Woman who pushed husband out of high-rise window found dead in prison |
An Oklahoma woman convicted of second-degree murder for shoving her
hubby out of the window of their high-rise apartment was found dead in
her prison cell on Monday, officials said. Amber Hilberling, 25, who was
serving a 25-year prison sentence for the 2011 death of Joshua
Hilberling was officially pronounced dead at 5:33 p.m. at the Mabel
Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud, OK, according to the Oklahoma
Department of Corrections. The medical’s examiner’s office will
determine Hilberling’s cause of death, but the woman’s parents who spoke
exclusively to KTUL-ABC 8, said that medical staff told them that the
death was being treated as a suicide, according to the news channel.
Hilberling’s stepfather, Bryan Whitlock, who said he spoke to Hilberling
the night before, told KTUL that there is “no way” his stepdaughter’s
death was a suicide.
Hilberling was earning college credits while incarcerated and spoke to her son every day, Whitlock said.
Prosecutors have alleged that Hilberling pushed her husband, an Air Force veteran, through the window from the 25th floor of the couple’s apartment building after they argued over breaking up.
Hilberling, who was 19 at the time of Joshua’s death and seven months pregnant, has argued that the fatal incident was an “accident” caused by the “unusually thin” windows in the apartment, and that she pushed her husband in self-defense.
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