Murder Charges Filed After Putnam Co. Drug Overdose

A woman is facing a murder charge in the death of a man who overdosed on heroin. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department arrested 35-year-old Joney Farley of Hurricane on a first-degree murder charge after Farley told investigators that, on March 15, she combined heroin with water and injected the mixture into Jeffrey Burdette at her home. The criminal complaint shows she said Burdette asked for another dose, and she again injected him with the mixture, and that’s when Burdette reportedly lost consciousness and stopped breathing. He later died at a hospital. Putnam Sheriff Steve Deweese says Farley’s arrest is the first time he can remember someone being charged with murder in a drug overdose in the county.