WHEN police found Lora Sinner’s naked body burned, bruised and bloody in a fire-pit at a remote and picturesque campsite, they immediately knew she’d endured an agonising death. However, they could never have guessed at that point how horrifying the full extent of what had happened to the tragic 20-year-old was - she had been slowly tortured before her eventual murder. For hours she'd suffered - forced to cut her own wrists with a razor, struck over the head with a chilli bean can and made to down dangerous amounts of alcohol .
But how did such a kind, loving and giving woman by all accounts end up being victim to such a brutal murder? Here we take a closer look at the case, which is the focus of Hayu series, Snapped: Killer Couples...
Starting a new life Lora grew up on a dairy farm as the youngest of three siblings in a loving, Christian family . READ MORE TRUE CRIME Her brother Jason Sinner recalls: “She enjoyed helping others, and that was just part of her Christian spirit. It was part of her personality.
” She spent the summer of 1997 volunteering at a Christian mission in Aberdeen, Washington, which is where she met Tim Smith, from Redding, California . Her other brother Ryan says: “Lora definitely liked Tim. She always wanted to be around him.
” Just two months later her mother was suddenly diagnosed with Leukaemia and died a few weeks later. Most read in Fabulous Jason says: “That’s when she started developing this idea that maybe she could go to Califor.