Court heard two very different accounts of what happened the last night Daleen Bosse was alive as the first-degree murder trial of Douglas Hales entered its third week in a Saskatoon courtroom Tuesday.
The first was from a video recording made in 2008 that shows Hales talking to an undercover RCMP officer he believes to be the boss of a crime organization.
In the video Hales says Bosse was highly intoxicated and that they wound up driving around together. When Bosse refused to have sex with him he decided to kill her and he drove her to a secluded place near Martensville where he then choked her and burned her body.
Court also watched, as part of a voir dire, a video of Hales’ interview with police after his arrest. It isn’t in evidence at this point and Justice Gerald Albright will rule later on whether or not he'll accept it.
In that video Hales explains he was played by the undercover officers and set up to confess even though he says he didn't kill Bosse.
At one point, while on the phone to his then girlfriend, Hales says Bosse died of alcohol poisoning and he didn't want to get in trouble for something he didn't do so he disposed of the body.
In the video Hales is extremely emotional; at times he sobs so hard it is difficult to make out what he was saying.
The police continued the interview and at one point an officer suggests Hales simply got angry when things didn't go how he wanted with Bosse and he choked her.
Hales' trial has been told he was working as a bouncer and doorman at a nightclub when he met Bosse, who agreed to go party with him when his shift was over.
