Deceased/Not Found Canada - Alvin, 66, & Kathy Liknes, 53, Nathan O'Brien, 5, Calgary, 30 Jun 2014 - #21

[JadeSLeuth]

Still the confusion around whether A&K were moving to northern Alberta or Mexico. I wonder if one was a false trail the Liknes' laid specifically for Crazy Garland... Did Alvin know how whacked out and bitter G was?

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 1m1 minute ago
It was bittersweet for Jennifer, her parents planning to move to northern Alberta. Shut down the estate sale at 4 o'clock that day. #garland

 

[skibaboo]

Pardon my interruption. I did not follow as closely as others after the fact. Need clarification. I assumed as others they were killed in the home. They were taken to the farm and tortured. Dear Gawd!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who took the pics? Was it an innocent ariel shot LE found?????

Shot by a mapping plane. Google? http://gizmodo.com/5916290/google-has-its-own-fleet-of-airplanes-to-map-the-world-in-3d

 

[LoisLane]

Still the confusion around whether A&K were moving to northern Alberta or Mexico. I wonder if one was a false trail the Liknes' laid specifically for Crazy Garland... Did Alvin know how whacked out and bitter G was?

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 1m1 minute ago
It was bittersweet for Jennifer, her parents planning to move to northern Alberta. Shut down the estate sale at 4 o'clock that day. #garland

I think it was both. Mexico was for winter but Evansburg would be home base.

 

[LoisLane]

There was also the aerial footage by the family friend out of Grande Prairie. I wonder if that was done earlier than what was reported originally.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...help-from-high-tech-gear-helicopter-1.2713772

 

[JadeSLeuth]

There was also the aerial footage by the family friend out of Grande Prairie. I wonder if that was done earlier than what was reported originally.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...help-from-high-tech-gear-helicopter-1.2713772

I thought of that too. Could be!

 

[skibaboo]

Court is now on lunch break. These are the mornings tweets. I'll start anew after lunch

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 49s50 seconds ago
Lunch break in #Garland trial now until 2pm

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
#Garland trial hears this whole time, Jennifer's 1-year-old son Max was on her hip

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Jennifer on phone call to husband: "I said my family's been murdered and he's taken the bodies." Then called 911

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 12s12 seconds ago
#Garland trial: Throughout the whole house, it was just like a bloody scene, says Jennifer. Pools of blood on the bed, wall, kitchen

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
"Something really bad has happened here," Jennifer says she thought.

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
#Garland trial moving on to next morning. Back at the home "I immediately saw pools of blood and hand marks of blood," says Jennifer

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
#Garland trial hears Nathan, 5, brought superman cape with him to grandparents. Grandma had bought him costume w/ muscles. The boy loved it

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 39s39 seconds ago
#Garland trial hears around 11pm, Jennifer's 1-year-old was fussing so she left w/ him. Intended to return to get Nathan in morning

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 18s19 seconds ago
Jennifer #Garland trial testimony: sleepover Nathan's idea. Nathan wore his female cousin's fleecy pink PJs. Jennifer giggles at this detail

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 7s7 seconds ago
Estate sale "hard" for Jennifer (mom/stepdad leaving town). "Proud" grandpa, Alvin took Nathan to playground, she testifies @ #Garland trial

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
Jennifer testifies at #Garland trial that on June 29, 2014, Nathan, 5, chose to visit his grandma instead of going to the zoo

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
"He was just truly a kind, loving, happy, happy boy," says Jennifer of her son, Nathan O'Brien, 5. #Garland accused of murdering her son

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 3m3 minutes ago
"My mom, I would consider her my best friend. She helped me raise my kids," Jennifer testifies at #Garland trial w/ voice shaking

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 4m4 minutes ago
Jennifer testifies she did not know Douglas #Garland or his parents (despite family connection). Had never been to his property in Airdrie

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 6m6 minutes ago
Jennifer testifies at #Garland trial that she spoke with her mother daily. Alvin and her mother had together since she was 16-years-old

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 7m7 minutes ago
Crown questions start now. Prosecutor Vicki Faulkner doing the questioning. Kathy was Jen's mom, Alvin her stepdad, Nathan her son. #Garland

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 9m9 minutes ago
Jennifer O'Brien stands in witness box in plumb dress. Being sworn in now in #Garland trial

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 10m10 minutes ago
Jury back in the room. Crown about to call 1st witness in #Garland trial - Jennifer O'Brien, Nathan's mother

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 8m8 minutes ago
Douglas #garland planned the murders methodically, says Crown in her conclusion of opening statement.

