Jury finds man guilty of first-degree murder in deaths of woman and her daughter
CALGARY — Tearful loved ones stood and applauded after a jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of a Calgary woman and her five-year-old daughter.
Edward Downey, 48, had testified he didn’t kill Sara Baillie and Taliyah Marsman in July 2016.
“Now, I can go home and bury Sara and Taliyah’s ashes and forever let them rest in peace,” Baillie’s mother, Janet Fredette, said after Wednesday’s verdict.
“Our hope is that in time and little by little, this powerful love we feel for the girls will gradually take up more and more space in our minds each and every day, that pictures and sounds of the happier times will settle on us and drive out the darkness that has become part of our daily lives.”