GUILTY Canada - Valentine 'Val' Degenhardt, 45, Barrhead, AB, 17 July 2013

[Sillybilly]

A bit more info in this article. It seems at least one of the three charged gave up the info to allow LE to locate his body:

http://news.ca.msn.com/local/edmonton/barrhead-alta-trio-charged-in-valentine-degenhardt-slaying

 

[musicaljoke]

Gosh, he sure had a high risk job. Maybe doing some background checks on his customers would have saved his life.

 

[Sillybilly]

Gosh, he sure had a high risk job. Maybe doing some background checks on his customers would have saved his life.

Yes, or perhaps another line of work would have been safer ... ya know, one with the gold watch you get at the end when you turn 65.

 

[Chickadea]

Trail starts tomorrow.

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/trial-for-accused-in-death-of-barrhead-man-begins-monday-1.2215815

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.barrheadleader.com/article/20150210/BAR0801/302109993

The trial of accused murderer Norman John Jerrett began on Monday, Feb. 2, in Edmonton...

The crown alleges that Jerrett shot Degenhardt at his Barrhead home with a 9-mm handgun which he purchased illegally from another drug dealer. The crown prosecutor said Jerrett then broke into Degenhardt’s Morinville rental home to steal thousands of dollars worth of drugs.

After stealing the drugs, Gudelot said Jerrett used Degenhardt’s computer to search several topics, including how long it took a body to decompose and how to disassemble a handgun. He also said the jury would hear how Jerrett enlisted the help of family members to clean up the crime scene and hide the body.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.saobserver.net/news/296747161.html

A jury found Norman John Jerrett, 48, guilty of second-degree murder of Valentine Degenhardt on Thursday, March 5 at Court of Queens Bench in Edmonton after acquitting him on the more serious charge of first-degree murder...

Jerrett was also found guilty of interference with a body, break and enter and theft, possession of a prohibited firearm without a licence and four counts of possession of controlled drugs for trafficking.

His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, March 24.

 

[OkieGranny]

From March:

http://www.saobserver.net/news/297841971.html

Norman "John" Jerrett, a Barrhead, Alta resident was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 16 years after shooting and killing his marijuana supplier, Valentine Degenhardt, of Salmon Arm and then disposing of his body in the woods in 2013.