The trial of Cora Vides, charged with attempted murder for stabbing one of her Laguna Blanca classmates on Valentine’s Day three years ago, continued this week with testimony from one of Vides’s childhood friends, Amy Anderson.
Texts between Vides and Anderson shortly before the stabbing included a photo of Vides smiling and holding up the switchblade she had recently received for her birthday and would later use in the attack on Georgia Avery. Vides “never said a bad word” to her about Avery, Anderson testified.
In the weeks leading up to the incident, Anderson said that Vides expressed growing anxiety, specifically over a group project that a teacher was “picking on her” about. Around the same time, Vides revealed her romantic feelings toward Anderson, which were not reciprocated.