Badgerow day 4

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Robert Badgerow’s fourth murder trial is into its second week of evidence. Today the jury endured more photos of the autopsy on Diane Werendowicz’s body taken in 1981 and they heard more about what happened before she was killed.

35 years after her death, the building where Diane Werendowicz lived still stands. It’s on Jerome Crescent beside a narrow wooded area bordering a creek. This is where Werendowicz’s body was found by children playing hide & seek.

The night she was killed, Werendowicz left her friends at about midnight to walk home. She was still alive when her head went into the creek. The autopsy report the jury saw today says her cause of death was drowning and strangulation. The pathologist wrote he found her “….bag with strap twisted tightly around the neck with a mass of hair entwined in the twisted segment of the strap.”

The autopsy found Robert Badgerow’s sperm inside of Werendowicz and also in the crotch of her jeans, which were on, buttoned, but not zipped. That fact wasn’t discovered until years later, when DNA testing became available. Today, the pathologist reviewing the original, now dead pathologist’s work, said it was clear Badgerow was the last person to have sex with Werendowicz, and sometime after that she suffered fatal injuries.