An audio recording of the suspect in a double-murder trial in Barrie was played for the courtroom on Wednesday.
The hour-longstatement by Mark Dobson, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, was taken by a Barrie Police officer after the deaths of Helen Dorrington and Mary Hepburn.
In the recordings, Dobson tells lead Barrie Police investigator Brett Carleton “it was a cult ritual. I was going to be the last one to go. It didn’t work out how it was supposed to work.”
Court has heard that Dobson, Dorrington, and Hepburn met on a website called “Joy of Satan” and that Hepburn was Dobson’s girlfriend.
In the recording, Dobson said the pact had been a month and a half in the making.
“We were going to go home. Our souls would leave the bodies and go to another planet. We all three of us decided to do this,” Dobson is heard saying.
Dobson also told Carleton the women took prescription drugs, consumed alcohol, and smoked marijuana so that they would become sedated so he could strangle them, but says that they became hysterical instead, and that he killed them by slashing them with a knife.
Dobson also told Carleton he had been repeatedly attacked by what he called “other beings” for years and that all emails, internet accounts, and files between the three were deleted beforehand so that Dorrington’s family wouldn’t find out what had happened.
Carleton told the court on Wednesday that police found correspondence between the three about plans to go to another planet.
At the end of the recording Carleton asked Dobson if he had any questions. Dobson’s response was “what is jail like?”
The Defence says Dobson suffers from a psychiatric disorder and cannot be held criminally responsible for his actions.
The trial continues tomorrow.
