Klassen prefers not to testify because “Gunther doesn’t want our bar to get a bad rep.”

CAL CODY, a temporarily unemployed forestry worker, states that he saw “a pretty girl in a white fur coat and tight white dress…like a nurse’s uniform. She was leaning on the doorway, kind of slumped, like she had the spins, and I was going to go see if she needed help, when all of a sudden she got this frightened look and she just bails. I thought she saw her dad, ’cause she had that look, like ‘Oh shit, I’m gonna get a whupping.’”

Cody prefers not to testify because “I was pretty hammered and I don’t want to have a bunch of fucking lawyers asking me how much I drank.” Cody is not a credible witness as he has three prior charges of drunk and disorderly and was drunk during the course of his police interview.

At 2:15, the bar in the King’s Hotel closed. STANLEY SMOTHERS left the bar and proceeded to the Douglas Street parkade. Car is a 1979 Cadillac. License plate BTR-519. Videotape provided by Kinney confirms said car was in parkade at said time. At this time, he saw “two girls run into the alley like they were running for something.” He did not see the victim at this time.

At 2:35 approximately, Smothers exited the parkade and proceeded to drive down Yates Street. It was at this time that he saw the taller girl, in white, running and alone.

Smothers is certain that this girl was by herself.

Smothers slowed down and attempted to ask the girl if she needed a drive. It was at this point that he recognized her as a girl “Sara” whom he had met before.

“I noticed she was a girl I’d met before, and I noticed she was carrying a suitcase. I was concerned for her being alone on the street at that hour.” Smothers felt the suspect deliberately evaded him after he honked his horn. “She just ran away from me and disappeared. At the time, I thought she was treating me as if I was scum. You know, I thought, I’m trying to help you. No need to be rude.”

Smothers noticed no blood. “I wasn’t checking out her body. She could have been covered in blood.”

The next evening, Smothers returned to the King’s Hotel, where he was informed by friends that police were asking about a stabbing incident in the alley. Smothers immediately contacted police and informed us about seeing a girl enter and later leave the alley at said time on said evening.

Note: Smothers is a freelance photographer for a modeling agency. He states that he met suspect on May 27, at the Day and Night diner on Yates Street. She approached him and his friend, a modeling scout, and expressed an interest in a modeling career.