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Suspect lived in the same building TORONTO - A Toronto man charged in the bizarre death of a York University student last seen alive in a struggle on a webcam lived in the same building and previously studied at the same school as the victim. Brian Dickson, 29, was charged with first-degree murder of 23-year-old Qian Liu. (CTV) |
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BRAMPTON - Police say Mathura Chaitram first stabbed his wife, Petty Mahabir-Chaitram, before turning the knife on himself. (CTV) |
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Family considering legal action WINNIPEG - Police said it's alleged that Frank Alexander, 87, was assaulted, fell backwards and hit his head on the floor at a care home in the 400 block of Edmonton St on March 24. Joe McLeod, a 70-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease, was charged on March 25 with aggravated assault. (CTV) |
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TORONTO - Nicole Kish, a panhandler was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 12 years for killing Ross Hammond. (QMI) |
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CALEDON - The remains of Van Sanh Tieu, 53, of Dundalk, were found inside the home, which was destroyed in a blaze. Evidence found at the scene suggests the house was being used as a marijuana grow-op. The fire took place February 17, 2011 on Mississauga Rd, south of Beachgrove Side Rd. (CityNews) |
VICTORIA - A 41-year-old Victoria man died in hospital from injuries suffered in a violent assault last week. Jason Robert Van Winkle, 34, of the West Shore, is charged with aggravated assault and is facing more serious charges in relation to the homicide. The victim was Gilles Alain Thibodeau. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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OTTAWA - The family of Lucia Medeiros erupted in sobs and clung to each other on Friday after a 12-member jury pronounced her husband, Khalid Gakmakge, guilty of second-degree murder. (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS: Husband charged |
PORT ALBERNI - Darrell Wade Andow, 50, died on April 1 after being transferred to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Wilson James Robert, 47, was arrested at the scene after police were called by paramedics. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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TORONTO - Abdikadir Khan's body remained in a Dixon Rd condo stairwell for at least 11 hours last weekend before anyone called for help. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Shooting Fatal shooting Victim shot in head |
MISSISSAUGA - Maria Rosario Avidago, 43, was stabbed inside her Mississauga home on Longford Dr. The woman’s husband, Victor Avidago, is charged with second-degree murder. (CityNews) MORE: Man charged |
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TORONTO - Benjamin Owusu Brefo died after he was shot multiple times in the Kingston Rd & Queen St E area. Haitham Abdelwahab, 28, of Toronto was charged. (Toronto Star) MORE: Murder a reality |
Victim died from blunt force trauma TORONTO - Blunt force trauma to the chest killed 62-year-old George Wass, the most recent victim in a series of attacks targeting the mentally ill. (Toronto Star) MORE: Masked attacker Man dies after assault |
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EDMONTON - The body of Myron Dakota Cutknife was found in front of a home on the Enoch Cree Nation. (Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS: Suspicious death Man found dead |
KINGSTON - David Hannah went missing on Jan. 4, 1983 when he left his house in Amherstview, Ont. - a town just west of Kingston - to go to work at the Millhaven Institution. (CTV) |
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OTTAWA - Ben Taylor, 18, was charged in the stabbing death of Scott Ledoux, 22. (Ottawa Citizen) MORE: Accused in court |
PICKERING - Durham police have created a face for an unknown woman they suspect was killed and dumped in a field decades ago. (QMI) |
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WINDSOR - Officers found the body of 46-year-old Patricia Beaulieu, of Windsor, hidden under an enclosed rear porch in the 1400-block of Lincoln Rd. William D. Connelly, 50, of Windsor, is charged with improperly interfering with human remains. (Windsor Star) PREVIOUS: Police seeking evidence |
VICTORIA - Oak Bay police have arrested a 38-year-old Oak Bay man in connection to the mysterious death of Owen Padmore on Dec. 11, 2001. The arrest comes 9 years after the Oak Bay police ruled out foul play in Padmore's death. (Victoria Times Colonist) PREVIOUS: Police reopen probe |
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TORONTO - The city's latest murder victim was a 49-year-old accountant. Allan Lanteigne was found slain in his Ossington Ave home Thursday but police said it's believed he was killed a day earlier. (QMI) MORE: Police probe death Police identify victim |
TORONTO - Toronto police said the shooting occurred near a housing complex at 4020 Dundas St W. Shane Williams was shot in the chest and rushed to Sunnybrook hospital with life-threatening injuries. He underwent emergency surgery but died overnight. (CTV) |
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TORONTO - For decades, Phyllis Trayner lived under a cloud of suspicion as the nurse believed to have killed all those babies at Sick Kids. Deputy Police Chief Tony Warr was contacted by the coroner’s office with news about a prime suspect. Phyllis Trayner was dead. (QMI) MORE: Toronto Hospital Murders |
