1/12/13 - Audio and video recordings made up the majority of Fridayâs proceedings in the murder trial of 66-year-old Jerome Kowalski. The recordings were of interviews between the defendant and Troopers from Michigan State Police, first in Brighton and later in Ann Arbor. While at the Brighton Post, Kowalski denied involvement in the killing of his brother Richard and sister-in-law Brenda. He told troopers about his activities and whereabouts in the days surrounding the murders. He was then taken to Ann Arbor to be interviewed by Polygraph Examiner Detective Christopher Fitzpatrick. Over the course of that interview, Kowalski became more and more convinced that what he thought was a dream from an alcoholic blackout was actually a memory of killing Richard and Brenda. By the end of the interview he had confessed to killing both. Some of the details of the killing were accurate, while others were not. Kowalski also wrote several notes and made a diagram for police while in custody. Then-MSP Trooper Craig Felix read portions of the notes aloud and presented a graph produced by Kowalski while in police custody. The notes indicated that before going to the police station, Kowalski attempted to commit suicide using a combination of rum and Vicodin. The Kowalski trial will resume in Brighton on Monday. (JM)
↧