CANADA Canada - Pauline Elizabeth BRAZEAU, 16, sexually assaulted & stabbed, Calgary, Alberta, 9 Jan 1976

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Pauline Elizabeth BRAZEAU - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
''Cold Case Files
Name : Pauline Elizabeth BRAZEAU

Location : Cochrane, Alberta

Details : Pauline Elizabeth BRAZEAU was a 16 year-old single parent of a 9 month-old daughter when she was found murdered west of Calgary on January 9th, 1976. She moved to Calgary from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, in December 1975.

On the evening of 1976 January 8th, Pauline Elizabeth BRAZEAU was socializing with friends at her aunt’s residence at 17th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta. Pauline had consumed a considerable amount of alcohol during the evening. She and a friend visited a nearby pizza restaurant around 2:30 A.M. on 1976 January 9. At the restaurant, they ate a pizza, then departed the restaurant to go home. Pauline returned alone to the restaurant about 15 minutes later to retrieve a pair of gloves she felt she may have left behind. Pauline could not find her gloves and left the restaurant shortly thereafter.

The partially clothed body of Pauline BRAZEAU was found approximately 5 hours later at 8:30 A.M. on the 9th of January 1976 on the Jumping Pound Forestry Road located approximately 22 miles southwest of Cochrane, Alberta. Pauline died as a result of stab wounds.

If you have any information about this case, please contact "K" (AB) Division, Serious Crimes Branch South Airdrie at 403-420-4900 or Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477.''

 

[ttcRider]

Solved!! 73 yr old Ronald James Edwards has been charged.

Cochrane RCMP lay charges in 46-year-old homicide

Cochrane RCMP say charges have been laid in a homicide case that has taken 46 years to solve.

calgary.ctvnews.ca

 

[BlueJayBirdie]

73-year-old Alberta man charged with murder of Indigenous woman in 1975

 

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73-year-old Alberta man charged with murder of Indigenous woman in 1975

Thanks, from link..
''Brazeau’s case was reopened in 2021 after the RCMP and Calgary police partnered to “reanalyze historical homicide investigations from the Calgary area that date back to the 1970s,” a statement by the RCMP read.

In 2022, the RCMP sought help from Othram Inc., a private lab in the United States. Meanwhile, CPS worked with two dedicated genealogists from Convergence Investigative Genetic Genealogy. A year later, the team singled out Edwards as a suspect.''

''Calgary police Supt. Ryan Ayliffe said advances in technology made the arrest possible.''

 

[Greggsmomanddad]

Love hearing these cases. Criminals beware they can be coming for you ANYTIME!!!!

 

[othram]

A little late but here is our story:

After 47 years, Pauline Breazeau’s Killer is Identified

The Alberta RCMP Leverages Othram's Genetic Testing Platform to Solve the 1976 Murder of Pauline Brazeau

dnasolves.com

 

[BlueJayBirdie]

This is Pauline Brazeau's profile on CBC's project profiling cases of MMIWG. It might date back to 2014 or 2015. Incredible that such an older case had an arrest. Hope the guy pleads guilty, spare Brazeau's family the ordeal of a trial

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/pauline-elizabeth-brazeau

 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ronald-james-edwards-pauline-brazeau-murder-charge-1.7027679

''The man recently arrested for the 1976 murder of a Calgary teenager is due to make his first court appearance Tuesday.

Ronald James Edwards, 72, was charged last week with the historical homicide of Pauline Brazeau, 16, who was found stabbed to death in 1976.''

 

[Oakie]

Is there a picture of the arrestee?

 

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Age of cold case murder delaying court proceedings, says accused's lawyer

A possible plea from Ronald James Edwards over the 1976 murder of Pauline Brazeau was adjourned until Jan. 9 at Cochrane court.

calgaryherald.com

Dec 05, 2023 rbbm
''The sheer age of a nearly five-decade-old Calgary murder case is delaying its progress in court, the accused’s lawyer said Tuesday.

For the third time, a possible plea from Ronald James Edwards was adjourned Tuesday, this time until Jan. 9 at Cochrane.''
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''Milczarek noted his client was convicted in Calgary of attempted murder and sexual-assault dating back to 1989 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, which he unsuccessfully appealed.

