Calgary cold case trial set for March 2025

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Police tape is shown at a crime scene in Toronto on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey

By The Canadian Press

Posted Mar 8, 2024 2:51 pm.

A 74-year-old man from Sundre will go on trial next March in the 1976 death of a 16-year-old Metis mother from Saskatchewan.

Ronald James Edwards is charged with non-capital murder, which was an offence in the Criminal Code at the time of Pauline Brazeau’s death.

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Brazeau re-located to Calgary with her infant daughter in the fall of 1975 and her body was found west of the city hours after she was seen leaving a restaurant.

Edwards was arrested as a part of a cold-case investigation using genetic genealogy.

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