The man who said in a sworn statement that he killed Jane Bashara, Joe Gentz, is changing his story again about how he was involved in the murder. In a sworn affidavit filed last week, Gentz said the former Grosse Pointe Park Chief of Police, David Hiller, and the detective who investigated the murder in January of 2012, told him to lie. Gentz claims they coached him on what to say when he told them, “I alone did it.” Gentz writes, “That my testimonial statements against Mr. Robert Bashara was the product of coercion and subornation of perjury by Sergeant Reducio and Chief David Hiller.” Gentz said he killed Jane and Bob Bashara was not home at the time of the murder. “I could no longer live knowing Mr. Robert Bashara was completely innocent and further explained to him that Mr. Robert Bashara was not even in his house when I killed his wife.” Gentz told all of his fellow inmates inside the Macomb Correctional Facility that he went to the Bashara home in Grosse Pointe Park angry that Bob hadn’t paid him for two recent jobs. An inmate relayed Gentz’s words to a private investigator who presented it to Bob Bashara’s new attorney. The affidavit was signed by Gentz.
