SASKATOON - Greg Fertuck’s five-week murder trial for the disappearance of his estranged wife Sheree Fertuck starts Sept. 7 in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench.
Fertuck, 67, is charged with first-degree murder. In December 2015, 51-year-old Sheree was last seen leaving her family’s farmhouse near Kenaston. Her body has never been found.
The trial was originally set to start in March 2021 but was adjourned due to COVID-19. Defence sought the adjournment rather than take undue risks with the health and safety of the participants and the public. Justice Richard Danyliuk said that many trials could be handled remotely through the use of technology but this wasn’t one of them. Danyliuk said Fertuck’s trial is complex, which includes evidence of an undercover police operation.
Fertuck is also charged with offering an indignity to human remains.
Sheree, a mother of three and a gravel truck driver, was last seen on Dec. 7, 2015, leaving her family’s farmyard east of Kenaston to haul rock to a nearby gravel pit. RCMP searched the area but Sheree’s body was never found.
In April 2016 police determined that Sheree was a victim of a homicide. Fertuck was arrested June 24, 2016, near Saskatoon.
The charges against Fertuck haven't been proven in court.
