Suspect admits to stabbing deaths of man, woman at Alberta work camp
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — A trial in northern Alberta is hearing grisly details about a work camp cook who killed two other workers — stabbing one man more than 70 times, cutting off parts of his body and lighting him on fire.
Daniel Goodridge, 31, has pleaded not guilty because of a mental disorder to charges of first-degree murder, assault with a weapon and interfering with human remains.
In an agreed statement of facts submitted at the start of his trial, Goodridge admits to the slayings as well as to terrorizing others who woke in the middle of the night to screams at the Canada North oilfield camp near Fox Creek in June 2015.
Some workers hid in their rooms while others fled into the bush as Goodridge ran around the remote property with a large knife, the court document says. He also threw rocks at vehicles and set other fires in some buildings.