- Robert Kociuk was arrested for robbing a bank the same day that police discovered the body of a woman, Beverley Dyke, who he is now accused of killing back in 1984.
- Robert, aged 68, is on trial for sexually assaulting and stabbing Beverley Dyke in 1984 and leaving her half naked body in the woods near the Richardson Airport.
- Kociuk was under surveillance in several bank robberies when former police Chief Jack Ewatski testified that he caught Kociuk robbing a CIBC bank on May 17, 1984.
- After his arrest, Kociuk admitted to the bank robbery saying, "I'm broke, I'm unemployed, so I took my best shot."
- He was arrested in possession of a gun he claimed he bought "from a guy at one of the hotels."
- Beverley Dyke's half naked body, was discovered this same day, by a jogger.
- Ewatski said he was unaware at the time police had spotted Kociuk in the vicinity of the murder scene a day earlier.
- Later, when questioned about the killing, Kociuk told police he was in the area waiting for a man to deliver a gun.
- Kociuk initially denied ever meeting Beverley in 1984 but now says that he did meet her and have sex with her.
- He still denies that he killed her.
- He was arrested in 2005 when his DNA was matched with semen found on Dyke's body.
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