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    wow, I'm glad they found the killer but I'm dying to know the motive.
    the guy looks harmless?! and he was a 'hero' just a while ago?
    Then again Ted Bundy actually saved a couple of lives when he worked in a suicide hotline before he became a serial killer.

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    interesting thread about possible motive
    https://www.removeddit.com/r/toronto...degree_murder/

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    Interesting development in the case:

    Toronto police have upgraded the charge against a man accused of killing 22-year-old Tess Richey from second-degree murder to first-degree murder.

    Richey?s body was discovered by her mother on Nov. 29, in an alleyway outside an under-construction building in Toronto?s Gay Village. She was reported missing four days earlier, last seen in the Church and Wellesley St. area.

    She was killed by neck compression, according to a post-mortem examination. Kalen Schlatter, 21, was arrested Feb. 4 and originally charged with second-degree murder. Police, at the time, believed that the pair hadn?t known each other before that night, and said the killing could fairly be called a ?crime of opportunity.?

    The new charge, of first-degree murder, means police believe the killing was both planned and deliberate. ?A murder is planned if it was conceived of and thought out before it was carried out. A murder is deliberate if the acts involved were intended and purposeful,? criminal lawyer Daniel Brown explained to the Star.

    Brown has no involvement in this case.

    ?The plan to kill need not be elaborate or complicated and the deliberation need not be lengthy. All that matters is that some form of planning to kill the person occurred at some point and that the accused person deliberately carried out the plan successfully,? he said.

    In some rare cases, he added, a murder that wasn?t planned or deliberate could be elevated from second-degree to first-degree murder if it happens while the accused committed ?one of a few enumerated crimes,? including hijacking, sexual assault or forcible confinement.

    Either police had evidence that now suggested the murder was planned and deliberate, or that one of the other specific crimes was occurring at the same time. Police have said the pair were together ?for some time? before Tess was killed, but have not elaborated on what they believe happened. The information is considered evidence.
    Schlatter was still somewhat of a mystery to officers at the time of his last court appearance. He had been on their radar since early in the investigation, but in a press conference, Det. Sgt. Graham Gibson said there was ?quite a bit of work? needed to bring them to the point where an arrest could be made.

    Police had received very little information about the 21-year-old since his arrest, Det. Ted Lioumanis told the Star at College Park court on Feb. 22, and Schlatter?s family had not been involved in the case at that point ? though police knew he lived with them in Toronto prior to his arrest, and worked with his father.

    ?We need to find out more about who he really is,? Lioumanis said at the time. ?We?re still working on that. It?s still early.? He said he was optimistic that ?people will step forward? as the case progresses.

    Schlatter will appear in court Thursday morning.
    https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...ss-richey.html

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    I still don't understand how you murder someone in a very large city at 21 and 3 months after you're caught there is still only ONE photo that exists of you on the internet.

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    2 officers charged with misconduct in Tess Richey investigation

    http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/06/1...s-tess-richey/

    Two Toronto police officers are facing charges of misconduct after an internal investigation found they didn?t thoroughly search for missing woman, Tess Richey, whose body was later found by her mother in an abandoned building.

    Richey, 22, was found dead four days after going missing in the Yonge and Wellesley streets area last November.

    Officers Michael Jones and Alan McCullough were involved in the initial investigation and search.

    They are both facing charges of misconduct and neglect of duty under the Police Services Act and appeared at a police tribunal hearing on Tuesday.

    The charges allege that when the officers arrived on the scene, they did not search the adjoining property or immediate area thoroughly, did not conduct a canvas of the neighbours and they failed to notify a supervisor of the particulars.

    Richey?s mother, who had driven from North Bay to search for her daughter, discovered the 22-year-old?s body in the stairwell of a building under construction.

    The charges allege the officers were only 40 metres away from where Richey?s body was found when they responded to the report that she was missing.

    Police initially said that foul play was not suspected in Richey?s death. But an autopsy later confirmed that she died from compression to the neck.

    Kalen Schattler, 22, is currently facing one charge of first-degree murder.

    Toronto police announced in December that it will be looking into how officers handled the initial stages of the investigation by calling in the Professional Standards Unit.

    The prosecution for the Professional Standards Unit has requested these matters return at a later day as the circumstances surrounding the alleged misconduct involves another matter before the courts.

    The assigned Crown said these allegations will have a ?negative? effect on the prosecution of Schattler.

    No word on when they will return to the police tribunal.
    Not surprising considering how the search was handled, or rather not handled.

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...rial-1.5452621

    Accused killer Kalen Schlatter spent hours talking with an undercover police officer about his prowess with women and the case against him right after his arrest, court heard Wednesday as Schlatter's first-degree murder trial in the death of Toronto woman Tess Richey continued.

    The Toronto police officer, who testified from behind a large screen to protect his identity from the body of the court, said he and another undercover officer were placed in holding cells on either side of Schlatter in the early morning hours of Feb. 5, 2018.

    "Mr. Schlatter said that when he left [Richey], she was alive, so maybe she took her own life, but he doesn't know," the officer testified. "Mr. Schlatter said he was drunk and something could have happened but he doesn't remember, and he doesn't think he's capable of doing it."

    Richey, 22, was reported missing in November 2017 after a night out in the Church and Wellesley area. Investigators say she was strangled. Schlatter, 23, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in connection with her death.

    Schlatter, court heard, was arrested after watching the Super Bowl with his family at a movie theatre on Feb. 4, 2018.

