The jury in the Phoenix Sinclair trial continues to deliberate, and while it does taped testimony watched during the trial has now been released.

 

The tapes told of all the details of the death and disposal of five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair.

 

Karl Wesley McKay was on the lead snowmobile. For more than a kilometer they rode down a trail, surrounded by dense bush, and McKay directed officers to the spot where Phoenix Sinclair was buried.

 

It's dark but McKay points out the spot.

 

"Pretty sure it was here," said McKay on the tape. "How far off trail?" asks an investigator.

 

It's where the RCMP set up a tent, and discovered bones that turned out to be Phoenix's.

 

McKay gives the officers more information.

 

"How far in the ground?" ask police, "About eight inches," replies McKay.

 

This was already a week into the investigation. Officers had already interviewed McKay, but up until this point they hadn't been able to find the body.

 

It was a major breakthrough for the officers.

 

They were struggling to try and get information out of Samantha Kematch.

 

Phoenix had been beaten before she died and forced to eat her own vomit.

 

On the tapes her mother Samantha Kematch shows remorse.

 

She wrote a letter to her dead daughter and that correspondence was entered as an exhibit at the trial.

 

To my daughter Phoenix "I'm so sorry this had happened to you, she wrote. I know lots of people are hurt by this and in extreme pain. You are loved, you are beautiful, you are pretty, you are an angel, you are everything in the world," wrote Kematch.

 

Karl McKay also showed some remorse, by taking police to where the little girl was buried.

 

"So she can get a proper burial," explained McKay.

 

Both are guaranteed at least a conviction of manslaughter charges but those could range as high as first degree murder.

 

With a report from CTV's Kelly Dehn