SASKATOON – Saying he had nothing to do with it, a man charged in a decades-old Saskatchewan homicide made a court appearance Monday in Saskatoon. Dennis Hahn, 65, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Frances Wendland on Dec. 14, 1985.
Hahn was arrested on July 10 in Surrey, B.C. after police cracked the cold case wide open. He is also facing an unlawful confinement charge in the case.
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Wendland was killed in the early morning hours after two masked men entered her Rosthern home. Three youth who were in the home at the time were locked in a bathroom and discovered her body after they escaped.
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the second man alleged to be involved in Wendland’s killing.
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Henry John Peter,63, has been charged with first-degree murder and forcible confinement.
In 1990, Donald Marlow was convicted of first-degree murder for being an accessory to the killing. At the time, court heard that Wendland’s estranged husband, Larry, used Marlow to hire two men to kill her.
In court on Monday, a Crown witness was added to the list of 11 people Hahn is to have no contact with.
He will remain in custody until his next court date scheduled for Aug. 25.
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