Karen Rodrigue seemed untouchable, her estranged husband Jimmy told the court.

Shortly before she was arrested by police, and subsequently charged with second degree murder in the death of Gerald Dawson, the two spent a drug dazed day together, the seven women and five men of the Yukon Supreme Court jury heard Thursday afternoon.

They were doing crack and cocaine, he said, then selling drugs around the city to get high for free.

Jimmy said he was in the midst of a four- or five-day binge when he saw Karen.

While the two have been separated for five years, they ran into each other in a local drug house, Jimmy said.

She arrived in the morning, driving a blue Chevy Lumina. This car was later identified as Dawson's missing vehicle.

Karen had also been on 'a run,' or a drug binge, Jimmy said.

When asked if it was obvious she was in relapse from her appearance and behaviour, he testified that he'd never seen her so 'high strung.'

'She just seemed like she had the attitude of being untouchable,' he said. 'It was very strange.'

Later on in the day they went back to Karen's house with another man, to get high again.

Jimmy wanted to borrow the car to go pick up and sell more drugs, he told the jury. So they made a deal he could use the car for half a gram of cocaine.

On his way out the door, Jimmy noticed there were two keys on the chain for the car.

Karen came out after him and asked for the other key, 'strongly with a very very . . . don't mess with me attitude,' he told the court.

She also specifically told him not to go and steal anything from Dawson's house, he said.

Earlier in the day, Cpl. Brian Edmonds testified that a key chain seized from Dawson's car had a key on it that opened a padlock on Dawson's property, he said.

Soon after they'd spent the day together, Jimmy said he heard about Karen's arrest .

'Lots of things went through my head,' he said. 'It'd be so easy to set me up . . . So I got pretty worried.'

He explained that his fingerprints were all over the Lumina and Karen's apartment. He's also an intravenous drug user, which means there may have been samples of his blood as well, he said.

Jimmy went to the police himself.

'So, I brought myself in and told them,' he said.

Const. Bradley Wirachowsky interviewed Karen after she was initially arrested for possession of stolen property in connection with Dawson's car, the officer told the court yesterday afternoon.

Over the course of the interview with Karen, Wirachowsky said police gained enough information to lay second degree murder charges for Dawson's death.

The interview was both video and audio taped.

The video tape of the interview was played for the court this morning.

The trial is set to continue this afternoon and next week.