Murder trial told couple and grandson killed, burned in rural area

CALGARY – A murder trial has heard that a Calgary couple and their young grandson were killed and then taken to a rural property where they were burned.

The Crown told the jury that DNA evidence from Alvin and Kathy Liknes and five-year-old Nathan O’Brien — including a small piece of burned flesh — was found on the accused’s farm.

Douglas Garland faces three charges of first-degree murder.

Crown prosecutor Vicki Faulkner said Garland was acting on a long-held petty grudge against Alvin Liknes and had been meticulously planning the killings.

She said the boy was an unintended victim.

Garland was arrested after the couple and their grandson vanished from the couple’s Calgary home in June 2014.

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