ROSTHERN, Sask. - RCMP have charged a British Columbia man with the murder of a Saskatchewan mother 30 years ago.

Police say two masked men broke into the home of Frances Wendland in Rosthern, Saskatchewan on Dec. 14, 1985.

They locked her two daughters, aged seven and eight, along with a 10-year-old friend who had been sleeping over, in a basement bathroom.

Court records show Wendland was then tied up with packing tape and her neck, chin and mouth were tightly bound.

When the girls got out of the bathroom, they found the woman dead in a bedroom.

Pathologists who testified at a previous trial in the case determined Wendland died from neck compression.

In 1990, police arrested Donald Marlow and a jury convicted him of first-degree murder for being an accessory to the killing.

Court heard Wendland's estranged husband, Larry, used Marlow to hire two men to kill her.

Larry Wendland, who married the couple's babysitter a year after the killing, committed suicide in 1989.

R-C-M-P arrested Dennis Henry Hahn, 65, of Surrey, B-C, last week.

He appeared in Saskatoon court Monday to face charges of first-degree murder and unlawful confinement.

Hahn is to appear in court again July 27th.