A 73 year old man has been arrested in connection to a 47 year-old homicide in Calgary, where a 16-year-old Metis girl originally from Saskatchewan was killed. Pauline Brazeau 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. A news release from Alberta RCMP reports that on Tuesday, 73-year-old Ronald James Edwards of Sundre, Alberta was arrested and charged with murder as it was defined in the Criminal Code in 1976. At that time it could be capital or non-capital. He was charged with non-capital murder and has been remanded into custody with his next court appearance on November 14th.