Reply #10: She had defensive wounds on her hands, and he overpowered her from behind.

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Plenty of larger male murderers have been able to knife smaller women to death as easily as he did. Most likely, she didn't fight until the very end, hoping that cooperating with him would be the safest thing to do.

Maresca said he was showing the pictures in court in order to show how much pain she had been through. The fact that she suffered is not disputed, therefore there was no reason to display these pictures at all. If it had been necessary for jurors to have seen them (which it wasn't), the pictures could simply have been given to the jurors to look at, rather than being blown up and displayed to the world. This was a despicable act on the part of a despicable man who is working to put two clearly innocent young people in prison for life -- all so that he can be paid his fee.