Updated March 31
Marc Audette, 36, pleaded not guilty of murder Monday in the death of Sandra Corfield, a former Edgartown woman. Audette was arraigned by video conference from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, according to a release from the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s office. Falmouth District Court Judge Christopher Welch ordered Audette held without bail. Audette will be transferred from the hospital to a correctional facility and is slated for a pretrial hearing on May 12.
On Thursday, Corfield, a 53-year-old former Edgartown woman also known as Sandra Kumar, was killed in Mashpee. Corfield showed “obvious signs of blunt force trauma,” a press release states.
Audette was arrested at the scene and charged with murder, according to the DA.
“The matter remains under investigation by Mashpee Police, State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,” the release states.
Edgartown Police Chief Bruce McNamee said the district attorney’s office reached out to his department about Kumar. He said it did not appear she’d been a current Edgartown resident. That office had “the impression she’d moved to the Cape,” he said. The suspect, he said, “is not known to us.”
Updated with additional information about the suspect.
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