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Man pleads guilty to 2008 murder of Red Deer man

A man pleaded guilty on Monday morning to second-degree murder in the death of a Red Deer man, 47-year-old Sheldon Mark Hiller, whose body was found in a Central Alberta ditch almost three years ago.

A man pleaded guilty on Monday morning to second-degree murder in the death of a Red Deer man, 47-year-old Sheldon Mark Hiller, whose body was found in a Central Alberta ditch almost three years ago.

Larry Allen Scott, 54, of Red Deer, made the plea in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench just as a five-week trial was to start.

Hiller’s body was found near Raven, 40 km northwest of Innisfail, after he had been stabbed to death on April 16, 2007.

Another man, Brent William Crouse, 47, of Calgary, is charged with first-degree murder and being an accessory to commit murder. He was to be tried at the same time as Scott.

A third man charged in the case, Charles Richard Beckett, 50, of Red Deer, was also charged in the crime. He pleaded guilty in the spring of 2008 to being an accessory to murder and was sentenced to time served in custody, which was about a year.

More to come.