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Even if she could have gotten to him, she didn t have the physical ability to save him. prosecutors also suggest graswald may have actually set him up to drown by tampering with his kayak s plug so the boat would fill with water. so, your client didn t remove the plug from the victim s kayak? she did not. vincent left in his kayak on april 19th without the plug knowingly, as he had done several times in the past. in the days following the tragedy, graswald posted this video of herself on facebook doing a cartwheel along with smiling selfies, all of it raising eyebrows. she even showed up on stage at a local pub singing hotel california. a friend of the couple s described her performance as strange. mike colvin is angelika graswald s ex-boyfriend. does she have a temper? a temper would come out on occasion. you know as i ve told a lot of people there was no inclination that she was ever capable of anything remotely like this. ....
reporter: when they broke up in 2010 colvin says graswald made a desperate and dangerous attempt to take the couple s cat. she threatened to break into the house if i didn t give her the cat. finally, i relented. i did give her the cat and i literally got an alarm installed in my house the next day. reporter: angelika graswald later moved into this townhouse with vincent viafore. why, if she did do this, would she want to harm her fiance? the prosecutor says graswald stood to inherit $250,000 from life insurance policies and talked about what she could do with the money after his death. was she aware of those insurance policies? i m not aware that she was. reporter: what about her diary? could that hold clues to a motive? graswald told a reporter that she complained in her diary about her fiance wanting a sexual threesome. what partner hasn t requested a threesome? this is not craziness, right? this is not anything that is out of the ordinary but it s not a motive for mur ....
Capsized in the choppy water. she told police she couldn t find him. it was april after an especially cold winter so the water was only about 40 degrees. rescue crews searched the river for viafore. no luck. graswald who is a u.s. permanent resident but a latvian citizen, described the scene to a reporter. i saw him struggling a little bit. he was trying to figure out how to paddle the waves, because they were again, crazy. and then i just saw him flip. reporter: but the police don t believe that story. graswald is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. the indictment alleges that as viafore reached for his paddle to save his own life graswald pulled it away. richard portale is angelika graswald s defense lawyer. did your client try to save her fiance that night on river? well i think she did, but ....
An accidental drowning on the hudson river or a cold-blooded killing? that s the question at the center of a murder case in new york state. the woman accused of murdering her fiance by sabotaging his kayak pled not guilty on friday. the attorney for angelika graswald said results will show her husband died from hypothermia hypothermia and drowning after drinking. an evening kayak trip for a couple that appeared very much in love. but before it was over angelika graswald s fiance 46-year-old vincent viafore, had disappeared, presumed dead. police say the couple was kayaking here on the hudson river between thumb point and benderman s island. investigators say around 7:30 that evening, graswald called 911 from the river to report that her fiance s kayak had ....