Amber Hilberling Commits Suicide
Amber Hilberling, who was convicted of 2nd degree murder for pushing her husband out of their 25th floor apartment building in 2013, committed suicide in October. She was 25 years old. She was found hanging from a prison bed.
Amber continually claimed that she was innocent and didn’t intentionally harm her husband, though the two had a volatile relationship.
When Dateline played Amber’s recorded police recording just after her husband’s tragic death, her emotions and words betrayed the story she wanted us to believe. It was actually horrifying to watch.
Amber tried to get media attention to get “free”. She went on the Dr. Phil show and was still actively writing media outlets. As a matter of fact, she wrote a letter and it was postmarked the day she committed suicide.
You can see the letter in a video here.
When psychopaths (I’m not saying she is or isn’t) feel trapped, they often do pull the plug.
I do not find her choice to take her life surprising.
Her parents, however, didn’t believe she was down and out–questioning if it was, indeed, a suicide. They say the letter she last wrote showed she still had hope.
However, her former attorney says she warned the prison twice before she died that she was, in fact, suicidal. In that same article, they list all of Amber’s misconduct in prison. It’s quite interesting.
Do you wonder what made me doubt Amber’s story? There was one big whopper she let out among many other behaviors and actions that sealed her fate. You can read my post here on Amber after seeing her story on Dateline NBC.
Just for the heck of it I went back and watched, and knew at “this is going to turn into a nightmare” that something is not right. Well it’s not just that. It’s also a certain philosophical sound to some of what she was saying that seemed off-timed, didn’t fit. Like acting mixed with the distress.
Photos here:
http://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hilberling-amber-photos-1.htm
Something about her face is just not right. I vote borderline disorder (extreme jealousy). The killed husband looks… I don’t know. Perhaps too gullible? Eyes?
If you believe this was a moment of rage and was an accident, yes. I do not believe that. AT ALL.
If getting out early for good behavior reduces one’s sentence, then her rap sheet inside the prison doesn’t indicate she had any hope of living a future life outside of it. Given this revelation, it does not surprise me that she committed suicide.
And here, I’d thought it had to do with this:
“When psychopaths (I’m not saying she is or isn’t) feel trapped, they often do pull the plug. I do not find her choice to take her life surprising.”
Michael
My comment is just my personal speculations and opinions w/ the info I’ve read and seen. I just watched a docu series about this and other female violent offenders. Her interview focuses on her own hardships and the aftermath of the murder. I watch tons of these kind of shows and I’m always disturbed by the direct, slight of hand towards themselves and away from their behavior. They minimize the criminal act, tarish the victim, and there is no legit apology/remorse. The true horror is they are excellent manipulators. This seems to be common regardless of the gender of the offender for people that appear to have psychopathy/sociopathy. Sometimes the scariest people in this world can be attractive, smart, and engaging. I read your link re her misconduct in prison, and wow, it was telling. The drug use, fighting, not following orders seems standard for the territory of insert whatever alleged personality disorder fits like a puzzle piece. Certain things on that list though are especially curious. Why was she going to “unauthorized areas” so often (was it to find/steal IDs and whatever else?) and what did she need an ID for? I suspect she was trying to make an escape attempt, but was caught before she could, or who knows? If someone can’t control themselves/their anger to the extent they cause injury, harm, and/or kill someone, they need to be taken out of society to protect the rest of us from them. It frightens me to think someone could get angry enough/loose control of themselves and kill someone else. That fact should frighten other people too.
The tape of Amber Hilberling in the interrogation room, and her grandmother is sitting with her is very telling. Amber is crying, but it seems fake to me. And her carrying on about how she wondered how he felt as he was falling, etc., all of it told me immediately that she pushed him on purpose and knew there was a pretty good chance the window would break and he would fall to his death. And Hilberling’s grandmother is telling her to shut up, but Hilberling just keeps on yammering and buries herself. It was there for all to see that she pushed him on purpose. A tragedy for the family of Josh Hilberling.
Late to this but someone needs to mention that during the trial it was brought to light that the window of the high rise was made of “picture-frame glass”–pretty shocking and not what anyone would reasonably expect. Do they not have building codes in Oklahoma?