A North Dakota man tightened the rope around a pregnant woman's neck as his girlfriend sliced her stomach open and then tore the baby from her womb, a court heard.
William Hoehn is charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she was brutally murdered in August 2017.
Hoehn's live-in girlfriend at the time, Brooke Crews, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder and lying to law officers in December 2017.
She was sentenced to life in prison without parole in February.
During Hoehn's trial, prosecutors said Wednesday that he tightened a rope around Greywind's neck after Crews sliced the baby from the Greywind's womb. The prosecutor also suggested that the girlfriend couldn't have restrained the mom-to-be alone.
Hoehn initially told police he arrived home August 19 to find Crews cleaning up blood in their bathroom.
He said Crews presented him with an infant girl and said: 'This is our baby. This is our family.'
William Hoehn (right, with lawyer Daniel Borgen) is on trial for conspiracy to commit murder in the 2017 death of Savanna Greywind, who was eight months pregnant when she was killed in a plot to steal her baby. Hoehn participated in jury selection Tuesday (pictured)
Hoehn, meanwhile, pleaded not guilty and said that he didn't know Crews had planned to kill Greywind.
Savanna Greywind was killed after having her baby cut out of her womb in August 2017
Hoehn said he took garbage bags containing bloody shoes and his bloody towels and disposed of them away from the apartment complex.
Defense attorney Daniel Borgen said in his 10-minute opening statement Wednesday that Greywind was already dead when Hoehn entered the bathroom. Hoehn then helped cover up the crime, Borgen said, noting that his client has confessed to that.
'He helped her. He shouldn't have,' Borgen said. 'He should have immediately called police.'
But prosecutor Ryan Younggren said Crews couldn't have subdued Greywind without Hoehn's help. When Hoehn entered the bathroom, Crews told him that she wasn't sure if Greywind was dead.
'He goes and gets a rope, puts it around her neck, pulls it tight and says, 'If she's not dead, she is now,' Younggren said in a 50-minute presentation Wednesday.
Kayakers found Greywind's body in late August, wrapped in plastic and dumped in a river. It is still unclear how she ended up there.
Hoehn's live-in girlfriend, Brooke Crews, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder and lying to law officers in December 2017. Hoehn pleaded not guilty to his charge
Hoehn (in December 2017) claimed that he did not know Crews planned to kill Greywind
Crews was sentenced to life in prison without parole in February (pictured at her sentencing)
Crews admitted she and Greywind argued and that she pushed Greywind down, knocked her out and cut her open. Kayakers found Greywind's body, wrapped in plastic and in a river
A sonogram showing Greywind's unborn baby, which was cut out of her womb at eight months
Greywind's daughter, Haisley Jo (in February 2018), was later recovered and reunited with her father, Greywind's boyfriend, Ashton Matheny, who has full custody of the child now
A medical examiner determined Greywind had bled to death.
Crews and Greywind had been friends, and Greywind had texted her mother shortly before she disappeared to say she was going to Crews' apartment.
After Greywind was reported missing, police searched Hoehn and Crews' apartment three times in six days but found no trace of blood.
Crews originally told police that Greywind had given her the child. Crews later admitted they had argued, saying she pushed Greywind down and knocked her out before cutting her open.
Greywind was pregnant with boyfriend Ashton Matheny's daughter when she was killed. The baby, who had been cut out of Greywind, was later found and reunited with Matheny, who now has full custody of the baby girl, now named Haisley Jo.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Matheny raise Haisley Jo.
Greywind's death prompted North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna's Act, which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and murdered Native American women. A similar bill has been introduced in the U.S. House.
A judge said Hoehn's trial could last up to two weeks.
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Main photo article A North Dakota man tightened the rope around a pregnant woman’s neck as his girlfriend sliced her stomach open and then tore the baby from her womb, a court heard.
William Hoehn is charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind, who was eight months ...
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