ROXTON POND - Simon Charbonneau, 28, of Roxton Pond, was formally charged with second degree murder of his girlfriend Marie-Elyse Smith, 25. Monday afternoon, the lifeless body of Mary-Elyse Smith, 25, was found by the responding to a call for noise. (Granby Region) MORE: Spouse accused |
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HALIFAX - Officers found the victim, David Anthony Currie, when they were called to the 6100-block of South St at 12:30am. Police said 47-year-old Quin Zhang was arrested at the scene without incident and remains in custody. (CBC) MORE: Arrest |
SALMON ARM - James Douglas Phillips had been hospitalized since RCMP responded to a report of a domestic disturbance at the residence of Louise Phillips on Feb. 18. Louise Phillips was found dead from stab wounds. (Vancouver Province) |
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TORONTO - The victim was identified as Joel Waldron, 20, of Toronto. Two young men approached Waldron and then one allegedly pulled out a gun and fired at him. Jordon Mendez, 18, and Shamaree Wilson, 19, both of Toronto, have been charged with first-degree murder. (CityNews) |
TORONTO - Cynara Ali, 16, was found without vital signs in a chair on the main floor of her home at 150 Burrows Hall Blvd. Police said later the girl was prone to seizures. (CBC) PREVIOUS: 'Puzzling' home invasion Girl dead after home invasion Teen dies following home invasion |
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EDMONTON - Terrence Wade Saddleback, 26, was charged with manslaughter in the Feb. 12, 2011, strangulation death of Valerie Wolski, 41. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Unfit to stand trial Manslaughter charge
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MONTREAL - Police police are trying to determine whether 21-year-old Mylène Dupuis's stabbing death Feb 19, inside a basement apartment on 14th Ave involved prostitution. Victor Manuel Martinez Morales, 34, has been charged. (Gazette) PREVIOUS: Stabbing |
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RAWDON - The SQ has confirmed that the victim, Serge Huard, has been murdered inside the residence. (QMI) MORE: Violent death Suspicious death |
LITTLE GRAND RAPIDS - Officers identified the victim as John Moar, 46. The victim's son, Trevor John Owens, 18, has been charged with second-degree murder, said RCMP. (CTV) |
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MONTREAL - Notorious cult leader Roch (Moses) Thériault, who ruled a commune in Quebec and Ontario in the 1970s and '80s with as many as 12 wives and two dozen children, was found dead in his jail cell in New Brunswick Saturday morning after an apparent assault. (Montreal Gazette) MORE: Cult leader dead Inmate suspected Inmate arrested Roch Theriault |
TORONTO - Aasif Patel, 19, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lorenzo Martinez, 23. Martinez was found shot to death in the lobby of an apartment building at 70 Stevenvale Dr around 8pm on Friday Feb. 11. Police are still looking for another suspect in Martinez’s death, Wariskhan Pathan, 19. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Victim identified Shooting Man dead |
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MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has just ordered a new trial in the case. Raymond Ellis, 25, was beaten and stabbed at the Aria bar on St. Denis St. Two men - Ernso Théobrun, 31, and Evens Belleville, 26 - were arrested while a fifth man, 26-year-old McLee Charles, was already in custody. (Montreal Gazette) |
New trial ordered in case of mistaken identity 5 set free after judge aborts trial
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Man charged with slaying brother OSOYOOS - Reece Louie, 20, was found lying outside a home on the reserve north of Osoyoos on Saturday, bleeding heavily from severe wounds. Kyle Louie, 22, was arrested at the scene on Saturday. (Vancouver Province) PREVIOUS: Injured man dies |
REGINA - The body of Kareem Abid Almajidi, 48, was discovered in a home on the 1000-block of King St. Police charged 24-year-old Kevin Ryan Wasacase with first-degree murder. (Regina Leader-Post) PREVIOUS: Sudden death a homicide Police investigating homicide |
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SAINTE-ADELE - Sales representative Pierre Bédard, well-known in the alpine ski community, was found dead in his chalet on Bel-Automne St. last week. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Suspicious death Man found dead |
EDMONTON - Stephanie Beckley, 27, from Kamloops, was charged with drunk driving causing death in a crash on Feb 21, 2011. Laura Chee, 23, succumbed to her injuries. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Alleged drunk driver Woman dies |
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LAC LA BICHE - Trevor Bobocel is charged with second-degree murder and causing indignity to the body of his common-law wife, Roxanne Bigelow. (CTV) |
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OTTAWA - A warrant had been issued for Mohand Mohamed late last month following the slaying of 27-year-old Arash Elijah Bakjtaryani. (PostMedia) MORE: Suspect arrested Warrant issued Man planning son's birthday Homicide victim |
CANOE LAKE - A 17-year-old male has been charged with second-degree murder after a 73-year-old man was killed in a house fire on the Canoe Lake Cree Nation. The teen is facing the charge in connection with the death of James Durocher on Feb. 17. (Saskatoon StarPhoenix) |
