Overview

• On the tenth anniversary of Tiffany Valiante’s death her parents filed suit in Atlantic City seeking court-ordered access to evidence held by state agencies
• They cite newly recovered hate-filled text messages containing violent anti-lesbian slurs as evidence of a premeditated murder plot
• Independent pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross asserts signs of staging and precise dismemberment indicate Tiffany was placed on the tracks to mask a homicide
• A 2022 forensic review found critical items such as a towel and a T-shirt were mishandled or lost and deemed of no probative value
• The complaint names New Jersey, NJ Transit Police and the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office among defendants in an unprecedented civil use of the Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights Act