Peters, along with his partner in crime, the now-deceased Robert Brown, was convicted Jan. 18, 1983, of two counts of first-degree murder for the abduction, rape and murders of Debbie Stevens of High River on Dec. 12, 1981, and 16-year-old Laurie Boyd of High River on Jan. 30, 1982.m. the new Laurie Boyd pedestrian bridge behind the public library in Okotoks will be officially opened. Many people, including then-Crown prosecutor of the case, Peter Martin (now a justice on Albertas Court of Appeal), Rob Laird, the then-RCMP officer who arrested Brown, Okotoks Mayor Bill Robert