A preliminary hearing was scheduled to get underway Monday for Greg Fertuck who is charged with First Degree Murder in the death of his estranged wife.

Saskatchewan RCMP arrested Sheree Fertuck’s husband last June and charged him with first degree murder and indignity to human remains.

Fertuck was 51 when she went missing in December of 2016, after having last been seen leaving her family’s farm east of Kenaston. Her semi truck was found at a nearby gravel pit.

At the time Greg Fertuck was charged, Superintendent Derek Williams, officer in charge of the Saskatchewan RCMP major crime program said although it is unusual, charges can be laid without a body if there is believed to be enough evidence uncovered in the investigation.

In July last year, RCMP made a public plea for tips about a dark coloured tarp-like polyethylene material in the search for Sheree Fertuck. They were also looking for eye glasses, grey sweat pants, a grey sweater, white running shoes. They were asking those who lived in the approximate 400 square kilometre area to keep an eye for anything connected to the remains of Sheree Fertuck.