The government of Turks and Caicos appeared to challenge its own medical examiner in court on Wednesday over the death of a Long Island tourist more than three years ago that was ruled to be a homicide.
Attorneys for Club Med and Turks and Caicos Islands police left court together, after they peppered the government’s own medical examiner with questions about his ruling that Long Island wife and mother Marie Kuhnla died from strangulation while visiting the resort with friends.
When asked by NBC New York if he stood by his ruling of strangulation and homicide, Dr. Michael Steckbauer said without hesitation, “of course.”
Kuhnla’s son, Rick Kuhnla Jr.,
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