Pretrial scheduled in serial murders for former Yorkton resident, Clayton Bo Eichler

A 33-year-old man, formerly of Yorkton, accused of killing two young aboriginal women is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in April.

Clayton Bo Eichler was arrested December 31, 2013 for second-degree murder in the death of Kelly Goforth whose body was found in a downtown Regina alley on September 25 of that year. Eichler was remanded in custody January 2, 2014 and has been in jail since.

On May 9, he was back in Regina court charged with the first-degree murder of 23-year-old Richele Bear, as well as offering an indignity to a human body by having sex with Bear’s corpse.

Bear was last seen August 24, 2013. Her body has not been found, but Troy Hagen, Regina’s police chief, told media his investigators and the Crown were confident in the charges.

At the same time, the Crown upgraded Eichler’s second-degree charge in Goforth’s death to first-degree murder.

Hagen said police had no evidence that Eichler is responsible for the other unsolved murdered and missing aboriginal women in Regina, but police are “pursuing these investigations with diligence.”

If convicted of both crimes, Eichler could face life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 50 years under new amendments to the Criminal Code passed in 2011.

Eichler appeared in Regina court Friday. The case was adjourned until April 20 for the pretrial, which is expected to take eight days.