It's been a decade since Kathryn Furlan sat alone in the gallery of a Calgary courtroom but she returned Wednesday to bear witness, as the man who killed her daughter goes on trial a second time, once again accused of murdering a vulnerable woman he'd just met.

"I feel I have to be here," said Furlan outside the courtroom.

Christopher Ward Dunlop, 50, is on trial for first-degree murder and indignity to a body, accused of sexually assaulting and killing Judy Maerz, 58, whose body was found in Deerfoot Athletic Park on the morning of Feb. 16, 2023.

Fourteen years earlier, Dunlop killed Laura Furlan and then dumped her body in Fish Creek Park. He finished serving his 13-year sentence for that homicide in 2022.

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