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MARTIN: 'Closure' rings hollow for victim's family in brutal slaying

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Ronald James Edwards was convicted of manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Pauline Brazeau .

The Calgary teen was stabbed nine times in the early morning hours of Jan. 9, 1976, after they had sex.

Edwards was sentenced to the equivalent of a 6-year prison term for manslaughter.

The hope for many that seeing an offender carted off by courtroom sheriffs will end their grief is often a false one.

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