Husband Charged With Irish Wife’s Murder

She earned a Ph.D. in medical sciences from Cornell University in 2007. She was an assistant professor at St. Joseph's University and was currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in biomedical engineering at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell.  It was at Cornell that Coffey met Kot. 

Kot’s lawyer, Joseph Joch, said that although he can’t discuss his client’s case, Kot “has a great deal of difficulty remembering anything about that night.”

Said Hollows about her friends, “They were both very much in love with one another, and nobody had any reservations about Blazej.

“I don't know of any fighting or arguments which they had. They both seemed to really be excited for one another's success and they had lots in common. Their wedding was the happiest I had ever seen them.”

Describing Coffey she said, “She was very kind and very smart,” She was also strong-willed. She was her own person.”

Another friend of Coffey’s, David Rossi, described Kot as a “nice gentleman, very educated.”

“He would drive down here religiously to see her," Rossi said, discussing to the time Coffey was teaching at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Kot, who is charged with second-degree murder, arson and tampering with evidence, faces 25 years to life if found guilty. He is currently being held Tompkins County Jail in Ithaca, New York without bail.

 

 

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