Crown expects Red Deer man to enter guilty pleas in historical murder cases
Gordon Alfred Rogers is expected to plead guilty to murder in September.
Rogers, a resident of Red Deer, was arrested and placed in custody in March of 2016.
He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jeanette Chief and Violet Heathen, both of whom were residents of Onion Lake Cree Nation, north of Lloydminster.
The body of Chief, 48, was found near Hillmond, Sask, in June 2007, four days after she was last seen in Lloydminster. Heathen, who was 49, was last seen in the same city in May 2009. Her remains were found that December near the village of Kitscoty, Alta.