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June 23, 2008

EMT: Place a mess, woman was dead on floor / Photo

Journal Photo/ Kathy Borchers
Bryan Mylniec, left, with his attorney Andrew Bucci, listen while prosecutor Thomas O'Brien gets testimony from West Warwick police Sgt. Scott Thornton.

WEST WARWICK -- When rescue crews arrived at Brian Mlyniec’s home two years ago, the living room was a mess, with plants overturned, and clothes and food on the floor. In the middle of the room was Kelly Ann Anderson -- obviously dead, according to Eric Galloway, an EMT.

Galloway was the state’s first witness in Mlyniec’s murder trial in Kent County Superior Court today. The 45-year-old West Warwick man faces a first-degree murder charge in 41-year-old Anderson’s death by strangulation.

Prosecutors in the case today gave opening statements, telling jurors that they would eventually hear two videotaped statements that Mlyniec made to police after his arrest.

“At the end of the case,” John Corrigan, of the Attorney General’s Office, told jurors, “You’re going to have evidence before you so you can call this death exactly what it was: Murder in the first degree.”

The defense reserved its right to make an opening statement later instead of today. Previously, Mlyniec had said that he and Anderson had consensual, violent sex. He pleaded "absolutely not guilty" last week.

Galloway said when he entered Mlyniec’s home, he saw a room in disarray with Anderson on the floor. The state showed pictures, which led some in the courtroom to cry quietly and cover their faces.

Anderson’s shirt and jeans were unbuttoned, and, Galloway testified, Mlyniec was hovering over her and said, “Oh, she’s moving.” But, Galloway testified, it was immediately evident to the EMTs that Anderson was already dead.

The state medical examiners office later determined that the cause of death was strangulation.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Talia Buford

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