Finally, the Redford family are getting closer to possible justice for their daughter and mother.
Davey Butorac, 36, was charged with Margaret Redford’s murder in 2012, six years after the mother of one was killed in Aldergrove. But since then, many delays have taken place, including jury selection in 2013.
Now, three years after Butorac was first charged, he is to make a court appearance on June 11 to fix a date for a trial. He is charged with second degree murder in connection with Redford’s death.
It has been nine difficult years since Redford’s body was found in Aldergrove’s Bertrand Creek. Her daughter made a plea for her killer to come forward and do the right thing. But the case went cold for many long years.
Then Butorac, an Aldergrove resident, was arrested and charged with murdering two other women. Both those cases went forward as a result of DNA evidence.
While he was being investigated, police found more DNA evidence linking Butorac to Redford’s murder. They charged him with second degree murder in 2012.
In 2013, her father Ed said he just wanted to get it over with.
In April, Butorac was found guilty of second degree murder for a second time by a jury, for killing Langley City sex trade worker Sheryl Korroll in 2007.
He will be sentenced for the crime in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday, Sept. 11.
He won an appeal for a new trial after being convicted in a single trial for the murder of Korroll and Abbotsford sex trade worker Gwendolyn Lawton. B.C. Court of Appeal said the two trials should had been held separately.
On June 11, he will also appear to fix a date for the second trial in the Lawton case.