Who would want to kill Vinny Ferraiolo? Nine months later, it’s a question that continues to elude those who knew the popular science teacher at Thomas Dale High School. And disagreement between the state medical examiner and county police over what happened – was it suicide or homicide? – has created even more uneasiness and
Previously, a pal of the late 16-year-old star confirmed that she was struggling with a few things before she was found dead inside a car at the Birch Bay State Park on May 2.
the result took months but, sure enough, cause of death, said the medical examiner, brain damage due to ligature strangulation. when an arrest warrant was issued, detective cambra served it personally. police arrested 45-year-old how d he react? he said, nick, you know i didn t kill my wife. i didn t kill my wife. in 2002, two years after their mother s death, tammie and tiffany came back to hawaii. this time to the courthouse where ken wakisaka went on trial for murder. he took the life of another human being, and that human being was our mother. this was a murder by strangulation. it was domestic violence at its ultimate. in his opening statement, prosecutor dan oyasato quoted from ken s own statements to accuse him of murder. can you tell if a person has been strangled during autopsy? these are the words of the defendant to an investigator from the medical examiner s office. in court the medical examiner repeated her opinion that shirlene was strangled,
i am wondering your initial reaction to to what you heard from the coroner? well, i think we were waiting for the cause of death and, you know, he did say that this was due to strangulation. i didn t know at first what that meant because there are three different kinds of strangulation. there there s hanging. there s ligature strangulation and manual strangulation. and obviously, now we know it s manual strangulation which is a very close-in way of killing somebody. it s not like shooting somebody from a distance. this is very personal, and it does tell a story about anger and hostility. um, and just an attack on another person. so, it tells us a lot. andrew, when you when you hear that cause of death manual strangulation, throttling is that enough to conclude that this was murder? because we already knew this case was a homicide. but homicide doesn t
now on the investigative and forensic aspects of this now that we know what we know. joining us for that is cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe. also, frances kobilinsky. i am wondering your initial reaction to to what you heard from the coroner? well, i think we were waiting for the cause of death and, you know, he did say that this was due to strangulation. i didn t know at first what that meant because there are three different kinds of strangulation. there there s hanging. there s ligature strangulation and manual strangulation. and obviously, now we know it s manual strangulation which is a very close-in way of killing somebody. it s not like shooting somebody from a distance. this is very personal, and it does tell a story about anger and hostility. um, and just an attack on another person. so, it tells us a lot. andrew, when you when you hear that cause of death