SASKATOON — A Crown prosecutor in a Saskatoon murder trial told the jury a mother of two killed in her rented basement suite was slain by a man she’d taken in when he had nowhere to go. The Crown opened its case Monday in the first-degree murder trial of Tyler Hurd, 35, by showing a video of the crime scene and presenting notes that include a murder confession. Crampton’s daughter testified her mother, leading up to her death, began befriending transient people she’d met at St. Paul’s Hospital. Shanda Leftley told court her mother saw a psychiatrist for depression and anxiety and went through a bout of depression before her death but that it seemed she all of a sudden got better. Court was told that Crampton’s daughter Kara Leftley found her body on June 3, face down and wrapped in blood-soaked towels that also covered a hammer.

Source: National Post November 07, 2017 04:07 UTC