4th trial possible for Badgerow

A Hamilton man could face a fourth murder trial.

Robert Badgerow was convicted in the 1981 murder of Diane Werendowicz at the end of his first trial, but that conviction was overturned on appeal. The next two trials ended with hung juries.

Crown lawyers have now asked the court of appeals to order a fourth trial. At issue was the judge’s decision not to allow the jury to hear that an anonymous call to police containing information that only the killer could know, was made from a phone booth close to where badgerow was working at at the time.

The panel of judges has reserved its decision.