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WINNIPEG - The victim has been identified as 34-year-old Orzias Joram Knott of Garden Hill, Manitoba. His wife, 27-year-old Casandra Lydia Knott, is now facing manslaughter charges. (CTV) MORE: Stabbing |
SPRINGSIDE - Police have identified the victim as 40-year-old Tammey Lynn Kulaway from Springside. Richard Lesann from Springside is in custody. (CTV) MORE: Man charged 1 dead Police investigating |
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OTTAWA - Police have charged a man with drunk driving causing death after a collision between two snowmobiles near Bancroft left a 23-year-old man dead on Dec. 22. Bradley Easton of Faraday Township died from his injuries after being transported to hospital. (Ottawa Citizen) |
CALGARY - Roderick Basaraba, 57, was found in a home in the 1800-block of 15 St SW and removed by firefighters. Police say that as a result of the investigation and the autopsy the death is being treated as a homicide. (Calgary Herald) MORE: Homicide Fire investigated as murder |
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FORT QU-APPELLE - The RCMP confirmed they are investigating the death as homicide and have identified the victim as 21-year-old Kyle Daniels of Fort Qu'Appelle. (Regina Leader-Post) PREVIOUS: Homicide |
TORONTO - Omar Baldwin, 29, was killed at a restaurant on Feb 5. Officers believe he got into a fight with another man. Simeon Dewhite Minott, 29, surrendered on February 8. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Police seek suspect |
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LA RONGE - Corey Alexander Clarke, 23, has been charged in connection with the death of a 30-year-old man. Police haven't named the victim. (CBC) MORE: Manslaughter charge |
HAMILTON - The body of 37-year-old Laura Ann Young was discovered just after 9am in a snowbank behind 116 Cathcart St. (Hamilton Spectator) MORE: Body in backyard |
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ST-LIN-DES-LAURENTIDES - A 45-year-old Montreal man is scheduled to appear in court to face charges of murdering a St Lin woman. Police say the suspect is related to Linda Loiselle, but is not her boyfriend nor the father of her child. (CTV) MORE: Killed by brother Man faces charges |
DAVIDSON - Rob Vicente had been missing since last October. 22-year-old Darak Andrew More from Saskatoon and 20-year-old Devin Riel Joseph Schmit from Fort Qu'Appelle are facing first-degree murder charges in Vicente's death. (CTV) MORE: Body identified 2 charged Murder charges |
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PRINCE RUPERT - In the early morning hours of February 5th, 1990, the Prince Rupert Fire Department was called out to a blaze in the Brooks Bank Building. 45-year-old Helga Rochon, her daughters, 26-year-old Sherri Rochon and 19-year-old Pauline Rochon, along with Pauline's 7-month-old daughter, Kimberly, perished in the blaze. (Opinion 250) MORE: Police need help Police need your help |
BAVARO - Two Montrealers are being detained in the Dominican Republic in the death of an 19-year-old Jordan Morrison, of Barrie, following a fight outside a beach resort bar. The detained men are Canadian citizen Dmytro Aref Yev and Algerian national Bouzid Redha. (AP) PREVIOUS: Canadian dead after bar fight 2 Canadians charged Killed coming to the aid of a friend Canadian killed at resort |
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PUERTO JIMENEZ - An autopsy revealed Kimberley Blackwell, 53, a former Whitehorse, Yukon resident, died from a gunshot wound. Her body was found on the patio of her home near Puerto Jimenez, where she operated a chocolate business. (QMI) MORE: Canadian woman slain in Costa Rica Police say they have suspects Canadian found dead Woman's death probed |
WINNIPEG - The former reputed leader of the Indian Posse street gang has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years. Tyson Kane Roulette pleaded guilty to manslaughter and also received 12 years for attempted murder. In September 2007, Anthony Woodhouse was gunned down in front of his Boyd Ave home. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Plea to lesser charge |
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QUEBEC CITY - Alain Perreault has been found guilty of killing Lyne Massicotte, who disappeared after travelling to Quebec City to meet Perreault on July 17, 2003. (CBC) |
EDMONTON - The victim has been identified as Edmonton's Ronald Max Hillinger, 53. (Edmonton Journal) MORE: Police believe man was murdered Police want help |
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NORTH BATTLEFORD - Family members of both the accused and victim broke into tears on Tuesday in a Saskatchewan courtroom when Gordon Dwight Hurley was found not guilty in the 2005 murder of Jarita Brittany Naistus. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix) MORE: Trucker found not guilty Accused to be retried 2010 SCC 18 |
TORONTO - Police responded to a call of a shooting inside one of the units of a strip mall on 2400 Finch Ave W at around 9:15pm on Tuesday night. When they arrived, they found the man with a gunshot wound to his body and no vital signs. The victim has been identified as Jagtal Singh Kular, of Toronto. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Shooting |
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MONTREAL - Sean Brennan was arrested after someone called 911 to report a loud argument in the building at the corner of Douglas Shand and Pardo Aves. Police arrived to find that Bryan Bougie, 41, had been severely beaten. (CBC) MORE: 2nd degree Suspect charged Deadly feud |
