‘He told me she was in heaven:’ Father testifies at son’s triple-murder trial
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The father of a man charged with killing three people including a two-year-old girl says his son told him she was in heaven.
Derek Saretzky, 24, is on trial in Lethbridge, Alta., on three counts of first-degree murder in the September 2015 deaths of Terry Blanchette, his daughter Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and Hanne Meketech, who was killed five days earlier.
Larry Saretzky sobbed on the witness stand before the jury as he testified against his son, who was sitting just metres away in the prisoner’s box. He began crying when asked by the Crown if he had any children.
“Yes,” he said Tuesday, identifying his son in the courtroom.