Killer Glen Race to face murder charges in N.S.

Glen Race,a Nova Scotia manserving a life sentence for murder in the U.S., will be brought to Canada to face two murder charges in his home province.

Race,from Dartmouth,is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Michael Paul Knott and Trevor Charles Brewster, two men found dead in the Halifax area in May 2007.

Halifax chief Crown attorney Denise Smith said Race is on his way back to Canada andwill appear in Bridgewater provincial court on Wednesday.

"The extradition process went smoothly," she said in a news release Friday.

Knott's body was foundon a path in a wooded area in Mill Cove on May 5, 2007. Four days later, Brewster's body was discovered stuffed under a boardwalk in Dartmouth.

Police in Nova Scotia were looking for Race.

Race was arrested May 15, 2007, at the U.S.-Mexico border andcharged withkillingDarcy Manor in upstate New York just days earlier.

In January 2009, Race was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Manor.The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service started the process to have him extradited.

Smith saidRace will be sent back to the U.S. after the court proceedings are done.