Also from same article above:
"In the spring of 2015, life was looking good for Jessica Newman. She had begun attending a gym a few months earlier and, having conquered some big personal obstacles, was springing back to life. “She was the healthiest I’d seen her,” says her close friend of several years, Tara Saban. Over a period of several months, Saban, a social worker, saw the 24-year-old go from someone down on herself to “this strong, incredibly independent young woman.”
The mother of three young children was even more upbeat in the days leading up to March 11, 2015, the date set for a custody hearing between her and Kevin Rubletz, the father of her youngest child.
At that hearing, Newman anticipated an agreement that would see the estranged partners split their parental time 50/50. She and Saban talked on the phone a few days before the hearing, the two excitedly discussing a celebration weekend to mark the expected outcome.
“We were looking for a hotel with a pool and a slide,” Saban, who lived in Ponoka, told Crown prosecutor Shane Parker on Monday morning. “We were making plans for the weekend after.”
The celebration would never happen. Sometime after the end of her work shift on March 10, Newman was savagely attacked. Nearly two months later — two months that included several nights of sub-zero temperatures — her decomposed body was found in a ditch north of the city. The medical examiner would count no less than 75 stab wounds on the upper regions of her petite body."
