SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) -- Two men are headed to trial on homicide charges after allegedly buying the heroin that lead to an overdose death in Cedar Grove last year.
25-year-old Brian Splivalo from Kiel and 30-year-old Jason Makar of Random Lake have both been bound over for trial on charges of first degree reckless homicide in connection with the death of 34-year-old Jessie Prochaska of Cedar Grove in September of 2015.
According to the criminal complaint, deputies believe that Splivalo and Makar did drugs with Prochaska the night before she was found dead of an overdose. Evidence taken from her apartment allegedly contained both men's fingerprints.
Detectives spent the next several months trying to piece together the day's events, going through several interviews, until a public works employee came forward with a cell phone belonging to Prochaska that she'd found in a city sewer. Phone records found on that phone showed phone calls between Splivalo and the victim, and showed that they had been in contact the day of her overdose. Further searches of the victim's Facebook messages show conversations between her and Makar, and discussed doing drugs on the day of her death.
Splivalo and Makar are in custody on $75,000 cash bonds and will be back in court for their arraignments this afternoon.