Hales tells fake crime boss that he strangled Daleen Bosse

May 20, 2014 | 11:44 AM

Douglas Hales tells an undercover police officer posing as a fake crime boss that he strangled a Saskatoon woman while she was either passed out or asleep in her car because she wasn’t willing to have sex with him after they met at a nightclub.

The video-recorded interview between Hales and the undercover officer, whose name is banned from publication, was shown Monday morning during Hales’ first-degree murder trial at Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench. He’s accused of killing Daleen Bosse, a mother and university student who went missing on May. 18, 2004.

On Aug. 7, 2008, Hales tells the fake crime boss that he met Bosse at Jax Nightclub, where he worked as a doorman. He said she was “coming on to me strong,” but got kicked out of the bar and went to sleep in her car. Hales said he drove her car to an off-sale to buy alcohol, and that the deal was if he bought her alcohol and cigarettes she would do what he wanted her to do.

After drinking and driving around on the outskirts of Saskatoon for a couple of hours, Hales told the fake crime boss that Bosse said she wanted to go home.

“I made up my mind that I wasn’t taking her back,” Hales said in the video.

Instead, Hales said he took Bosse to a deserted area with a fire pit north of the city near Martensville and choked her in the car while she was either passed out or sleeping in the passenger seat.

“Why did you choke her?” the undercover officer asked.

“Because she wouldn’t let me f— her,” Hales responded.

Hales then went on to say that he dragged Bosse out of the car and lit her body on fire using paper he found in her car and cardboard that was in the area. After driving around for about an hour, Hales said he came back and put an old fridge on top of Bosse’s burning body.

Hales said he went home, cleaned up, and helped his grandmother plant a garden later that day.

He told the fake crime boss that he decided to kill Bosse once they started driving around and he realized she wasn’t going to have sex with him, and that he decided to choke her because he didn’t want any DNA left on either him or her. He said he threw her car keys in the garbage and set various items from her car on fire to make it look like she had been robbed.

The video ended with the fake crime boss instructing Hales to take two other undercover officers to the area where he left her body.

The fake crime boss remains on the stand and will be questioned Monday afternoon.

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