Caroline Kendall Kortner’s high school photos showed her to be "one of the most beautiful young women I have ever seen," according to Stamford lawyer Christopher C. Burdett.
Born in 1970, Kendall, as she was known, died in March 2010, several months after she lost a civil assault and battery trial against her married boyfriend, Craig L. Martise. She was suing the Greenwich computer programmer for physical and emotional injuries arising from their sado-masochistic sexual relationship, alleging that because she was mentally and emotionally ill, she was little more than a child, legally speaking, and incapable of giving consent.
