GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A jury has found Jacob Cayer guilty on all charges.
The verdict was reached Wednesday evening after about an hour of deliberation.
The conviction means a second phase will be held to determine if Cayer should be responsible for his actions due to his psychiatric condition.
Jacob Cayer killed Sabrina Teague and Heesun ‘Sunny’ Teague at a Hobart home on June 7, 2016.
Cayer was arrested hiding near the home.
The trial started Monday, and has included testimony from Joel Kennedy, who survived the attack, the police officer who took Cayer’s confession, as well as testimony about DNA testing.
Cayer pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Cayer says he can’t remember that night.
“There’s 27 hours missing in my memory,” Cayer said.
When asked if he confessed to killing Sabrina, Cayer says, “No. Once I started seeing the small visuals of what’s going on, I’m getting the hunch that okay, these people are dead. I’m crying. I liked Sunny. Sabrina, yeah she’s annoying as crap but she doesn’t deserve to die. What is this?”
The defense attorney replies, “Did you ever confess to killing Sunny?
“No there’s no confession whatsoever,” Cayer said.
“Did you ever confess to stabbing Joel?”
“No,” Cayer said.
Cross-examination was much of the same.
“This is what you said: ‘I stabbed her to the torso or neck. I stabbed her to the torso or neck,’” the state says.
“In there it says I think or I must at certain points. There was never by itself the way you’re stating, and it’s also going off of the assumption of what’s going on here,” Cayer said.
Cayer says that many of his statements from that night are assumptions.
“Say you wake up. You wake up, you’re covered in blood you don’t have a clue what’s going on. Last thing you remember is your talk with your family… someone’s talking to you about what’s happening. And you have nothing to go off of other than tiny, next-to-nothing visuals… I’m assuming, trying to help them if it was something that I did if it was,” Cayer said.
Cayer says these assumptions were to help both him and law enforcement piece that night together.
