BDSM MEDIA NEWS!!!!
June 15, 2014
Bondage Murder Trial: "She sat on victim's face for 15 minutes".(videolink)
* The video filmed by a public defender in October 2012 shows Kathryn McDonough acting out how she sat on Lizzi Marriott the week before
* The shock footage comes after McDonough told the court she had not had any sexual interaction with the 19-year-old student before her death
* McDonough, the prosecution's key witness, claimed she was protecting her boyfriend - but her inconsistencies throw doubt on her testimony
* Her ex-boyfriend Seth Mazzaglia is charged with the first degree murder
Source: Dailymail.co.uk. - The Daily Mail - UK
USA - DOVER N.H. - A woman whose ex-boyfriend is on trial for raping and murdering a student claimed in a video shown to the court that she sat on the victim's face for up to 15 minutes during bondage play - in what has come as a shocking twist in the already sordid case.
The chilling video, which was filmed by public defenders days after her then-boyfriend Seth Mazzaglia was arrested, throws doubt on claims made by the prosecutions' key witness Kathryn McDonough, who previously told the court that she had not had any sexual involvement with Lizzi Marriott.
Mazzaglia's defense team just needs to convince one juror in the Dover, New Hampshire courtroom that McDonough, 20, is lying to spare him a first-degree murder conviction.
In the video, which was filmed on October 17, 2012, McDonough tells public defender Joachim Barth that she sat on 19-year-old Elizabeth 'Lizzi' Marriott's face during bondage sex for '10 to 15 minutes'.
At one point in the footage, McDonough, who has portrayed herself as her ex-boyfriend's sex slave, even acts out exactly how she squatted over the young woman.
She also discusses her interest in bondage and how she used a rope to restrain the young woman on the floor of Mazzaglia's apartment after luring there on the promise of watching a movie.
As jurors stayed riveted to the footage, McDonough's eyes darted nervously from the video to Barth, who has repeatedly accused her of lying in court, the
Boston Herald, reported.
After speaking in the video, McDonough later changed her story to say Mazzaglia strangled Marriott with a bondage rope and then raped her limp body as McDonough looked on, horrified.
And during the trial, she has denied having any sexual involvement with Marriott on the night she died and claimed she initially lied to the public defender to protect Mazzaglia.
When quizzed on her inconsistencies between the previous story and her testimony in court, McDonough insisted the story on video was 'a very big lie'.
Barth asked if she was now telling the truth.
She replied saying: 'It’s just me trying to tell the truth as best I can.'
The case relies heavily on McDonough's testimony, meaning that if jurors do not find her credible, Mazzaglia could walk away from the trial without serving time. He has pleaded not guilty.
McDonough is currently serving three years in prison for lying to cops and witness tampering.
The two-week trial has been filled with sordid testimony from McDonough, who said she has brought Marriott, whom she worked with at a mall, to her boyfriend's home as a sex offering.
She claimed he had demanded she bring someone over as punishment for leaving him alone while she went to camp.
On Wednesday, Strafford County Superior Court also heard that McDonough witnessed Mazzaglia strangle Marriot but didn't get help or call the authorities because she was scared of her boyfriend.
Barth, who is representing Mazzaglia, told the court: 'Your instincts for survival did not prompt you to scream out the open window as you stood in front of it ... Your instincts for survival did not prompt you to try to get the attention of neighbors directly across the river.'
Earlier in the trial, McDonough denied she was controlled by multiple personalities after Mr Barth said she had five voices in her head.
He told the court McDonough was secretly recorded telling a friend that the night Miss Marriott died one of the personas took control and McDonough blacked out.
But on cross-examination, she disputed that her reference was to the night Marriott died.
Miss Marriott had transferred to the University of New Hampshire only weeks earlier to major in marine biology.
She had been in a committed relationship with Brittany Atwood, who lived in Massachusetts.
On the night she died, Miss Marriot text messaged Miss Atwood minutes before 9pm to let her know she was going over to 'Kat's' to watch a movie.
Atwood testified she was happy for her because she was finally making new friends.
The text message was Marriott's last communication.
Her body has never been found and prosecutors believe Mazzaglia and McDonough put it inside the victim's car then dumped it in a river.
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