Trial hears fake car accident allowed undercover cops to meet murder suspect
CALGARY — Undercover officers investigating a man accused of killing his wife and burying her body in the basement of their home staged a car accident to get his attention.
Allan Shyback, 40, is charged with second-degree murder and causing an indignity to a body in the death of Lisa Mitchell, 31, who was last seen in October 2012.
An undercover operation police launched in 2013 ended with Shyback’s alleged confession and arrest in Winnipeg a year later.
A female officer in the sting told court that she and her partner damaged the front and rear driver’s side doors on Shyback’s parked car in December 2013. She then waited until he returned so she could apologize and offer to pay for the damages.