November 26 - Dr Husel is credentialed again and reappointed Husel is removed from patient care after three die in less than a month October 25 – Mount Carmel West receives a 'formal report' about Dr. October 24 - Nick Timmons dies after 1,000 micrograms of fentanyl September 30 – Bonnie Austin dies after 600 micrograms of fentanyl July 15 – Troy Allison dies after 1,000 micrograms of fentanyl May 18 - Jim Allen dies after 1,000 micrograms of fentanyl Octo- Timothy Fitzpatrick, Peggy Francies and Beverlee Schirtzinger dieĭecember 10 - Larry Brigner dies after 500 micrograms of fentanylĭecember 11 - Now six patients have died since October 9Īp– Jeremia 'Sue' Hodge dies after excess of 500 micrograms of fentanyl May - Auxiliary nun Joanne Bellisari dies after 1,000 microgram fentanyl IV She received a lethal fentanyl dose after being removed from ventilator March 2015 - Patient Jan Thomas dies three days after arriving at Mount Carmel West. September 2014 - Patient suspected of receiving excessive dose of fentanyl dies at Mount Carmel West
Husel gets credentials to work at Mount Carmel Husel will next give a deposition on May 9 before the civil case involving the 17 victims that Leeseberg is representing starts on June 29 in court. Leeseberg even compared Husel's verdict to OJ Simpson's 1995 acquittal of the brutal murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ron Goldman, but still had to pay a settlement of $33.5million after he lost the civil lawsuit and had to pay damages to the victims' families. He added that he 'fully anticipated' Husel to be acquitted of all murder charges and that 'reckless homicide' would have been the more appropriate charge as 'it would have fit the facts more accurately' due to the state's difficulty to prove he intended a criminal act. 'She didn't deserve to die the way she did.'Īttorney Gerry Leeseberg, representing 17 of the victims, told that Wednesday's verdict has 'no effect at all' on the three civil cases that Dr Husel is involved in.
'She was a fighter,' said Penix's daughter, Bev Leonhard, of Grove City, according to The Columbus Dispatch. John Schweig of Tampa Bay General Hospital testified for the prosecution that Penix 'definitely was not terminal, nor was continuing medical care futile.'
One patient, 82-year-old Melissa Penix, was given 2,000 micrograms of fentanyl and died a few minutes later. Mount Carmel has also reached settlements totaling more than $16.7 million over the deaths of at least 17 patients, with more lawsuits pending.
Dr Husel was initially charged with 25 counts of murder by a grand jury before 11 of them were dropped in January before the trial started in February