ARMSTRONG B.C. — It’s been more than two years since the shocking murder of Armstrong teen Taylor Van Diest. Now her family will have to re-live the painful details of her death as the trial for the man accused of killing her is set to begin.
“I constantly relive it in my head, finding her, seeing her in the hospital,” Taylor’s mother Marie Van Diest told Global Okanagan back in October 2012 on the one year anniversary of her daughter’s death.
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“I can’t get it out of my head and it’s certainly magnified, many times over.”
The 18-year-old was killed near the railway tracks in Armstrong on Halloween night, 2011. Cherryville resident, Matthew Foerster, was arrested and charged with first degree murder about five months after Van Diest’s badly beaten body was found.
Legal proceedings for the now 28-year-old man will begin in BC Supreme Court in Kelowna Monday.
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