GUILTY Canada - Vicky Shachtay, 23, paraplegic, killed by bomb, Innisfail, AB, 25 Nov 2011

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Trial continues this week.

from last week's proceedings:
http://www.innisfailprovince.ca/article/20150203/INN0801/302039971/-1/inn0801

Litzenberger, who works at the RCMP’s Edmonton crime lab, then testified that an analysis of a piece of tape and lined paper recovered at the bombing scene found a mixed DNA sample that is consistent with the DNA profiles of both Malley and Shachtay, as well as trace amounts of DNA from a unknown third individual.
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"One in 490 million are the chances of someone picked at random would have the same DNA profile."
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WTH? The trial seems to be continuing but the coverage sure as heck isn't :furious:
 
So do we know for a fact that the trial is proceeding? Are there legal arguments underway delaying proceedings that the public can be made aware of?

It really does boggle my mind that not many Canadians have heard of this case....a case involving the bombing of a young handicapped mother. smh.
 
Snoopster said:
So do we know for a fact that the trial is proceeding? Are there legal arguments underway delaying proceedings that the public can be made aware of?

It really does boggle my mind that not many Canadians have heard of this case....a case involving the bombing of a young handicapped mother. smh.
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I think today (if court was in session) would have concluded week 2, and the Feb 3 Innisfail Province article I posted upthread says the trial is scheduled for 5 more weeks. So far the only things I can find are the dribs and drabs posted. Very sad :(
 
from Monday's trial coverage (testimony of Malley's Executive Assistant Barbara Tblus):

Former assistant declares Malley 'killed' Shachtay

But judge in murder trial warns jury that testimony is opinion and not admissible ...


... The third week of the murder trial of Brian Malley -- charged in the premeditated killing of Innisfailian Vicki Shachtay – ended with an emotional declaration by the accused’s former employee that her ex-boss committed the bombing slaying.

However, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Kirk Sisson immediately interrupted the testimony of Barbara Tblus, had the jury removed from the courtroom and adjourned court.

After a lengthy adjournment, Sisson ordered the jury brought back into the courtroom and told them they were to disregard Tblus’s last statement as it was opinion and therefore not admissible.
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full article at:
http://www.innisfailprovince.ca/article/20150210/INN0801/302109974
 
Earlier in the week, Malley’s former business partner Bob Yanew reportedly testified he spoke with the accused during a visit to Red Deer Remand Centre a few days after Malley’s arrest on May 25, 2012.

Yanew testified Malley asked him at the time to purchase a container of gunpowder.

During a search of Malley’s home on the day of his arrest, police found a 454-gram container of gunpowder, as well as a number of small light bulbs in packaging, and an unused light switch.

RCMP bomb experts testified earlier in the trial that they built gunpowder-loaded pipe bombs similar to the one that killed Shachtay.
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full article at:
http://www.innisfailprovince.ca/article/20150217/INN0801/302179975/-1/inn0801
 
Defence opens in lethal pipe bomb trial
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full article at:
http://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/defence-opens-in-lethal-pipe-bomb-trial

When the family contacted the gas company about an underground line where the work was taking place, Poelzer said a representative told them to encase it in a protective sleeve before pouring the concrete slab.

Don Christal, a private investigator hired by the defence, testified he went to the Poelzers’ home in May 2014, when the gas company was there to do additional digging on the property and retrieved the items used to encase the gas line under the patio: a length of pipe threaded at both ends and a galvanized pipe cap.
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Sorry, how does this explain the pipe caps? How does an "encased" line either enter or exit an encased pipe? It has to come from somewhere at one end and connect to something at the other end, otherwise IMO it is a useless line. ??
 
Defence wraps up its case in pipe bomb trial ...

Malley’s lawyer, Bob Aloneissi, concluded the defence case by questioning an RCMP investigator about a discrepancy between how Shachtay’s name was spelled on the package that contained the bomb and in documents Malley had prepared while working for Assante Wealth Management as her financial adviser ...


“I wouldn’t put as much weight on the spelling as much as the DNA,” said Williams.
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full article at:
http://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/brian-malley-pipe-bomb-trial

(final submissions will be on Monday; instructions to the jury scheduled for Tuesday)
 
thanks for keeping us up todate!!!!!!
 
Wouldn't it have been Malley's executive assistant who actually prepared documentation related to Vicky's financial management? That's what most EAs exist for.
 
http://www.norfolknews.ca/news-story/5447132-man-guilty-in-blast-that-kills-disabled-woman/

A central Alberta financial adviser showed no emotion Tuesday night as a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for killing his disabled client with a pipe bomb disguised as a Christmas present.

Brian Malley, 57, will serve a life sentence with no parole for 25 years after killing Victoria Shachtay, a 23-year-old single mother who died in her wheelchair when she opened a gift bag that had been left on her doorstep in Innisfail, Alta., in 2011.
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she was so young --- grrr

what a nasty case
 
Six hours of deliberation ... Alberta jurors DO NOT mess around !! Thank you for the only justice you could give for this young lady, this young mother who had already bravely endured so much in her short lifetime.

Continue to smile down lovingly on your little one Victoria
and rest ever so softly in your eternity.
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Unbelievable cruelty in this case. It doesn't get much worse than a young, single, disabled, mom who opens a Christmas gift that is sent by a financial advisor to explode in her hands and kill the young woman, for goodness sake.
The definition of pure evil in my book. imo.
 
dotr said:
Unbelievable cruelty in this case. It doesn't get much worse than a young, single, disabled, mom who opens a Christmas gift that is sent by a financial advisor to explode in her hands and kill the young woman, for goodness sake.
The definition of pure evil in my book. imo.
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Lotsa bad guys in prison, but that "pure evil" isn't going to go over well in The Big House either !! Ex-cop, disabled mother ... how low can one go, eh?
 
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