The daughter's picture (a school photo) was on several news websites yesterday, but has been removed, along with her name. A normal, nice looking young girl.
If this is shaping up to be what it appears, expect her 23 year old boyfriend to go away for long time but the daughter to get very little time, even if she was intricately involved.
I lived in Medicine Hat for 18 years, and then returned in summers when off from school for another 6 years. Murders don't happen too often there, but when they do, they're doozies.
This most recent one is just around the corner from my parents' house.
Anyone remember the Koroluk (sp?) murder in Medicine Hat about 1993? Basically, 3 high school students killed one of their mothers in a bid to get some insurance money. Some very grisly facts about the method of the killing and the manner in which they tried to dispose of the body came out during the proceedings. As I recall, the 3 kids couldn't afford gas money to go very far so had to dump the body in plain view in a ditch just outside the city. And after the crime, they attended a high school party and told some "friends" what they had done. One of them was arrested while sitting in a high school class the Monday morning after the murder (and coincidentally while sitting next to my brother).
I think the son served 3 years, the main "culprit" about 7 and the other friend just a year or 2. Tragic all around, and no where near the amount of time they should have had to serve.
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