Sex offender charged with 2nd-degree murder in deaths of Hinton mother, toddler: RCMP
CBC
A convicted sex offender has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of a 24-year-old Hinton woman and her 16-month-old toddler, RCMP say.
Robert Keith Major, 53, has also been charged with one count of indignity to human remains, Alberta RCMP said in a news release on Saturday.
Mounties in Hinton were investigating the double homicide after a report was filed Thursday evening about the missing woman and her child.
The bodies of both were later found in the Hinton area, police said Friday.
The town is located about 285 kilometres west of Edmonton.
RCMP said Major, who was arrested Friday, lived in the same apartment complex as the woman and her child.
No other connection has been identified between the victims and Major, and police are not seeking any other suspects in the case.
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