State v. Hornoff

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

On the morning of August 11, 1989, Victoria Cushman (Victoria) failed to appear for her scheduled shift at the Alpine Ski & Sports store on Maple Street in Warwick, Rhode Island. A friend and coworker, concerned about her unexplained absence, enlisted the aid of two fellow coworkers, and all three walked to her apartment, adjacent to the Alpine store in search of their Mend. Instead of finding the smiling young woman whom they had all come to know, they found Victoria lying in a pool of blood on the living room floor, obviously dead from severe head trauma. She had…