CANADIAN MURDER CASES
Mother & Daughter Missing for Years
When friends and family realized they has not seen or heard from Linda Daniel or her thirteen-year-old daughter, Cheyenne, in more than four years, they reported them missing to the Waterloo Police Department.
Representatives from the school board reported they had been contacted by “someone” in 2011, and told Cheyenne’s family was moving out of the province and she would not be returning to Linwood Public School.
What happened to the mother and daughter would eventually turn into a battle of forensics and escalating courtroom drama.
Four and a half years since their disappearance, police launched an investigation into the fate of Linda and Cheyenne that included an undercover sting operation on Linda’s common-law husband, Glenn Bauman, who quickly moved from the home he shared with the Daniels in rural St. Clements, ON, to Valleyview, AB, in 2011. That undercover officer became the star witness in the trial against Bauman for the murders of Linda and Cheyenne after his arrest in 2019. His testimony included recordings of Bauman plotting the murder of a “private investigator” (who was also an undercover police officer) examining the Daniels’ disappearance.
What the Crown Believes Happened
Crown attorneys believe that Bauman killed Linda and Cheyenne on July 16th, 2011 in their home then burned their bodies in a backyard barrel fire. Bauman told anyone who inquired after the two that they had simply left town.
A neighbour testified to seeing Bauman tending to “really horrid” smelling fires after he had told him Daniel’s had left town. A human finger bone and teeth were discovered by forensics in the St. Clements home’s backyard and blood was found underneath the rug in the master bedroom.
As to motive, a friend testified that Linda stated she wanted to end the relationship with Baumann. This is most often the most dangerous time for a woman in a relationship fraught with domestic violence – when she tries to leave.
Baumann has also coldly cashed in Cheyenne’s educational savings plan and wired $3,000 to a woman from Nigeria that he had been chatting up online.
Narcissism & Domestic Violence
Glenn Bauman, a former long-haul trucker, is a classic narcissist. He killed Linda when he no longer had control over her. Cheyenne was just an inconvenient aside.
He believed he would get away the murders too, and was ready to commit another murder to cement that.
He also attempted to fire his lawyer and act as his own counsel during a gruelling trial that spread out to 14 weeks.
Bauman was eventually convicted on two-counts of 2nd-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years — a sentence he is appealing.
