Brock Ketcham
Calgary Herald

The caller on AGT's voice messaging service told the young woman that because she would not return to him, "this is a promise - I'm going to kill you." 

Five hours later, he reassured her, "I love you.  Sorry to be so mad - but I love you."

The voice - alleged to be that of accused killer Morley Dean Sangwais, 28 - was played by Crown prosecutor Pat Yelle to a Court of Queen's Bench jury at Sangwais's first-degree murder trial. 

Sangwais is accused of stabbing his estranged common-law spouse, Kelly Howe, 19, to death Sept. 19, 1995 on an apartment building balcony in Calgary.  

Police arrived to find Howe dead and Sangwais with a butcher knife in his stomach.  

Det. Nick Kyska of the Calgary police homicide unit testified Monday that a man left 13 menacing messages on Howe's voice mailbox from 4:33 p.m. Monday Sept. 18 to 12:57 a.m. Tuesday Sept. 19.  

The expletive-filled tape-recordings played to the eight-woman, four-man jury are a whisper one moment; shouting the next. The voice cajoles, pleads, threatens.  

The targets are Howe and her new boyfriend, Calgary disk jockey Kevin Varey.  

• Sept. 18, 7:37 p.m.:  (To Howe)
  "You're breaking my heart.
  "I'm going to come after you.
  "I'm going to f------ bust you up 100 per cent.
  "I am as mad as hell...
  "Kevin --- you will die. It's a dog-eat-dog world."
• Sept. 18, 8:07 p.m.: "Kelly -- you will die when this goes down. I got people -- I got large f---- people. Any time, any day -- you're not going to let me go in a heartbeat.  
    The man tells Howe he loves her.
    Then, "I'm going to rock this f---- world."
    Then to Varey: "I'm going to rock your world, you puke."
• Sept. 18, 8:17 p.m.:  (To Kelly) "I'm unpredictable."
    (To Varey) "If you think you're big enough, if you think you're man enough --- we;re going to do this one on one. You're a puke. You're a wimp...
    "Kelly it bothers me to say this --- I'm going to f--- you up all the way." 
    "Kevin -- I'm going to break you're frigging legs."
    (To Howe):  "I'm going to pull up a bunch of Harleys and I'm going to wrek your boyfriend."
• Sept. 19, 12:57 a.m. (The final message): "Ain't nobody going to stop me.
    "Kelly -- it all depends on you.
    "Kevin -- keep your distance. You're nothing but a punk.  There's nothing in the world  you can do to stop me... I'm the best that is, I'm the best that was. And I'm the best that ever will be."
  Howe was slain later that morning.  The trial continues.  

Murder trial told:  Neighbor saw death\

By Kevin Martin 
Calgary Sun

The Calgary Sun, Wednesday, September 18, 1996

A "bloody and screaming" Kelly Howe vainly pounded on her neighbor's balcony door moments before slumping dead from knife wounds, a Calgary court heard yesterday.  

And seconds later her ex-husband dropped down beside her, a large kitchen knife buried in his stomach, the dead woman's next-door neighbor said.  

Morely Sangwais, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of his former common-law wife last Sept. 19.  

Ileana Orellana said she was awakened by loud noises around 5 a.m. to find Howe crawling onto her balcony.  

"Kelly was jumping over the balcony and (Sangwais) was behind her and he was hitting her," Orellana told Crown prosicutor Pat Yelle.

"She was yelling and she was frightened," she continued. "I couldn't tell you exactly what she was yelling."

The woman said she watched as Sangwais followed Howe across the the railing that separated the balconies outside their 16th floor apartments at 736 McDougall Cr. N.E.

"He was hitting her on the back... many times," she said.  

Orellana, testifying through a Spanish intrepreter, said Howe's posistion prevented her from seeing is Sangwais was using a weapon on her.  

"She was bloody and she was screaming," the whitness said.  

"She was hitting the glass, the glass in the window to my apartment." 

Orellana said she ran to rouse her husband to call 911 before returning to find Howe prone on the balcony floor and Sangwais sitting beside her with a knife in his stomach.  

Earlier, Yelle told jurors the attack was the culmination of a four-year, tumultous relationship between Howe and Sangwais.  

Yelle said Howe first started dating Sangwais when she was 15 and he was in his early 20's.  

"The accused and Kelly Howe had an on-again, off-again relationship from that time until the time of her death," said Yelle.  

And Yelle said Sangwais repeatedly threatened to harm Howe, telling people "if he couldn't have Kelly, no one else could." 

The prosecutor also said Sangwais left several threatening messages on Howe's home answering machine in the hours leading up to her death, while she was out on a date.  