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 8m8 minutes ago
"this is not like the movies," Crown tells jury. "what you will hear will not always be easy to hear." #garland

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
CROWN: Mapping plane flew over property on July 1/2 photos show 3 bodies. Alvin & Kathy facedown. Small figure in grass curled up. - (OMG)

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
CROWN: #Garland was "obsessive researcher" on ways to kill, weapons to kill with, autopsy tools. Research found on hard drive in his home

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
CROWN: Evidence is found "all over the property." DNA from missing family on a saw, meat hooks. In burn barrel: bones and a tiny tooth

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
CROWN: Police begin searching #Garland farm. First they find bag w/ handcuffs, a dagger, leather baton

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
CROWN: #Garland sister (married to Alvin Liknes son, Allen) recognized green truck police had seen on Liknes' street night they disappeared

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
CROWN: Police found blood spattered on walls and in thick pools on the carpets. "They were gone and all that was left was blood."#garland

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
CROWN: #Garland enacted "a plan that stopped all footprints of life for Alvin, Katherine and Nathan"

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 3m3 minutes ago
"She didn't say goodbye to her mom, she didn't say goodbye to Alvin and she didn't say goodbye to Nathan," says Crown at #Garland trial

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 3m3 minutes ago
CROWN: After estate sale, Jennifer O'Brien and 2 of her sons stayed the night but youngest woke up so she left

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 4m4 minutes ago
CROWN: #Garland kept track of Alvin Liknes through internet searches. Learned they were moving. Decided to act on grudge

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 18s19 seconds ago
CROWN: Grudge was "all about a patent" for a pump that #Garland did some work on. It never really made any money, never made anyone famous

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 29s29 seconds ago
Crown: Three victims were "violently removed from their beds, taken to the #Garland farm and killed." Their bodies burned in a burn barrel.

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 31s32 seconds ago
"This trial is about a petty grudge ... a grudge that lasted for years" says Crown.

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 59s60 seconds ago
sorry, judge said "even" disturbing, not or, to #Garland jurors

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 1m1 minute ago
Judge says counselling will be available to jurors during or after #garland trial

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 2m2 minutes ago
"Some or all of what you about to hear ... may be emotionally distressing or disturbing" says judge to #Garland jurors

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 6m6 minutes ago
Jennifer has earlier said her mom Kathy was her best friend. #garland

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 7m7 minutes ago
Alvin Liknes was Jennifer's stepfather, the only father she had ever known. #garland

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 8m8 minutes ago
Kathy and Alvin Liknes were preparing to retire & be snowbirds in Mexico at the time of their deaths in 2014. #garland

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Gates reminds jurors #Garland is presumed innocent. Burden is on Crown to prove beyond reasonable doubt if he is to be found guilty

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 3m3 minutes ago
Gates does not want jurors going in and out of courthouse through public entrance. Has made special arrangements to use secure entrance

https://twitter.com/CBCMeg?lang=en
https://twitter.com/ValFortney

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
Gates welcomes media to #Garland trial but asks jurors be left alone

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Gates: Media has plays important in public understanding. Our democracy is strengthened by media attn. I urge you to see it as positive

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
Gates tell #Garland trial jurors to ignore media reports. Media coverage is not evidence he says

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
If you have heard anything about this case, "banish it from your minds," Gates tells jurors. Decide case only on the evidence

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 25s25 seconds ago
QB Justice David Gates giving opening instructions to jury: We are now a court of 15 judges; the 14 of you and me

