{"id":237467,"date":"2023-10-01T08:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=237467"},"modified":"2023-10-01T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T08:03:29","slug":"chilling-story-of-bartender-36-found-lying-naked-in-a-pool-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/chilling-story-of-bartender-36-found-lying-naked-in-a-pool-of-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling story of bartender, 36, found lying naked in a pool of blood"},"content":{"rendered":"
A popular crime\u00a0documentary has laid bare the chilling true story of a bartender who was sexually assaulted with a doorstop and stabbed to death in a brutal attack.<\/p>\n
Kim Ancona’s lifeless body was found on the floor of the men’s restroom at the bar where she worked in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991.<\/p>\n
The mom-of-one, 36, had been stabbed six times with the killer leaving behind a slew of evidence – including distinctive bite marks on her body.<\/p>\n
Mailman Ray Krone was convicted of her murder but was ultimately exonerated after 10 years on death row when the real killer was finally caught.<\/p>\n
Here, FEMAIL has laid bare the disturbing realities surrounding the case after an episode of Crime Scene Confidential delves deeper into the ‘Snaggletooth Murder.’<\/p>\n
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Kim Ancona’s lifeless body was found on the floor of the men’s restroom at the bar where she worked in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991<\/p>\n
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The harrowing story began on December 29, 1991, as the owner of CBS Restaurant and Lounge arrived to open up just after 8am\u00a0<\/p>\n
The harrowing story began on December 29, 1991, as the owner of CBS Restaurant and Lounge arrived to open up just after 8am.<\/p>\n
After stepping inside, he soon found night manager Kim dead on the floor of the men’s bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was nude and lying in a pool of blood with six stab wounds around her neck and on her back.<\/p>\n
Her clothes were left scattered around the floor along with a number of wooden shims that had been used as door stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities said that one of the slithers, which was covered in blood, ‘looked like the perpetrator used it to insert into Kim’s body.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ‘sexual depravity’ left the bartender with ‘multiple tears within the vagina’ and Former Defense Attorney Chris Plourd said: ‘She really suffered in a very painful type of way.’<\/p>\n
There was a whole host of other evidence collected – including hairs, drinking glass and shoe print – but detectives struggled to draw any concrete conclusions due to the public space having multiple visitors.<\/p>\n
There was also a large boning knife, which\u00a0appeared to have come from the kitchen at the bar,\u00a0that had been left in the trash can with a bent eight-inch blade.<\/p>\n
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Night manager Kim was found nude and lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the men’s bathroom<\/p>\n
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Her clothes were left scattered around the floor along with a number of wooden shims that had been used as door stops\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Authorities said that one of the slithers, which was covered in blood, ‘looked like the perpetrator used it to insert into Kim’s body’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Detectives began to establish a timeline and worked out that\u00a0Kim had been in the process of cleaning up at the end of the night when she was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They ruled out robbery as a motivation\u00a0since Ancona’s purse was still behind the bar and the cash register was full.<\/p>\n
During a postmortem, additional evidence was found in the form of distinctive bite marks on Kim’s breast and throat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The size and width of the teeth as well as the\u00a0spaces, gaps and rotations were all analyzed.<\/p>\n
It was then determined that the perpetrator appeared to have crooked teeth and were quickly branded as the ‘Snaggletooth Killer’ in the media.<\/p>\n
Due to the sexual motivations of the attack, detectives turned their attentions on people Kim, who was recently divorced, had been romantically involved with.<\/p>\n
They honed in on a man called Ray Krone who Kim had told friends she had been dating with his name written in her address book.<\/p>\n
The mailman, who had previously been part of the United States Air Force,\u00a0had non-aligned teeth and denied he had had a relationship with Kim – despite there being witnesses to testify otherwise.<\/p>\n
He had an alibi for the evening of Kim’s death but detectives still carried out a search warrant of his house.<\/p>\n
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Detectives began to establish a timeline and worked out that Kim had been in the process of cleaning up at the end of the night when she was attacked<\/p>\n
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During a postmortem, additional evidence was found in the form of distinctive bite marks on Kim’s breast and throat<\/p>\n
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Detectives honed in on a man called Ray Krone who Kim had told friends she had been dating with his name written in her address book<\/p>\n
They failed to find any damning evidence but\u00a0took his fingerprints and DNA before also ordering\u00a0him to bite onto a slither of Styrofoam to compare to the bite marks on Kim’s body.<\/span><\/p>\n Not long after, Ray was arrested on New Year’s Eve before being charged with murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.<\/p>\n He was put on trial\u00a0ten months after Kim’s death with\u00a0dentist Dr Raymond Rawson being called as a witness to claim that the bite marks belonged to Ray with ‘virtual certainty.’<\/p>\n This became the most convincing piece of evidence for the jury who quickly came back to deliver a guilty verdict – with Ray sentenced to death.<\/p>\n He remain on death row for years before he got a new trial in 1996 with the aid of new technologies and advancements in DNA testing.<\/p>\n The saliva, hairs and fingerprints collected from the scene were found not to match Ray’s own samples.<\/p>\n But with Dr Rawson once again making his assertions about the bitemarks, Ray was found guilty a second time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Local man called Kenneth Phillips, who had been living 600 yards from the murder scene at the time of Kim’s death,\u00a0pleaded guilty in 2006 before receiving a 53-year sentence<\/p>\n Ray felt that his fate was certain until 2002 when a new law granted Arizona prisoners the right to conduct DNA testing on evidence used against them.<\/p>\n And it was at this time that authorities finally got a conclusive match – and it wasn’t Ray.<\/p>\n Instead, it was a local man called Kenneth Phillips,\u00a0who had been living 600 yards from the murder scene at the time of Kim’s death, who came back as a match.<\/p>\n Phillips had been sent to prison 30 days after the killing on a separate charge – but admitted that he had been at the bar on the night.<\/p>\n He claimed that he could not remember much but did recall getting angry\u00a0after being cut off from drinking.<\/span><\/p>\n The evidence ‘conclusively established’ Phillips’ guilt and he ultimately\u00a0pleaded guilty in 2006 before receiving a 53-year sentence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the meantime, in 2002, Ray, then 45, was fully exonerated and released from jail.<\/p>\n He has since spent his time talking to schools and groups of people as part of his commitment to\u00a0non-profit organization Witness to Innocence which is working to abolish the death penalty in America.<\/p>\n
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