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Henderson told court that he drove to the Bytown Blue Inn at 1 a.m. on Dec. 31 and knocked on the door of the room where he was told Coleman’s mother, Lyn, was staying while on a visit from Pennsylvania.

An hour earlier, Henderson had met in Centretown with Boyle, who had called 911 to report that his wife was missing and suicidal.

Boyle told police that Coleman had borderline personality disorder, PTSD, “extreme mental instability” and other issues. “I am very worried for her right now,” he said in the 911 telephone recording, played in court.

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Henderson, the first officer to respond to the 911 call, testified that Boyle was also worried what she might tell authorities when she was found. “He told me he was concerned, as any husband would be, with what Caitlan would say to us when we found her,” Henderson told court Tuesday.

When officers were unable to locate the missing woman in Centretown, they visited Coleman’s mother. In her hotel room, officers discovered the missing Coleman sitting on the bed.

Henderson asked if she was OK, how she was feeling, and whether she was suicidal.

Coleman insisted she was not suicidal; her mother confirmed as much, Henderson said. “She (Coleman) then told me why she left the house that night and it was not because she was suicidal,” he testified.

Coleman, he said, told him that she left to get away from Boyle because he had assaulted and threatened her on numerous occasions. She told Henderson she had taken her passport and those of her children and was trying to flee to the United States with her mother.