In the months after a horrific killing at the Royal Albert Hotel, it appears the man charged with the killing wanted to talk about it.

Question is, was any of what he was saying true?

That's what a Winnipeg jury must decide at the Sydney Teerhuis murder trial.

Robin Greene's body was chopped up into eight pieces and left in a bathtub in a suite at the hotel.

While in jail, Teerhuis began corresponding with a Winnipeg journalist, who at the time had a weekly call in show on a university radio station.

Danny Zapansky testified that Teerhuis gave him details about the murder he couldn't have found out any other way.

The jury has heard so far that police were not able to find the internal organs of the victim, but Zapansky testified that Teerhuis told him he had thrown them into a garbage bin near the Health Sciences Centre, and had dumped the rest in a vacant lot nearby.

The end result was supposed to be a book about the murder and upcoming trial called Trophy Kill, a title court was told that Teerhuis came up with.

Teerhuis was supposed to get a 30 percent cut of the profits from book sales, but this was at a time when the province passed legislation preventing people from profiting from their crimes.

Zapansky says Teerhuis thought at first that this was just a ploy to cut him out of his profits, and soon after the lengthy correspondence ended.

Zapansky got one final letter from Teerhuis, who told the writer that everything he had said up to that point had been fiction.

Zapansky admitted that some of the things Teerhuis had said to him seemed over the top, admitting it's possible the accused killer may have lied about a few things.

With a report from CTV's Kelly Dehn