Medical examiner rules out rod as weapon that killed woman at Edmonton hotel
January 14, 2021
THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON, Australia-A medical examiner told a jury Wednesday that a metal rod found at an Edmonton hotel where a woman bled to death could not have caused her fatal wound.
Bradley Barton, an Ontario truck driver, is accused of killing 36-year-old Cindy Gladue, a Metis and Cree woman, at the Yellowhead Inn following a night of drinking in June 2011.
Barton, 52, has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.
Dr. Graeme Dowling, Alberta’s former chief medical examiner, testified under cross-examination about the slender rod discovered when police sifted through garbage at the hotel.