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New evidence suggests sexual assault by a New York lawyer who was found dead at a tropical Club Med resort in 2018, according to court documents revealed as part of an investigation into her cause of death on Friday. Is shown.
Marie Kuunla, a 62-year-old public lawyer in Suffolk County, New York, died in a manual strangulation in October of that year while on vacation with two colleagues in the Turks and Caicos Islands. A bush in a remote area of the resort.
However, despite the doctor’s discovery, a new cause of death hearing aimed at determining the cause and method of her death in court was disclosed earlier in court, with potential concealment from her family. Raised concerns about the exposure of evidence that has not been done.
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“That’s obviously really really painful and difficult news,” Rick Kuunla Jr., who virtually attended the proceedings, told Fox News Digital. “When I see police officers first hear information in court, it only confirms the cover-up. I think it’s undeniable that this was police cover-up anymore.”
According to George Abe, a lawyer representing the family in a wrongful death litigation in the United States, the results of the DNA test dated December 7, 2018 were not released until Friday. On October 16th and 20th of that year, police took evidence from a man’s room at the resort.
DNA analysis found semen in Kuunra’s underwear and male DNA in the door of the room, but not enough to match. He also shed blood on Kuunra’s clothes, hands, and crotch.
“The bottom line is that Club Med and the police have been telling us for years, even though their ME thought it was an accident,” Kuhnra’s son told Fox News Digital. Told. “But laboratory reports show that in addition to her semen, almost every article on the clothing / personal effects she had is bleeding. [her] panties. “
He said the family’s local lawyer, Peter Mack Knight, had the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses and was skeptical of the inquest’s legitimacy until it led to DNA exposure. But he said he was worried until the final result of the hearing was available.
Trevor Botting, the island nation’s police secretary, said he could not comment until the proceedings were closed.
Investigators responded to reports of a woman’s body found on October 16, 2018, Royal Turks and Caicos Islands police said. According to police documents, two Khunla colleagues on vacation with her reported that she went missing the day before, and she lives with Frank Yaculo Jr. on the 14th. Was seen last.
According to a civil lawsuit in her family, he spent time with Kuunla, a documentary state, and was an employee of Club Med in the 1990s.
Coroner Dr. Michael Stickbauer realized that her death was a manual strangulation murder.
Dr. Steckbauer is a witness to the family’s wrongful death litigation, defending his findings in court during an inquest.
According to Ed Daud, a private detective who works with Kuhnra’s son and widower, there was also evidence that she was abandoned there and did not walk there on her own.
A wrongful death litigation filed in Nassau County, New York allegedly strangled Kuunra in an attempt to cover up the mishandling of the body and the circumstances surrounding the blockage.
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According to George, Turks and Caicos Islands investigators visited Khunla’s widow, Rick Khunla Sr., in 2019, highlighting the possibility that the death of a woman was an accident. The family rejected the theory – citing the discovery of an official coroner and other evidence revealed by Daud.
Wrongful death lawsuits also nominate Yacullo as a potential suspect. Police found the woman’s DNA in his room, which did not match Kuunla. He was separately accused of groping for one of her friends, released on bail, and returned to the United States. He tried to contact him for comment, but was not immediately successful.
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Daud told Fox News Digital last week that Kuunra suffered from a broken rib, a bruise on the inner thigh, and partial undressing. Even before the DNA report, she may have been sexually assaulted before she died, and despite being found 100 yards from her shoes, her feet were dirty, bramble, and scratched. He said it did not indicate that he was taken to that place. I didn’t walk there myself.
The cause of death hearing will continue on Monday and will eventually fall into the hands of the Turks and Caicos Islands jury.