But he said in the man’s 74 years, it’s his only conviction, adding he’ll explore contesting on constitutional grounds the DNA evidence against Edwards.

“I look forward to seeing what authorization they have in place to get that,” said Milczarek.''

Ronald James edwards

Clipping found in Star-Phoenix published in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on 1/29/1990. Ronald James edwards

www.newspapers.com

Star-Phoenix​

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • Mon, Jan 29, 1990Page 10

 

[BlueJayBirdie]

Preliminary hearing waived for Sundre man, 74, charged in 1976 death of teen

"The defence for a Sundre man accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl in 1976 has consented to waive his right to a preliminary hearing, paving the way for a trial.

Ronald James Edwards, 74, is due to next appear in Court of King’s Bench on March 8."

 

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https://www.cjwwradio.com/2024/03/08/trial-date-set-in-cold-case-homicide-of-saskatchewan-teen/

By Vanese M. Ferguson Mar 8, 2024
'An Alberta man is going to trial next year on a charge of non-capital murder in the death of a teen from Saskatchewan. That is how the charge was defined in the Criminal Code at the time of the death of Pauline Brazeau.'

 

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'I was a drunken young man': Cold case killer admits to fatally stabbing teen girl 49 years ago

A 49-year-old cold case homicide was put to rest inside a Calgary courtroom on Monday with both the killer and his teenage victim's daughter — who was just seven months old at the time of her mother's death — speaking publicly for the first time since murder charges were announced. Originally...

ca.news.yahoo.com

March 3 2025
''A 49-year-old cold case homicide was put to rest inside a Calgary courtroom on Monday with both the killer and his teenage victim's daughter — who was just seven months old at the time of her mother's death — speaking publicly for the first time since murder charges were announced.

Originally charged with murder, Ronald James Edwards, now 75 years old, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of Pauline Brazeau, a 16-year-old who was killed in 1976.''

''By the mid-1990s, police had a DNA profile of their suspect based on a semen swab taken from Brazeau's body after her death. In 2022, investigators used IGG to find relatives of the killer, identifying Edwards as their suspect.''

 

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After 47 years, Pauline Breazeau’s Killer is Identified

The Alberta RCMP Leverages Othram's Genetic Testing Platform to Solve the 1976 Murder of Pauline Brazeau

dnasolves.com

''Updates​

Suspect in the Murder of 16-Year-Old Pauline Brazeau Pleads Guilty​

March 12​

Ronald James Edwards has pled guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter in connection with the Jan. 9, 1976, death of Brazeau, whom he repeatedly stabbed before leaving her to die by a rural road west of the city.''

Sundre man pleads guilty to manslaughter in connection with 1970s death of Calgary teen

Sundre resident Ronald James Edwards pleads guilty to manslaughter in 1976 death of Calgary teen Pauline Brazeau.

calgaryherald.com

''Reading from a statement of agreed facts, Bigg detailed the events leading to Brazeau’s death just a few weeks after she had moved to Calgary from Yorkton, Sask., with her infant daughter, Tracy.

Bigg said Brazeau was employed at Peppe’s Ristorante on 17th Avenue S.W. and had gone there around 3 a.m. on the day of her death to unsuccessfully look for a pair of lost gloves.
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“Pauline was last seen alive leaving through the front door of Peppe’s,” the prosecutor said.
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About five hours later, two hunters discovered her frozen body on Jumping Pound Road, about 35 kilometres south of Cochrane.''

 

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Mar 25, 2025

https://rdnewsnow.com/2025/03/25/sundre-man-sentenced-in-calgary-cold-case-death/

''A Sundre, AB, man charged with non-capital murder in connection to a 48-year-old cold case has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail.

Ronald James Edwards, 75, was sentenced in Calgary Court of King’s Bench on March 3, 2025. He was given pre-trial credit of 724 days, however, leaving him with four years and five months left to serve, in addition to a five-year weapons prohibition.

Edwards was convicted on one count of manslaughter, with the court recommending his sentence be served at Bowden Institution.

He was previously scheduled for a jury trial in Calgary Court of King’s Bench from June 3-20, 2025.''