MINNEAPOLIS — Editors note: The video above originally aired April 10, 2019.
A home health nurse who discovered the bodies of a prominent Minnesota businessman and his wife in a murder-suicide case is suing their estate and seeking damages for emotional trauma.
Court documents say Lisa Ann Hayes walked in on a grisly scene in April 2019 at the Lake Minnetonka mansion of Irwin and Alexandra Jacobs.
Investigators say Irwin Jacobs, a nationally known investor who made a fortune as a corporate trader in the 1980s and 1990s, fatally shot his wife and then himself amid health and financial troubles.
A report from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office concluded at the time that 77-year-old Alexandra Light Jacobs died of multiple gunshot wounds, and 77-year-old Irwin Lawrence Jacobs died of multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
Hayes is seeking unspecified damages in her lawsuit, claiming Irwin Jacobs’ actions were injurious to her health and “constituted willful, wanton and malicious conduct.”
Jacobs was part-owner of the Vikings in the 1980s, and also owned household products company J.R. Watkins Co., among other holdings.