    Once he was placed in a holding cell with the undercover officers at 3:19 a.m. on Feb. 5, it didn't take much goading for Schlatter to start talking, the officer testified.

    Schlatter spoke at length about board and card games, specifically Magic: The Gathering, but also spent time boasting about his ability to pick up women, the officer said.

    "He says he's slept with over 40 women, and he's only 21 years of age," the officer testified. "He says that he can tell us his secrets.

    "That's when Mr. Schlatter starts speaking about having foursomes, and sex with more than one woman at a time on college campuses, and with random girls, and that girls beg him to sleep with them."

    Schlatter said he did 'something big,' cop says
    The officer said that Schlatter also told him that he meets women working as a nude model. "He says he doesn't mind being naked, because he is big, and doesn't feel shy," the officer said.

    At one point, Schlatter said, "Sometimes you have to push the boundaries with women to see where it goes," the officer told the jury.

    Court heard that the undercover officers told Schlatter they had been arrested for being found with stolen property. The officer then asked Schlatter what he was in for.

    "Mr. Schlatter said that what he did was something big," the officer said.

    "He then asked us if we know a girl named Tess Richey.

    Richey's body was found at the bottom of an outdoor stairwell at 582 Church St. in downtown Toronto in November of 2017.

    In her opening address to the jury, Assistant Crown Attorney Bev Richards said Schlatter's DNA was found on Richey's pants and bra.

    Shock, horror and disbelief: Murder trial witness describes finding Tess Richey's body
    She also said surveillance video shows Schlatter leading Richey to a stairwell of a building under construction around 4:14 a.m. on Nov. 25 — around the same time she was supposed to get into an Uber.

    Richards said the video, which is expected to be presented at trial, will then show Schlatter leaving alone 45 minutes later.

    Schlatter 'wanted privacy,' court hears
    The officer testified that Schlatter said he met Richey at a nearby nightclub called Crews and Tangos. Schlatter said he "met her in the club, and was kissing her, and grinding on her," the officer said.

    As the night progressed, Schlatter ended up out on the street with Richey and a friend of hers, the officer said Schlatter told him. The friend got on a streetcar to go home, leaving Schlatter and Richey alone, the officer said.

    "He said that he wanted to have privacy with her so they could hook up," the undercover cop said.

    "He then took her to the alley, and they were making out and grinding on one another there.
    The officer said Schlatter told him that he "came in his pants" while grinding on Richey, and that's how his DNA was found on her pants.

    He also testified that Schlatter said he wanted to have sex with Richey, but Richey said she couldn't, because she was on her period. Schlatter then said that he tried to penetrate Richey with his finger, but she stopped him, the officer said.

    "He said that he was upset because he wanted to have sex with her," the officer said, adding that Schlatter said Richey was "falling over because she was drunk" and he "had her against the wall" at the bottom of the stairs, the officer said.

    Schlatter said that at some point, the two stopped kissing, but Richey said she wanted to stay at the bottom of the stairwell — so Schlatter left on his own, the officer said he was told.

    Schlatter also talked about his experience with police questioning, court heard.

    "Mr. Schlatter said that [detectives] showed him pictures of the dead girl, and it didn't faze him at all," the officer said. The officer also testified that Schlatter said he "pretended that he got emotional" when he saw photos of Richey's body, "but in reality, it didn't bother him at all."

    Schlatter appeared to cry in court Tuesday when images of Richey's limp body were shown on screens in the courtroom.

    The officer also said that at one point during their time in the cells, Schlatter said that he has "so much upper body strength" that it surprises people.

    The trial continues Thursday morning.
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    Wow, okay. This dude screams "Incel" to me. He's so sexually experienced that he came in his pants. She called an UBER. Obviously she had no plans to have sex with him. He tried raping her and then got mad and strangled her. What a shit stain of a human.
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    Sounds like another Gable Tostee.
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    "I can discredit myself" Oh I needed a chuckle.


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    yes i said i will leave it under you storage he said cuddle with me i said shut up it over??? what am i doing wrong??
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    https://globalnews.ca/news/6729043/s...r-tess-richey/

    A Toronto man?s ?appetite for violent sex'?and his desire to experience it led him to strangle a young woman hours after they met, an Ontario judge said in sentencing him to life in prison.

    As he handed down the ruling Wednesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Michael Dambrot alluded to evidence of Kalen Schlatter?s sexual interest in choking that was kept from the jurors who determined the 23-year-old?s fate.

    ?The jury found you guilty of first-degree murder without knowing what I know about you, but I know it, and I will not be blind to it in these reasons,? Dambrot told Schlatter.

    ?It is true that you are young, but your sexual appetite led you literally to take an innocent young woman by the hand down a path to her death,? he said.

    ?To satisfy your lust, you took her life? you stole a large piece of the fabric of the very being of the members of her family and friends and, I could not fail to observe, you shed no tear for their losses.?

    Schlatter was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the killing of 22-year-old Tess Richey, an aspiring flight attendant whose disappearance in November 2017 set off an intense search.

    The verdict means jurors believed beyond a reasonable doubt that Schlatter sexually assaulted Richey as part of the same series of events as her murder.

    The conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years, which was officially imposed Wednesday after an emotional hearing that saw Richey?s family and friends voice their grief.
    https://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...richey-slaying

    In his notice of appeal, Schlatter alleges the judge who oversaw his trial gave ?imbalanced? instructions to jurors before they began deliberations.

    He also alleges Ontario Superior Court Justice Michael Dambrot erred in admitting the evidence of two undercover officers who testified they spoke to Schlatter while in neighbouring jail cells after his arrest.

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