SASKATOON – Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a man believed to be involved in a historical Saskatchewan homicide. Mounties have charged Henry John Peter with the murder of Frances Wendland in Rosthern three decades ago.
Wendland was killed in the early morning hours of Dec. 14, 1985 after two masked men entered her home. Three youth who were in the home at the time were locked in a bathroom.
They discovered the body of Wendland when they were able to escape.
Investigators believe Peter, 63, was one of the masked men. He is also charged with forcible confinement.
Peter is Caucasian, six-foot one, approximately 200 pounds with brown hair and eyes. Investigators noted these are the last known descriptors of Peter.
A picture of Peter was not available.
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On July 10, police arrested Dennis Henry Hahn in Surrey, B.C. and charged him with the first-degree murder of Wendland.
He is being held in custody until his next court appearance on July 27 in Saskatoon.
In 1990, Donald Marlow was convicted of first-degree murder for being an accessory to the killing. Court heard Wendland’s estranged husband, Larry, used Marlow to hire two men to kill her.
Court heard at Marlow’s trial that the Wendlands were swingers and that Larry was worried Frances would use videotapes of their sex life in divorce and custody proceedings.
Larry Wendland, who married the couple’s babysitter a year after the killing, committed suicide in 1989.
With files from The Canadian Press
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