The trial for the 2011 murder of 33-year-old Gina Swanson is set to begin in Winnipeg Monday.
Schuyler Francis Van Wissen is facing first-degree murder charges in the case.
In May 2011 Swanson, a single mother of one, finished her shift working as a bartender and was safely walked to her car at the Dakota Community Centre.
When she didn’t make it to her shift the next day at a liquor mart and didn’t answer her phone, MLCC staff contacted Swanson’s parents.
Swanson’s father, a retired police officer, found her body bound and stabbed in her home on Edderton Avenue.
Police arrested Van Wissen in Toronto in August 2011 and charged him with first-degree murder and assault with a weapon.
