Woman jailed for fiancé's kayaking death grateful to be released: lawyer
12/22/2017 1:58 pm PST
via WPIX
BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. -- (WPIX) -- The lawyer for a woman who pleaded guilty in the drowning death of her fiancé during a New York kayak outing says she is grateful to be out of prison.
Angelika Graswald was released Thursday from Bedford Hills prison.
She and her fiancé, 46-year-old Vincent Viafiore, were on the Hudson River in April 2015 when he drowned. Prosecutors said she admitted to sabotaging his kayak by pulling the drain plug and suggested she wanted his life insurance money.
She was initially charged with murder. But they later said her statements were inconsistent and she pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide. She was behind bars for nearly three years.
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