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Murder confession at assault trial Mark Lindsay says he killed ex-girlfriend
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By Tim Petruk STAFF REPORTER
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An Edmonton man has admitted in a Kamloops courtroom to killing his ex-girlfriend, stabbing an undercover police officer and blinding his cellmate at Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre — but he said he had no other choice. Mark Lindsay took the stand in his own defence on Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the second day of his aggravatedassault trial, describing in detail a group of “serial killers” he thinks has been trying to kill him for more than three years. The 25-year-old was arrested on Sept. 21, 2011, after attacking an undercover Mountie in Barriere. At the time, Lindsay was the target of an elaborate undercover RCMP Mr. Big operation. The operation began just days earlier. Undercover officers were attempting to find out if Lindsay had anything to do with the disappearance of his exgirlfriend, 31-year-old Dana Turner. Turner had vanished a month earlier, shortly after Lindsay — the son of a former Edmonton police chief — got out of jail following a 50-day
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sentence for stabbing her in the head. In his testimony, Lindsay admitted to killing Turner. But, he said, he was acting out of selfdefence. “I killed her and I panicked,” he said. “I didn’t want to go back to prison, so I covered up the body and everything.” Lindsay said Turner was part of a group of serial killers who had been threatening him for years. He said she was sending him threatening “psychic communications” in the moments leading up to the murder. “She wanted to kill me,” he said. “I was very certain of that. “She told me she was going to kill me and a lot of other people. I was in a panic. “This sounds crazy, but she was a powerful witch and she could communicate with me psychically,” he said.
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“I didn’t feel bad because I knew she wanted to kill me, but it was traumatizing. It was traumatizing to kill a woman like that.” Wendy Yurko, Dana Turner’s mom, told KTW following Lindsay’s admission: “My thoughts are so complicated about my daughter. “I don’t have any faith in our system. “The only thing that will make me feel better is if he would die the way he killed my daughter. “It’s like we live in an alternate universe. “This is not our life, this is somebody else’s life and we just happen to be in it.” Turner’s body was discovered in a farmer’s field near Red Deer in October 2011. Lindsay said he left Edmonton after killing Turner and headed to Vancouver. “It was just to get out of the city,” he said. “I was still in shock from what I had done.” On a Greyhound from Vancouver to Edmonton, Lindsay met SM — an undercover Mountie whose name is protected by a court-ordered publication ban. SM offered Lindsay work and he accepted.
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