ALFRED, Maine — The defense in the murder trial of a New Hampshire man accused of killing his ex-fiance in Maine is casting suspicion on two other men.
Defense lawyer Daniel Lilley wants jurors to consider the victim’s landlord and another man who worked for the landlord and struck up a romance with the victim the week before she disappeared.
The Portland Press Herald says both men gave conflicting statements and contradicted themselves during testimony this week in York County Superior Court.
Prosecutors say defendant Jason Twardus of Rochester, N.H., strangled the victim, Kelly Gorham of Alfred, Maine, two months after she broke off their engagement. Her body was buried in a shallow grave on his father’s property in northern New Hampshire.