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On Thursday, jurors watched video proof of a police interview from 30 years in the past that make clear Katherine Janeiro’s remaining days earlier than she was discovered lifeless in her Barrie residence.
The case remained chilly for 26 years earlier than police arrested Janeiro’s former boyfriend, Bruce Ellis, also called Robert MacQueen, in 2021 and charged him with second-degree homicide.
Within the video, Wanda Sherwood instructed police she was buddies with Janeiro and had spoken along with her on the cellphone the day she died.
Sherwood instructed police she had dated Woody Theakston, the biker Janeiro was mentioned to have offered medication for out of her residence.
In the course of the police interview, Sherwood mentioned Theakston and Paul Daigle, who testified earlier this week, found Janeiro’s physique on Oct. 10, 1994, whereas at her residence searching for cough syrup.
Sherwood defined that she hadn’t been feeling nicely, and Theakston had a key to Janeiro’s residence and knew she had drugs.
She instructed the police Theakston thought 20-year-old Janeiro had taken her life by slitting her wrists based mostly on the quantity of blood the 2 males found.
A neighbour who steadily let herself into the Dunlop Avenue residence to make use of Janeiro’s cellphone testified seeing two males rifling via cabinets and drawers within the kitchen on the evening of her demise.
The courtroom had beforehand heard that simply weeks earlier than she was discovered on her bed room ground with a number of stab wounds, Janeiro instructed Ellis’ ex-wife he had gotten her pregnant. Janeiro had additionally allegedly been spreading rumours that Ellis had contracted AIDS from an unique dancer. His ex-wife testified that these rumours had made him very indignant.
On Thursday, the courtroom additionally heard from a person who discovered Janeiro’s lacking cellphone in a Barrie creek roughly 5 months later.
As a part of an Agreed Assertion of Details, it was revealed that an engineer from Northern Telecom examined the cellphone and found it might retailer cellphone numbers, show and report incoming caller ID and hold reminiscence of the final outbound name. The cellphone, police mentioned, had been ripped from the wall in Janeiro’s lounge.
One other police interview video was performed for the jury, through which a girl who thought-about Theakston a pal instructed investigators he didn’t kill Janeiro.
“He cannot acquire off lifeless individuals,” she instructed the officers. “Woody is a whole lot of issues, however he isn’t going to kill a 20-year-old woman with a baby.”
Theakston has since handed away.
Ellis denies any involvement in Janeiro’s demise.
