Providence Journal video / Kathy Borchers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Prosecutors finished presenting their case against Donald Greenslit in Superior Court, Providence, Thursday after Rhode Island's chief medical examiner testified that the defendant's girlfriend had died from stab wounds.
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The examiner, Dr. Christina Stanley, testified that she had immediately recognized the charred mass of material that firefighters had found in the basement fireplace of Greenslit's home as human remains.
Stanley said she later identified the remains as Staci DeSantis-Dorego's torso and also examined many of the woman's organs, finding that her heart had been pierced three times by "something with a single edge."
Greenslit is accused of stabbing DeSantis-Dorego, the mother of his two children, to death, dismembering her and trying to dispose of her in a basement fireplace.
Providence Journal photo / Kathy Borchers
R.I. Chief Medical Examiner Christina Stanley looks at a photo of the scene inside Greenslit's house, as she is questioned by Assistant Attorney General Daniel Guglielmo Thursday.