A three-week trial has been scheduled for next year for an Alberta man accused of killing a teenage girl in 1976. A crest on the Calgary Courts Centre is pictured in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
CALGARY – A three-week trial has been scheduled for next year in Calgary for an Alberta man accused of killing a teenage girl in 1976.
Ronald James Edwards, 74, of Sundre, Alta., is set to appear before a judge and jury on March 3, 2025.
Edwards is charged with non-capital murder _ an offence in the Criminal Code at the time of Pauline Brazeau’s death.
Brazeau, a 16-year-old Metis mother from Saskatchewan, had relocated to Calgary with her infant daughter in the fall of 1975.
She was last seen leaving a restaurant one morning in January 1976, and her body was found hours later west of the city.
Edwards was arrested as a result of an RCMP historical homicide unit and Calgary cold-case investigation using genetic genealogy.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2024.
