‘Pools of blood:’ Calgary triple-murder trial hears from dead boy’s mother
CALGARY — The mother of a five-year-old boy testified Monday that she found blood everywhere — but no bodies — when she arrived at her parents’ home to pick up her son after a sleepover.
“I saw pools of blood and hand marks of blood on the wall in front of me, so I thought something was really wrong here. Something has happened here. Something really bad has happened here,” Jennifer O’Brien testified at the first-degree murder trial of Douglas Garland.
Garland, 56, was charged after the disappearance of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and their grandson Nathan from the couple’s Calgary home on June 30, 2014.
O’Brien said she had been helping her mother and stepfather with an estate sale. She was planning to stay the night, but her one-year-old son wouldn’t settle down, so she went home for the night. Nathan stayed behind with his grandparents.