Raymond Maher

This time, Wilbert has a new lawyer.

The original defense lawyer didn't make much headway, and his family couldn't afford to hire someone else, but fortunately, someone else stepped in to represent him, Raymond Mahau.

He's only been practicing law for a few years, but he has a reputation as a man with a big heart who took on cases of those less fortunate who couldn't afford to pay.

To the Coffin family, he seems quite capable.

But the P38 pistol that Wilbert also brought home, the pistol that generated so much suspicion during the investigation, barely featured in the prosecution's case at trial.

They were now focused on the other firearm, the Marlin rifle Wilbert said he'd borrowed from his friend and accidentally left at his parents' place, the rifle he said he retrieved in the weeks after the hunters disappeared and stashed away at his new campsite because he'd lost his hunting license, the rifle that Sergeant Dorion could not find.

It was technically still missing, but the prosecution was relying on a new witness who'd come forward in the lead-up to the trial, identifying himself as a former employee of Wilbert's defense lawyer, Raymond Maher.

This witness claimed that he had accompanied Maher to Wilbert's campsite to recover the missing rifle, and his timeline suggested that this happened before Sergeant Doyon arrived to search for it.