MONTREAL - Nearly 48 hours after his body was discovered in an industrial area near the Lachine Canal, police were still refusing to identify hip hop artist Paul Frappier as Montreal's seventh homicide victim of 2011. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Musician killed Body found No known enemies |
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TORONTO - Gregory Taylor, 21, was found with multiple gunshot wounds. Police were called to 83 Clearview Heights at about 1:30am. (Toronto Star) MORE: Shooting victim Shooting on video |
OAKVILLE - Brian Watson, 45, was found dead in a business at 1244 Speers Rd on Feb 16. Jeffrey Craig, 33, has been charged with first-degree murder. (CityNews) PREVIOUS: Body found |
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BURLINGTON - A Burlington man is dead and his son has been charged with second-degree murder. Police identified the victim as Michal Kieda, 67, of Burlington. His son, Konstanty Kieda, 41, appeared in court on Friday morning. (Toronto Star) MORE: 1 dead, 1 in custody |
BURNS LAKE - RCMP say an autopsy has confirmed foul play in the death of Chassidy Charlie, whose body was found in a home last Wednesday. (CP) MORE: Murder confirmed Suspicious death RCMP investigating Death probed |
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Accused jailed for wife's death CALGARY - Thai police Sgt. Uthai Dechachiwat was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to the clubbing death of his 18-year-old pregnant wife. Dechachiwat is also charged with the shooting death of Leo Del Pinto. (Calgary Herald) |
WINNIPEG - Cameron Walker, 16, was killed after being stabbed in the chest outside a Fort Richmond residence. Matthew Craig Krasny, 28, of Winnipeg, is charged with second-degree murder. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Charges laid Teen killed Stabbing |
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HAMILTON - Police have arrested a suspect in the brutal murder of retired teacher Audrey Gleave. Gleave, 73, was found inside her home outside Brantford, on Dec 30, 2010. David Laurie Scott, 50, was arrested in Brantford. (CTV) |
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Sentence called 'contemptuous' CALGARY - Chang Yung Yun, 30, had been facing an allegation of second-degree murder in the July 6, 2009, slaying of James Dale Larter, 33, in the downtown condo of the confessed killer. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Charges laid 2nd degree charge |
MONTREAL - A 32-year-old man from New York pleaded guilty Wednesday in the death of Nathalie Fournier. Fournier’s remains were found in 2008, shortly after Adam Morris confessed to police in the US about killing her. (Montreal Gazette) |
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OTTAWA - Gurinder Gill pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm after a Sept. 28, 2007 crash in the city. The crash injured Perry Weis and Anna Dalnoki. Her mother, Magda Dalnoki, was killed at the scene. (QMI) |
WINNIPEG - Randy Murray Williams has been charged with two counts second-degree murder in connection with a weekend double slaying in Winnipeg. Darren Joey Swampy, 19, and Lee Brady Spence, 22, were shot to death following a dispute at a house party. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Police arrest suspect |
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KINGSVILLE - The victim, Bridie Fanning, 47, was found dead at the home. After a post mortem exam, police have charged Abraham Froesse-Friessen of Kingsville with murder. (CBC) MORE: Victim gentle soul OPP charge man |
MONTREAL - Julie Surprenant was just 16 when she vanished on Nov. 16, 1999. A health-care worker said she and some colleagues received a confession before Richard Bouillon died in 2006. (Toronto Star) MORE: Bouillon reportedly confessed Cold case break? |
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RED DEER - RCMP headed to a home shortly before 3am after 911 received a call about an altercation at a house on Forest Close. When they arrived, 40-year-old William McDonald was found dead. Martin Munro, 36, and Jolyn Ten Hove, 37, have each been charged with one count of second degree murder. (Calgary Herald) MORE: 2 facing murder charges |
SAULT STE MARIE - Dylan Albert Jocko now faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of Wesley Hallam, whose decapitated and dismembered remains were found in a creek. Hallam was murdered at a house party on Jan 8. Jocko, 26, was charged with accessory after the fact on Jan 30. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Victim known to police Decapitated body found |
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VICTORIA - Two teens who brutally raped and murdered 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor last year have been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 10 years. BC Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston sentenced Kruse Wellwood, 17, and Cameron Moffat, 18, as adults and lifted the publication ban that had been protecting their identities since their arrest last June. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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OAKVILLE - Christopher Stairs was found in the middle of the Kerr & John streets intersection and was pronounced dead at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. Nazir Akbari, of Oakville, has been charged with second-degree murder. Angar Langer, of Oakville, is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder. (CBC) MORE: Fight death Altercation death |
