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« Woonsocket gets $502,000 drug-abuse prevention grant | Today | Victim of Providence shooting ID'd as city youth, 17 » June 26, 2008Defendant: Strangling victim not coerced into sexWARWICK -- A West Warwick man accused of strangling a woman to death said that the victim was not coerced into having violent sex. “She knew what she was doing,” Brian Mlyniec said on a recording made during a police investigation in 2006. The recording was made shortly after the state’s Medical Examiners Office ruled the cause of death of Kelly Ann Andersen, 41, was strangulation. Jurors watched the interview in Kent County Superior Court before they broke for lunch today. Mlyniec, now 45, is facing murder charges in Andersen’s death. She was found dead in Mlyniec’s apartment two years ago. Earlier in the day, assistant medical examiner Peter A. Gillespie, who also testified yesterday, answered questions posed by defense lawyer Andrew A. Bucci about the toxicity of methadone and alcohol that Anderson had consumed. Although it was possible that Anderson survived strangulation and instead died from the drugs and alcohol, Gillespie said, “In my opinion, that’s not what happened.” After responding similar questions in several ways, Gillespie offered: “If you’re asking hypothetically, anything is possible.” -- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports form Journal staff writer Nandini Jayakrishna Posted by Brandie Jefferson CommentsFormer WW resident | June 26, 2008 1:15 PM link Let's not forget that Mr. Mlyniec also has 13 years of probation for kidnapping a female some years back. Candace | June 26, 2008 1:35 PM link I don't remember hearing about this when it happened, and now can't find any more info online about the victim----I might have known her when we were kids. It seems that very little was said about her----who her surviving family is, did she have any children, etc.
MDB | June 26, 2008 3:48 PM link Candace, you're right; just checked his criminal record online at http://courtconnect.courts.ri.gov/pls/ri_adult/ck_public_qry_cpty.cp_personcase_details_idx and found sexual assault charges in 2001 with 13 years probation. Is it any wonder that some of us are freaking out about criminal charges disappearing after a couple of years? It's scary to think of creeps running around with a newly clean record, with no one the wiser. More pitfalls of tabula rasa | June 26, 2008 4:03 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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This defendant really grasps at straws with his lies. If the case wasn't so tragic due to the loss of this woman and her family the excuses offered by him would be comical. The blood excuse comes to mind.