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Adrian Warmerdam was lying on the couch playing with his phone when he heard his mother scream.
“I heard my mother sound like she was startled by something. She was screaming louder and louder,” Warmerdam testified Monday at the triple murder trial of Basil Borutski.
Borustki, 60, remained silent in the prisoner’s box, where he is defending himself on three counts of first-degree murder, accused of beating and strangling Carol Culleton, 66, shooting and killing Anastasia Kuyzk, 36, then shooting and killing Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, in a rampage through Renfrew County on Sept. 22, 2015.
At first, Adrian Warmerdam thought his mother had been startled by a spider as she sat in the next room eating breakfast. As the screaming got louder, he figured it was “something bigger,” maybe a raccoon.
“It seemed strange so I stood up and saw her running towards me,” the now 22-year-old Warmerdam testified.
“I saw somebody was behind her. They rounded the corner … the person following her seemed to be Basil holding a gun. I immediately ran out into the bush and lay there waiting for police.”
He described the gun he saw the man holding as a pump-action shotgun with a wooden stock.
Basil Borutski is being tried on three counts of first-degree murder. The 59-year-old stands accused in the September 2015 killings of Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66.
“(He was) holding it chest level, pointed forward … pointed at my mother,” he said.
As he ran out the back door, across a field and into the bush, he heard a single gunshot.
Warmerdam testified he recognized “Basil” from the last time he had seen him, years earlier, when the man lived with the Warmerdam family — Adrian, his mother and younger sister — at their log farmhouse at 3594 Foymount Rd., east of Cormac.
He was not asked to identify Borutski in court Monday.
“I only remember the full-brimmed green or brown hat he was wearing. Other than that it was a blur,” said Warmerdam, who said he didn’t see or hear the car approach, and didn’t hear any words exchanged between “Basil” and his mother.
“There were no words,” he said. “She was frantic, she was moving quickly.”
Nathalie Warmerdam.
The jury heard for the first time evidence of Borutski’s two prior convictions against both Kuzyk and Warmerdam.
Crown attorney Julie Scott told the jury Borutski was arrested in July 2012 after threatening bodily harm to Adrian Warmerdam, threatening to kill a family animal, and mischief to property. He was convicted in December 2012 and released less than 30 days later, on Jan. 8, 2013 with a two-year probation order.
He was then arrested Sept. 12, 2014 after choking and assaulting Kuzyk. He was released from jail on Dec. 27, 2014, and was again bound by a two-year probation order.
In both cases, Borutski was charged and convicted of failing to comply with a court order.
Borutski admitted to killing all three women in a police interrogation on Sept. 23, 2015, the morning after the rampage.
Crown attorneys Jeffery Richardson and Julie Scott presented evidence they say Borutski left at each of the three homicide scenes.
The jury had already heard that police found Borutski’s wallet in a car at the cottage where Culleton was killed that morning. Court then heard OPP identification Const. Adam Nitschmann testify on Monday a palm print lifted from the door of Anastasia Kuzyk’s home turned up a positive match with Borutski’s prints on file.
The Crown then showed surveillance footage retrieved from Warmerdam’s security cameras that morning, showing a man driving up to the home and entering the home, while seconds later, a figure identified as Adrian Warmerdam runs outside.
Seconds later, the man calmly walks to the car, reverses and drives away.
Meanwhile, Adrian Warmerdam was lying on his stomach in the bush 200 metres away with a 911 dispatcher on the line.
“I never went back in the house, I did not move from that spot until the police came,” he said.
When asked why he ran, Warmerdam replied: “I had just seen Basil with a gun … my purpose was to avoid Basil.”
Borutski said nothing in court but watched expressionless as investigators showed the jury pictures of the bloodied bodies of Kuzyk and Warmerdam.
Police found a single 12-gauge shotgun shell metres from where Kuzyk’s body lay in the kitchen of her Wilno home. They found a single 12-gauge shotgun shell metres from where Warmerdam’s body lay on the stairs of her Foymount Road farmhouse.
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Nathalie Warmerdam’s home on Foymount Road the day of the killing.
