{"id":134130,"date":"2017-11-26T05:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=134130"},"modified":"2019-03-26T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T04:55:16","slug":"accused-in-alberta-murder-trial-testifies-he-lied-when-he-said-he-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/26\/accused-in-alberta-murder-trial-testifies-he-lied-when-he-said-he-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused in Alberta murder trial testifies he lied when he said he did it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frank testified that Jason Klaus told him he was looking to become a full-time meber of a criminal organization, but that he first needed to tie up any loose ends. (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RED DEER, Alta. — An Alberta man accused of killing three people has told court he was lying when he told police that he was the one who killed them.<\/p>\n

Joshua Frank said the story he provided to under-cover investigators, and to police after his arrest, was given to him by the second man accused in the case.<\/p>\n

Frank testified that Jason Klaus told him he was looking to become a full-time member of a criminal organization, but that he first needed to tie up any loose ends.<\/p>\n

Frank could help, Klaus insisted, by backing up his story that it was Frank who shot and killed the trio, since that was what he’d told the crime organization.<\/p>\n

Klaus and Frank each face three counts of first-degree murder in the Dec. 8, 2013, deaths of Klaus’s mother, father and sister.<\/p>\n

Frank told court he agreed to tell the lie in order to get \u201cout of his (Klaus’s) shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI told a lot of lies, and those snowballed into more lies,\u201d Frank told Klaus’s lawyer, Allan Fay, during cross-examination Saturday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.<\/p>\n

Gordon Klaus and his daughter, Monica, were found in a burned-out home in the Castor area. Sandra Klaus was never found, although police believe her body was also in the house.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the trial Klaus testified it was Frank who shot them. He said his friend gunned them down during a botched attempt to steal a deer head.<\/p>\n

Frank told court that when Klaus asked him to back up his story to the crime group, he asked Klaus why he’d told them Frank was the murderer.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’ve already been through police interviews, passed the polygraph … there should be no worry for you,\u201d Frank said Klaus told him.<\/p>\n

Frank will be back on the stand when the trial resumes on Monday.<\/p>\n

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