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The discontinuance trial against aged JAG naval officer Nicholas Kassotis, accused of killing his wife, is underway in Georgia.

As CrimeOnline previously reported, police stumbled on the remains of Mindi Mebane Kassotis, 40 at the Portal Attempting Membership in Riceboro on December 2, 2023, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Her body has been dismembered, and police stumbled on extra remains within a three-mile radius on the grounds of the club, which lie in each Liberty and McIntosh Counties.

The GBI stated it believed the remains possess been attach there on or around November 27, 2023.

In the center of opening statements Tuesday, prosecutor Laurie Baio stated Kassotis and Mindi had fled their home in Georgia after a settle ordered him to pay a $.1.5 million divorce judgment to his first wife.

Mindi by no methodology returned home.

In step with Court docket TV, the prosecution added that the defendant had been having an affair at the time, with a girl, now his third wife, who didn’t know he modified into once married at the time.

The protection, calling the case circumstantial, stated that the couple fled their home attributable to a supposed FBI agent identified as “Jim McIntyre,” who allegedly controlled their lives and instructed them to belief nobody.

The prosecution previously known as the protection’s advice a “CIA, conspiracy arrangement-sort argument.” McIntyre has now not been positioned.

Baio added that a knife modified into once stumbled on at the crime scene and equipped a receipt showing a private expose made by the defendant that matched the identical kind of knife.

A enormous selection of Clorox wipes possess been moreover stumbled on at the scene, alongside with plastic tubs that the defendant allegedly saved the body ingredients in.

“Those wipes possess been all around the build. There possess been a total bunch them that possess been recovered since the killer didn’t want to travel gradual proof,” Baio argued.

On Wednesday, prosecutors targeted on blood stumbled on on a futon, while Kassotis’ attorneys pointed out purported inconsistencies, arguing that it can possess been menstrual blood.

Feeble clinical examiner Keith Lehman then took the stand, pointing out that Mindi had been cut reduction up and thrown into the woods, where animals attacked the remains.

By the point she modified into once stumbled on, the remains had been drained of blood, making it advanced to create toxicology tests. On the opposite hand, an autopsy stumbled on 9 head lacerations, one among which had been fierce passable to crack her cranium.

The autopsy moreover indicated protection wounds on her fingers and fingers, alongside with bruising on her chest and abdominal.

Baio then confirmed safety photography of the defendant’s automobile on the attempting club twin carriageway on November 29, 2023. The protection argued that the motive force modified into once now not clearly viewed within the photography.

Kassotis goes by malice discontinuance, felony discontinuance, aggravated assault, tampering with proof and removal of body ingredients from the scene of dying or dismemberment.

The trial continues. Take a look at reduction for updates.

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[Feature Photo: Mindi Mebane Kassotis/Georgia Bureau of Investigation]