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The Crown prosecutor in the trial of accused killer Tesfai Negasi said that she intends to prove that he confessed he slayed his wife to police and then directed them to his car where they found her dismembered remains.
Negasi's second-degree murder trial started Tuesday in Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench. The 54-year-old is charged in the death of his wife Selamawit Negasi, 46.
In her opening remarks, prosecutor Tania Holland said that Negasi attacked and killed his wife on July 5, 2009, when the couple's daughters were out of the house.
Holland told the jury that after Negasi killed his wife, he dismembered her body and placed the remains in the trunk of his car.
Negasi drove to Edmonton police headquarters where he told police officers that he killed her, Holland said. The jury heard a recording of a call Negasi made using the phone outside the door.
"I killed my wife," he says on the recording. When officers came outside, Negasi told them his wife's body was in the car, the jury was told.
When they opened the trunk, Holland said the officers found body parts in a number of garbage bags along with a handsaw and a knife with a rusty blade.
Two of the couple's four daughters reported their house smelled of bleach when they came home that evening. There was blood on the mattress of their parents' bed, which had been stripped of sheets that were in the washing machine, Holland said.
Selamawit Negasi's van was still in the driveway even though she was supposed to be at work. The girls called police.
Holland told the jury that Selamawit Negasi lived in the same house as her husband of 28 years but did not speak to him or sleep in the same room with him for the last four months of her life.
Negasi pleaded guilty to a charge of offering an indignity to a human body at the start of the trial but pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
The trial continues Wednesday.
Negasi's second-degree murder trial started Tuesday in Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench. The 54-year-old is charged in the death of his wife Selamawit Negasi, 46.
In her opening remarks, prosecutor Tania Holland said that Negasi attacked and killed his wife on July 5, 2009, when the couple's daughters were out of the house.
Holland told the jury that after Negasi killed his wife, he dismembered her body and placed the remains in the trunk of his car.
Negasi drove to Edmonton police headquarters where he told police officers that he killed her, Holland said. The jury heard a recording of a call Negasi made using the phone outside the door.
"I killed my wife," he says on the recording. When officers came outside, Negasi told them his wife's body was in the car, the jury was told.
When they opened the trunk, Holland said the officers found body parts in a number of garbage bags along with a handsaw and a knife with a rusty blade.
Two of the couple's four daughters reported their house smelled of bleach when they came home that evening. There was blood on the mattress of their parents' bed, which had been stripped of sheets that were in the washing machine, Holland said.
Selamawit Negasi's van was still in the driveway even though she was supposed to be at work. The girls called police.
Holland told the jury that Selamawit Negasi lived in the same house as her husband of 28 years but did not speak to him or sleep in the same room with him for the last four months of her life.
Negasi pleaded guilty to a charge of offering an indignity to a human body at the start of the trial but pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
The trial continues Wednesday.