{"id":41892,"date":"2015-02-11T22:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41892"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:31:37","slug":"alleged-bomber-asked-friend-to-buy-gunpowder-after-being-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/alleged-bomber-asked-friend-to-buy-gunpowder-after-being-charged-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged bomber asked friend to buy gunpowder after being charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RED DEER, Alberta — An Alberta financial adviser charged with killing one of his clients with a bomb disguised as a Christmas present asked his business partner to buy gunpowder.<\/p>\n

Bob Yanew testified Tuesday at the trial of 57-year-old Brian Malley.<\/p>\n

Malley is accused of first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Victoria Shachtay in November 2011.<\/p>\n

Yanew said he and Malley were co-owners of Kodiak Homes, as well as hunting buddies.<\/p>\n

Yanew said Malley asked him to buy a specific brand of gunpowder when he visited him at the Red Deer Remand Centre shortly after his arrest in May 2012.<\/p>\n

Malley later left a message on Yanew’s phone saying not to worry about the conversation and he had arranged for someone else to get what he had asked about.<\/p>\n

“I was pretty much in shock,” said Yanew, adding he did not act on the request.<\/p>\n

“Him asking me to do this was even more of a shock. He was a brother to me and I couldn’t understand why he wanted to get me involved and incriminate myself.”<\/p>\n

Yanew said Malley mouthed that he was being set up by the RCMP and that they were going to lose one of the containers of gunpowder.<\/p>\n

During the police search of Malley’s residence on May 25, 2012, they found one container of gunpowder.<\/p>\n

It is alleged that Malley built a bomb, then disguised it in a Christmas bag and put on Shachtay’s doorstep.<\/p>\n

Shachtay was killed when the bomb detonated when she opened the gift.<\/p>\n

Shachtay invested more than $750,000 with Malley, $575,000 of which came from a 2007 settlement for a car crash in which she lost the use of her legs.<\/p>\n

By 2011, the money was gone from her investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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