Nine days before Cindy Gladue was found dead in an Edmonton hotel bathroom, her accused killer scoured the internet for information on how a woman might be injured during rough sex. In the summer of 2011, the 52-year-old former long-distance truck driver met Gladue in a bar at the Yellowhead Inn. Police found Gladue's naked, bloodied body in the bathroom of Barton's hotel room in the morning on June 22 after Barton called 911. "Most of the sites were pornographic and freely accessible on the internet," Crown prosecutor Lawrence Van Dyke told the jury. Some of the bedding was found balled up on the floor of the hotel room when police arrived.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2021 02:15 UTC