Courts and Police:  Accused had 'evil look'

Bob Beaty 
Calgary Herald

A nighbor recalled hearing the piercing screams of Kelly Howe on the night of her murder and seeing an "evil looking" Morely Sangwais as he pursued her. 

"Help me. Help me. He's going to kill me," are the words Howe repeatedly screamed out, Darlene Fredrick told a Calgary court Thursday.

Sangwais, 28, is charged with the first degree murder of his estranged common-law wife.  

Fredrick, a neighbor of Howe's, said she was asleep in her apartment at 736 McDougall Crt. N.E. when she and her son awoke to the woman's dying cries sometime between 5 and 6 a.m.  

Fredrick told the court that when she first looked out her window on Sept. 19, 1995, she saw a pair of hands on Howe's bedroom window.  

Then she saw 19-year-old Howe, dressed in a bra and panties, trying to open her balcony door. Sangwais was moving toward her.  

"(He had this) evil look on his face," Fredrick said.

Her attention was diverted when she tried to calm down her startled son and phone the police.  When she looked back, she saw Sangwais jump over a railing into another neighbor's balcony at apartment 1608 where her view was obscured.  

Fredrick said she could still hear Howe screaming for help and the sound of hands slapping glass.  

Court heard earlier from the tenant in 1608 that Howe banged her hands on the sliding glass balcony door while Sangwais stood behind her hitting her on the back.  

Court also heard Howe suffered a slashing knife wound on her neck that was likely done with a steak knife and deep stab wounds were found throughout her ribs and back.  

When the police and paramedics arrived they found Sangwais sitting beside Howe on the balcony of 1608.  

Howe was lying in a pool of blood and Sangwais had a large, black butcher knife in his stomach.  

Fredrick also testified she heard Sangwais tell apartment building manager Kenneth Green -- who lived one floor below Howe's balcony -- to get back into his apartment and mind his own buisness.  

She described Sangwais' tone as "aggressive and angry" 

Calgary disk jockey Kevin Varey said he dated Howe the night before she was murdered and that Howe checked her telephone message service when they arrived at her apartment about 1 a.m. 

Varey remembered Howe saying there were 13 messages from Sangwais threatening to kill both of them. 

"After she got the messages she became pretty tense about the situation," Varey said.  

Sangwais Guilty:  Family angered despite verdict

Bob Beaty
Calgary Herald

The family of Kelly Howe cried with joy after her insanely jealous and abusive estranged common-law husband was found guilty of stabbing her to death.  

But Howe's father Bruce expressed dismay her killer -- Morely Dean Sangwais -- who was found guilty Tuesday of first degree murder, will be able to apply for parole after 15 years of a mandatory 25-year sentence.  

"I'd like to say to (federal Justice Minister) Allan Rock, this friend of the criminal, that he (Sangwais) should be in there for 25-years. Period." Howe said of Ottawa's faint hope clause that allows the killer to seek early parole.  

"Kelly will be happy today," Howe's sister Cheri, 21, said outside court. "I didn't think it (the conviction) would be that much relief, but it is," she added.  

Their comments follow the guilty verdict handed out by an eight-woman, four-man jury who heard evidence detailing how Sangwais, 28, brutally stabbed Howe, 19, to death in her north-east apartment building on Sept. 19, 1995.  

The jury heard that Sangwais was insanely jealous and left a dozen threatening phone messages for her after finding out she was on a date the night before her death.  

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Peter McIntyre asked Sangwais if he wished to say anything before the mandatory sentence was imposed.  

Sangwais shook his head and twice said: "No. I don't."  

Although the jury heard that Kelly was only 15-years-old then she met Sangwais and that they had a stormy on-again, off-again relationship, they didn't hear that Howe obtained a restraining order against him in 1994. 

That evidence -- ruled inadmissible during the trial -- revealed that in addition to his many assaults against her.  The young woman swore in an affidavit that Sangwais forced her into prostitution to support his drug habit.  

Howe, a distant rekative of former hockey star Gordie Howe, also alleged that Sangwais forced her to take cocaine and other drugs.  

Her father Bruce said he thought it was ludicrous that Sangwais has the right to seek early parole. "Why can't Allan Rock let the victim's family members live in safety and peace?" he said.  

Since his daughter's death, Howe has been speaking at Calgary schools in a attempt to teach students how to be aware of the early signs of abuse.  

Instead of forcing women and their children to seek help at shelters. Howe said abusers should be put in shelters to receive counseling.  

"If they abuse the second time, it should be an automatic jail sentence," he added.  

A fund raiser is being held tonight in the northeast Whitehorn Community Hall for the murdered woman's infant son, Brandon, now being raised by her sister.