), High quality Life Providers Chicora, Premier Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Heart, and Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Heart.

Pressdee was arraigned on Thursday and waived her preliminary listening to on these expenses. She stays in custody at Butler County Jail with out bail.

Pressdee was arrested in Might and was arraigned on two counts of murder, one rely of tried homicide, one rely of aggravated assault, three counts of neglect of a care-dependent individual and three counts of reckless endangerment.

The Lawyer Basic’s Workplace stated the alleged acts occurred at High quality Life Providers, a talented nursing facility in Chicora the place Pressdee labored as a registered nurse. In accordance with a felony criticism, a 55-year-old man died on Dec. 4, 2022 and an 83-year-old man died on Dec. 25, 2022.

A 3rd alleged sufferer, a 73-year-old man, survived after being handled on the hospital because of the “potentially lethal dose of insulin he received on Aug. 31, 2022,” in accordance with the discharge, which additionally acknowledged two of the three males weren’t diabetic.