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“I heard my mother sound like she was startled by something. She was screaming louder and louder,” Warmerdam testified Monday at the triple murder trial of Basil Borutski.
Borustki, 60, remained silent in the prisoner’s box, where he is defending himself on three counts of first-degree murder, accused of beating and strangling Carol Culleton, 66, shooting and killing Anastasia Kuyzk, 36, then shooting and killing Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, in a rampage through Renfrew County on Sept. 22, 2015.
At first, Adrian Warmerdam thought his mother had been startled by a spider as she sat in the next room eating breakfast. As the screaming got louder, he figured it was “something bigger,” maybe a raccoon.
“It seemed strange so I stood up and saw her running towards me,” the now 22-year-old Warmerdam testified.
“I saw somebody was behind her. They rounded the corner … the person following her seemed to be Basil holding a gun. I immediately ran out into the bush and lay there waiting for police.”
He described the gun he saw the man holding as a pump-action shotgun with a wooden stock.
Basil Borutski is being tried on three counts of first-degree murder. The 59-year-old stands accused in the September 2015 killings of Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66.
“(He was) holding it chest level, pointed forward … pointed at my mother,” he said.
As he ran out the back door, across a field and into the bush, he heard a single gunshot.
Warmerdam testified he recognized “Basil” from the last time he had seen him, years earlier, when the man lived with the Warmerdam family — Adrian, his mother and younger sister — at their log farmhouse at 3594 Foymount Rd., east of Cormac.
He was not asked to identify Borutski in court Monday.
“I only remember the full-brimmed green or brown hat he was wearing. Other than that it was a blur,” said Warmerdam, who said he didn’t see or hear the car approach, and didn’t hear any words exchanged between “Basil” and his mother.
“There were no words,” he said. “She was frantic, she was moving quickly.”
Nathalie Warmerdam.
The jury heard for the first time evidence of Borutski’s two prior convictions against both Kuzyk and Warmerdam.
Crown attorney Julie Scott told the jury Borutski was arrested in July 2012 after threatening bodily harm to Adrian Warmerdam, threatening to kill a family animal, and mischief to property. He was convicted in December 2012 and released less than 30 days later, on Jan. 8, 2013 with a two-year probation order.
He was then arrested Sept. 12, 2014 after choking and assaulting Kuzyk. He was released from jail on Dec. 27, 2014, and was again bound by a two-year probation order.
In both cases, Borutski was charged and convicted of failing to comply with a court order.
Borutski admitted to killing all three women in a police interrogation on Sept. 23, 2015, the morning after the rampage.
Crown attorneys Jeffery Richardson and Julie Scott presented evidence they say Borutski left at each of the three homicide scenes.
The jury had already heard that police found Borutski’s wallet in a car at the cottage where Culleton was killed that morning. Court then heard OPP identification Const. Adam Nitschmann testify on Monday a palm print lifted from the door of Anastasia Kuzyk’s home turned up a positive match with Borutski’s prints on file.
The Crown then showed surveillance footage retrieved from Warmerdam’s security cameras that morning, showing a man driving up to the home and entering the home, while seconds later, a figure identified as Adrian Warmerdam runs outside.
Seconds later, the man calmly walks to the car, reverses and drives away.
Meanwhile, Adrian Warmerdam was lying on his stomach in the bush 200 metres away with a 911 dispatcher on the line.
“I never went back in the house, I did not move from that spot until the police came,” he said.
When asked why he ran, Warmerdam replied: “I had just seen Basil with a gun … my purpose was to avoid Basil.”
Borutski said nothing in court but watched expressionless as investigators showed the jury pictures of the bloodied bodies of Kuzyk and Warmerdam.
Police found a single 12-gauge shotgun shell metres from where Kuzyk’s body lay in the kitchen of her Wilno home. They found a single 12-gauge shotgun shell metres from where Warmerdam’s body lay on the stairs of her Foymount Road farmhouse.
ahelmer@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/helmera
Nathalie Warmerdam’s home on Foymount Road the day of the killing.
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