'She cried a little bit': Derek Saretzky details kidnapping and killing of child in interrogation video

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In her final moments before she was strangled and dismembered at a rural campsite, two-year-old Hailey Dunbar Blanchette "cried a little bit," said Derek Saretzky who admitted to performing acts of cannibalism after he killed the child he'd stolen from her crib at night.

During a two-hour interrogation on Sept. 15, 2015, led by RCMP interview specialist Staff Sgt. Mike McCauley, Saretzky confessed to killingHailey and her father, Terry Blanchette, the day before.

Jurors watched the videoas part of the evidence presented by prosecutor Photini Papadatou at Saretzky's triple-murder trial in Lethbridge, Alta.

Months after he was charged with murder in the deaths of the father and daughter, a third first-degree murder charge was laid after Saretzky admitted in another interrogation with McCauley to killing Hanne Meketech,whose body had been found in her bedroom days before Blanchette's body was found.

McCauley pleaded withSaretzkyfor information at first.

"There's a little girl who's by herself. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter, she needs to come home," McCauley tellsSaretzky.

"This is your opportunity to show you're not a monster."

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McCauley andSaretzkyareso close during the interview, their knees nearly touch as they sit face to face in a small roomat theBlairmoreRCMPdetachment.

Derek Saretzky confesses to killing two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette

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Blairmore RCMP Staff Sgt. Mike McCauley questions Saretzky at the detachment.

Saretzkyremainsevasive with the officer for about an hour, telling McCauley he doesn't remember anything, that "God did it" and thatthe devil "taunts" him to do badthings.

Finally, the details begin to spill out of the tearful suspect.

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Saretzky says the devil made him break into Blanchette's home armed with a knife, crowbar and mask. He found Blanchette in his bed and began the attack, eventually slitting his victim's throat.

Blanchettewas killedbecause he was a "terrible father," said Saretzky.

Upstairs, Saretzky says, he found Haileyin her crib andused a pillow to muffle the two-year-old girl's screams.

Saretzky put Hailey in the back of the van he was driving and brought her to "the bush,"a campsite where he says he choked her with a shoelace before dismembering the girl, performing acts of cannibalizationand finally burning her remains.

He says he burned other items, like a knife and books, that he had with him. Then Saretzky says he returned home where he smoked a joint.

A neighbour had spotted awhite van near Blanchette's home, and that vehicle became the subject of an Amber Alert when police realized Haileywas missing.

Saretzky's family realized the van had features like one from the fleet used for their cleaning business and they contacted police. That's how Derek Saretzky first got on RCMP's radar.

• 'He told me [Hailey] was in heaven': Father of man on trial for triple murder tells jury

Earlier in the day, jurorsheard therecording that led to Saretzky's arrest as desperate police officers and the accused's own father took turns pleading for information in the minutes before he was arrested.

Three officers Sgt. Stephen Browne,Const. Amanda Wilkinson andConst. ChadKoroluk turnon a recording device and along with Saretzky'sfatherbeginspeaking to him.

"We're trying to find her to bring her back to her mom," Browne says toSaretzky.

Speaking with the officers and his father in the back of the dry-cleaning business,Saretzkybreaks his silence aboutHailey.

"You guys all just seen her right there she's in heaven,"Saretzkytells them. "Her spirit's floating around."

'She wasn't happy'

Some jurors leaned forward to look atSaretzkyas the recording played in Alberta's Court of Queen's Bench. It wasthe first time they had heard his voice since he said the words "not guilty" on the first day of trial.

"She probably didn't have a very good life 'Cause she wasn't happy," said Saretzky.

"God told me that."

Saretzky'slawyer has told reporters there are "reliability issues" with the confessions.

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Police suspectedSaretzkywas responsible for all three killings becauseMeketechandBlanchettewere both attacked in their bedrooms by someone who used the element of surprise, andthey both suffered blunt force injuries as well as stab wounds. He also listed all three victims on a note pad found in his apartment.

Afterhis confession, jurors have been told,Saretzkytook McCauley to the campsite whereHailey'sbody was burned and performed a "re-enactment." That video is expected to be played on Friday.

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