‘He Wanted to Talk:’ Saskatchewan Woman Recalls Finding Mountie Killer in Field

Convicted murderer Curtis Dagenais is escorted from court following sentencing in his murder trial on March 13, 2009 in Saskatoon, SK. Geoff Howe/The Canadian Press

SPIRITWOOD, SK—For a Saskatchewan woman who discovered a fugitive Mountie killer hiding in her family’s hayfield more than a decade ago, the intense search for two young murder suspects in northern Manitoba stirs old memories.

Rosanne Smith and her husband Armand managed to convince Curtis Dagenais to surrender in July 2006, after he led police on a nearly two-week manhunt.