Apparently the Crown has only just rested their case, after 56 days.
One article has been published summarizing the case against Cudmore:
The DNA of accused Naramata killer Wade William Cudmore was found alongside DNA of one of the victims near the dump site, an RCMP forensic expert testified in B.C. Supreme Court Aug. 27.
www.castanet.net
I found the story a bit disjointed, so piecing together the parts that most interested me (being familiar with this last peaceful fruit/wine growing oasis in the area):
The murders happened early morning May 10/21. A witness, a contractor, "told the court he saw an F-350 and a smaller, light-coloured car moving fast on the Arawana forest service road not far from Naramata." He felt it was very suspicious.
It's not stated who found the bodies of the 2 victims, Carlos and Erick Fryer, that same morning, back down and off the wilderness road where the vehicles had come from. Was it the same curious witness?
In any case police were called to the site of the bodies, and learned about the suspicious truck and later found it burned somewhere else in the woods
The article, IMO, talks about two different F-350 trucks.
As I'll point out below, one had belonged, a couple months earlier, to Cudmore's accomplice, Anthony Graham.
The article doesn't say, but I believe the burned truck in May/21, was a different truck - it belonged to the victims, while the car that was sighted with it was owned by one of the perps. Both vehicles had met up in Kelowna, the car guiding the truck to the spot where the murder happened. After the victims were killed, the perps drove both vehicles out of the immediate area, to somewhere else.
The victims, the Fryer bros. were drug dealers/mules.
"Hidden on the truck’s frame were significant amounts of methamphetamine, fentanyl, carfentanyl and cocaine."
So, Cudmore and Graham intended to kill the Fryers and steal the drugs, but getting the drugs seems to have required they find where they were hidden in the truck frame. IMO, they either didn't know where or how to do that, or they didn't have time before police showed up, or they were too wasted.
This answers my earlier question of why the Fryer brothers would drive to this supposedly remote forested spot to make their delivery: They needed a place to take apart the truck.
Also very interesting is the evidence from the Fryer truck's GPS tracker. According to this tracker, police discovered the truck had, at some point "stopped for three hours and 37 minutes on a road off the Coquihalla Highway, an area with nothing around."
So, if anyone is curious about drugs being moved into communities in BC, in this case the major supplier in Vancouver met up, off the Coquihalla mountain pass highway, with a pair of twenty-somethings from Kamloops, to load the drugs into the frame of their F-350. I wonder, could this be done on the spot, or had the truck already been modified in a shop somewhere?
Other evidence shows the perps, Cudmore and Graham, had been caught earlier that year trying to smuggle drugs under Grahams truck, using magnets. The drugs, and possibly the truck, were seized. IMO, that may have left them in debt and led to this very dumb plan to kill the Fryers.
Because, of course, the original supplier back in Vancouver was a far more dangerous adversary than police, who just play nice, catch and release.
I wonder whether the ruthless supplier caught Cudmore's accomplice Anthony Graham, or has he managed to get away?
Cudmore's mother, Kathy Richardson, paid the price for these clowns and her son's bonehead schemes.
To be honest, I can't help but feel the whole lot of them belong in shallow graves in the woods, so Wayne Cudmore is lucky he'll likely be convicted and spend many years in peniteniary.
JMO
