This trial started November 24, 2003 and is ongoing.

April 13, 2004
by guest writer Erin

Holy cow, this is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Davidheiser's two sons and wife (I guess) are here to see dad at work. I mean, they have got to be Davidheiser's kids, they look just like him, but with skater kid sweatshirts and floppy hair. Sooooo kee-yute! Ok, today Sergeant Haslett is on the stand. There is a transcript of a conversation between Burns, Shinkaruk and Haslett (undercover-ing) on the screen. The plan if the day was to let Burns see a bunch of money that so he would think there was loot to throw around to spend on the fabulous movie Burns wanted to make.

The dippy paper-easel thing today displays the words "CANADIAN Glossary" with a list of words under it.

Sgt. Haslett talks a little, but mostly we are listening to tapes of the day. Interesting blurbs- Haslett will enter the room when Shinkaruk says the word "ice cream". Haslett says he gave Burns "at least 12" opportunities to deny involvement in the murders, which Haslett said Burns never did.

So now, on to the tape. The tape consists of pretty much swearing and Burns counting money. Silently. So it's just "shuff shuff shuff shuff shuff eh, fuckin' eh" basically (not a real actual quote, but close) I just counted 5 yawns, including da judge and myself. "shuff shuff shuff shuff" booring. And Bob has just got to be napping right now. He is a master of the little church nap, where you try not to let anyone know you're asleep and not praising the lord. Let me reiterate, I heart Bob.

They talk about Sebastian being uncomfortable with the trip to whistler, the fake criminal stuff being sort of sprung on him, and Burns tries to calm Haslett and let him know he's not angry or whatever. Burns says he was just anxious because of the hullabaloo in Belleview. Haslett now tries to milk some confession out of him, asking repeatedly about what he was in trouble for. Sebastian skirts about a bit, trying to talk about his movie.

Burns claims that the reason he is a suspect is that the fancy pants people of Bellevue, the "young urban professional" types wanted someone, anyone, to be called the murderer so the neighborhood would seem safe. That they couldn't deal with the thought of the murder being random or a hate crime in their own neighborhood. Thorough this tape, he doesn't actually say he killed them. He actually comes up with a lot of reasons why the police would try to pin murders on him. That is all.