SASKATOON – A Saskatoon woman living in Honduras told a local radio station it was “shocking” to hear a district attorney in the central American country is probing whether she was involved in her husband’s recent death.
On Wednesday morning, Krissy Martens told News Talk 650’s John Gormley that a Wednesday StarPhoenix article about a district attorney’s suspicions is the first she’s heard of any accusation against her.
“There’s no truth behind that story,” Martens said, later referring to the accusations as a “malicious lie.”
On Sept. 18, Krissy and her husband Dallas were out celebrating their first wedding anniversary on the island of Roatan in Honduras. The couple had moved to the island in July and were set to adopt a baby named Will.
In what relatives have described as an apparent robbery, hooded gunmen approached the couple, and Dallas was shot and killed when he purportedly tried to put himself between the assailants and Krissy.
A Honduran prosecutor brought in by the national government to take charge of the case told Canwest News Service on Wednesday that Krissy Martens is not an official suspect.
Ricardo Castro said Martens has not been barred from leaving the country.
“Officially she is not a suspect . . . but her role is part of the investigation,” said Castro, called in from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to investigate the case in the island of Roatan.
Castro said statements by Honduran prosecutor Wendy Rodriguez about the case were based on “rumour” and made “irresponsibly.”
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Six people are currently facing murder charges in connection to the shooting and they are expected to appear in court Thursday when the prosecutors will present their evidence against them.
Castro said authorities have also recovered the murder weapon.
More information will come after Thursday’s court hearing, he said.
“Tomorrow, when those people appear, there will be more on the investigation,” he said.
Krissy Martens was interrogated shortly after the shooting death of her husband as a witness to the crime, said Castro.
“She was interviewed to say what really happened and if it matched with what investigators (have),” he said.
On Wednesday, when Gormley asked Martens if she had any involvement with her husband’s killing, she said, "absolutely not."
She has not been arrested, detained, or questioned, she said, and authorities have told her she is free to come and go from Honduras if she pleases, Martens told the radio program.
She told Gormley she has been in touch with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, but it can offer no help when it comes to these accusations. “It’s out of their jurisdiction,” she said.
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