NORWICH – Following a three-day recess, the trial of alleged murderer Peter Wlasiuk will resume today, with the prosecution continuing to call witnesses to the stand. Today marks the seventh day of testimony in the trial, which is expected to run for approximately two more weeks.

Wlasiuk is accused of killing his wife, Patricia, on April 3, 2002, at their Oxford home, later engineering what the Chenango County District Attorney’s Office is calling a staged accident at Guilford Lake. Wlasiuk has twice been convicted of second degree murder, a class A-1 felony. Both convictions have since been successfully appealed, in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

According to defense attorney Mark Loughran, Patricia drowned in Guilford Lake, and there was no motive for Peter to kill his wife.

Testimony to date has included a number of law enforcement and emergency personnel who responded to the scene of the so-called accident, as well as one witness who testified that Peter Wlasiuk, a year prior to his wife’s death, said it would be easy to kill a person and cover up the crime as a drowning.

On Thursday of last week, jurors got their first glimpse of Patricia Wlasiuk, when they were shown photos of the many injuries she sustained in April of 2002. Those injuries, according to Chenango County District Attorney Joseph McBride, were inflicted at the couple’s Oxford home. It’s then alleged that Wlasiuk, in an effort to hide the crime, drove or pushed his truck through a 32-foot gap in a guardrail located on the north side of County Road 35 in the Town of Guilford and into the lake.