Witness Says Foster Threatened to “Snuff Her Out”

Michial Foster is charged with second degree murder and day two of the trial brought forth witnesses who stated he was capable of such action.

Police state that Foster strangled Alicia Wasilewski and then buried her in 1996.

Arrested 11 years later, when Wasilewski’s remains were discovered just outside of Watertown, prosecutors are making the case that he was jealous that she was seeing another man.

One of Foster’s former co-workers, Nancy Blecher, took the stand and stated that during a conversation she had with Foster in 1994, Foster “told me if he caught Alicia screwing around on him he would snuff her out.”

The jury also heard from Alicia Wasilewski’s brother, Ed Van Vranken, who also recounted a time when he witnessed Foster threaten Alicia’s life.

During the afternoon, Theresa McConnell, an acquaintance of Foster and Wasilewski, took the stand.

McConnell testified that after the disappearance, she had a conversation with Wasilewski’s three year old daughter.

“She said, ‘Daddy threw Mommy in the woods. Mommy’s all gone,’” said McConnell.

The prosecution has been laying out a time line, which would lead jurors to believe that on May 29, 1996, Wasilewski was killed at approximately 11 a.m.

According to testimony, by 11:30 a.m. relatives had gone to Wasilewski’s home, where they saw her little girl and Foster.

Witnesses testified the child was already crying about her mother being gone.

But, defense attorney Gary Miles has said the time line does not fit and that Foster couldn’t have killed Wasilewski.

He cross examined McConnell, who gave a sworn statement to police on May 31, 2006, saying that she had a conversation with Wasilewski’s sister on May 30.

McConnell told police that Wasilewski’s sister said Alicia left a couple of messages on an answering machine on the evening of May 29, which would mean Alicia had not been killed in the morning.

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