{"id":19265,"date":"2014-07-17T06:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2014-07-16T21:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T13:12:28","slug":"suspect-in-case-of-missing-grandparents-and-child-to-make-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/17\/suspect-in-case-of-missing-grandparents-and-child-to-make-court-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in case of missing grandparents and child to make court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19266\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_180734258\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CALGARY\u2014A man who has been under investigation in the disappearance of a little Calgary boy and his grandparents will appear in court this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Garland, who is 54, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Alvin and Kathryn Liknes, and second-degree murder in the death of five-year-old Nathan O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>No bodies have been found but police say there is sufficient evidence to conclude the trio have been slain.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, relatives gathered at a park across the street from the O\u2019Brien home to release hundreds of green balloons in memory of the little boy and his grandparents, a tribute that was repeated in communities across the province.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan\u2019s mother and father, Rod and Jennifer O\u2019Brien, wept and held each other and their son Luke as they watched the ballloons fly away.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer\u2019s brother, Jeff Liknes, says he has not given up hope that his parents and nephew may still come home safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY\u2014A man who has been under investigation in the disappearance of a little Calgary boy and his grandparents will appear &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-bill-graveland","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}