The Mountie said he was taken aback by the conversation. He described it as bizarre.
"It didn't seem to me that his reaction was natural," Creaser testified. "The mother of his grandchildren was deceased. I would have expected a much different reaction."
Nichole and Robert Clifford had separated weeks before her death. She had filed divorce papers and obtained an emergency protection order from the courts after he sent her harassing messages and allegedly broke into her house at least twice.
The Wainwright house where Nichole Clifford was murdered in February 2017.(RCMP/Court exhibit)
Nichole told her friend she was afraid to be by herself in the house; despite that, she went to her house alone on Feb. 23, 2017. Modem records show she arrived at 10:22 p.m.