Court hears about ATM withdrawals on slain man’s account

Kimberley Nuttall said she last saw her husband of 20 years, Shawn Roderick Douglas, the day before he was killed. She was getting ready to leave their home in a small town outside of Regina to head to their cottage, and he was to join her two days later.

As the trial of Johnathon Nelson Peepeetch, 26, Joshua Duane Wilson, 26, and Dennis Calvin Thompson, 35, for the first-degree murder of the 54-year-old continues, the jury heard Monday afternoon from prosecution witnesses including members of Regina Police Service, Nuttall and an expert from Conexus Credit Union.

Nuttall said Douglas, who was a pipefitter, had finished a job three or four weeks prior, and was due to go to a mine near Saskatoon to start a new job the week after he died. She left him on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, thinking he’d follow after her, but instead the Crown contends that early Thursday morning, Aug. 7, Douglas was beaten to death after leaving a restaurant on Victoria Avenue and going to a house on the 1600 block of Toronto Street with a woman acquaintance and other people.

Crown co-prosecutor Derek Maher previously told the court it is the Crown’s view Douglas was forced by assailants to use an ATM to get them cash, was attacked, and was then stuffed into the trunk of a car before being brought to a secluded area east of Zehner.

Despite texting him that morning and hearing nothing back — “He was always slow to text back anyway,” she said — Nuttall said she didn’t fear for Douglas’ safety until getting a call from Major Crimes on the Thursday at 4:30 p.m., telling her that “something was out of place.”

On Monday the Crown called Karen Hoffert, a Conexus Credit Union loss prevention specialist, who ran through withdrawals and attempted withdrawals made from Douglas’ account on the morning he died.