US EditionMistrial declared after report that girl killed in 1986 had been placed in used body bag
Prosecutors said a retired Norwalk police lieutenant reported the claim, and the judge said the new allegation raised contamination concerns.
- Judge John Blawie declared a mistrial on Monday in Marc Karun's murder trial, citing concerns about evidence contamination involving a used body bag in the 1986 killing of 11-year-old Kathleen Flynn.
- Retired Norwalk police lieutenant Robert Fabrizzio recently alleged that famed forensic scientist Henry Lee told him shortly after Flynn's 1986 killing that she had been placed in a used body bag.
- State's Attorney Paul Ferencek revealed Fabrizzio's email in court last week; forensic scientists stand by their testimony, and DNA testing showed results 22,000 times more likely to belong to Karun and Flynn.
- Disappointment followed the mistrial for the Flynn family, who have waited forty years for justice, while Karun remains detained on $5 million bond pending resolution.
- Karun, arrested in 2019 at his Stetson, Maine home, faces sentencing in July on federal gun charges and previously served about 10 years for other assaults in the 1980s.
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Judge declares mistrial for Maine man accused of murdering child in 1986
A Connecticut judge on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of a Maine man charged with killing an 11-year-old girl in Norwalk nearly 40 years ago after it was revealed her body may have been placed in a used body bag. Marc Karun, 60, was also charged with murder with special circumstances and first-degree kidnapping in the 1986 killing of Kathleen Marie Flynn. Kathleen, who went by Kathy, went missing after leaving school on Sept. 23, 1986. H…
Mistrial declared after report that girl killed in 1986 had been placed in used body bag - Boston News, Weather, Sports
An 11-year-old Connecticut girl who was raped and killed in 1986 was reportedly placed in a used body bag at the time, a new allegation that led to a mistrial in a murder case Monday over concerns about evidence contamination. Marc Karun was on trial on murder and kidnapping charges in connection with the killing of Kathleen Flynn, a sixth grader who was attacked walking home from her middle school in Norwalk. Karun, now 60, once lived in Norwal…
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Mistrial declared after report that girl killed in 1986 had been placed in used body bag
An allegation that an 11-year-old Connecticut girl who was raped and killed in 1986 was placed in a used body bag has led to a mistrial in a murder case.
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