'You're diabolical': Ex-boyfriend of eye drop murder suspect testifies

 

WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The jury heard the voice of the woman accused of killing her friend with eye drops for the first time during day five of the trial.

Week two of the eye drop murder trial in Waukesha kicked off Monday, Oct. 30, with the state playing a phone call defendant 39-year-old Jessy Kurczewski made to dispatch asking for information on Lynn Hernan's death, the woman she is accused of killing.

"H-E-R-N-A-N, and the first name is Lynn," Kurczewski can be heard saying in a phone call made months after Hernan's Oct. 2018 death.

"The medical examiner didn't have information in months, and she just said now that it was referred to your department."

A March 2019 interview with Kurczewski and her mother was also shown in court.

"We weren't sure if it was a suicide or if it was something medical," Kurczewski said in the recorded interview.

The video shows the two women having a conversation with the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department, again asking for more details on Hernan's death, not knowing the medical examiner had already ruled it a homicide.

"I just wish I knew, you know? It's more so to know if I could've done something had I been there. That's the hardest part," Kurczewski said in the video.

The two went into some of Hernan's medical issues. They also touched on her alleged drug use, saying she abused prescription drugs and frequently drank alcohol.

"She was really big on her Xanax," Kurczewski said. That was her big one."

The state called Kurczewski's ex-boyfriend, Scott Craig, to the stand. He testified that despite ending their relationship, he accepted calls from her while she was in custody.

"You just kept making up more and more lies. You're diabolical. That's just crazy," Craig can be heard saying to her on the recording.

Craig said in court that Hernan was like a mother to his ex-girlfriend, even though he never met her.

He also shared that he believed Hernan was in a coma for months prior to her death, because that was what Kurczewski told him. After Kurczewski was arrested, Craig learned the 62-year-old was never in a coma.

"I told you that to protect you. For a reason," Kurczewski is heard saying on the phone call with Craig.

"That's pretty disgusting. That's a disgusting thing to lie about," Craig replied.

After the call was played, prosecutors asked Craig if he knew what Kurczewski meant when she said she was trying to protect him.

"No, I don't know what she meant by that at the time," he answered.

Kurczewski is also accused of stealing over $290,000 from Hernan. Other witness testimony on day five revealed Kurczewski spent months without a job but pretended to go to work, and that even while unemployed, she gave lavish gifts to Craig's stepchildren and ex-wife.