Badgerow trial- November 8th

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Robert Badgerow’s murder trial will come to an end soon, but the most important witness has yet to testify.

The jury has now heard the infamous 911 call dozens of times. It was made June 22, 1981, two days after Diane Werendowicz was found raped, strangled and drowned in a creek off Lake avenue in east Hamilton. The caller described what she was wearing and said she was strangled with her purse, details only the killer would know. This was the first jury to hear that the call was traced back to a phone booth at gate six at Dofasco and that Robert Badgerow was working seconds away from that phone at hot mill number one. The call came in at about 12:20 in the afternoon when Badgerow would have been on a lunch break.

Today Badgerow’s lawyers played the entirety of one track recorded in the Hamilton police radio room in 1981. We heard the 911 call and some of the call-tracing process. For hours, there were long periods of silence and unrelated police calls to things like a fallen tree and a found sleeping bag. When it finished, the judge said his energy level and the jury’s had flagged and the court day was ended.

The judge said the defence would have to call its next witness in the morning. That’s expected to be Robert Badgerow himself, who testified at his previous three trials.