Crime & Safety

Officer Testimony: Borizov Threatened Jeffrey Kramer Months Before Murder

According to the former Countryside officer, who has since retired, the accused murder plotter lost his cool over car repairs and threatened his girlfriend's father with a knife.

A former Countryside police officer took the witness stand Wednesday to detail how a furious Johnny Borisov flew into a rage over a used car and confronted his then-girlfriend Angela Kramer and her father Jeffrey, 11 months before Jeffrey, his wife Lori and their son Michael were murdered in Darien in March 2010, the Daily Herald and Chicago Tribune report.

Borisov stands accused of orchestrating that murder; the gunman, 26-year-old Jacob Nodarse, has confessed to killing the Kramers and said he was bullied into the deed by Borisov, who has a toddler son with Angela Kramer.

According to the Tribune, former Countryside cop Steve Muszynski, who responded to the April 2009 incident, said that Borizov was enraged in a dispute over car repairs and threatened Jeffrey Kramer with a knife; Muszynski said that Borizov had to be handcuffed.

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"He was screaming obscenities about being upset about the vehicle being towed," the Herald quoted Muszynski testifying. "He was threatening to '(expletive) kill people,' being Mr. Kramer and the tow-truck driver… He was swearing and telling (Angela Kramer) he was going to take away the baby,"

Angela Kramer told jurors last week that, a month after the incident, Borizov bruised Lori Kramer and Lori’s mother at a family gathering, the paper said.

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Prosecutors aim to prove that Borisov ordered the killing of the Kramers due to an ongoing custody battle over his and Angela’s son.

Read more at the Daily Herald and the Chicago Tribune websites.

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