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PICTOU, N.S. – Nova Scotia’s chief medical examiner says Amber Kirwan was stabbed at least 10 times by her assailant and bled to death.
Dr. Matthew Bowes says it’s apparent the 19-year-old was stabbed multiple times but it’s impossible to tell how many because the wounds were so close together.
Bowes says most of the stab wounds were on her neck and back, but one went through her heart.
He was part of the team that unearthed Kirwan’s partly decomposed body from a muddy grave in woods of a rural logging road outside New Glasgow on Nov. 5, 2011.
The discovery was made about a month after Kirwan disappeared following a night out with friends at a pool hall and bar in New Glasgow.
Bowes says defensive wounds on her hands indicate she tried to defend herself “vigorously.”
Thirty-one-year-old Christopher Alexander Falconer has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Kirwan’s death.
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