‘My hands were around her neck:’ trial hears murder suspect’s alleged confession
CALGARY — A man suspected of strangling his wife and burying her body in the house they shared told an undercover officer he found his hands around her neck during a heated argument and “then she was gone.”
Allan Shyback, 40, is charged with second-degree murder and causing an indignity to a body in the death of Lisa Mitchell, 31, who was last seen alive in October 2012.
An undercover “Mr. Big” sting operation, dubbed “Operation Aurora,” was launched in 2013 and ended with Shyback’s alleged confession and arrest in Winnipeg a year later.
A recording was played in court in Calgary on Thursday after Shyback received a call in 2014 from a Calgary police officer, telling him Mitchell’s case was now considered a homicide and officers intended to search his house in the city.