DARTMOUTH - Investigators initially responded to check on the well-being of a woman at 7 Galaxy Ave apartment, after family contacted police out of concern. Cops then found Marguerite Maude Kenney, 60, and Patrick Lee McGrath, 58, dead in his apartment suite across the hall. (QMI) MORE: Deaths ruled murder-suicide Suspicious Possible murder-suicide |
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MISSISSAUGA - Police have arrested 6 men in connection with the murder of Shadi Taleb, 17, who was attacked at his family's home in Mississauga, Ont. on Monday Jan. 24, 2011. He was pronounced dead in hospital. (CTV) |
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MONCTON - Fred Prosser, 32, appeared in court to be formally charged with the first-degree murder of Sabrina Patterson. (QMI) MORE: Ex charged PREVIOUS: Missing woman's body found Body found Body identified |
MONTREAL - Rodrigo Odones is accused of beating Rogelio Noguera with a blunt object at some point between Jan. 15 and 18 in the victim's apartment. (CTV) MORE: Man charged Homicide Man arrested |
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OTTAWA - Garett Allen, 18, and his girlfriend Naomi Theoret, 17, were killed when their pickup truck slammed into a parked tractor trailer that was blocking a rural road near Vankleek Hill. André Duquette, of Hammond, is charged with two counts of criminal negligence causing death. (CTV) |
VICTORIA - Erich Mueller, 72, and his wife Kathy Mueller, 66, were found dead in their beachfront home on Cadboro Bay Rd on Jan 18 in what police confirmed was a murder-suicide. (Victoria Times Colonist) PREVIOUS: Murder-suicide Possible murder-suicide Couple were 'happily retired' |
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REGINA - Seanna Rae Nahnepowisk, 25, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Wendell Toto, 40. The court heard a drunken fight broke out between the two relatives at Toto's home on the reserve in January. (CTV) |
TORONTO - Ilka Dimitrova, 62, who was found on Jan. 13 suffering from serious injuries in an apartment at 360 Ridelle Ave has died. Her son Ivo Anguelov, 41, was originally charged with attempted murder. (CBC) |
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Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder Serial killers just aren't the sensation they used to be. They haven't disappeared, of course. But the number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. (Slate) |
REGINA - Colton Lee Quewezance, 21, was found dead at a house at 449 Montreal St. Police charged William Gary Kaiswatum, 23, from Regina with second-degree murder. (Regina Leader-Post) PREVIOUS: Suspicious death Party death |
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KITCHENER - A 60-year-old man who died after being attacked while out walking on the Iron Horse Trail in Kitchener has been identified as John Louis Ferreira. Ferreira was walking with his 35-year-old son near W Ave shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve when they were approached by two suspects. According to police a fight broke out, and Ferreira was stabbed at least once. (CTV) MORE: Homicide victim identified Beating death |
WINNIPEG - Police said they arrested 21-year-old William Evan LaPorte at Headingley Correctional Centre and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Wayne Roger Michelle. LaPorte already faces another charge of first-degree murder for the death of 18-year-old Dylan Cody Ferland in July 2010. (Winnipeg Free Press) PREVIOUS: Charges laid Police fear gang violence Busy summer expected Wave of gang violence Growing gang problem |
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PORT ALBERNI - Kim Winslow Rothgordt, 43, has been convicted of second-degree murder for the killing of James Shannon. (Alberni Valley Times) PREVIOUS: Son testifies against father |
DUNCAN - The body of Tyeshia Jones, 18, was found Jan. 28 in a wooded area on Cowichan Tribes land. (Victoria Times Colonist) PREVIOUS: 'No way' Body found Body of missing teen found |
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CHARLOTTETOWN - Dylan Dingwell, 22, is accused in the shooting death of his 25-year-old brother, Kyle Dingwell. (CBC) |
EDMONTON - Gerald Robert Ryan, 34, was convicted of second-degree murder for the death of Barry Patrick Head. (Edmonton Journal) |
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DIDSBURY - Heather Wilson Duncan, 60, has been granted bail. Duncan is charged with second degree murder in the death Barry Duncan, 68. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Woman charged Wife charged Woman said she shot husband |
ROBLIN - An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Meagen Mancheese, 16, was shot at her family's farmhouse in the Rural Municipality of Hillsburg on Nov 10. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Apparent murder-suicide attempt Shooting |
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CALGARY - On Sunday, June 29, 2008, police responded to a complaint in the 11400-block of Braniff Road SW. The body of Daniel Jacob Levesque, 29, of Calgary was found inside. Derek Campeau, 25, Aaron Lee Stevens, 25, and Sheldon Bertrum Worme, 24, all from Calgary are charged with first-degree murder. (CTV) |
OWEN SOUND - After a two-month investigation into the “sudden and unexplained” death of a 13-month-old girl near Owen Sound, OPP arrested Robert Lauder, 26. her father. Ava Lauder was found without vital signs on Nov 5 at a home on Grey Road 18 in Georgian Bluffs Township, police said. (Toronto Star) |
