No date has been set as yet for Everett Chief’s sentencing. He had originally faced murder charges.

A lengthy statement of agreed facts was presented in court along with the manslaughter plea. In many instances, those facts are disturbing.

Chief, a 48-year-old Kaska Dena First Nation citizen, had been involved in an intermittent romantic relationship with one of the women, Sarah McIntosh, and that is where the incident began.

According to the statement of facts, on Apr. 19, 2017, Alyssa Carlick, MacIntosh’s daughter, visited her mother’s Whitehorse home and discovered a body inside.

The RCMP were called and located two bodies in the home on the living room floor of the McIntyre subdivision home. The remains were later identified as MacIntosh and Wendy Carlick.

MacIntosh was a member of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation and Carlick was a member of the Kaska Dena First Nation.

“Both women’s bodies were in a degree of decomposition with apparent injuries. The side door to the residence was unlocked and there were no signs of forced entry to the home,” the statement said.

“Blood-staining was evident on the living room floor surrounding the bodies and elsewhere in the living room and kitchen.”

Police found an empty 750-ml (26-oz.) vodka bottle with blood staining on the kitchen counter, later determined to have on it a fingerprint matching to Chief’s right ring finger.

The police also located another two empty 750-ml bottles of vodka, an empty 1,140-ml (40-oz.) bottle of vodka, three empty beer cans and a beer can “bong” in the residence. A broken vodka bottle was also located in the front yard of the residence.

The statement of facts indicated “the death of both victims was the result of multiple unlawful act blunt force injuries combined with high blood alcohol levels (Sarah MacIntosh: 258 mg per cent while Wendy Carlick was 312 mg per cent). THC was also identified in MacIntosh’s blood toxicology report.”

MacIntosh’s injuries included extensive abrasions and bruising, skull injuries, signs of strangulation and multiple bilateral rib fractures.

Carlick’s injuries included extensive bruising and abrasions, a skull injury and a lacerated liver.

“According to the forensic pathology report concerning Carlick, her injuries were alone not necessarily fatal but that there was no other apparent cause of death,” the statement said.

“The forensic pathologist determined that the totality of the blunt force injuries contributed significantly to Carlick’s death, which was perhaps ultimately a result of an obstructed airway or positional asphyxiation while Carlick was unconscious.”

The partial decomposition of the remains suggests that both victims had been deceased for at least several days prior to the discovery of their bodies.

A 2017 wall calendar at the residence showed every date checked off up to and including April 9, 2017.

Police spoke to numerous family and community members who knew the victims, including Chief, who was known to have been in an on- and-off romantic relationship with MacIntosh.

There was a history of violence in that relationship. At the time of the alleged homicides, Chief had been bound by a probation order prohibiting him from having contact with MacIntosh.

Police gathered surveillance footage from local businesses.

These video recordings are the last reliable, verified sightings of both women during their lifetimes, and record Chief and MacIntosh together on Apr. 10, 2017.

“While they were in downtown Whitehorse, Chief and MacIntosh met up with their mutual friend, Carlick, and the three of them returned to MacIntosh’s home in a taxi to socialize and drink together,” the statement said.

When Carlick’s and MacIntosh’s remains were discovered, they were each dressed in the same clothing they wore in the Apr. 10, 2017, surveillance videos.

In May 2017, Chief was arrested after an incident in Whitehorse.

A pair of Velcro-strap running shoes were seized from him. Those shoes were forensically examined and yielded both Chief’s DNA in several locations on the shoes, and, in the interior of the right shoe, some small red flakes visually consistent with dried blood.

Forensic DNA analysis of these flakes matched to the known DNA from Carlick and was also consistent with the DNA profile developed from bloodstained sock footprints at the crime scene.

On May 28, 2018, Chief was charged with two April 10, 2017, homicides.

The court records indicate Chief spoke to duty counsel concerning the homicide charges. He was then placed in an RCMP holding cell with an undercover police officer.

Later, Chief participated voluntarily in a lengthy interview.

“In the course of the five-hour, 40-minute interview, Chief initially denied his involvement in the homicides; however, his version of events changed as he was confronted with some of the evidence against him, including the surveillance videos showing him with the victims on Apr. 10th, 2017,” the statement said.

Chief ultimately confessed that he had been present at MacIntosh’s residence with the victims on April 10, 2017, and that they had all been drinking alcohol together.

“He said that he ended up arguing with MacIntosh about their on-again-off­ again relationship,” the statement said.

“He said that following two days of drinking alcohol excessively with MacIntosh, he was grossly intoxicated at that time and that he ‘blacked out’ during the killings, later waking up inside the home, seeing the bodies, and leaving.

“Immediately after the formal interview, Chief was returned to the holding cell with the undercover officer. Chief immediately and tearfully told the undercover officer that he had confessed the homicides to the police,” the statement added.

“Chief reiterated to the undercover officer that he did not plan to kill the victims and said that he did not in fact recall many details of the homicides because he was blacked-out due to alcohol.”

The statement of facts says as part of his guilty plea, Chief will be declared a long-term offender. He is not challenging that designation.