An inmate gave a false confession to the 1984 rape and killing of Beverley Ann Dyke because he wanted to stay in prison with his gay lover, a former Winnipeg police homicide detective, David Shipman said Friday.
"He did not do this murder. Leonard White was not our guy," said Shipman, insisting that Kociuk was the one who killed Beverley Dyke.
He was arrested in 2005 after DNA testing matched semen found on Dyke to a sample taken from him following a robbery conviction in Ontario, in which he was required to provide a DNA sample.
Kociuk now admits he had sex with Dyke, but denies killing her. He originally denied having sex with Beverley or even knowing her.
The 48-year-old woman was raped and stabbed 13 times. Her body which was nude from the waist down, was found in a wooded area near the city's airport by a jogger.
Leonard White, who died in 1999, confessed in a 1988 interview in a Saskatchewan prison, that he murdered Beverley Dyke.
He had a history of habitual lying.
Shipman said that White would always tell a fictious story right before his parole eligibility because he wanted to stay in prison; he had a boyfriend their.
White told detectives about elements of Dyke's case, that she had been sexually assaulted, suffered several fatal stab wounds to the chest and where her body was found.
"But Shipman said all of that information had been released by police to the general public as police searched for answers to the unsolved mystery."
"Obviously I hate women. I hate myself for hating women... for being gay," White explained as his motive for randomly selecting and killing Dyke, who he claimed he met at the Maryland Hotel.
White claimed another man named "Ricky Morris" raped Dyke, but Shipman could find no evidence such a person even existed, let alone raped and killed a woman.
If Morris had hung around White, he would likely have a criminal record, but nothing showed up.
"He (Morris) raped her, I stabbed her. Right in the chest, she tried to stop me, I kept stabbing away, stabbing away. When you're mad, you just want to keep on going."
No legitimate evidence to charge White, who wasn't able to reveal any key facts only the killer would have known. He didn't know enough about the murder that could prove he was the real killer.
Shipman said everything White knew about the murder he could have learned from media reports.
Kociuk’s lawyers argued White knew more than he could have learned from news reports and that his history of violence against women made him a strong suspect in the killing.
At the time of the interview, White was serving an 8 year sentence for aggravated assault in which he forced a knife down a woman's throat and almost killed her.
Kociuk was initially interviewed as a potential suspect because he was seen by police in the area where the killing occurred on the day before Dyke's body was found by a jogger. Kociuk had been under police surveillance for armed robbery and claimed he was meeting someone to buy a gun for his next heist on the day of the murder.
So far, I believe that the confession made by Leonard White, was a false one and that he is not the real killer. In court on Friday, defence lawyer Roberta Campbell read out newspaper reports about the murder from the 1980's and all the information that White told police, was mentioned in those media reports.
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