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Court

Court update: double murder conviction, guilty please in abduction and shooting incidents

Jul 19, 2019 | 12:00 PM

Newsrooms in Kitchener, Ontario say a former Valleyview resident has been found guilty of first degree murder after the death of a mother and daughter.

CTV News, the Waterloo Region Record and kitchenernow.com say Glenn Kraemer Bauman was convicted by a jury July 12.

He was charged with first degree murder in the deaths of 47-year-old Linda Daniel and her 13-year-old daughter Cheyenne. They were murdered in July of 2011 and their bodies burned. Bauman and Daniel were common-law spouses.

Bauman was living and working in Valleyview when he was arrested in August of 2016 after an undercover operation.

A date for sentencing is not known at this time.

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Sentence in Grande Prairie abduction case

Alberta Justice says one of two men charged after a break-in, assault, and abduction led to a police pursuit last summer has been handed a 54-month jail sentence.

Kendall Kruger of Clairmont admitted to charges of break and enter to commit a robbery and fail to stop for police July 3 in Grande Prairie court. Seven other charges, kidnapping, criminal harrassment and weapons counts among them, were withdrawn.

Kruger will be given 18-months credit for time already spent in custody, leaving three years to serve.

He was charged after an incident on July 3 last year. RCMP said at the time that they got a call just before 4 a.m. about a break and enter taking place at 72 Avenue and Poplar Drive.

Two men went into the home, assaulted another person, forced them into a vehicle, and fled.

Mounties chased one of the suspect vehicles for almost an hour until it hit the ditch on Township Road 705 south of Crooked Creek. Krueger was arrested at the scene with help from Police Dog Services.

The person abducted was not injured.

A second suspect, Andrew Schurman of Grande Prairie, is to have a preliminary hearing on kidnapping and other charges.

Shooting leads to guilty plea

Alberta Justice says a Grande Prairie man charged after an incident where another man was shot during a home invasion in June of last year has pleaded guilty to two charges.

Dustin MacAuley admitted to aggravated assault and housebreaking to commit theft counts July 15 in Grande Prairie court. Charges of discharging a firearm with intent, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and wearing a disguise with intent were withdrawn.

He will be sentenced October 16.

Beaverlodge RCMP said at the time they were called to a home at Horse Lake just after midnight June 9, 2018 to what they describe as “a violent home invasion.”

One man had been taken to hospital after suffering a gunshot wound.