APPLETON, Wis. (Court TV) — Testimony at a preliminary hearing revealed new details about handwritten notes found inside of a binder written by a woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death.
Samantha Krebs is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing death of her boyfriend. (Outagamie County Sheriff)
After Thursday’s hearing, a judge found enough evidence for Samantha Krebs to stand trial on charges of first-degree intentional homicide for the stabbing death of her boyfriend, identified in court documents as J.J.C.
On July 18, 2024, J.J.C. was found bleeding from a stab wound by two friends, John and Christie, who came to the property to see him and Krebs. When police arrived at the scene, Krebs was gone. John and Christie told police that Krebs told them to say that the victim had stabbed himself . Christie later told police that Krebs told her, “I can’t go back to prison, I can’t go back to prison.”
When she was initially questioned, Krebs told police she had left the apartment at approximately 7 p.m., more than two hours before J.J.C. was stabbed, and didn’t know what was going on. At Thursday’s preliminary hearing, Appleton Police Sgt. Chad Riddle testified that Krebs’ story quickly changed when she was taken into custody. “Ms. Krebs … made the statement that she just watched her fiancé kill himself, and now she was being arrested,” Riddle said.