Killer of missing Alberta seniors loses appeal of manslaughter convictions
Posted May 17, 2019 11:55 am.
Last Updated May 17, 2019 12:02 pm.
EDMONTON – An appeal from the killer of two Edmonton-area seniors has been dismissed.
Travis Vader asked the Alberta Court of Appeal for a new trial or for his manslaughter charges to be stayed.
Vader was sentenced in 2017 to life in prison for the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, who vanished in 2010 while setting out on a camping trip.
His lawyers argued the trial judge should have dismissed his case because it took so long to work its way through the court system.
The lawyers also said the judge made errors and showed bias when he substituted the lesser offence of manslaughter for two second-degree murder verdicts.
Three Appeal judges agreed that a reasonable person would think Vader was treated fairly at trial.
