AP
9/14/19
Closing arguments are set to begin next week as the second murder trial of a Tipton woman accused of killing her boyfriend more than 25 years ago near West Liberty comes to an end.
According to The Muscatine Journal, the state rested its case Friday morning after jurors heard the final testimony given by state’s witnesses. The trial began Monday with jury selection in Muscatine County District Court.
The state argued Annette Cahill, now 56, killed Corey Lee Wieneke in 1992 because of his relationships with other women. Both had overlapping relationships with other people and were described in testimony as arguing about Wieneke’s romantic involvement with another woman the night before he died.
Wieneke was found beaten to death Oct. 13, 1992, by his live-in fiancé, Jody Willier, in the house they shared in rural West Liberty. Willier testified she was at her bank job in Iowa City the morning Wieneke died and found him unresponsive when she returned home later that day.
Autopsy results revealed the cause of death was blunt force injuries to the head and the manner of death was declared a homicide. The murder weapon was an aluminum baseball bat that was found by a TV news crew later that day about a mile away from Wieneke’s home.
Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday.