Woman who died on overnight train to Denver was suffocated in her seat, expert testifies

The -year-old woman who died in her seat on an overnight train to Denver nine years ago suffered injuries that indicate she was suffocated including a tooth imprint on the inside of her lip a national expert testified Monday during the murder trial for the woman s boyfriend The tooth imprint on Marina Placensia s lower lip suggests that her lip was pressed into the tooth with a critical amount of force as she was suffocated testified Bill Smock a physician with the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky and expert in strangulation who also testified in the George Floyd matter Ms Placensia was suffocated to death Smock testified She died because she couldn t breathe Period This is homicide Death at the hands of someone else Literally the hands of someone else Smock took the stand at the start of the second week of the jury trial for Angelo Mantych who is charged with first-degree murder in Placensia s death Placensia died in her seat on an overnight Amtrak train to Denver on Sept Mantych advised officers he tried to wake his girlfriend about minutes before they arrived in Denver and assumed she was sleeping deeply when she did not stir He announced he tried again minutes before arrival and then sought help when she still did not respond according to an affidavit The Denver Office of the Therapeutic Examiner could not determine her cause of death in and Mantych was not arrested until after Smock brought in as an outside expert reviewed the development and concluded that Placensia was suffocated to death A woman died in her seat on an overnight train to Denver Nine years later her boyfriend is on trial for murder This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e facts if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i