Jurors hear audio of Fitchburg woman's murder
Jurors in the murder trial of a Fitchburg man heard a gruesome audio recording Tuesday of the knife attack that killed 23-year-old Yuliana Hernandez-Hernandez last October.
Julio Marin-Garcia, 28, is on trial for first degree intentional homicide for the Oct. 17, 2007, stabbing death of Hernandez-Hernandez, his estranged wife. On the recording, Hernandez-Hernandez can be heard screaming for her life before a series of gurgling sounds indicative of someone having had her throat cut.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge John Markson asked listeners to refrain from exhibiting any audible reaction while the recording played. Marin-Garcia looked straight ahead and did not exhibit any significant reaction during the playing of the recording, which lasted a few minutes.
The boyfriend of Hernandez-Hernandez at the time of the murder, Darwin Carrillo-Calle, was called to the witness stand by the prosecution. On the day of the killing, Carrillo-Calle and Hernandez-Hernandez arrived at the apartment she had shared with Marin-Garcia and their two children. Carrillo-Calle told jurors Hernandez-Hernandez told him to leave when she realized Marin-Garcia was inside the apartment. Carrillo-Calle testified he and Hernandez-Hernandez worked together and became romantically involved about two months before the murder, and they planned to move into an apartment near Park Street together.
Former Fitchburg police officer Allison Yungclas testified that she had responded to a call to the couple's apartment on Oct. 16, the day before the murder. According to Yungclas, Marin-Garcia had called police after arriving at his residence and saw Hernandez-Hernandez and Carrillo-Calle moving things out of the apartment. Marin-Garcia told Yungclas he was worried that his wife would take his children away without telling him where they were going. Yungclas told Hernandez-Hernandez not to take the children anywhere and left the scene believing the situation was under control. She said Marin-Garcia was very calm during her contact with him.
"There was no indication that anything bad was going to happen when I left," Yungclas said.
