His wife of Laken Riley alleged killer Jose Antonio Ibarra She reportedly accused him of knowing something about the student’s death in a jailhouse call, an FBI employee testified. “What happened to that girl?” Layling Franco asked Ibarra in Spanish in a May 11 phone call the suspect made to his wife from jail. The appeal was aired in court on Monday 18 November.

The call was summarized in English by FBI staff specialist Abeisis Ramirez, who listened to about 400 of the suspect’s calls from prison, the New York Post reported. Ibarra is on trial in Athens, Georgia for the murder of the Georgia student. After waiving his right to a jury trial, the Venezuelan migrant is tried by a judge. He faces life behind bars if convicted.

The tense phone call

“Aren’t you going to tell the truth?” Franco told Ibarra, according to Ramirez.

“What happened to that girl?” she asked.

According to Ramirez, Ibarra contemptuously told his wife, “Layling, enough. Layling, enough.”

During the tense conversation, Franco told Ibarra several times that he was tired of him. She repeatedly accused him of having knowledge of the murder, Ramirez said.

Franco said it was “crazy” that investigators only found Ibarra’s DNA on Riley and that he didn’t even call 911 if he saw someone dying. Ibarra told Franco that on the day of the murder, he was on the University of Georgia campus looking for a job.

riley’s mom Allyson Phillipshe was seen crying in court as the phone call was heard.

Franco previously told the New York Post that Ibarra was generally a calm person. “We got married so we could join our asylum cases,” she said. “He was the person I thought I could see through. We’ve known each other all our lives.”

“It wasn’t aggressive, nothing like that. We had problems as a couple, but our problems were not physical. We wouldn’t punch, but we would raise our voices,” she added.