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HALIFAX - Keya Knita Simon, 19, was killed and her 32-year-old sister was injured at a party in the city's north end. Police have labeled Mason Brent Ardell Bordon, 21, whose Mercedes-Benz was seen driving away from the crime scene shortly after the stabbing, a person of interest in the case. (QMI) MORE: Stabbing |
ST-JEAN-DE-MATHA - Sylvain Guidi was charged with premeditated homicide after the bodies of Claude Guidi, 75, a retired Longueuil police officer, and his 71-year-old wife, Denise Cloutier-Guidi, were found inside the family home (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Son to be charged Suspicious deaths Arrest made |
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Suspect coveted neighbour's wife OWEN SOUND - Allan Wayne Powney admitted to killing Dr. Henry Janssen on Jan. 22, 2008 near Lion's Head. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Murder revisited Police hunt killer |
BELLEVILLE - Belleville police say Alex Brooks' body was found Saturday afternoon in a snow-covered field near the tracks. (CTV) MORE: Death rattles neighbourhood |
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CALGARY - Melake Selam Worku, 27, died early Jan. 1. Calgary police announced they have charged Ahmed Mohamed, 26, with second-degree murder (Herald) PREVIOUS: Victim identified New Year's shooting |
WESTMOUNT - Police are searching for clues after a 22-year-old man was shot and killed on in Westmount. He has been identified as Jason Peagram. (CTV) MORE: Victim not known to police |
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SASKATOON - Police have identified the teenager whose body was found New Year's Day in a back alley on the city's west side. The victim is Bryton Stevenson, 16, of Saskatoon. Police were called after a resident of the 200-block of Ave K N found the body and called 911 at about 11am on Jan 1. (CBC) MORE: Homicide Youth identified Suspicious death |
OTTAWA - Simon Hubbard's body was discovered metres from his basement apartment on New Year's Day. A 26-year-old homeless woman is facing second-degree murder charges in connection with his death. Jennifer Bird made a brief court appearance. (CTV) MORE: Woman charged Accused has history Woman charged |
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WINNIPEG - A 66-year-old man was killed in a hit and run on Christmas Eve. Police say the man - Reginald Blackbird - was hit at about 5:40pm, on Fife Street between Inkster Boulevard and Maple Glen Drive. Police arrested Christopher Ronald Teebles, 44, on Christmas Day and charged him with criminal negligence causing death and failing to remain at the scene of collision causing death. (CTV) |
TORONTO - The week before I’d given her a $75 prepaid credit card as part of a very unscientific journalistic experiment that involved handing out cards to panhandlers and then checking back in with them to see what they’d bought. Joanne’s story came to an end over the weekend when police found her body in her subsidized Jarvis St. apartment. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Victim identified |
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TORONTO - Police say that Brian Takahashi, 20, was stabbed near Queen St W. He died in hospital. A 27-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death. Luke Heath surrendered to police on Sunday, accompanied by his lawyer. (CTV) MORE: 'In way over his head' Suspect charged Stabbing |
LONDON, Ont. - It took about 25 blows from a baseball bat to kill Christy Hands, a violent, mean man who smoked a pack of cigarettes and drank a case of beer a day and was addicted to crystal meth. Sandra Hands, 52, with him for six years and married for four, had been on the receiving end of her husband's violent rages many times, but never told the police. (QMI) |
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SAINT JOHN - Crystal-Dawn MacKenzie walked out of a New Brunswick court a free woman after a nine-woman, three-man jury in Saint John acquitted the 28-year-old mother of three of second-degree murder, accepting that she had finally snapped after years of abuse at the hands of Patrick Andrew Thomas. (National Post) |
TORONTO - Police have identified a man gunned down in the hallway of a Scarborough highrise. Venacio Julien, 27, called out for his wife as he lay dying in the hallway of a Birchmount Rd apartment building where he was shot Wednesday afternoon. (Toronto Star) MORE: Murder victim identified Man shot Shooting |
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WEBB - The death of a 2½-year-old boy in rural Saskatchewan is being investigated as a homicide. The RCMP identified the boy as William Michael Vayro, who was living with his biological father and stepmother. Five months ago, the boy's three-year-old sister died on the same property. Her drowning death was ruled accidental, police said. (CBC) PREVIOUS: RCMP probe death |
VANCOUVER - Michael Wayne McGray, 47, pleaded guilty to the 1st-degree murder of Jeremy Phillips, 33, at Mountain Institution in Agassiz, BC, last November. McGray claims to have killed 16 people across North America since his deadly rampage began in 1985. (QMI) MORE: Michael Wayne McGray Inmate killed |
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EDMONTON - A hunt to find one of two men who disappeared within two days before a bizarre blaze where investigators found a man's charred remains in a rural Strathcona County garage continues. Brent Abbott, a 36-year-old from Saskatoon disappeared Dec. 17, two days before the fire. The other missing person, 42-year-old Edmonton resident Dino Kaz, was found dead Dec. 29 in a green truck along a rural road near Evansburg. (QMI) |
