What we know about the deaths of Taliyah Marsman and Sara Baillie
Here's how events unfolded in the murder investigation of a Calgary girl and her mother
A funeral was held Thursday for five-year-old Taliyah Marsman and her mother Sara Baillie who were slain last week in Calgary. Here is a look at how events unfolded in the case:
July 10, 11:30 a.m. Taliyah is last seen by her extended family.
July 10, 5:30 p.m. Security cameras show Baillie with her daughter at a Dairy Queen restaurant not far from the home.
July 11, 11:30 a.m. A girl matching Taliyah's description is seen near the family's home with a stocky, black male. She is carrying a suitcase.
July 11, 8:30 p.m. Baillie's relatives call police, concerned that she didn't show up for her job at the Calgary airport Chili's restaurant. Officers find Baillie's body in the basement suite where she lived with Taliyah. There is no sign of the girl.
July 12, 1:40 a.m. Police declare an Amber Alert for Taliyah.
July 12, 4:45 a.m. Police publicly reveal that Taliyah's mother is dead and her car has been found near the home.
July 12, 7 a.m. Police hold a news conference. They say they are considering all options in their investigation. They say Baillie and Taliyah's father, Colin Marsman, are estranged. Police say Marsman is co-operating with the investigation.
July 12, 12 p.m. Baillie's distraught family members attend a news conference with police and plead for Taliyah's safe return.
July 13, 11 a.m. Taliyah's father releases a statement through a friend pleading for anyone with information to "do the right thing."
July 13, 2 p.m. Police release the Dairy Queen footage along with the detail from witnesses who may have seen the girl in the neighbourhood Monday morning.
July 13, 10:30 p.m. Police take into custody a man they believe is involved in Taliyah's disappearance. Police don't release any details about his identity other than to say he is not Taliyah's father and it's believed he is connected to Baillie.
July 14, 5:20 a.m. Police announce that officers are searching a rural area east of Calgary near the bedroom community of Chestermere. "They are hoping to find Taliyah," police say.
July 14, 2:30 p.m. Police call the man in custody a suspect. They say he was known to both Taliyah's mother and father. They also believe he is the same man witnesses saw with a girl who looked like Taliyah. They believe he and the girl got out of Baillie's car and drove off in a grey sedan on Monday morning.
July 14, 9:04 p.m. Police issue a news release saying officers have found a body believed to be Taliyah's by a rural road near Chestermere.
July 14, 10 p.m. Police hold a news conference and say two charges of first-degree murder have been laid against Edward Delten Downey, 46. They reveal that Taliyah had already been killed before police were first called. "There was nothing we could do before we even got involved."
July 20 Downey appears in court via closed-circuit television. Lawyer Gavin Wolch says he wants to move quickly to trial, because he is worried that his client is being tried in the media and not the courtroom.
July 21 Baillie and Taliyah are remembered at their funeral service as a pair who "brought such great smiles to our hearts."