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CALGARY – A 911 tape from the night of Lacey Jones-McKnight’s murder was released to the public and media on Friday. The tape is the call made to police by the victim’s mother, Shelly Jones, on October 25, 2012. It has been played in court during the first-degree murder trial of Jones-McKnight’s ex-fiancé, Kristopher Guenther.
“Can you tell me exactly what’s happened Shelly?” asks the police officer in the tape.
“A guy showed up here with a knife and…gave me the knife and told me to kill him and then he walked out and said he had just killed my daughter,” replied Jones.
“Okay and is he still there?” asked police.
“He just left, please hurry,” she said
“Okay. Did he hurt you?”
“No. I want my daughter…and I don’t know where she is.”
Listen: Raw 911 tapes from the night Lacey Jones-McKnight was murdered.
In another part of the tape, police ask Jones if she knows the “guy” in question, and she says it’s her daughter’s ex-boyfriend. Later in the conversation, police asked if he was distraught when he was there.
“He was when he left,” said Jones in the tape.
“He seemed really calm when he first came in but when he left he was starting to shake and that’s when he told me that he’d killed my daughter.”
The judge ruled Jones’ emotional testimony given earlier this week will be admitted as evidence, after first hearing it as a voir dire. The tape was released to the public on Friday.
On Tuesday, Jones told court she dropped her daughter off at a mechanic’s shop to pick up her car on the day of her death. Later that night, she said Guenther arrived at her home.
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“He handed me a knife,” said Jones. “He says, ‘I want you to kill me.’”
Jones told court she asked where her daughter was, and Guenther told her she was in his car. She said Guenther took the knife back as he left the house.
“He said: ‘Your daughter is dead. I f—ing killed her.”
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