The Candace Derksen trial continued on Monday, hearing testimony from the owner of a property in Elmwood where Derksen's body was found.
Derksen, 13, disappeared while walking home from school in November of 1984. Her frozen body was found in the shed weeks later.
Wayne Alsip testified on Monday that he called 911 after an employee came and told him he thought there was a body in a shed on Alsip's property on Jan. 17, 1985.
He then went to the shed, where he saw Derksen's frozen body, covered with a parka, Alsip testified.
Defence lawyer Saul Simmonds questioned Alsip about the parka, which Simmonds said wasn't taken into evidence by police.
Asked if he knew what happened to the parka, or what police may have done with it, Alsip answered, "No."
Simmonds also asked Alsip about the security in his yard.
Alsip testified that there was easy access to his property and, as he told police in the 1980s, from time to time "youth and bums" went on his property to take what they could find or knock over piles of bricks.
In cross examination, Alsip was asked if he could be sure that Grant had never worked for him, and he said that he could not, and his employment records are not available today.
When Derksen was discovered, her hands were found bound with twine, and Alsip testified that the city was storing thousands of sand bags, which were tied with twine, at the time.
Two police officers, William Keith Cahoon and Derek Blackman-Shaw, who responded when Derksen's body was found also testified Monday.
Both officers testified that they entered the shed, but didn't touch the body. Both testified that they didn't see the parka that Alsip testified was covering Derksen's body. They said she was wearing a grey and maroon jacket.
In their direct testimony, both officers testified that they had no prior contact with Mark Edward Grant.
Mark Edward Grant faces a charge for first-degree murder in the case.
He was arrested in May 2007, after a cold-case police unit began investigating.
The court case is continuing.
