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So before we get started, Karen, why don't you just tell me a bit about yourself and tell me how you got connected with this case,

because I understand you've been there since the

beginning. Right so I'm a digital broadcast journalist for global news based in

Toronto and I do cover a great deal of crime and I remember that there was this

evening back in 2017 it was November and that I had seen a post on Facebook and

Much like many of our stories it started with this basic post about a missing girl and I hadn't heard

about her disappearance by police and it just sort of stood out to me and I

remember flagging it to our silent desk and then lo and behold a short time later it might have even been the next day

Toronto police sent out this news release about a missing girl

named Tess Ricci she was 22 years old she'd been reported missing in the Church in Wellesley area and that in

Toronto is by the gay village and I was working a morning shift. I was

reporting on her disappearance when an update came a few days later that she'd been

found. It was not a suspicious death and then suddenly

another update after that indicating in fact it was a homicide, the cause of death was neck compression and it's sort of all stemmed from there and I feel like over the years I've stuck with this story and I've gotten to know the family as a result of that and I can tell you that this is a really remarkable family that's

just been through any parent's worst nightmare and then of course I was there through the course of the

trial as well. And now it so it started for you with basically just seeing a catching wind of a Facebook

post and you started following it.

Here we are now nearly four years later and you know you're just now I guess

seeing the end result of basically the entire story playing out so let's go

through some of it but before we get too deep into like what

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