A Florida woman admitted to suffocating her terminally ill boyfriend with a pillow because she was “tired” of having to care for him as he was dying of cancer, according to court records. He was later charged with murder.
Margaret Carney, 69, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of premeditatedly killing her boyfriend of 15 years at the couple's New Port Richey home.
The man was found dead on December 20th by a visiting nurse who visited his home for treatment. According to the paper, the victim was receiving hospice care for terminal rectal cancer. complaint affidavit Obtained by The Post.
Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the scene and determined the man had “no significant injuries.”
But the next day, a friend of Carney's for 30 years contacted authorities and said she had received several recent phone calls concerned about the health of the woman and her boyfriend.
A friend told investigators that Carney “expressed disgust at having to take care of the victim and did not want to clean herself, as the victim had been defecating on her own due to illness. “I was waiting for hospice and home health nurses to clean me up.” the next time they visit,” the filing said.
Carney's friend later claimed that a woman called him the night before after 10:30 p.m. and told him that she had suffocated the victim with a pillow and had 'disappeared'.
The informant said Carney told her that she intended to cover her deceased boyfriend with a blanket and that when the nurse came the next day, she would think he had died in his sleep.
The next day, in a controlled phone call between Mr Carney and a friend, the murder suspect said he felt “better” about the situation and admitted he had used a pillow to suffocate his boyfriend. The deposition records allege.
When questioned by detectives, the 69-year-old woman, who is 5 feet tall and weighs only 100 pounds, allegedly confessed to killing her boyfriend by shoving a pillow over his face for five minutes after he complained in the bedroom. pain.
Carney allegedly told investigators that her boyfriend was “alive and conscious” before she suffocated him, and that he was no longer breathing after the pillow was removed from his face.
The girlfriend spent the night on the couch, and when the nurse came the next day, she led her to believe that her boyfriend had died of natural causes in his sleep.
Carney tried to justify her actions by claiming she killed her terminally ill boyfriend “to prevent him from suffering any more pain.”
She also allegedly admitted to intentionally overdosing the victim with liquid morphine before he died.
