Schlatter's cellphone held violent porn, choking and forced sex images
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The sick thoughts in Kalen Schlatter’s twisted mind were as close as his cellphone.
Investigators who seized Tess Richey’s accused killer’s phone quickly discovered what disturbing conduct turned him on.
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The device contained internet “key word searches” on Google that included terms such as “forced, gay forced anal, teen forced anal, teen forced and passed out anal.”
On Feb. 4, 2018, he accessed a link with a video entitled, “Teen Forced and Then Thrown Away Like Garbage.” This video graphically depicts a violent rape where the man strangles a woman with both hands, rendering her unconscious. When she regains consciousness, he chokes her again and the actress pretends to be dead.
“My brief discussion of it does not begin to do justice to its deeply disturbing nature,” wrote Justice Michael Dambrot. This video was much too prejudicial to be admitted, unless it was “excised or presented in an altered manner,” said Dambrot. “The Crown freely acknowledges that it cannot be played for the jury.”
There were also 15 separate images of apparently forced sex or violent choking in the context of forced sex on his phone, court heard. All women appear in pain or distress and in degrading contexts. Some include bondage, S&M and multiple men on a single woman.
The evidence — excluding the “Garbage” link — could have been admitted if the defence pursued two routes, such as attacking the police investigators for having “tunnel vision” and focusing only on Schlatter without really scrutinizing the defence’s alternate suspect, J.G.
Or if the defence emphasized J.G. was a more likely candidate than Schlatter to have killed Richey because of his psychiatric problems, social anxiety and use of drugs.
Then Dambrot would have permitted the porn evidence to be shown to the jury.
The judge also would have let the jury hear about Schlatter’s penchant for having choking sex with a consensual partner and, most importantly, Schlatter’s confession that he feared using too much force in strangling a sex partner and being unable to restrain himself.
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