by David Fleischer

Mr. Little, 38, is accused of killing Paula Menendez, 34, and his estranged wife, Julie Crocker, 33. But as the Crown laid out its theory of what happened on Feb. 12, 2007 - for the first time in the six-week trial - Mr. Little repeatedly said, "No, that's not true," and variations thereof in a flat, quiet, monotone.

Mr. Scott suggested he staged "a ridiculous, fake murder-suicide".

Despite Mr. Little's repeated protestations, the Crown suggested the accused had gone to Paula Menendez's house on Haliburton Avenue in Etobicoke, strangled her there and put a scarf on top of the rope to hide it during transportation to his Markham home.

Barely able to lift her, he hung her so she was suspended almost like a hammock from her head and feet in the garage.

When he cut her down later, he pulled her into his car so he would have an excuse if police found Ms Menendez's DNA there, Mr. Scott said.

"That was part of the plan."

"There was no plan, sir," Mr. Little retorted flatly.

He snuck upstairs, cut his wife's throat and then returned to his apartment in Toronto to change clothes and shower, Mr. Scott suggested.

At 3:20 a.m., he would return to the house, bump into Ms Menendez while backing his car into the garage and call 911.

"This is the final act of a long play," Mr. Scott said.

Displaying a photo of Ms Menendez partying with friends the day before her death he said, "This is not the woman who killed Julie Crocker. You did."

The beginning of the 911 call was played in court and Mr. Little was forced to admit it should have taken him 10 seconds or less to reach his wife, while it took 44 seconds on the phone recording.

Despite insisting he was in a rush to see if his wife and daughters were OK, Mr. Little removed his shoes as he entered the house, and they were found neatly, facing the front door.

"I kicked them off," he offered.

Mr. Scott was similarly baffled as to how Mr. Little removed his coat, found at the bottom of the stairs, while talking on the phone.

Mr. Little said it was cumbersome so he dropped his arms and it fell off.

On the 911 call, Mr. Little says "there is blood all over the place" before reaching his wife, something he attributed to blood on his hands and cellphone.

Why was there no blood on his face when he claimed he gave his wife CPR?

"I wiped my face many times with tears," he said.

Mr. Scott also questioned why he told the operator his wife was dead before checking on her and then went back to check on his children, whom he had already seen were safe, before asking the operator to tell him how to do CPR on his wife.

"I didn't think (she was alive), but I had to try," Mr. Little said.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Scott assailed Mr. Little's explanations of how and why he called the home that night.

"These are all lies. You called at 3 a.m. .... to create a record to make yourself look innocent," Mr. Scott said about Mr. Little's cellphone records the night of the killings.

Mr. Little made several calls to the house en route to where he would discover the two dead women.

He insisted it was normal for him to call Ms Crocker, alerting her that he was stopping over in the middle of the night.

But he did not call her from the Markham gas station where he filled up and obtained a car wash at 2 a.m.

Mr. Little said he awoke at 1:30 a.m. and decided to allay a Montreal client's problems in person. He needed to go from his Graydon Hall apartment in North York to the Markham home to get proper business attire.

After filling up, he realized he forgot his phone charger at home and returned there, he testified. When he began heading north at 3 a.m., a series of calls to Ms Crocker's cellphone ensued.

Mr. Scott also questioned Mr. Little's behaviour at the gas station, as seen on video footage, where he filled up without putting on his coat in the middle of a February night. At the same time, he kept his gloves on even when getting money out of his jeans pocket.

Was it because your nails were bloody, Mr. Scott asked?

"No," Mr. Little said. "It was cold."

Ms Crocker and Ms Menendez had only met once and Ms Crocker had begun dating Ms Menendez's estranged husband Rick Ralph in late 2006.

Mr. Ralph sat in the public gallery today, his first time at the trial outside his own testimony.

At one point Mr. Little said he had also begun dating several women, although his therapist offered no testimony he mentioned it. When challenged by Mr. Scott to offer their names he said, "Karen ... or Carrie."

"These real women?" Mr. Scott asked.

He then assailed Mr. Little about Google searches for Ms Menendez's home address on Haliburton two days before the killings, something he obtained from an envelope sent to Mr. Ralph.

Mr. Little told jurors he was trying to find out about what he presumed was an apartment building, although there was no unit number on Mr. Ralph's envelope and had no interest in the maps showing where the house was.

"That wasn't the information I was looking for," he said several times.

"Well, sir, I'm going to suggest it was exactly what you were looking for and that's why your search came to an end," Mr. Scott said.

Mr. Little then said he uses Yahoo, not Google to find driving directions, leading to Mr. Scott questioning if he couldn't find the house simply based on the map he'd seen.

"With driving directions, sure," Mr. Little said.

In recalling his movements that night, Mr. Little seemed to stumble at one point saying, "I went to H...," before catching himself and saying "Graydon Hall,".

At times Mr. Little's memory seemed selective. He could not remember what he did after leaving work the Friday before the killings, but remembered he ordered pizza.

The Crown is expected to finish its cross-examination tomorrow.