State v. Tassone

OPINION

GOLDBERG, Justice.

On the morning of June 30, 1994, a woman and her two young nephews, ages four and seven, were collecting sea shells on Crescent Beach in Riverside, Rhode Island. Sadly, the outing was brought to an abrupt and traumatic end when the seven-year-old spotted what appeared to be a human arm sticking out of the sand. Shortly after the woman reported this gruesome discovery to the police, the body of thirty-year-old Kendra Hutter (Kendra), a mother of two from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was unearthed from the beach by the state medical examiner. Kendra had suffered numerous…