LACROSSE, Wis. – Jurors in the Lori Ann Phillips murder trial watched a video of a police interview in which she recounted the night her husband died. She has pleaded innocent. In the video she tells an investigator that they had argued and that she had gone to the garage of their home to get away. She said she feared her husband, who was drunk, would smash the truck’s window. “It was so dark out,” she said. “I couldn’t figure out where the lock was, but even if I would have locked it, he probably would have punched the window.” All she wanted at that moment, she said, was “just get away so that everybody was gonna be fine.” After driving off, she decided to try to find a hotel. Unsuccessful, she returned home around 2 a.m., she said. She went into the house and slept the majority of the early morning hours on a couch, she said. About 6 a.m. she woke up and realized her husband was not in the house, so she went outside to check whether their other vehicle was gone. It was then, she said, that she found her husband face down in a snowbank and dead.
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Interrogation. Sheriff’s investigator and Lori Ann Phillips in recorded session at police headquarters.