'She cried a little bit': Derek Saretzky details kidnapping and killing of child in interrogation video
WARNING: Story contains graphic details that may be disturbing to some readers
In her final moments before she was strangled and dismembered at a rural campsite, two-year-old Hailey Dunbar Blanchette "cried a little bit," said Derek Saretzky who admitted to performing acts of cannibalism after he killed the child he'd stolen from her crib at night.
During a two-hour interrogation on Sept. 15, 2015, led by RCMP interview specialist Staff Sgt. Mike McCauley, Saretzky confessed to killing Hailey and her father, Terry Blanchette, the day before.
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McCauley and Saretzky are so close during the interview, their knees nearly touch as they sit face to face in a small room at the Blairmore RCMP detachment.
Saretzky remains evasive with the officer for about an hour, telling McCauley he doesn't remember anything, that "God did it" and that the devil "taunts" him to do bad things.
Finally, the details begin to spill out of the tearful suspect.
Saretzky says the devil made him break into Blanchette's home armed with a knife, crowbar and mask. He found Blanchette in his bed and began the attack, eventually slitting his victim's throat.
Blanchette was killed because he was a "terrible father," said Saretzky.
Upstairs, Saretzky says, he found Hailey in her crib and used a pillow to muffle the two-year-old girl's screams.
