A woman with a history of fraudulent activities has been sentenced after her close friend was found overdosed inside a home in 2018. Jessy Kurczewski has been charged with murder after police found her acquaintance deceased, according to DailyMail.Co.UK. Jessy added eye drops to Lynn Hernan’s drink in order to unlawfully obtain all of her possessions.
Kurczewski appeared in a video crying inconsolably during her sentencing. The 39-year-old woman, cried while delivering a lengthy and self-centered testimony to the Waukesha County Circuit Court on Friday, asserting her innocence. Judge Jennifer Dorow remained unaffected by her weeping and intentionally calculated the sentences to ensure that she would remain incarcerated until reaching the age of 80, DailyMail reported.
62-year-old Lynn Hernan died after drinking a bottle of water given to her by Kurczewski. According to police reports, the water was laced with a lethal amount of six vials of tetrahydrozoline, the primary component found in Visine eyedrops. After tge incident, Kurczewski meticulously staged the scene to resemble a suicide, and proceeded to carry out a series of fraudulent activities amounting to nearly $300,000, court documents showed.
This included forging a check worth $130,204, which she made out to herself using the victim’s account. Hernan was found dead at her residence in Milwaukee on October 3, 2018, following a call to the police by Kurczewski, who reported finding her unresponsive.
Kurczewski was apprehended on July 9, 2019 and asserted during her trial that the cause of death was either suicide or an unintended excessive intake of drugs. She was subsequently convicted on November 14. Kurczewski exhibited a complete lack of regret or self-reflection in her testimony to the court on Friday, according to a court document.
As her emotions intensified, she leveled accusations at the state for causing irreparable damage to her life, eventually breaking down into sobs while attempting to carry on. Judge Dorow handed Kurczewski a life sentence for the incident, stipulating that the she must serve a minimum of 30 years before being eligible to request parole.
In order to achieve the objective of ensuring that Kurczewski remains incarcerated until she reaches about 80 years of age, Dorow imposed a sentence of five years for each theft offense, to be served consecutively. Dorow clarified that her primary incentive was to safeguard the general population, owing to her extensive criminal record and prior convictions for fraudulent activities.
Kurczewski embezzled a total of $290,210.06 from Hernan both before and after her demise, depleting all other accounts to a mere $88. Kurczewski, who claimed to have power of attorney, inherited the whole of Hernan’s estate. Kurczewski engaged in shopping and established accounts in Hernan’s name following the commission of the murder, according to the court proceedings,
Initially, detectives suspected a possible drug overdose, as Kurczewski informed them that she had been looking after Hernan, who was exhibiting unusual behavior. Hernan was discovered in a reclined position in her armchair, with crushed tablets strewn on her chest and accumulated on a plate beside her. Prosecutors later contended that this arrangement was a deliberately fabricated scene of suicide orchestrated by Kurczewski.
Kurczewski refuted all the allegations brought against her, while her legal team attempted to assert that Hernan’s demise was a consequence of a concoction of medications present in her system, which she had consumed to alleviate her agony. They alleged that Hernan developed suicidal tendencies and expressed a desire to distribute her money before her demise. The defendant’s attorneys contended that Hernan would have considered it absurd that Kurczewski had been accused of any misconduct.
