13. UNKNOWN CALLER: The Murder of Diane Werendowicz, Part 1 (Ontario)

Whose Crime Is It Anyway?

Well 2020 really threw a wrench into things eh? Chelle and Lisa are finally back to give you the first episode for Season 2!!! In 1981, 23-year-old Diane Werendowicz was murdered on her short walk home after leaving a local bar one night in Hamilton, Ontario. But her case goes cold for 17 years. It wasn’t until the advances in DNA forensics and an old piece of audio that investigators could finally name a suspect. But even with DNA and one piece of audio, does it really tell us what happened? This proved to be the issue at trial, which led this case to be the most trials for the same 1st degree murder in Canada. Would you be able to identify a voice from 17 years ago? Tune in as Lisa shares this week’s episode on Whose Crime Is It Anyway?

**This was our first time recording remotely, so bear with us if the sound quality isn’t what you’re used to hearing from us!

Sources:

The Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2018/01/31/covering-diane-court-and-historic-documents.html

Unsolved: One Murder, Three Trials: Did Robert Badgerow Kill Diane?, and Solved 2017 Revise ebook By Susan Clairmont

Covering Diane: A Hamilton Spectator serial podcast

https://www.thewhig.com/2017/09/08/man-66-with-underwear-fetish-back-in-prison/wcm/089983a3-351e-5a34-d7dd-f4a0e1ff7e45

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/forensic-pathologist-testifies-diane-werendowicz-s-death-was-a-sexually-motivated-homicide-1.3840306