LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A woman who was strangled to death at a Louisville addiction treatment center has been identified.
The Jefferson County Coroner's Office identified the victim Thursday as 48-year-old Holly Knight. Her cause of death was determined to be strangulation.
Louisville Metro Police officers arrested Angela Hensley, 48, two days after a patient at a Louisville addiction treatment center was found dead in her room.
Pictured: this frame grab taken from video shows Angela Hensley during a court hearing in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 12, 2025. (WDRB image)
Hensley can be seen on surveillance video entering Knight's room Sunday at Praxis of Louisville by Landmark Recovery in the Hazelwood neighborhood. Louisville Metro Police investigators said Hensley is initially seen walking into Knight's room, and Knight could be seen standing.
About four minutes later, according to the arrest citation, Hensley is seen leaving the room, and the victim can be seen lying on the floor. She then reenters the room multiple additional times and never told staff anything about the victim's condition.Â
"She said she wanted to die so I killed her," Hensley told LMPD detectives, according to the arrest citation.
Hensley added that she reentered the room several times because "she wasn't dead yet" and "I f****** finished killing her."
On Wednesday morning, Hensley's charge was upgraded from attempted murder to murder. A judge set her bond at $1 million.Â
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