Ronald James Edwards, a 73-year-old man, has been charged in connection with a decades-old homicide in Calgary. The victim, Pauline Brazeau, was a 16-year-old Métis girl.
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Her body was found stabbed to death in 1976 near Cochrane, west of the city. Edwards’ arrest this week is not his first interaction with the justice system.
In September 1989, when he was 39 years old, Edwards was charged with attempted murder, sexual assault with a weapon, and aggravated sexual assault of an 18-year-old sex trade worker.
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On Sept. 9, 1989, Edwards brought the teenager to his home, where he sexually assaulted and attacked her with a large hunting knife, according to a story published in the Calgary Herald on Dec. 21, 1989.
The southern Alberta man is now being charged with murder in the death of the teenager Pauline Brazeau. In 1975, she and her older sister moved to Calgary from Saskatchewan. Brazeau was a single mother to an infant at the time.
Months after the move, on Jan. 8, 1976, Brazeau was last seen at a pizza shop on 17th Avenue S.W. The recent breakthrough in the cold case came through DNA technology and investigative genetic genealogy. Edwards is now due to appear in court in Calgary.
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