He chopped up his male lover and stacked his body neatly in eight pieces in a bathtub in his hotel room.
Sydney Teerhuis always maintained that he blacked out at the time of the murder.
On Tuesday, a day after deliberations had begun; a jury rejected that argument and convicted the man of second degree murder.
The details in this murder case don't get much more horrific.
The victim was stabbed 68 times; his body then chopped up into eight pieces and neatly stacked in a bathtub.
He had been decapitated and his internal organs removed, those were never found.
Sydney Teerhuis always maintained that he was too drunk to remember, and that he blacked out when he killed Robin Greene, and as a result should only be found guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.
A Winnipeg jury didn't buy it, convicting him instead of second degree murder.
"The crown's position has always been that the man was not so intoxicated that he didn't appreciate what he was doing," said Crown Attorney Sheila Leinburd.
Further eroding the black out defence, in the months after the murder, Teerhuis sent letters to a Winnipeg writer who was planning to cut the killer in for 30 percent of the profits of any book deal.
Some of the details in those letters may not have been true but other details corresponded to physical evidence at the murder scene.
Beyond convicting Teerhuis, the jury went further, seven of the 12 recommending that he should not be eligible for parole for 25-years. A sentence like that is usually reserved for first degree murder convictions, but the crown says the seriousness of this crime may require that kind of time.
"Clearly this man was decapitated, he was disemboweled, he was eviscerated, and certainly the court will take that into account," said Leinburd.
Teerhuis lawyer says it was not a premeditated murder. The killer and his victim had been drinking heavily the day of the killing.
They went back to Teerhuis suite in the Royal Albert hotel to have sex, then Teerhuis claims to have blacked out and awoke to the chopped up body in the bathtub.
"You can't say this is the worst possible offence. The worst possible offence is if he lured somebody, premeditated the crime and was guilty of first degree murder, then it's automatically 25 years," said Teerhuis' lawyer Greg Brodsky.
Teerhuis will know his sentence soon enough as a Sentencing Hearing is scheduled for Friday morning.
With a report from CTV's Kelly Dehn
