Angelika Graswald was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Vincent Viafore, whose body was recovered from the Hudson River in April 2015.
Prosecutors said Graswald removed a nickle-sized drain plug on the top of the kayak to allow it to fill with water, however experts say the amount of water entering a small hole on the top of the kayak could be minimal compared to the amount of water splashing into Viafore’s open cockpit.
In a nearly 12-hour taped interrogation by police 10 days after Viafore disappeared, Graswald repeatedly denied killing her fiance and said her desperate calls to 911 were real.
Graswald also said during that interrogation, which she punctuated with yoga and hopscotch, that she was “OK” with Viafore’s death and “wanted him dead.”
Graswald told ABC News’ Elizabeth Vargas in a November 2015 jailhouse interview that she was at her “breaking point” during the taped interrogation.
“Well they kept me asking me the same questions like a hundred times. I knew that I was innocent,” Graswald told Vargas. “I was at my breaking point. I just, I had it so I just gave ’em what they wanted.”
She also denied in the interview that she removed the plug from Viafore’s kayak with the intent to kill him, saying, “No, I did not.”
Graswald’s attorney, Richard Portale, said in a court hearing that Graswald may have miscarried a baby during an interrogation. He also claimed that his client asked investigators who “Miranda” was after she was read her Miranda rights, according to The Associated Press.
Sources:
- New Twist in Case of NY Woman Accused of Fiance’s Kayak Murder June 2016
- Trial for Angelika Graswald, Accused of Kayak Murder of Fiancé, Set for Valentine’s Day December 2016.
Trial is set for February 14, 2017.
See also “Death on the Hudson“, 48 hours, Sep 12, 2015.
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July 24, 2017 Plea deal agreed According to her attorney, Richard Portale, Graswald “will be home in December.”
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Whats really scary about this case is how long they have held this woman in jail. She has been in jail now for almost a year and a half on these ridiculous charges. I hope she sues the pants off of the state when she gets acquitted.
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Out of every single ‘The Confession Tapes’ episodes, I am only totally convinced that Angelika Graswald is innocent. There are some compelling episodes, but none more-so than hers. It’s so obvious that she couldn’t have caused her husbands death, especially not with a drainage plug in the top of a kayak. She was just being overly honest when she said she was relieved her husband was dead, it doesn’t mean she killed him or is responsible. I don’t believe she was capable of causing her husbands death in the river without putting herself in extreme danger also. This woman is innocent and I hope she knows that some people believe her. American “justice” needs a reform.
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