Family of Calgary couple and their five-year-old grandson still feeling pain
CALGARY — Family members of a couple and their grandson who disappeared two years ago say they are bracing themselves as a suspect’s murder trial is set to begin.
Douglas Garland, 56, was arrested after Alvin and Kathy Liknes and five-year-old Nathan O’Brien disappeared in Calgary in June 2014.
He faces three counts of first-degree murder in a five-week trial that is to begin Monday.
“It has been 2 1/2 years since Nathan, Alvin and Kathy were taken from us. Our pain has not lessened during this time,” reads the statement from Rod and Jennifer O’Brien and other family members.