Derek Saretzky gets psychiatric assessment extension at Lethbridge court appearance

Police believe southern Alberta man murdered Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and her father

Media | Double homicide shocks Alberta town

Caption: At a vigil for missing toddler Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette on Tuesday night, police revealed that the abducted girl's body had been found. Her father was found slain a day earlier.

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The man accused of murdering two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and her father was given a 30-day extension for his psychiatric assessment when he appeared via CCTV in a Lethbridge courtroom this morning.
The evaluation will determined if Derek Saretzky is fit to stand trial.

Image | Derek Saretzky

Caption: Derek Saretzky, 22, was given a 30-day extension for his psychiatric assessment when he appeared in a Lethbridge courtroom this morning. (Facebook)

The 22-year-old was ordered to undergo a 30-day psychiatric assessment ​at a hearing in September.
Court was told the 30-day mental review he has been undergoing is not sufficient and another month is needed.
He will now be evaluated for another 30 days, and appear in court again on Nov. 26.
The body of Terry Blanchette, 27, was discovered in his home in Blairmore, in the Crowsnest Pass, in September.
Hailey was discovered a day later in a rural area after an Amber Alert stretched across Western Canada and into the United States.
Saretzky faces two charges of first-degree murder in the slayings that shocked the small southern Alberta community.
He faces a separate charge of committing an indignity to the little girl's body.