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Posted by Sandra On January - 26 - 2010

Lily Burk Autopsy Shows The Teenager Fought for Her Life

KTLA News

3:37 PM PST, January 25, 2010

Lily BurkLily Burk (Family Photo)
LOS ANGELES — A parolee accused of kidnapping and killing 17-year old Lily Burk has been ordered to stand trial.

A judge on Monday ordered a trial for Charlie Samuel after ruling there is enough evidence to support charges of murder, kidnapping and robbery.

He will be arraigned Feb. 9.

Earlier, the coroner testified that the autopsy conducted on Burk showed the teenage engaged in a violent struggle with her attacker.

“The cause of death was (an) incised wound to the neck,” Dr. Jeffrey P. Gutstadt.

The fatal wound was consistent with having been inflicted by a sharp object such as a broken glass bottle, Gutstadt said.

But the teenager also suffered injuries to her entire body, including wounds to her lower neck, bite marks on the left side of her face and left ear, as well as bruising on her back and contusions on her knees and feet, Gutstadt testified.

Burk’s body was found in the front passenger seat of her black Volvo S40, which was spotted in the parking lot of a food processing plant on Alameda Street on July 25, 2009 — one day after she disappeared while running an errand for her mother.

Fingerprints found in her car led police to 50-year old Charlie Samuel.

Samuel is accused of abducting the teen as she was about to get into her car near Wilshire Boulevard and Wilshire Place after going to Southwestern University School of Law on the afternoon of July 24, 2009, to pick up some tests for her mother, who is a professor at the school.

Police allege the girl, at Samuel’s orders, made unsuccessful attempts to get money from a downtown ATM before calling her parents in an effort to get money.

Police say surveillance video shows Lily Burk and Charlie Samuel walking to an ATM at the Union Bank on Second and San Pedro streets in Little Tokyo in the hours before her death.

Police say the teen can be seen trying and failing to extract cash.

The attempts failed because her credit card was not set up to be used as an ATM card.

Over the next hour, Burk called both of her parents to ask how to use the card and was told by her father that it could not be used at an ATM, police said.

“She didn’t tell them that she was in distress,” Diaz said.

She reportedly told her father she needed money to buy shoes and was told to come home.

“Burk then made arrangements with her father to go to their home to pick up an unspecified amount of money,” the police statement said. “She never made it home.”

Los Angeles police officers testified that they took Samuel into custody after watching him drink from a paper bag containing a can about 5:25 the day the teen disappeared. They said they recovered clothing — containing what appeared to be a voluminous amount of blood and allegedly worn by Samuel — discarded in a trash bin.

Samuel is charged with one count each of murder, kidnapping to commit robbery, carjacking, kidnapping for carjacking, second-degree robbery and attempted first-degree automated teller machine robbery, along with the special circumstance allegations of murder during a kidnapping, robbery and carjacking.

Prosecutors are expected to decide later whether to seek the death penalty for Samuel, who they allege has a 1987 robbery conviction from San Bernardino County and a 2006 conviction from Van Nuys for petty theft.

Samuel remains in custody without bail.

KTLA-TV, Los Angeles

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