When Tara Graham’s mother was killed three weeks ago, her death was made public in a police news release.
But what wasn’t made public was her mother’s name, her face or her story.
So Graham says her family is speaking out — because her mother, Brenda Tatlock-Burke, was the victim of intimate partner violence.
“She was just another somebody that nobody knew,” Graham said about the case.
“And my sister and I just felt like she needed to be brought to life in who she was and the means in which she was killed.”
Graham describes her 59-year-old mother as being full of life, always smiling and as outgoing as can be.
She says her mother had been visiting her and her sister in Alberta just days before her death and had flown back to Nova Scotia on Oct. 16.
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Her mother had mentioned her plans to leave her husband, whom Graham identifies …