MACON, Ga. — It will be at least another day before there's a verdict in the murder trial of Joey Fournier, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Cynthia Berry in Feb. 2022.
Fournier, who escaped from the Bibb County jail back in February 2023, took the stand Wednesday afternoon and told the jury he remembers most of what happened the day Berry was killed. He says he doesn't remember that specific moment.
He told jurors Berry invited him over after work. They were going to have something to eat and watch a movie. Fournier says he took a shower, and when he got out 30 minutes later, Berry was drunk. That's when he says Berry threatened to bully his teenage daughter until she killed herself.
Fournier says he "saw red" and doesn't remember anything else about that night until after a friend picked him up.
According to testimony from Tuesday, that friend called another friend, who called Berry's brother, David Rogers.
Rogers testified he and his father went to the house.
"Pulled up in the driveway. I was told through the phone call conversation that she had been strangled and killed on the kitchen floor. I didn't know where the kitchen was at. We were outside the house," he said Tuesday.
On Wednesday, prosecutors were blunt with Fournier as they asked if he strangled Berry.
"I was the only one at the house, so I probably did," he said. "I don't recall."
Fournier said he also couldn't remember if he called anyone as a friend drove him to his hunting land 45 minutes from Macon. Prosecutor Thomas Williams then asked about a voicemail he says Fournier left.
It played in evidence Tuesday: "I didn't do nothing f---ing that nothing wasn't deserved."
"I know something happened. I can't bring her back. I would if I could," Fournier said in response.
He said he doesn't recall what he meant by the message.
Fournier's lawyer, Lauren Dixon, said she couldn't comment after court.
Jurors will return at 10 a.m. Thursday for the start of closing arguments.