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Grisly details emerged during a bail hearing this week for 28 year old Korena Roberts of Oregon, who was denied bond after being charged with the aggravated murder of a St. Albans native, 21 year old Heather Snively. A detective testified that, on June 5th., Snively was repeatedly beaten with a collapsible police baton before a "cutting instrument" was used to open her abdomen and remove her unborn child. Snively's body was found stuffed in a crawlspace at Roberts' home after it was discovered by hospital officials that Roberts had not given birth as she claimed. Washington County Sheriff's Detective Andrew Hays testified the state medical examiner in Oregon determined Snively had blunt-and-sharp-force injuries, extensive bruising to her arms, a broken finger and bite marks, and the wound to her abdomen appeared jagged in sections and stretched across her body, from hip to hip. He also testified blood was spattered across the walls and ceiling of the bathroom inside Roberts' home in suburban Portland. The next hearing in the case is not expected until February.