Evil Caregiver Kills Her Patient For $430K Then Tries To Outsmart Detectives

Linda Polk, a nurse who had cared for Jill and Steven for years, sat in an interrogation room and told the detective that Steven had given her his house. She said he had signed a quitclaim deed on October 14, 2024, weeks before he died, and that she had filed it at the county register of deeds. She said Steven wanted her to have the house, that he had a will leaving $250,000 to his special-needs daughter, and that she was just following his instructions. The detective, however, had already looked at the document. The notary stamp was misspelled—it said "Notary Republic" instead of "Notary Public." The notary's commission had expired in 2022. And the man whose name was on the stamp had never been to the house. The detective told Polk she was caught.

The Caregiver Who Became the Power of Attorney

Polk met Steven and Jill in 2021, when she was working as a traveling nurse at a facility where Jill was recovering from COVID. Jill was in a wheelchair, and Steven hired Polk to care for her full-time. By May 2021, Polk was working for the couple directly, receiving a check from Steven for roughly $6,800 every two weeks. She would then use that money to pay other caregivers via Zelle or Cash App. Polk said she and the couple became close—she bought Jill clothes and diapers with her own money, and Steven called her his "black niece."