Police connect stabbing, slaying

Content may be upsetting to some readers. The boyfriend of a slain Sault Ste. Marie woman went to the scene of an alleged related stabbing shortly before finding his girlfriend dead at their John Street apartment.Dawson Mattila, travelling with his mother and stepfather, drove on St. Mary’s River Drive in the late afternoon of Sept. 7, 2023. His mother, Nicole Mattila, testified Thursday she worked downtown and had heard about an assault on the boardwalk across from Station Mall. She told