Karen Rodrigue told police she stabbed Gerald Dawson after he raped her, the Yukon Supreme Court heard this morning.

'I was drinking and I was sitting there and he was in, in bed and then he got up and he said . . . I want sex.' And then I said no and he raped me,' she said on the taped interview with police that was shown this morning to the seven women and five men of the jury. 'And then Gerald got up, and I went to the kitchen. He was behind me and I stabbed him.'

Const. Bradley Wirachowsky, who conducted the interview, asked her where she stabbed Dawson.

'In the back,' she responded.

Rodrigue said she stabbed Dawson twice in the back, and pointed to Wirachowsky's upper left shoulder as the place where the knife entered.

Her voice on the tape was often difficult to hear. Many of the answers were soft or mumbled.

She sat in the interview room with bare feet, wearing a sleeveless black and white t-shirt.

She explained the night in more detail.

'When we got back . . . we smoked a joint, I was drinking beer, I was sitting there in his chair watching T.V. and he's in bed . . . . I was going to stay the night because he didn't want to drive me home. So I just sleep on the other bed. So I took off my pants and laid on the bed,' she said in the video.

'He raped me and after it was done I got up and went to the kitchen and he followed behind and I was yelling and screaming at him that's when I turned around and I just stabbed him.'

She said she grabbed the knife from a rack in Dawson's kitchen and described it as very sharp with a thin, black handle.

After she stabbed Dawson, she said, 'he fell and bled and died' while she was still in his Marwell area home.

She dragged the body from the kitchen and covered him in a sheet, she said.

She also cleaned up some of the blood with water and a sheet, she told Wirachowsky in the video interview.

Rodrique admitted she wrote the note that said Dawson had left for a trip to B.C. The note was found hanging on his door.

She said she wrote it after having cleaned up, just before leaving his house.

When asked why she didn't contact police, she said she didn't know.

'I don't know because after I left and went home it was late, it was like . . .six, seven in the morning.'

Rodrigue said she couldn't remember what she'd done with the knife.

'I can't remember what I did with it. I really can't.'

A few moments later, however, she said she may have thrown it away.

'Yeah, I think I threw it in a dumpster somewhere,' Rodrigue said.

She did not admit to the killing right away.

When Wirachowsky initially told her they were investigating the death of the owner of the car that was found in her possession, she said she didn't know he had died.

'The last time I saw him he was �- fine, he was going on a trip and that was it,' she said.

Wirachowsky asked if there was any reason someone would think Rodrigue was responsible for Dawson's death.

'Hell no,' she answered.

About half an hour into the interview Wirachowsky left the room. When he returned a few minutes later, he told Rodrigue the police had strong evidence that implicated her in Dawson's death.

'Based on everything we have so far in the investigation, okay, there's absolutely no doubt in our mind that you had something to do with Gerald's death,' he told her.

'There's always two sides to a story and that's why we need your side of the story.'

Some of the evidence Wirachowsky said he had which placed Rodrigue at the scene of the stabbing included the note that appeared to have been written by a woman, and a bloody footprint found on the ground that fit Rodrigue's shoe size.

'You watch CSI and those type of shows, you know all about DNA evidence and all that stuff,' he said.

'I'm telling you I think we're going to find your DNA there, aren't we?'

Shortly after this exchange, Rodrigue admitted to killing Dawson.

The trial is set to continue this afternoon.