Angelika Graswald listens during pretrial hearings in Orange County Court on Monday. (Photo: Heather Yakin/Times Herald-Record) 
 
 Angelika Graswald was cooperative with authorities in the days following the death of her fiancé Vincent Viafore, said state police senior investigator Aniello Moscato. 
 
 But 10 days following Viafore's disappearance — his kayak capsized during an April 19, 2015 trip to Bannerman Island and his body had not yet been found — Graswald told a police investigator that she had "pulled a plug" on his kayak and "manipulated" a ring on his paddle. 
 
 "I was in shock," said Moscato, who was one of the witnesses called to testify Monday, as part of Graswald's Huntley hearing in the Orange County Court. 
 
 The Huntley hearing is set to resume Tuesday afternoon before Judge Robert Freehill, with Moscato taking the stand again for questioning from Graswald's lawyer, Richard Portale. A Huntley Hearing is a pretrial hearing to "review the manner in which police obtained statements from the defendant," according to legal definitions. 
 
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 Graswald, 36, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Viafore. She is accused of killing the 46-year-old Poughkeepsie man during the kayaking trip on the Hudson River. 
 
 The Orange County District Attorney's Office has alleged Viafore's life insurance was one of Graswald's motives for murder. As primary beneficiary on Viafore's two policies, Graswald stood to collect $250,000 in the event of his death. 
 
 Graswald's defense team maintains that the death of Viafore, who wasn't wearing a life vest and had a blood alcohol content of .06, was a tragic accident, according to Journal archives. 
 
 Moscato, state police trooper Andrew Freeman and Cornwall police officer Stephen Bedetti testified during Monday's hearing. 
 
 Viafore's mother, Mary Ann Viafore, was also in the courtroom with other loved ones and declined comment. 
 
 Bedetti was among the first to respond to the Plum Point area the night Viafore's kayak capsized. Graswald's kayak had apparently capsized, too, and she was being brought to the shore of the Cornwall landing by a rescue boat. 
 
 Angelika Graswald, left, sits with lawyer Richard Portale in Orange County Court on Monday. (Photo: Heather Yakin/Times Herald-Record) 
 
 Overall, Graswald's demeanor struck him as odd, Bedetti said. She was calm. 
 
 "Very... matter-of-fact, didn't show any emotion," Bedetti recounted for Portale and Orange County assistant district attorney Julie Mohl, who's prosecuting the case. 
 
 Bedetti said he heard a cell phone ring when Graswald was laying on a gurney, before she was transferred to the Newburgh branch of St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital. The ringing sound was coming from the area of Graswald's life vest and bag, both of which were on the ground. Bedetti picked up her life vest to see where the sound was coming from and Graswald sat up abruptly, he testified. 
 
 Bedetti said he went on his own to the hospital to question Graswald. The police officer wanted more information from her "because she was the last one seen with someone we’re going to have potentially hundreds of people looking for," Bedetti said. And her phone was an important topic, because if it was in the river, police could "attempt to get a 'ping' on it, so we can locate a smaller area of rescue recovery." At some point, Graswald told Bedetti that her phone was in the river, he said. 
 
 Portale asked Bedetti if he was familiar with symptoms of hypothermia and stages of grief. Bedetti said in his police career, he's encountered people with hypothermia two or three times and that he had never seen someone react in the manner in which Graswald did. Portale also questioned Bedetti's written report of the incident, such as inconsistencies related to timing. 
 
 Freeman testified he drove Graswald from the hospital to state police barracks in Montgomery that night. When he met her at the hospital, she was alone, Freeman said. 
 
 "I asked if she was OK ... did she need me to call anyone," Freeman said. The status of Graswald's phone came up in that context; she told him that she had lost the phone in the river, he added. 
 
 On the drive to the barracks, "I asked her what happened," Freeman added. Graswald told him that Viafore was in front of her, heading from Bannerman Island back to Plum Point and "she saw him overturn ... he yelled (for her) to call 911. She said she took out her phone, put it on speaker (to call) and the kayak overturned. (She said) she tried to reach him, but she couldn’t." 
 
 During the conversation, Graswald's demeanor was calm, Freeman said. 
 
 Graswald did call 911 that night; ABC and CBS have aired clips of Graswald's interrogation video and parts of the call she made from the Hudson River. A question to be addressed at the Huntley hearing is whether the jury will see the 11-hour-long video of her police interrogation, which the defense is moving to suppress. 
 
 The video is in five-minute-increments and there were hundreds of instances in which the questions and answers are inaudible, Portale argued in court Monday. The defense said the grand jury that indicted Graswald did not see the video. 
 
 Moscato testified that Graswald was cooperative in the days following Viafore's death. The senior investigator said he felt sorry for Graswald and Viafore's family. 
 
 On April 29, 2015, police traveled to Bannerman Island "to give it a more thorough search," Moscato said. At that point, Viafore's body had still not been found. The couple had spent "quite some time" on the island the day Viafore's kayak capsized and police were "looking for any clues as to what might have transpired." 
 
 Moscato said he had spoken to Graswald and was aware she planned to visit the island herself that day, in part to lay down a wreath in honor of Viafore. When Moscato and two other investigators did see Graswald at Bannerman, police were "trying to get idea of where to find him," Moscato said. Graswald "seemed a little uneasy — I had to ask her to focus a couple times." 
 
 Eventually, discussion turned to Graswald's and Viafore's relationship, Moscato testified. She said "Vincent wasn't treating her right." Since the talk was getting so personal, Moscato said they asked Graswald if she would be more comfortable talking to one investigator, rather than three. She did, and asked to speak to investigator Donald DeQuarto in private, Moscato said. 
 
