Suspect says he passed RCMP lie detector test
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HE’S taken a lie detector test in connection with one of the province’s highest profile missing persons cases and now he wants his name cleared.
Graham Saxon, 40, said he was one of two men police arrested this July and questioned about Amber McFarland’s disappearance. The 24-year-old Portage la Prairie woman went missing in the early morning hours of Oct.18, 2008 after she was seen in a hotel beer vendor with Saxon and another man.
This June, Mounties said they are treating McFarland’s death as a homicide and later arrested Saxon and McFarland’s ex-boyfriend Kelly Garrioch. Both were freed a short time later.
Saxon said he did the test this week at the RCMP’s Manitoba headquarters and Mounties told him he was no longer a suspect.
"I knew I knew nothing and I knew I was telling the truth," said Saxon.
"I’ve been suffering a lot due to this whole situation."
The RCMP would not confirm Thursday if Saxon was given a lie detector test or if he has been cleared as being a suspect in the disappearance, citing an ongoing investigation.
An investigator with the serious crimes unit also did not comment on the test.
Saxon said he met McFarland for the first time the evening she disappeared.
He said he met McFarland through Garrioch,
Surveillance footage of the two men and McFarland from a hotel beer vendor was later released by Mounties.
"Even though I was in a picture with her, that doesn’t mean I know her," said Saxon.
"The three of us left the hotel, I dropped the two of them off, and I went home to bed."
Saxon said after the group left the hotel, he dropped McFarland off with Garrioch at Garrioch’s home.
Mounties searched the property earlier this year after Garrioch sold the property.
No arrests were made in connection with McFarland’s disappearance, though her car was recovered from a hotel parking lot in Portage la Prairie. Saxon said he wants to let the McFarland family know he’s praying for them.
"Amber’s family has endured an unthinkable horror over this past year and my heartfelt sympathy goes out to them," he said. "Their pain and worry has been shared by many…I pray for her safe return every day."
gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca