Heather Pressdee admitted to giving excessive doses of insulin to 22 nursing home patients — most of whom died after the dose was given — in Pennsylvania. (Courtroom screenshot from KDKA/YouTube)
A Pennsylvania nurse will spend the rest of her life in prison after admitting to charges that she intentionally administered excessive doses of insulin to nearly two dozen nursing home patients.
Heather Pressdee, 41, was given three consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty on Thursday to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder, Attorney General Michelle Henry announced in a news release. In addition to the consecutive life sentences for the three counts of first-degree murder, she was given 380 to 760 years of consecutive incarceration for the 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder, prosecutors said.
As Law&Crime has reported, Pressdee was accused of intentionally administering excessive doses of insulin to 22 patients — 17 who died — between 2020 and her arrest in May 2023, according to the state attorney general’s office. Some of the patients — spanning five different care facilities — required insulin to treat diabetes, while some of them did not have diabetes.
