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American actor tricked into making criminal confession in ‘truly strange’ Canadian case
National Post ^ | July 25, 2017 | Graeme Hamilton

Posted on 07/28/2017 12:06:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

On the surface, the video looked like a confession that would steer police away from their suspect, Alexa Emerson. But something did not seem quite right

When the videos arrived in Saskatoon newsrooms in April, it was another strange twist in one of the most bizarre criminal cases to hit the city in recent memory.

A fresh-faced young woman in an orange shirt began the video by exclaiming, “Today was a crazy day!” She recounted helping another woman “who really doesn’t like Alexa” put together packages containing cookies, tissue paper and a white powder.

“People will think the white powder is anthrax,” she said she was told by the other woman. She described arranging delivery of the packages before ending with a soap-opera-like account of unfaithful lovers.

The video was sent days after Saskatoon police had issued a Canada-wide warrant for Alexa Emerson, wanted in connection with a rash of incidents in which packages containing white powder had been sent to local businesses, a cancer centre and a school.

On the surface, the video looked like a confession that would steer police away from Emerson as they investigated the white-powder deliveries, which in all cases turned out to be hoaxes. The powder was baking soda or talcum.

But something did not seem quite right about the video. The supposed culprit was oddly cheery, and she sounded more like a stage actor reading from a script than someone realistically describing their day.

Emerson turned herself in to police the day after the video was sent and is now facing 83 charges related to seven bomb scares and 10 suspicious package incidents in and around Saskatoon.

In June, Saskatoon Crime Stoppers launched a campaign to find the woman on the video and get to the bottom of what it called “a truly strange

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1 posted on 07/28/2017 12:06:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

She’s bigger than I thought she’d be.


2 posted on 07/28/2017 12:12:10 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: nickcarraway
So she's not seeing anyone right now is what I got from the article;-)

Ed

3 posted on 07/28/2017 12:15:05 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: nickcarraway

There’s no place like Saskatchewan!.....................


4 posted on 07/28/2017 12:16:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: nickcarraway

She’s not guilty, and if she needs a place to stay, ....


5 posted on 07/28/2017 12:20:25 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Dick chopping is self-mutilation. *slam is a death cult.)
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To: nickcarraway

She has those crazy eyes.


6 posted on 07/28/2017 12:47:35 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: husky ed

Now she’s open to a new relationship. She would like a caring, loving boyfriend who is open to a strong, stable, and long-term relationship leading to marriage and children. She hopes that the right man will be able to get past some indiscretions in her past, and that he will not mind some years of “long distance” relationship while she serves her time.


7 posted on 07/28/2017 1:32:54 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: FredZarguna
She’s bigger than I thought she’d be.

That is really funny. Literal lol!

You wise guy....

8 posted on 07/28/2017 1:37:58 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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