A man accused of killing a Wellesley woman and her teenage daughter appeared in Kitchener court Monday.
Glenn Kraemer Bauman was arrested Friday in connection with the deaths of Linda and Cheyenne Daniel, who disappeared in July 2011. At the time, their ages were 47 and 13 respectively.
Waterloo Regional Police say their disappearances didn’t come to police attention until December 2015.
An investigation was launched at that point, which led police to Valleyview, Alberta – 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton – where the 43-year-old Bauman was placed under arrest.
He was then transported to Kitchener to be formally charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of committing an indignity to a body.
Linda Daniel was in a common-law relationship with Bauman at the time of her disappearance.
Friends say the two met online before Daniel moved to Wellesley, when she was living in Simcoe.
Jasmin Orde was friends with Cheyenne when they were both children.
She describes her as a “really curious kid” with a kind mother who “treated us all like we were her own kids.”
Investigators want to hear from anyone who was in contact with Linda or Cheyenne Daniel around the time of their disappearances, or has other information that could be of assistance.
Orde says she wants to know why it took four years for the disappearances to come to light.
“How would nobody have noticed that they suddenly are missing?” she said.
Police say they were reported missing by a family member who had not heard from them in “an extended amount of time.”
“(They) didn’t have a lot of contact with their immediate family,” said Insp. Michael Haffner.
Bauman had been working for an oil field trucking company but quit that job earlier this month, the company's manager told CTV News.
In court Monday, Bauman appeared only briefly before being remanded into custody.
He is expected to appear again Friday, via a video link.
With reporting by Alexandra Pinto
