MUSKEGON, Mich. — Testimony in Jeffrey Willis’ trial for the murder of Rebekah Bletsch will continue Wednesday morning after a judge decided that some of the suspect’s cousin’s statements can be admitted as evidence.
Some of the statements by Kevin Bluhm that jurors will hear involve how he handled the gun that authorities say was used to kill Bletsch and that he knew where she lived.
The defense has been trying to pin Bletsch’s June 2014 murder on Bluhm, though investigators previously testified he has an alibi. On Tuesday, the judge ruled Bluhm’s own statement about his alibi was not admissible. On Friday, Bluhm was called to the stand, but he pleaded the Fifth.
Bluhm, a former employee at a state prison in Muskegon, is charged as an accessory after the fact in the other murder Willis is charged with — that of Jessica Heeringa in April 2013. Authorities say Bluhm previously told investigators that he helped Willis bury Heeringa’s body the day after she went missing from the Norton Shores gas station where she worked and then said that story was a lie. Heeringa’s remains have not been found.
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