For almost six years, the public has been led to believe Lyle and Marie McCann were last seen alive on July 3, 2010.
It was a Saturday, and the elderly couple was captured on video surveillance at the St. Albert Superstore that morning purchasing groceries and buying gas.
Now, during Week 11 of Travis Vader's first-degree murder trial, defence witnesses have testified they saw the McCanns at two campgrounds west of Edmonton, that Saturday afternoon and Sunday.
They are stunning claims, especially since Vader is accused of murdering the couple on July 3.
'She caught my eye'
Barb Gray and her husband were camping at the Wolf Lake campground that Canada Day weekend. On Saturday afternoon, the 64-year-old walked through the campground to collect some firewood. She had to stop at the road to let a teal green SUV drive by.
She was closest to the passenger side of the vehicle and peeked in the window at the woman sitting in the passenger seat.
"She caught my eye because she looked like a neighbour, a widow we knew out in the country. My first thought was she found somebody to travel with," Gray testified.
