Search crews scour Okanagan Lake for missing 57-year-old Lake Country woman The next day, RCMP pulled Arlene’s lifeless body from the lake.Bert told police and Arlene’s mother it was an accidental drowning.
Right away, Arlene’s sisters Debbie and Wendy were suspicious.“I knew instantly that he killed her. I just screamed it, he killed her.
He killed her. I know he killed her,” Wendy said.“As soon as I heard that, I just screamed, literally screamed,” Debbie said in an interview with Global News’ The New Reality. “I said, ‘Mom, this is not an accident.’ I said, ‘He’s done something to her.’”While Arlene’s family has publicly accused her husband of murder since she died and Bert Westervelt has always maintained his innocence, he has never.