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Court documents ordered released to the media during the hearing show police believe forensic evidence, cellphone records, an undercover sting and a bullet hole in a hat link Vader to the couple’s disappearance.

A beer can, a ruby ring and a cellphone make up the major physical evidence that RCMP allege they have against Vader, according to notes taken during meetings between the Crown and the Mounties.

The documents have not been presented or proven in court, nor have the allegations been proven in court.

But they show RCMP believe they found Vader’s fingerprint and DNA on a beer can inside the vehicle the McCanns were towing with their motorhome.

Police also believed Vader had used a cellphone belonging to the McCanns on the day they disappeared in July 2010 and the documents say a man told RCMP that Vader had given him a ruby ring that belonged to the McCanns.

The man said Vader took the ring from the motorhome and kept it at a cabin near his father’s place, along with “a lot more stuff.”

In a 2013 memorandum, the Crown wrote that “forensic evidence ties” Vader to the McCanns’ SUV. It also says Marie McCann’s blood was found inside the vehicle as well as Lyle McCann’s hat with a bullet hole in it. The Crown also alleges Vader used the couple’s cellphone on the afternoon that they went missing.

The couple last seen July 3, 2010, fuelling up their motorhome in St. Albert while on their way to Chilliwack, B.C., for a vacation.

Two days later, their RV was found engulfed in flames near a campground close to Edson. The SUV they were towing was discovered six days later in a remote wooded area about 30 km east of Edson. Their bodies haven’t been recovered, although RCMP have declared them dead.

Vader was first charged with the killings in April 2012, but the charges were stayed in March 2014, just a few weeks before the case was to go before a jury, when the Crown realized the RCMP hadn’t disclosed all evidence in the case. The charges were reinstated Dec. 19, 2014.