 When DeQuarto returned from the private talk, he told Moscato that Graswald had confessed to pulling a plug out of the kayak and manipulating the ring of Viafore's paddle. 
 
 Viafore's body was found in the Hudson River on May 23, 2015, nearly a month after Graswald was charged with his murder. 
 
 Nina Schutzman: nschutzman@poughkeepsiejournal.com, 845-451-4518 Twitter: @pojonschutzman 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://pojonews.co/1t3haPK ||||| A woman accused of murdering her fiance during a kayak trip on the Hudson River last year admitted to an investigator that she took out a plug on the kayak that eventually capsized, another investigator said in a pretrial hearing today. 
 
 Angelika Graswald and her fiance, 46-year-old Vince Viafore, were kayaking on the Hudson River on April 19, 2015, when his boat capsized and he disappeared, authorities said. She was arrested and charged with second-degree murder a few weeks later, and Viafore's body was recovered a few weeks after that. 
 
 Graswald is also accused of second-degree manslaughter. She has pleaded not guilty. 
 
 She was in court today for a Huntley hearing — a court proceeding about statements that prosecutors claim an accused made — during which Aniello Moscato, a senior investigator with the New York State Police, was on the stand. Moscato, who had responded to the scene, said he didn't speak with Graswald that day but did speak with her over the next nine days, during which the two became friendly and he "felt for her." 
 
 On April 29, an investigative team arrived on Bannermann's Island — where Graswald was found by rescuers 10 days earlier — and Graswald said she would also be at the island that day to lay a memorial wreath for Viafore. Then the investigators retraced the steps of that day with Graswald. 
 
 While they were on the island, Moscato said, he and two other investigators asked her if she would be more comfortable talking to one of them instead of all three, and Graswald said yes. She spoke with investigator Don DeQuarto alone for about 40 minutes, and then she walked to the bathroom by herself, Moscato told the court. DeQuarto spoke with Moscato, he said, and told him Graswald said that there was a plug on the kayak and that she had taken it out. 
 
 Moscato said that as the investigators were taking her back to the state police barracks, they had engine trouble on the boat and as Moscato held on to Graswald, she joked about jumping overboard. She seemed happy-go-lucky on the boat ride back to the barracks, Moscato said, which he said seemed strange to him after what she had just told DeQuarto. 
 
 Also on the stand today was Officer Stephen Pedetti, who told Graswald's defense attorney Richard Portale that Graswald was calm and showed no emotion after she was rescued. Pedetti said Graswald seemed very matter-of-fact and didn't seem concerned, calling her "emotionless." 
 
 The judge has issued a gag order, barring the prosecution and the defense from commenting on the case outside court. Viafore's family members were in court today and declined to comment to ABC News. 
 
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 GOSHEN - The Poughkeepsie woman accused of killing her fiance on the Hudson River was at a pretrial hearing Monday to determine whether statements she made to police could be used by prosecutors. 
 
 Lawyers for both sides dispute the validity of a confession police obtained while interviewing Angelika Graswald. 
 
 She was charged with second-degree murder after her fiance Vincent Viafore drowned while they were kayaking in April 2015. She has since pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors say she confessed to the crime during an interview with police. 
 
 Graswald later recanted that confession, saying Orange County police questioned her for six hours before she broke down and admitted to something she insists isn't true. As News 12 has previously reported, her lawyer questioned whether a language barrier led to the rescinded confession. Graswald is originally from Latvia. 
 
 The hearing comes after 14 months of court appearances with relatively few developments. Graswald appeared in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit to listen to the testimony at Orange County Court in Goshen. 
 
 The first witness to take the stand, Cornwall Officer Stephen Bedetti, who met Graswald at the scene of the alleged crime, said she had an "oddly calm demeanor" when she told him she witnessed Viafore drown in the Hudson River. He testified that Graswald told him that she waited five minutes before calling for help. 
 
 Bedetti also said he heard Graswald's phone ring at the scene, even though she'd allegedly claimed it fell into the water. 
 
 Defense attorneys questioned the officer about whether he knew that Graswald was experiencing hypothermia at the time, which may explain erratic behavior. He said he was not aware of that. 
 
 Prosecutors allege that Graswald tampered with Viafore's kayak to kill him and collect on his life insurance policy. The defense counters that authorities twisted her words and that Viafore, who was not wearing a life jacket at the time, ultimately died in a tragic accident. 
 
 Viafore's mother and other family members were present Monday in court, but declined to speak about the ordeal. 
 
 Graswald will remain in Orange County Jail with her bail set at $9 million. Her trial is tentatively set for next spring. 
 
 Meanwhile, the pretrial testimony is expected to continue Tuesday.
– The New York woman accused of murder in her fiance's kayaking death confessed to sabotage even before the body of Vincent Viafore was found, a police investigator testified at a pretrial hearing. Senior investigator Aniello Moscato told the hearing Monday that during a trip to lay a wreath for the missing man last April, Angelika Graswald told another investigator that she had pulled out a plug on Viafore's kayak, which capsized in the Hudson River, ABC News reports. Moscato testified that on a boat ride back to police barracks, Graswald seemed "happy-go-lucky" and joked about jumping off the boat. Viafore's body was found in the river more than a month after he disappeared. At Monday's hearing, one of the first police officers to respond to the scene said he found Graswald, whose kayak had also capsized, oddly calm and "matter-of-fact" when describing events, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. He said he heard her cellphone ring at the scene, though she had claimed it had fallen in the water. Prosecutors say Graswald, 36, sabotaged Viafore's kayak so she could collect his life insurance policy and confessed to the killing during a police interview last year, News 12 reports. Her defense argues that the confession was coerced and police faced a language barrier when dealing with Graswald, who's from Latvia. Pretrial testimony on what statements can be admitted in court will continue this week, but her trial is not expected until next spring.