By Curtis Galbraith

Goodridge trial continues in Grande Prairie today

Oct 30, 2018 | 5:30 AM

Witness testimony is set to resume Tuesday morning at the Daniel Goodridge murder trial in Grande Prairie.
 
He is facing two counts of murder, plus four other charges, after stabbings in 2015 at a Fox Creek work camp left two people dead and three others injured.
 
His mom and a former girlfriend were among those called to testify by the Crown on Day one.
 
His mom says her son seemed to be doing well in April of 2015 before she went on a nearly two-month trip to England but was not by the time she returned in June. She says she did not get a chance to talk to him as she was busy with other family things, at one point tearing up and saying she was sorry for not doing so.
 
She also told the court her son had attempted suicide four times in the years before the stabbings.
 
Goodridge’s former girlfriend testified that when they first got together in late 2014, he was sweet, kind, and caring, but by April of 2015, his behavior changed.
 
She described one incident where he was up all night, had his shirt on inside out and backward, and his pants pulled all the way up. He had taken anything that was teal like clothes, blankets, even pictures, rolled around on the floor with them and wrapped himself in them, saying he was getting power from them.
 
She added he would also disappear for days at a time to sleep in the park.
 
She and her sister also described Goodridge as wanting to be around trees and having a bunch of tree pictures in his phone.
 
Witness testimony will resume Tuesday morning.