After 26 years of looking for answers, Wilma and Cliff Derksen finally know who killed their daughter. A jury has convicted Mark Edward Grant of second-degree murder in the 1984 death of 13-year-old Candace Derksen.

"We won't be celebrating because we knew when Candace disappeared that the end of the story wouldn't be good. In the end there is always a life that has been taken," said Wilma Derksen after hearing the verdict.

It took five weeks of testimony and three days of deliberation for the jury to convict Grant. When the verdict was read in court Wilma and Cliff went row to row, sobbing and hugging police officers who worked on the case. They were joined by more than 30 family and friends who sat by their side during the trial.

"We're going to meet our friends at the cemetery and we're going to lay down white roses. And we're going to cry again and then we're going to move on, we're going to start something new," said Wilma Derksen.

A second-degree verdict means Mark Grant is facing a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years. However, the judge has the right to increase that to the maximum of 25 years. Sentencing is set for March.

13-year-old Candace Derksen went missing in 1984. Her frozen body was found seven weeks later in a machine shed.

-With a report from CTV's Stacey Ashley