A Florida woman has been charged with manslaughter after she admitted to suffocating her terminally ill boyfriend with a pillow because she was “disgusted” at having to care for him while he was bedridden with cancer, court records show.
Margaret Kearney, 69, was arrested Tuesday for killing her boyfriend of 15 years at the home the couple shared in New Port Richey.
On Dec. 20, the man was found dead by a visiting nurse who went to his home to treat him.
The victim was under hospice care for terminal rectal cancer, according to a complaint affidavit obtained by The Post.
Deputies with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office were called to the scene and observed that the man “did not have any injuries.”
The next day, however, Kearney’s friend of 30 years called authorities to tell them she had had several recent phone calls with the woman regarding her boyfriend’s health.
The friend told investigators that Kearney “expressed disgust at having to take care of the victim, because the victim defecated due to her illness and she did not want to clean it up and would wait for the Hospice or home health care nurse to clean it up the next time they visited,” the filing said.
Margaret Kearney, 69, has been charged with suffocating her terminally ill boyfriend with a pillow. Pasco Sheriff’s Office
Kearney’s friend later claimed that shortly after 10:30 the night before, he got a call from the woman “who told him that she smothered the victim with a pillow and that he had ‘disappeared’.”
According to the informant, Kearney told her she planned to cover her dead boyfriend with a blanket, so that when her nurse came the next day, she would think he had died in his sleep.
During a controlled phone call between Kearney and her friend the following day, the homicide suspect was quoted as saying that she felt “better” about the situation — and confirmed using a pillow to hold her boyfriend down, the affidavit alleges.
When interviewed by detectives, the 69-year-old woman, who stands 5 feet tall and weighs just 100 lbs, allegedly confessed to killing her boyfriend by pressing a pillow to his face for 5 minutes, after he called her into the bedroom complaining of pain.
A home health nurse found the man dead at his and Kearney’s home in New Port Richey, Florida, on Dec. 20. Google Maps
Kearney allegedly told investigators that her boyfriend was “alive and alert” before she restrained him and stopped breathing after she removed the pillow from his face.
The girlfriend spent the night on the couch, and when the nurse came the next day, she allowed him to believe that her boyfriend died of natural causes in his sleep.
Kearney sought to justify her actions by claiming that she killed her terminally ill boyfriend “to save him from further pain.”
He also allegedly admitted to deliberately overmedicating the victim with liquid morphine before his death.
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