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 1m1 minute ago
Two of 16 jurors dismissed in #Garland trial. 14 will hear evidence. If still 14 at end of trial, 2 dismissed b/c max 12 can deliberate

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 23s24 seconds ago
Jurors now swearing to try #Garland and arrive at verdict according to evidence

Meghan GrantVerified account ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Douglas #garland is read all charges -- 3x 1st degree murder. Says he understands the charges and says "not guilty" when asked for plea

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Court of Queen's Bench Justice David Gates is in the courtroom now, as is Douglas #garland

Meghan Grant ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Douglas #garland alleged victims last seen June 29, 2014. Kathy & Alvin Liknes and grandson Nathan O'Brien, 5

https://twitter.com/CBCMeg?lang=en

Tweets begin here

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[dogmatica]

How much worse is this going to get? Did he kill Nathan in front of his grandparents to torture them? That's my fear. This man has no mercy - no soul - pure evil. There's the answer to anybody asking why he doesn't plead guilty. Who would expect someone who slaughtered a 5 year old boy to suddenly develop a conscience?? Evil, through and through.

 

[LoisLane]

@valfortney

Correction: Jennifer and baby Max went upstairs, grandma and Nathan were on pullout bed in basement. Went up with Max at 9. #garland

11:06 AM - 16 Jan 2017
https://twitter.com/ValFortney

 

[LoisLane]

Jennifer's shoes were covered in blood, and hair, "which I think were Nathan's," so she gave them to police that day. #garland
Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney · 1m1 minute ago

"Did they wear adult diapers?" Crown asks Jennifer of her parents. #garland

https://twitter.com/ValFortney

 

[JadeSLeuth]

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 2m2 minutes ago
"Did they wear adult diapers?" Crown asks Jennifer of her parents. #garland

What....?

 

[JadeSLeuth]

Meghan GrantVerified account ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Lunch break in #Garland trial now until 2pm

 

[Tealgrove]

Meghan GrantVerified account ‏@CBCMeg 2m2 minutes ago
Lunch break in #Garland trial now until 2pm

I'm not sure I could eat lunch after hearing all this. I am just in disbelief.

 

[JadeSLeuth]

Jennifer's shoes were covered in blood, and hair, "which I think were Nathan's," so she gave them to police that day. #garland
Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney · 1m1 minute ago

"Did they wear adult diapers?" Crown asks Jennifer of her parents. #garland

https://twitter.com/ValFortney

"...which I think were Nathan's"
:tears:

 

[Oregonmama]

this is just so heartbreaking and I cant imagine what Nathan's parents are going through right now.....so sad

 

[JadeSLeuth]

JO'B is doing a fantastic job.

 

[LoisLane]

Valerie Fortney ‏@ValFortney 2m2 minutes ago
"Did they wear adult diapers?" Crown asks Jennifer of her parents. #garland

What....?

Maybe it was part of his plan to contain body fluids or to torture them and keep them away from a washroom? That's as far as I am willing to explore atm. They were too young for diapers IMO.

 

[dogmatica]

This is shaping up to be worse than our worst nightmares. I don't know how Jennifer even walks around. I work in the same building as both she and her husband. I see her now and then - beautiful woman. I admire but don't understand her strength. I saw Rod on the train about a year back - he looked like you'd expect him to look - in pain. I shouldn't be following this - it's too painful and makes me too angry, but I'm compelled to.

 

[JadeSLeuth]

Maybe it was part of his plan to contain body fluids or to torture them and keep them away from a washroom? That's as far as I am willing to explore atm. They were too young for diapers IMO.

Thought the same Lois. There's really other no reason to ask about that. Nuff said.

 

[Bravo]

This is shaping up to be worse than our worst nightmares. I don't know how Jennifer even walks around. I work in the same building as both she and her husband. I see her now and then - beautiful woman. I admire but don't understand her strength. I saw Rod on the train about a year back - he looked like you'd expect him to look - in pain. I shouldn't be following this - it's too painful and makes me too angry, but I'm compelled to.

:hug:

 

[dogmatica]

Back at ya.