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Walker autopsy report goes into details
BY DANNY GALLAGHER, McKinney Courier-Gazette
The autopsy for Sarah Anne Walker recently released by the Collin County Medical Examiner’s office shows her attacker beat, strangled and stabbed her to death.
McKinney police charged and a Collin County grand jury indicted Kosoul Chanthakoummane, 26, of Dallas, on a charge of capital murder in connection with Walker’s death. He is accused of killing Walker, a Frisco resident, on July 8, 2006, in the kitchen of a model home in the 5700 block of Conch Train, where she worked as a real estate agent for developer D.R. Horton.
A Plano couple viewing homes in the area for decorating ideas found her body around 1:30 p.m. and called 911.
The report, conducted and written by Collin County Medical Examiner Dr. William Rohr, found at least 31 instances of “sharp force injury” on Walker’s body. Sixteen of the wounds were found on her head and neck, 10 were found on her torso, and six were found on her extremities.
The report also found evidence of blunt force trauma to her head and face. She had a 3-inch “purple contusion” on her forehead and temporal area, a 1-inch contusion on the center scalp, and two half-inch contusions above her left eyebrow. Her nasal bones were “fractured” and the bridge of her nose had a small contusion measuring three-fourths of an inch. She also had two fractured teeth, a contusion on her center inner lower lip, and “scattered superficial abrasions and contusions of the inner upper lip.”
The autopsy also found evidence of strangulation. The entire anterior or front of her neck had “patchy erythema” or redness of the skin. There were also “two curved and one linear superficial abrasions” and a “partial separation of the right side of the thyroid cartilage and cricoids cartilage articulation with a small amount of hemorrhage,” according to the report.
Examiners also found an “unequivocal” bite mark on the left side of Walker’s posterior neck. The mark is described as a “mandibular arch consisting of a one-sixteenth-inch-wide contusion (that) is longitudinally arranged and one-and-a-half inches long.”
The Collin County District Attorney’s Office filed a “notice of intent” to call several expert medical witnesses to the stand, including two dentists from Dallas and Plano to discuss the bite mark during the trial, according to Collin County court documents.
Contact Danny Gallagher at dgallagher@acnpapers.com. To post comments online, access this story at www.scntx.com.
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JOE WALKER wrote on May 12, 2007 4:50 AM:
" THIS IS ALL THE MORE REASON TO PRAY FOR DIVINE MERCY....
JOE WALKER
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