Tears at Calgary murder trial as officer describes how he discovered young girl’s body
Posted Nov 30, 2018 3:24 pm.
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CALGARY – A police officer testifying at a double-murder trial has told jurors that he yelled a young girl’s name when he saw her lying in some bushes in a rural area east of Calgary.
But Const. Karl Sudyk said there was no sign five-year-old Taliyah Marsman was breathing.
Edward Downey, 48, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of Taliyah and her mother Sara Baillie.
Baillie was found dead in her basement apartment on July 11, 2016, stuffed inside a laundry hamper in her daughter’s closet and bound in duct tape.
The Crown said Downey’s fingerprints were discovered on duct tape wrapped around Baillie’s face.
Family members wept and embraced in court as Sudyk described coming across Taliyah’s body three days later.
Searchers began combing the farmland east of Calgary on the morning of July 14, but nothing came up until the end of the day.
The trial is expected to last two more weeks.
