Alex Semenovich Murder Case
'I shot grandpa,' Alberta woman told grandson
Wow, do you think she did it in self defense? Apparently, the victim was constantly threatening her to kill her.
A 74-year-old Alberta woman accused of killing her husband confessed the crime to her grandson shortly afterward, a jury in Edmonton was told Wednesday.
"'I did it'," Brian Semenovich recounted his grandmother, Anne Semenovich, telling him in the early hours of April 15, 2008. "'I shot grandpa.'"
He was giving testimony on the third day of his grandmother's trial in Court of Queen's Bench. Semenovich is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of her husband, Alex. She is also charged with interfering with human remains.
The Crown alleges she dumped her husband's body in an incinerator on their property.
Brian Semenovich, 25, was living at his grandparents' rural home in Spruce Grove, west of Edmonton, the day Alex Semenovich died.
When he got up at 5 a.m. To use the washroom, he found his grandmother sitting fully clothed on the end of her bed, slowly rocking back and forth...
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