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The jury was proven an exhibit video for the primary time that took them inside Katherine Janeiro’s Barrie condo within the hours that adopted her violent demise 30 years in the past.
Retired OPP identification officer Brad Deakos took the witness stand earlier this week to explain a criminal offense scene marked by vital blood stains and droplets in the lounge, toilet, and bed room of the unit.
The 20-year-old mom was discovered on her bed room ground, face down.
The courtroom heard pals final noticed her at round 4 a.m. after an evening out. Her physique was found by a neighbour who typically let herself within the condo to make use of Janeiro’s telephone.
Bruce Ellis, identified then as Robert MacQueen, is on trial for the second-degree homicide of Janeiro.
Ellis, now 61, was arrested by Barrie police in 2021. For years, investigators had been monitoring suspects they believed had been concerned in her homicide.
Ellis maintains his innocence.
Janeiro was discovered to have a number of stab wounds. The jury heard that when police arrived on the scene, two males had been standing in her kitchen, in search of one thing within the drawers.
One man, recognized as Woody, additionally had a key to Janeiro’s condo, and the jury heard the younger woman bought medicine for him.
Ellis, who the courtroom heard had a relationship with Janeiro earlier than her demise, typically stayed at her condo when his spouse kicked him out of their residence throughout the road.
Throughout testimony this week, the jury heard blood was present in a number of areas, together with on a door jamb between Janeiro’s toilet and bed room, the place it was prompt she could have been moved after being attacked within the bathtub.
The Crown alleges that Ellis killed Janeiro after she instructed his spouse about their affair and claimed he had gotten her pregnant.
The trial is scheduled to proceed for an additional 5 weeks, resuming on Monday.
