A court appearance is scheduled today for a 32-year-old man charged with killing an elderly woman in her home in Biggar, Saskatchewan.

Barry Alexander Dearing is scheduled for a bail hearing in NorthBattleford.

He's charged with first degree murder in the death of 82-year-old Ruby Macaroff, whose body was found February 17th.

Initially, her death was not ruled suspicious, but a murder charge was laid after an R-C-M-P investigation.