One of the hardest parts to observe in a homicide trial can be the autopsy review. The medical examiner speaks in extensive detail and we include some of that detail in our coverage, because we need to show, this is the case the state presented, and this is how the defense responded.

The descriptions and theories of how a life ended, including what was happening to the body’s systems, are vastly different content from all our other news due to their import and gruesomeness, yet we approach and deliver them the same way, objectively; and by weighing the details as we go, what to leave in, what to leave out; less would be remiss and more would be a transcript.

These are the stories we don't want to tell but we must. By reporting the testimony and evidence, we share  a victim’s story they cannot, and cover a trial that may determine a defendant’s future. 

We hear all the time about murder cases in the cities and sometimes in a small town. This week’s case was from a death in Wiscasset. We’ll get through it together. We’ll follow the outcome Shawna Gatto has in court. And we will always remember Kendall Chick.