Does anybody else follow this story? It's been on my radar for awhile now. I sure hope they put him away this time.
Susan Clairmont has written quite a bit about this story, and her articles are pretty in depth.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2...werendowicz-murder-compelled-susan-clairmont/
What the Badgerow juries were never told, including Debbie Robertson's brutal assault: http://metronews.ca/news/hamilton/361780/what-the-badgerow-juries-were-never-told/
Badgerow is ordered to stand trial for the fourth time: http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4...ith-call-for-fourth-trial-in-hamilton-murder/
Accused killer is out on bail: http://www.londoncommunitynews.com/...gerow-out-on-bail-before-fourth-murder-trial/
Badgerow and his defense team split: http://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story/4834000-clairmont-badgerow-and-defence-team-split/
Supreme Court of Canada confirms Badgerow must stand for fourth trial. Court date this month (December 2014) to set a date for pretrial conference: http://www.therecord.com/news-story...urth-trial-on-murder-charge-a-canadian-first/
And here are a couple of chapters from Susan Clairmont's e-book: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...adgerow_can_face_4th_trial_ebook_excerpt.html
and
http://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story...lairmont-s-unsolved-the-robert-badgerow-case/
Susan Clairmont has written quite a bit about this story, and her articles are pretty in depth.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/2...werendowicz-murder-compelled-susan-clairmont/
Diane was murdered on June 19, 1981. I moved to Hamilton and began working at The Spectator in the autumn of 1997, just as a police task force was struck to find Dianes killer.
Diane, a pretty nursing assistant, was three days shy of her 24th birthday the night she died. She had been out at Malarkeys bar in Stoney Creek with some girlfriends and left around midnight, alone, for the short walk home.
She never made it.
Her partially nude body was found a day later in a creek by children playing in the ravine. She would have been able to see her own apartment building as she took her last breaths.
I was just a few years older than Diane when I wrote my first story about her. I have written many more since.
But what intrigued me most of all about this case, was Diane.
She never had justice.
In the eyes of the law, Dianes murder remains unsolved.
Badgerow was convicted at his first trial, but two juries after that could not come to a unanimous decision, resulting in mistrials. In September 2012 the first-degree murder charge against him was stayed. That means he is still an innocent man. A free man.
Badgerow and his lawyers will tell you that for him, justice has been served.
I was there in court the day the charge was stayed. I interviewed Badgerow. We have always had a cordial relationship, beginning in 2009 when I showed up at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre hours after hed been granted an appeal.
After the stay was handed down, I was in my editors office talking about an idea Id had for a long time.
I wanted to write the story of Dianes murder. The whole story. Everything three sets of jurors have and havent known over the years. I wanted to piece together a narrative that began long ago in a way that would make readers care now. I wanted to talk to those who had never talked before.
When I got back to my desk my phone rang.
It was Debbie Robertson calling. The woman Badgerow was alleged to have stabbed with a screwdriver, just a few weeks after Dianes murder. From her hospital bed, Debbie had given detectives Badgerows name. But it took 17 years for them to charge him with her attempted murder. And to connect him to Diane.
Debbie whom I had never spoken to -- was calling because she wanted to tell her story.
What the Badgerow juries were never told, including Debbie Robertson's brutal assault: http://metronews.ca/news/hamilton/361780/what-the-badgerow-juries-were-never-told/
Badgerow is ordered to stand trial for the fourth time: http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4...ith-call-for-fourth-trial-in-hamilton-murder/
Accused killer is out on bail: http://www.londoncommunitynews.com/...gerow-out-on-bail-before-fourth-murder-trial/
Badgerow and his defense team split: http://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story/4834000-clairmont-badgerow-and-defence-team-split/
Supreme Court of Canada confirms Badgerow must stand for fourth trial. Court date this month (December 2014) to set a date for pretrial conference: http://www.therecord.com/news-story...urth-trial-on-murder-charge-a-canadian-first/
And here are a couple of chapters from Susan Clairmont's e-book: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...adgerow_can_face_4th_trial_ebook_excerpt.html
and
http://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story...lairmont-s-unsolved-the-robert-badgerow-case/