Man linked to fatal garage fire found dead Suspicious death in Strathcona Country
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EDMONTON - Police in 2010 solved the highest proportion of homicides in years, but arrested more of the city's youth in the process. There were 27 homicides in Edmonton over the year and police solved 22 of them, for a clearance rate of 81%. In 2009, investigators solved 66%, and in 2008, it was 31%. (Edmonton Journal) |
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OTTAWA - Jack Tobin, the son of a former Newfoundland premier, was involved in a drunk-driving incident that claimed the life of 24-year-old Alex Zolpis in an Ottawa parking garage. (CTV) |
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TORONTO - Vincent Dang, 20, was killed following a dispute in a nightclub early on Nov 27. Police say a rented SUV with three men inside ran him over. Naveen Ariaratnam, 26, of no fixed address, is charged with second-degree murder. (QMI) PREVIOUS: SUV used as weapon Fatal SUV hit-run 'deliberate' Hit-and-run a homicide Murder investigation |
Technology helped crack cold case CALGARY - On Friday, police charged a man with murder in connection to the shooting death of 37-year-old Corinne Belanger in her northeast home in 2001. Nearly 10 years after Belanger's murder, police have arrested 50-year-old Barry David Brown. (CTV) MORE: DNA evidence sparks arrest Cold case arrest Arrest in cold case |
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WINNIPEG - Lawrence Felix, 40, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 50-year-old Wallace Solomon George. George died April 22, 2008, one day after suffering a vicious beating outside a Berens River home in central Manitoba. (QMI) |
TORONTO - Police found Zaniffa Balkaran, 59, dead at a Scarborough community housing building. Annesair Balkaran has been charged with first-degree murder. (Toronto Star) MORE: Woman charged Police lay charges |
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WINDSOR - Michael Dorner has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2009 death of Edmund Summers in Windsor, Ont. (CBC) |
HALIFAX - Brandon Lewis Hatcher was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound and was later pronounced dead. (CTV) 2 more charged |
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THREE HILLS - RCMP have charged 44-year-old Deanna Amthor with impaired driving charges after she and her partner were returning from a Christmas party. Both were allegedly drunk and the man was in the box of their truck when he fell out. He hit his head on the road and was pronounced dead at the scene. (Calgary Herald) |
PELICAN NARROWS - A 20-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder after a woman's body was found outside a home in northern Saskatchewan. Mounties say the body of 63-year-old Jean Ballantyne was found on Christmas morning outside a home in Pelican Narrows. (CP) |
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FALHER - Melody Chomiak, 45, and Jerica Bouchard, 20, were found dead inside a residence near the small farming community. Edward John Chomiak, 49, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. (QMI) MORE: Charges laid in homicides |
PRINCE ALBERT - After days of deliberation a jury has decided that 31-year-old Jordan Crowe is not guilty of second-degree murder. Crowe's stepson, three-year-old Dilyn Donlad died in bed in his Prince Albert home in December, 2007. (CTV) MORE: Jury rules not guilty |
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TORONTO - A teenager was shot dead in a Toronto apartment building on Christmas Day. Police said around 4pm the unidentified victim, believed to be 18, was shot several times while he was in the fourth-floor hallway of a building at 200 Woolner Ave. (CBC) MORE: Christmas Day shooting Teen killed |
MISSISSAUGA - Police initially arrested 35-year-old daycare operator April Luckese and charged her with aggravated assault however. Following the child's death on Friday, a second-degree murder charge was laid. (CTV) MORE: Daycare owner charged Accused appears in court |
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POND INLET - A 31-year-old man in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife early Thursday morning. Kenneth Arreak has been taken into custody. RCMP said Arreak's spouse, also 31, was found unresponsive in a Pond Inlet home around 2:30am Thursday. (CBC) |
CALGARY – On March 17th, 64-year-old Aref Selman Nassereddine was found dead in a home in the community of Rosscarrock. 26-year-old Crystal Aldina Crowchild has been charged with second degree murder in connection to his death. (Global) MORE: Woman charged Death reclassified DNA results point to murder |
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EDMONTON - In a document released to media, the Acting Director under the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act consents to media publishing the name of the "individual accused in the December 20, 2010 homicide of two children." Jason Bruce Cardinal, 31, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his two young sons. (CTV) PREVIOUS: EPS charge Father charged Children found dead 2 boys |
