Shannon Murrin interview, Joey Oliver sentenced to 15 years minus 4 years for time served

Shannon Murrin, the man named in Newfoundland Supreme Court as the shooter in a notorious double slaying of Dale Worthman and Kimberly Lockyer outside St. John's, predicted a violent end for the man accusing him of murder.

Murrin, who has never been charged in the case and insists he is innocent, told CBC News on Thursday he expects Oliver will not survive his prison sentence — while also insisting he is not threatening Oliver.

"He'll probably get killed," Murrin said.

"No one likes someone like him. When he goes to prison, there's people just can't wait to see him. And that's the way it is," said Murrin, who was identified in an agreed statement of facts presented by the Crown and defence as the man who is believed to have shot Worthman and Lockyer.

"[But] it got nothing to do with me. I don't want anybody to go hurting anybody," Murrin said.

"I would not set anything up. I do not correspond with guys in the pen and they don't call me. Through the grapevine [I hear that] they're waiting for Joey Oliver to arrive."

As for being named in public documents as the shooter, Murrin — who was found not guilty in 2000 of the slaying of B.C. schoolgirl Mindy Tran — is vowing to clear his name and seek reparations.

"That really, really pisses me off," he said in an interview.

"They're going to pay for that. I'm not letting them off with this... [There is] no evidence against me. They got me investigated now for 14 years altogether."

Murrin, meanwhile, said he believes Oliver shot Worthman and Lockyer himself. Murrin said he had only met Worthman once in passing, and didn't know Lockyer at all.

"There was no animosity between us. Joey is just looking for a way out," he said.

"I believe he owed Dale a lot of money and didn't want to pay him. He's probably telling you what happened when he says, 'This is what Shannon Murrin done,'" said Murrin.

"Sure, I was locked up in prison for five years in B.C.," he said, referring to his incarceration in the 1990s in the Mindy Tran case.

"Why didn't he come forward then if he was remorseful?... Asking for drugs in return for the body doesn't sound very remorseful to me. That sounds like a plan."

Asked how well he knew Oliver, Murrin said, "I didn't know him all that well, apparently."

Murrin has made strong comments about Oliver in the past. Just days after Oliver was charged, Murrin told CBC News, "if Shannon Murrin took the trouble to dig two graves, why wouldn't he dig three graves? I mean that's only common sense."

He added, "What, am I going to let a piece of garbage like him go around all out of it, all the time, saying things that can put me away for life? I never harmed anybody in my life with a weapon."

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• Joey Oliver
• Dale Worthman
• Kimberley Lockyer
• Shannon Murrin
• Mindy Tran
• Double Murder
• manslaughter