{"id":99507,"date":"2023-10-01T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99507"},"modified":"2023-10-01T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T08:03:17","slug":"chilling-story-of-bartender-36-found-lying-naked-in-a-pool-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.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":"<h1>The sinister story of the &#8216;Snaggletooth Murder&#8217;: Inside the desperate hunt for killer of 36-year-old bartender whose naked body was found covered in BITE MARKS&#8230; as man charged with her &#8216;sexually depraved&#8217; murder is EXONERATED after 10 years on death row<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kim Ancona, 36, was found dead at the bar where she worked in Arizona in 1991<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The mom-of-one\u00a0had been sexually assaulted and stabbed in the neck six times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mailman Ray Krone was convicted but exonerated after 10 years on death row\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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<p>Kim Ancona&#8217;s lifeless body was found on the floor of the men&#8217;s restroom at the bar where she worked in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The mom-of-one, 36, had been stabbed six times with the killer leaving behind a slew of evidence &#8211; including distinctive bite marks on her body.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Here, FEMAIL has laid bare the disturbing realities surrounding the case after an episode of Crime Scene Confidential delves deeper into the &#8216;Snaggletooth Murder.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/19\/75817693-12558629-Kim_Ancona_s_lifeless_body_was_found_on_the_floor_of_the_men_s_r-m-52_1695665932617.jpg\" height=\"671\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kim Ancona&#8217;s lifeless body was found on the floor of the men&#8217;s restroom at the bar where she worked in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/19\/75817695-12558629-image-a-53_1695665953401.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>After stepping inside, he soon found night manager Kim dead on the floor of the men&#8217;s bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was nude and lying in a pool of blood with six stab wounds around her neck and on her back.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Authorities said that one of the slithers, which was covered in blood, &#8216;looked like the perpetrator used it to insert into Kim&#8217;s body.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;sexual depravity&#8217; left the bartender with &#8216;multiple tears within the vagina&#8217; and Former Defense Attorney Chris Plourd said: &#8216;She really suffered in a very painful type of way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There was a whole host of other evidence collected &#8211; including hairs, drinking glass and shoe print &#8211; but detectives struggled to draw any concrete conclusions due to the public space having multiple visitors.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/29\/22\/75817703-12558629-Night_manager_Kim_was_found_nude_and_lying_in_a_pool_of_blood_on-a-94_1696024451061.jpg\" height=\"389\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Night manager Kim was found nude and lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the men&#8217;s bathroom<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/29\/22\/75817691-12558629-Her_clothes_were_left_scattered_around_the_floor_along_with_a_nu-a-95_1696024451459.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/29\/22\/75817705-12558629-Authorities_said_that_one_of_the_slithers_which_was_covered_in_b-a-96_1696024452088.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that one of the slithers, which was covered in blood, &#8216;looked like the perpetrator used it to insert into Kim&#8217;s body&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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<p>They ruled out robbery as a motivation\u00a0since Ancona&#8217;s purse was still behind the bar and the cash register was full.<\/p>\n<p>During a postmortem, additional evidence was found in the form of distinctive bite marks on Kim&#8217;s breast and throat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The size and width of the teeth as well as the\u00a0spaces, gaps and rotations were all analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>It was then determined that the perpetrator appeared to have crooked teeth and were quickly branded as the &#8216;Snaggletooth Killer&#8217; in the media.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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 &#8211; despite there being witnesses to testify otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>He had an alibi for the evening of Kim&#8217;s death but detectives still carried out a search warrant of his house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/19\/75817717-12558629-image-a-58_1695666037236.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/20\/75817713-12558629-image-a-67_1695669708184.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>During a postmortem, additional evidence was found in the form of distinctive bite marks on Kim&#8217;s breast and throat<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/20\/75817727-12558629-image-m-66_1695669654109.jpg\" height=\"739\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p>They failed to find any damning evidence but\u00a0took his fingerprints and DNA before also ordering\u00a0<span>him to bite onto a slither of Styrofoam to compare to the bite marks on Kim&#8217;s body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not long after, Ray was arrested on New Year&#8217;s Eve before being charged with murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>He was put on trial\u00a0ten months after Kim&#8217;s death with\u00a0dentist Dr Raymond Rawson being called as a witness to claim that the bite marks belonged to Ray with &#8216;virtual certainty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This became the most convincing piece of evidence for the jury who quickly came back to deliver a guilty verdict &#8211; with Ray sentenced to death.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The saliva, hairs and fingerprints collected from the scene were found not to match Ray&#8217;s own samples.<\/p>\n<p>But with Dr Rawson once again making his assertions about the bitemarks, Ray was found guilty a second time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/20\/75823625-12558629-Local_man_called_Kenneth_Phillips_who_had_been_living_600_yards_-m-75_1695669856076.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/20\/75817699-12558629-Local_man_called_Kenneth_Phillips_who_had_been_living_600_yards_-a-76_1695669863256.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Local man called Kenneth Phillips, who had been living 600 yards from the murder scene at the time of Kim&#8217;s death,\u00a0pleaded guilty in 2006 before receiving a 53-year sentence<\/p>\n<p>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<p>And it was at this time that authorities finally got a conclusive match &#8211; and it wasn&#8217;t Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it was a local man called Kenneth Phillips,\u00a0who had been living 600 yards from the murder scene at the time of Kim&#8217;s death, who came back as a match.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips had been sent to prison 30 days after the killing on a separate charge &#8211; but admitted that he had been at the bar on the night.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that he could not remember much but did recall getting angry<span>\u00a0after being cut off from drinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The evidence &#8216;conclusively established&#8217; Phillips&#8217; guilt and he ultimately<span>\u00a0pleaded guilty in 2006 before receiving a 53-year sentence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, in 2002, Ray, then 45, was fully exonerated and released from jail.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Source: <a 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