VANCOUVER - After a police investigation, Matthew Anthony DaSilva pleaded guilty to two counts of accessory to murder after the fact, in connection with two separate murders. He was sentenced to two concurrent two-year prison terms. DaSilva admitted he was the driver of a getaway car in the murder of Vancouver cocaine dealer Shayne Preece, 27, who was found shot to death just before midnight on June 12, 2000. (Vancouver Sun) |
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KINGSVILLE - Police have identified human remains found in a minivan that was burning in a farmer's field in Kingsville, ON, on Dec. 2. The OPP said that they had identified the dead man as Thomas Whittaker, 86, of Kingsville. (CBC) |
BRANTFORD - Robert Howard Clause, 33, and Tara Carisa Baker, 31, both of Hamilton were arrested and charged with first degree murder. The victim has been identified as Devon Anthony Gayle, 22, also of Hamilton. (CTV) |
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PRINCE GEORGE - Linda Fredin, 56, owned the house located in a prosperous neighbourhood in Prince George that was targeted in a suspected arson attack last week. Fredin lived there with her daughter and a man police allege is a key gang member in the area. (CBC) MORE: Arson now homicide Suspicious fires Fire linked to gangster House set on fire |
OTTAWA - Ontario Court Justice Célynne Dorval condemned Samira Daoud’s actions the day she struck and killed Alex Hayes. Hayes’s body was thrown more than 39 metres into a ditch; Daoud - whose blood-alcohol level was later measured at three times the legal limit - kept driving. (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS: Guilty plea Manslaughter charge |
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MONTREAL - George de Castro, 42, died Friday morning after being on life support. A Laval man, Jeffrey Lindor, 26, has been charged with second-degree murder. (CBC) MORE: Driver charged Argument leads to charge Road rage |
CALGARY - Dexter Stanley Stephen Bain was shot inside Our Place pub located at 3709 26 Ave NE around 3:30am Saturday. Bain was a bartender at the pub. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Bar shooting |
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Toronto's 54th homicide victim of 2010 has been identified as 24-year-old Melvin Gomez of Toronto. Around 3am, officers were called to a reported shooting outside Col. Mustard's pub in the Peanut Plaza and found three victims with gunshot wounds. Gomez succumbed to his injuries at the scene. (CTV) MORE: Victim identified Shootings leave 1 dead Man dead |
TORONTO - A 16-year-old boy was found shot in an Neptune Dr apartment building and pronounced dead at the scene. Police say a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were arrested Monday and have been charged with first-degree murder. (CTV) MORE; Teens charged Victim 16-years-old Teen gunned down Teen shot Tyrone Bracken |
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CALGARY - Franco Sevellan Sevandal, 32, of Calgary, is charged with second-degree murder. The victim, Joel Zalsos, 36, was found dead in his Pleasant Heights home in the 1100-block of 18 Ave NW on Jan 4. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Victim warned Investigators probe death |
GLEICHEN - Charges have been laid in connection with the death of a 25-year-old Siksika Nation man. Trenton Dell Bearhat, 22, who is known to police, has been charged with the second-degree murder of Carlos Dorian Jerry. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Murder |
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Gangs linked to unsolved murders MONTREAL - Cops in BC and Quebec are solving fewer murders than their counterparts in other provinces, a trend being blamed on higher levels of gang violence and organized crime in those jurisdictions. (QMI) REPORT: Explaining the changing nature of homicide clearance in Canada |
ACAPULCO - The state prosecutor of Guerrero told a local news agency that state police have since arrested Hector Juan Figueroa, 46, who has provided them with details of Daniel Dion's death. (CTV) MORE: Family doubts confession Arrest made Police arrest suspect Cops make arrest |
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REGINA - A 16-year-old and a 15-year-old are scheduled to appear in court charged with second-degree murder. The two had been arrested after the victim was found wounded around 9:40pm Friday night at an address on the 1100-block of Montague St. (CBC) MORE: 2 charged Police investigate death |
MONTREAL - Just before midnight on Oct. 25, police allege Fernando Ramos Eveillard, 22, and an 18-year-old man got into argument over drugs as they stood next to a bus shelter on Saint-Michel Blvd near Crémazie Blvd. Police allege Eveillard pulled out a knife and stabbed the other man in the upper body before fleeing the scene. (CBC) |
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PRINCE GEORGE - A 21-year-old man who was already charged in the slaying of a 15-year-old girl has now been charged in the deaths of three women, say RCMP in Prince George, BC. Cody Legebokoff was charged in late 2010 with first-degree murder in the death of Loren Donn Leslie, 15, whose body was found on a remote logging road just off Highway 27 near Vanderhoof, BC, last November. Police announced Legebokoff is now facing three new counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery following a 10-month investigation. (CBC) |
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OTTAWA - The second of two young men who cleaned blood and other evidence out of a car used in the Booth Street shooting of 16-year-old Yazdan Ghiasvand Ghiasi has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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