That Stanley Lee was left to bleed to death from multiple stab wounds in a West End park on the late afternoon of July 28, 2001 is certain, but much of how the American spent his life remains a mystery.

Tantalising details about the man also known as Sean Russells have emerged in the 43 days of testimony in the Lagoon Park trial, but what will remain seared in the memory of jurors and spectators, is the vivid Police video of the body, shirtless, on its back with one knee raised and still , 13 days after he was stabbed to death.

Maggots and adult flies could clearly be seen moving about the body as Police officers covered their noses from the overpowering smell.

One officer told the jury ? to which defence lawyers strongly objected ? that she will never forget the ?expression on the face? and his ?mouth was wide open and his teeth exposed in an expression like pain?.

Mr. Lee had arrived on the Island 22 days before he met his death, and called Tucker, saying he had heard of him and wanted to conduct ?business? here ? intending to stay as long as he could. understands that Mr. Lee?s mother is not well enough to travel abroad and one woman ? possibly a former girlfriend ? was willing to testify but was not called.

He was born in 1964 in New York City as Edward Stanley Lee, but he was known to the Bermudians he met as Sean or ?Sha?.

In murder cases, identification of the victim is usually a mere formality, but with Mr. Lee?s body so badly decomposed, prosecutors took great pains to establish that the man found at Lagoon Park on August 9 was Mr. Lee.

Police did this by cross referencing dental records for a Stanley Lee held by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons at Fort Dix, New Jersey in the early 1990s and Eddie Montalvo, who was held in New York State?s medium security Ulster Correctional Facility in the mid-1990s.

They also got, through square-jawed Yonkers, New York Police detective Frank Pelligrino, a New York State Bureau of Vital Statistics birth certificate, J343455 for Edward Stanley Lee for April 11, 1964.

Prisoner Montalvo had a bullet lodged in the ?right lower thorax at the level of the eighth rib? with additional shell fragments in the vicinity.

Defendant Terranz (Monster) Smith said he saw the gruesome scar when the pair were swimming at Horseshoe Beach, and identified the body by it for Police.

Then-Government Forensic Pathologist John Obafunwa explained that he pulled a bullet from where prison doctors wrote it would be.

Dental records studied by local dentist James Fay also matched prisoners Lee and Montalvo with the body, as did an X-Ray of Montalvo?s knee.

Dr. Obafunwa concluded: ?The findings (of his examination of the man thought to be Lee or Sean Russells) show some highly specific matches with Eddie Montalvo.?

Mr. Lee also had an extremely rare congenital abnormality which Dr. Obafunwa said he had only read about in textbooks in his more than 20 years as a pathologist.

There was bridging by bone between the seventh and eighth ribs and the fifth and sixth ribs on his right side. Normally ribs are not connected by bone.

The bullet was lodged in the bridge, and although Dr. Obafunwa did not say it, that abnormality could have saved Mr. Lee?s life in that mid-1990s shooting.

From statements from the defendants it emerged within hours of his death, Mr. Lee had talked of his wife and children.

But that tidbit about his life was excluded from the trial, with Det. Insp. Beverly Pitt being steered away as to who it was she met at Apt. 8S, 679 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York in November, 2001.

It is understood that the detective may have been introduced to Mr. Lee?s wife by detective Pelligrino, who said he met a Shawanna Lee at that address.

Mr. Lee?s New Jersey driver?s licence listed his address as 1045 Broad Street in Pleasantville, which is near Atlantic City.

Also found in his livery cycle was a New York licence to handle asbestos ? which described him as being six feet, four inches tall and weighing 240 pounds.

Witness accounts of Mr. Lee have varied all the way up to his being six feet, nine inches and 300 pounds.