Thomas Svekla told his sister he was set up in the murders of two local prostitutes and he will eventually be found not-guilty, his double-murder trial heard Thursday.

The court heard wiretapped phone conversations Svekla had with his sister Donna Parkinson while he was in the Edmonton Remand Centre in August 2006.

Svekla said told his sister he was impressed with his lawyer Robert Shiagec and he was sure to be found not guilty.

"If things don't go my way I'll find another lawyer," he said, later adding "I'll be found not guilty on every charge, 'cause all that stuff is bulls--t charges."

He also said police were searching hard for evidence and that they "know their stuff."

On the tape, Svekla said RCMP officers started to ask questions around the northern Alberta community of High Level, where he was at the time, after Rachel Quinney was killed.

"You were found with a body but that's it," Svekla tells his sister about what Shaigec told him. "There's no evidence stating that you murdered her, that person."

He goes on to say, "Think of it as stolen property, right? You're caught with stolen property, doesn't mean you stole it, right?"

Svekla then went on to blame police and a mystery person for the discovery of a woman's body in the back of his pickup truck.

At one point, he tells Parkinson that many people in the city knew of him and his truck. 

"I was set up," he said.

He tells his sister that investigators started to associate his name with Quinney's death -- something that Svekla said destroyed his reputation and made him a lot of enemies.

Svekla says that because he was known to be a suspect, and because police were painting him as a bad character, somebody put the body of Theresa Innes in his truck.

The trial has heard that Quinney's remains were found in a field east of Edmonton by Svekla, while the body of Innes was stuffed it a hockey bag left at his sister's house in May 2006.

Svekla, 39, faces two second-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of prostitutes Rachel Quinney, 19, and Thereasa Innes, 36.

He has pleaded not guilty.

With files from David Ewasuk and the Canadian Press