Douglas Garland’s previous life not revealed to triple-murder jury
CALGARY — An Alberta man waiting for a jury’s verdict lived under an assumed name and did time for drug trafficking years before facing first-degree murder charges in the deaths of a couple and their grandson.
Douglas Garland, 57, was the oldest of three children born to Archie and Doreen Garland and grew up on a small farm near Airdrie, Alta., north of Calgary.
Doreen Garland told her son’s trial that he attended Camrose Lutheran College where he took a bachelor of science before switching to the University of Alberta.
“He was admitted into first-year medicine at the University of Alberta. He attended for a few months there and seemed to have had kind of a breakdown and so he left the university,” she testified.