TIDES REVIEWED

One of the admissions entered into evidence Thursday reveals investigators reviewed tide times for the Bay of Fundy near the Sandeson family farm in Lower Truro for two different days following Samson’s disappearance.

The schedule for the Advocate Harbour area shows there was a low tide Aug. 16, 2015, at 7:49 a.m. and a high tide at 2:08 p.m. On Aug. 18, the tide there was low at 8:59 a.m. and high at 3:17 p.m.

The tidal bores in the Truro area happened Aug. 16 at 1:58 a.m. and 2:22 p.m. and Aug. 18 at 3:15 a.m. and 3:37 p.m.

“Given that the tides were out at the material times, (police) did not expect this to be a likely location to find Mr. Samson’s remains,” the document says.

A letter from Dalhousie entered as an exhibit said the estimated cost of tuition and books for four years of medical school beginning in 2015 was about $90,500 for a Nova Scotia student, less a credit of just under $1,300 a year for anyone entitled to a provincial bursary.

Another admission concerned an opinion from Cpl. David Lane, an RCMP drug expert. Lane said the street value of 20 pounds of marijuana in the Halifax area in 2015 was at least $40,000 if sold by the pound, at least $64,800 if sold by the ounce, and at least $90,800 if sold by the gram.

Among other agreements, lawyers concurred Samson was six-foot-four and weighed about 220 pounds when he went missing, and Sandeson had a valid firearm registration certificate, issued June 25, 2015, for a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic, 9mm Luger handgun.

The trial heard earlier that Samson’s DNA was identified on the pistol, which was found in a safe in Sandeson’s bedroom with one cartridge in its chamber. The safe also held a box of ammunition missing two cartridges.

A damaged bullet with Samson’s DNA on it was recovered from a window casing in Sandeson’s kitchen.

Two of Sandeson’s former track and field teammates at Dalhousie said they were in the apartment across the hall when they heard a gunshot. They said they looked in the door of Sandeson’s apartment and saw a man slumped over and bleeding in a chair at the kitchen table.