Badgerow told the jury that prior to his 1982 marriage to Tammy Hunt, he had three or four “encounters” that saw him pick up women in bars and have sex with them. He said he never wore condoms, the sex was always consensual and he always ejaculated.
He conceded he wasn’t always successful in his attempts to connect with the opposite sex.
“Regardless of what I have done, I am no Don Juan. Of course I struck out.”
But not on the night of June 19, 1981, at Malarky’s bar in the Fiesta Mall plaza in Stoney Creek.
Badgerow said he believed he met the 23-year-old Werendowicz in the bar’s back parking lot.
“Hey, how are you doing? Do you smoke? Do you want to smoke a joint in my car?” Badgerow said of his conversation with the McMaster nursing assistant, who up to that point had been a complete stranger.
Bytensky wanted Badgerow to explain how the marijuana-smoking progressed to sexual intercourse in the back seat of his Pontiac Beaumont.
“I had the stereo on. I engaged her in conversation. Maybe I made a move or two and suggested we get in the back seat,” his client replied. “She was accepting and willing because we went into the back seat.”
“I don’t know if there was kissing or touching. We progressed to the point of having sexual intercourse.”
“Do you recall ejaculating?” Bytensky asked.
“I would say I did,” Badgerow answered.
The accused said after the sex, the two dressed in the car and “parted ways.”
Badgerow believes he offered Werendowicz a drive home.
He said she declined.
“She would have left the car and walked home. I would have driven home,” he said.
“When she left the vehicle, did you ever see her again, alive?” Bytensky asked.
“No,” Badgerow answered.
