TORONTO – A forensic pathologist who examined Tess Richey’s body says she quickly saw signs that suggested the young woman had been strangled.
Dr. Kona Williams is telling a Toronto court that broken blood vessels inside Richey’s eyelids and on her neck raised the possibility of manual or ligature strangulation.
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Williams is testifying at the trial of Kalen Schlatter, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Richey’s death.
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The Crown alleges Schlatter sexually assaulted and killed Richey in the hours after they met in November 2017.
The 22-year-old woman was reported missing after a night out with a friend.
Days later, her mother and a family friend discovered her body in a stairwell in Toronto’s gay village.
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