Line forms outside courtroom where Heather Pressdee is to appear
People lined up to enter the courtroom before the 9 a.m. appearance of Heather Pressdee, a Natrona Heights nurse linked to the deaths of patients in Butler, Allegheny, Armstrong and Westmoreland Counties.
Pressdee is to appear before Judge Joseph E. Kubit at 9 a.m. She has been held in Butler County Prison without bail since her arrest in May 2023.
Pressdee, 41, has been charged with four counts of homicide that occurred at Quality Life Services in Donegal Township and Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Butler Township, as well as 18 counts of attempted homicide and 22 counts of neglect of a care-dependent person. She is also facing nine wrongful death lawsuits.
At a hearing in February, Pressdee said she “confessed.” Following the defense’s request for a 90-day continuance, Pressdee was asked by her lawyer to review further evidence compiled by the state attorney general's office. Pressdee replied that she wanted to “sign and be done.”
Charging documents indicate Pressdee worked at 12 facilities across Butler, Allegheny, Westmoreland and Armstrong counties between October 2018 and May 2023. She is accused of killing or attempting to kill patients at five locations.
Within Butler County, she is charged with at least four deaths at Quality Life Services, where she was employed from May to November 2022, and at least six deaths at Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, where she worked from January to May.
Additionally, she is accused of crimes while employed as a registered nurse at Concordia at Rebecca Residence in West Deer Township, Allegheny County; Guardian Healthcare operating as Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County; and Premier Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Kittanning, Armstrong County.
