WORTHINGTON —Trial dates for the Christopher Kruse murder trial have definitively been set for three weeks, beginning Jan. 27, 2020.
Fifth Judicial District Judge Terry Vajgrt recently granted the date-certain request, which came from the Nobles County Attorney’s Office.
Date certainty should help the state and defense notify witnesses and experts, some of which are reportedly out-of-state, of when to appear for trial.
Pre-trial conference will begin at 1 p.m. Jan. 13 in Nobles County District Court, 1530 Airport Road, Worthington.
The jury trial will commence at 9 a.m. Jan. 27 at the same location. The trial is scheduled through Feb. 14, recessing during weekends.
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Last March, a grand jury indicted Kruse for pre-meditated murder of his wife, Janette Pigman-Kruse, 40.
The indictment came more than three years after Pigman-Kruse died Aug. 19, 2015, of gunshot wounds in her Brewster home. Her husband reported that an intruder had entered the home and shot Pigman-Kruse in the chest while the couple slept. He couldn’t identify a suspect to law enforcement.
