Police still searching for remains of mom and daughter
Police have 30-day warrant to micro-detail house for DNA evidence
WELLESLEY TOWNSHIP — Waterloo Regional Police will spend the next few weeks searching for evidence at a house outside of St. Clements connected to the double homicide of Linda Daniels and her teenage daughter Cheyenne.
Police have a 30-day search warrant at 3670 Hessen Strasse Rd., a small two-storey house in Wellesley Township, to search for evidence in the murder investigation of the mother and daughter who were reported missing in December 2015.
Police have charged Glenn Kraemer Bauman, 43, Daniels’ former common-law spouse, with murder and causing an indignity to the
body in the death of both mother and daughter even though their bodies have not been found.
“We are confident that the charges are applicable,” said Insp. Mike Haffner of Waterloo Regional Police.
Police say they hope to find evidence, including DNA, which may be inside the home and outside on the property to assist them in their investigation. There could be some digging, they say.
All three shared the Hessen Strasse home before the mother and daughter disappeared. Linda and Cheyenne Daniels moved into the house in 2006, said police.
Haffner said investigators with the Centre for Forensics Science in Toronto will arrive on Monday to assist with the search for evidence.
Up to 25 local officers are working on the case and the property will be guarded on a 24-hour basis, Haffner said.
Meanwhile, a couple currently living in the house have been forced out while police search the premises and property.
Linda, a stay-at-home mom, was 47 and Cheyenne, who finished Grade 7 at Linwood Public School, was 13 at the time of their disappearance. Police say Cheyenne was an avid horseback rider.
Bauman, 43, was arrested without incident and charged with murder in Valleyview, Alta., where he lived. He was arrested last Friday by local officers as well as RCMP and brought to Waterloo Region on Saturday.
Bauman made a brief court appearance on Monday and returns by video to court on Friday.
Bauman, who was a truck driver, was last seen in the area at the end of 2011, said police.
Police were contacted by the Daniels’ family last December after they hadn’t heard from Linda or Cheyenne in more than four years. The family suspected foul play, police said.
On Thursday, two large storage bins were in the driveway and officers placed large sheets of plywood on the ground along with a blue tarp in the backyard near a garage shed.
Haffner said police will be interviewing people who knew the family, including friends in the region and in Simcoe. Bauman is originally from Simcoe and Cheyenne’s biological father lives there.
Anyone with information on the homicide is asked to call police at 519650-8500, ext. 8666 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.