An Alberta man is going to trial next year on a charge of non-capital murder in the death of a teen from Saskatchewan. That is how the charge was defined in the Criminal Code at the time of the death of Pauline Brazeau. She was killed nearly a half century ago and Ronald Edwards,73-years-old, will go to trial in March in Calgary.

The16-year-old Metis girl grew up in Yorkton. She and her infant daughter relocated to Calgary in the fall of 1975. A few months later, on January 9th of 1976, she was last seen leaving a restaurant around 3 in the morning and a few hours later, her body was discovered outside of the city, in Cochrane RCMP jurisdiction.

In 2021, the Alberta RCMP’s Historical Homicide Unit partnered with the Calgary Police Service’s Cold Case Homicide Unit to re-analyze investigations dating back to the 1970s, because of the advancements in DNA technology.