Nurse Stole Drugs from Work And Used Them To Poison Husband, Allegedly!
John V.
Posted On August 28, 2020
While searching for her missing brother, Jim Cappello, nurse Jamie Weast, couldn’t stop thinking about something he told her only a week earlier while on the phone discussing his strained eight-year marriage to Nikki Cappello.
“He told me that if he was ever found dead, it’s because Nikki did it,” Weast tells PEOPLE.
“I sort of shrugged it off, because I didn’t think he was serious. You just would never think that you could be so close to someone who would be capable of doing something like this.”
As Jamie and her husband pulled up to Jim’s Huntsville home on Sept. 22, 2018, they arrived to the sight of yellow police tape.
“My heart sunk and I was nauseous,” Weast says. “I prayed and prayed and prayed so hard that perhaps maybe, somehow, in some miraculous way, it wasn’t him. I didn’t want it to be him. It couldn’t be him. I begged the Lord to not let it be him, but a detective pulled me aside and it was him.”
According to police, Nikki allegedly poisoned Jim using insulin she obtained from her work as a nurse at a local hospital. On the day they found Jim’s corpse, police also discovered a partially-dug hole in the couple’s backyard.
“She’s giving nurses a bad name,” Weast says. “We take care of people. We hold their hands during their last breath. People die in our arms and we take that to heart. How was she able to do this to a healthy individual that she loved? I just don’t know.”
Nikki was arrested and charged with murder the day Jim’s body was found. Two days later, she posted bond, and ever since, has been living in the home the couple once shared. She denies killing her husband, and will stand trial sometime in 2021.
Nikki, now 34, surrendered her nursing license immediately after her arrest.
An indictment obtained by PEOPLE confirms Cappello is accused of slowly poisoning Jim, who was reported missing by Nikki the day before his body was found. Police allegedly discovered his car in the driveway when they met with Nikki hours later.
If convicted, Nikki faces life in prison.
