Full parole has been granted to an Edmonton man convicted of killing his pregnant wife and dumping her body in a ditch.
As first reported by the Canadian Press, the Parole Board of Canada says Michael White was granted full parole in late May.
In 2006, the 46-year-old was convicted of second-degree murder and offering an indignity to a dead body in the death of his wife.
Liana White was fatally stabbed in July 2005. She was four months pregnant with the couple’s second child.
A few days after her death, her body was found in a ditch by a search party which included her husband.
The Parole Board said White maintains his innocence. It also said White demonstrated employment stability and the ability to live a law-abiding lifestyle.
White was previously granted day parole in February 2021, which was continuously extended.
When he was granted another six months of day parole in August 2022, the board said he had “no issues” living at a halfway house, and was spending four nights a week at his fiancee’s home.
The parole board also said White had supportive relationships with his daughter, his family and some of his deceased wife’s relatives.
The shocking revelation comes one week after serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo was secretly transferred from the notorious maximum-security Millhaven Institute near Kingston, Ont., to the medium-security La Macaza prison in the Quebec Laurentians.
None of the victims’ families were notified.
A source, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, told Global News that La Macaza is a prison for sexual offenders and those at risk of being harmed by other inmates. The source also said Bernardo’s transfer was done “secretly.”
Bernardo’s sex crimes transpired between the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Among his acts, he and his then-wife Karla Homolka kidnapped, tortured and killed Leslie Mahaffy, 14, of Burlington, Ont., in June 1991 at their home in Port Dalhousie, Ont., before dumping her cement-encased remains in a nearby lake.
They similarly kidnapped and killed Kristen French, 15, in April 1992.
Bernardo admitted to raping 14 other women. He was also convicted of manslaughter in the December 1990 death of Homolka’s younger sister, Tammy. The 15-year-old girl died after the pair drugged and sexually assaulted her.
