A registered nurse at Blount Memorial
Hospital walked in on a wife smothering her husband with a pillow,
according to a Maryville police report.
On the night of August 20, a registered nurse reported witnessing Sheila
Hardin holding a pillow over her husband's face, attempting to smother
him in room 130. The complainant told police the victim, Anthony Hardin,
looked afraid. The nurse was advised to notify security and move the
victim to a hospital floor for non-contact/visitor patients.
Detectives interviewed Sheila Hardin at the Maryville Police Department
on August 22. During the interview, Hardin confessed to trying to
suffocate her husband.
Investigators charged Mrs. Hardin with attempted criminal homicide.
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