Nursing Home Supervisor Denies Statement To Investigators
We discussed Penny Whitlock and Marty Himebaugh and their possible roles in a series of unusual deaths of terminally ill residents at an Illinois nursing home in previous blogs.
Reportedly, while employed at Woodstock Residence, nurse Marty Himebaugh gave residents dangerous doses of morphine or other drugs and nursing home supervisor Penny Whitlock knew about it. Allegedly, Whitlock told other facility employees that Himebaugh was serving as an "Angel of Death". While neither woman is accused of killing the residents, four residents died while under their care.
Whitlock faces seven felony charges from the investigation into the four suspicious deaths - five counts of criminal neglect and two counts of obstructing justice. She is accused of turning a blind eye to the untimely deaths and has recently contradicted state police accusations that she told facility employees to deviate from protocol for the disposal of the dead residents' morphine. In a recent two day hearing into her motion to suppress expected testimony from investigators, Whitlock testified that she never made that admission during a November 2008 interview with investigators.
Whitlock has requested a jury trial.
