Billy and Donna Lee Powers killer pleads not guilty

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Billy and Donna Lee Powers killer pleads not guilty

Postby rtirdnewsguy » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:03 pm

From News Talk 770 Website :


The man accused of killing former News Talk 770 sports director Billy Powers and his wife Donna Lee in July 2013 has pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.

At a hearing today to determine Derek Puffer’s mental state at the time of the crime, the courtroom heard the gruesome details of the final night of Billy & Donna Powers life, when the couple were stabbed a combined 25 times. Puffer was the adopted son of Donna Lee. The murders occured at the couple’s Braeside home.

In an agreed to statement of facts, court heard of the communication between Puffer and arresting officers on the night of the murders. Puffer said “I’ve been hearing voices, did you find the knife? They’re in the bedroom, they put a chip in my brain”.

It’s expected the defence will try and prove Puffer was not legally sane at the time of the murders, as his medical history includes an unmediated battle against schizophrenia dating back to 1995.
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Re: Billy and Donna Lee Powers killer pleads not guilty

Postby rtirdnewsguy » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:09 am

The latest from the QR77 website :

The judge in the Derek Puffer murder case has found him not criminally responsible in the stabbing deaths of Billy Powers and his wife Donna-Lee.
The 40-year-old Puffer was charged with two counts of second-degree murder when the couple was found dead in their Braeside home on July 4th, 2013.
The defence was asking the judge to find Puffer not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder.
Alain Hepner says the Calgary man was suffering from severe schizophrenia and was in a psychotic state when he took a kitchen knife, went to his parents’ room naked and repeatedly stabbed them.
Puffer was the adopted son of Donna-Lee.
Crown Prosecutor Jonathan Hak admits it will be tough to convince some people that the right decision was made in court, but “people that are severely psychotic”, like Puffer, don’t fit in the same category as others, and so putting them into federal prisons doesn’t deal with them properly.
The decision means the man will remain in psychiatric care indefinitely.
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