It already was clear that Jean Pierre Trias of Pittsfield Township is a horrible person. He was sentenced last week in Washtenaw County to 30-36 years in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing his wife fatally.
Now a civil suit filed by her two sisters includes an eye-opening bit of police evidence, as John Counts reports at AnnArbor.com.
Trias put killing his wife on a to-do list before stabbing her to death last winter, a wrongful death suit filed by Katherine Porter’s sisters . . . contends.
“Kill Kathie Kill Kathie Kill Kathie!!!!!” was written on a list of daily chores in a saved computer file that was recovered by police and proves premeditation, according to the suit.
That's right -- he left an incriminating entry on a checklist, suggesting concern about forgetting a task deemed so critical it was repeated three times and emphasized with five exclamation points.
The sisters are trying to win damages from Trias’ estate.
The suit claims there was evidence recovered from the married couple’s Pittsfield Township home shortly after the murder indicating Trias recently inherited more than a million dollars and property in Puerto Rico. . . .
“Had he predeceased his wife, this wealth would have been hers,” the lawsuit says.
The killer worked at Eastern Michigan University as a part-time coordinator of math tutoring and testing services while also serving as a graduate assistant, Counts writes.
