Man found guilty of triple murder

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A southern Alberta man who confessed to killing a father, a toddler and a senior has been found guilty of three courts of first-degree murder.

Derek Saretzky, who is 24, was charged in the September 2015 deaths of Terry Blanchette, Blanchette’s two-year-old daughter Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and 69year-old Hanne Meketech.

The jury took about three hours to reach its decision Wednesday.

The killings occurred in the small, close-knit region known as the Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta.

No real motive emerged during the trial, but Saretzky told police the devil told him to do bad things.