On July 4, 2014, 4 days into an Amber Alert, a suspect was arrested in reference to the disappearance of Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents Alvin and Kathy Liknes.
An RCMP emergency response crew searched the farm the place Douglas Garland lived along with his mother and father.
They didn’t discover Nathan, Alvin and Kathy.
At the moment, there wasn’t sufficient proof to cost Garland with kidnapping. As an alternative, he was arrested on unrelated fraud costs.
Within the meantime, investigators bought a warrant and commenced an exhaustive search of the expansive 40-acre Garland property — one that will develop into the most important in Calgary police historical past.
A couple of days later, he was launched on bail with the situation he wouldn’t return to his mother and father’ farm because the search continued.
The 54-year-old was underneath fixed surveillance.
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Beat podcast: ‘Hunted by evil’ — Part 1
Two days later, officers watched as he drove out to his mother and father’ property.
In Half Two of the Crime Beat sequence “Hunted by Evil,” you’ll hear from the rookie officer who tracked Garland within the darkness and the forensic investigators who scoured the Garland property for months.
Greater than 1,400 displays have been seized — together with the DNA of all three victims.
Observe alongside as World Information senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt explains how a petty grudge grew right into a murderous plot and shares the disturbing proof that police uncovered.
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