24 Hour News 8 reports, a man accused as an accessory in the kidnapping and murder of Jessica Heeringa could be a step closer to freedom.
A judge Friday lowered the bond for Jeffrey Willis’s cousin Kevin Bluhm, over the protests of the prosecutor.
Bluhm has been in the Muskegon County Jail on a $250,000 bond since his arrest 10 months ago.
But Friday, Judge William Marietti, at the request of Bluhm’s attorney, lowered his bond to $150,000 cash-surety. That means Bluhm can leave jail if he puts the money up himself, or goes through a bondsman. The judge also ordered that he wear a tether, if he is released.
Bluhm was ordered to stand trial in February for being accessory to the 2013 kidnapping and the murder of Jessica Heeringa.
Heeringa disappeared from a Norton Shores gas station, and her body has never been found.
Bluhm’s cousin, Jeffrey Willis, is awaiting trial for Heeringa’s kidnapping and death, as well as the murder of Rebekah Bletsch.