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Family disputing drug rumour
WINNIPEG - Seth Ottenbreit was killed in a West St. Paul
home. His older sister, Kirra Noble, says her brother's
death was not over drugs or owed money, contrary to
speculation. A 16-year-old boy is accused of
first-degree murder in connection with the death.
(CTV) PREVIOUS:
Unpaid drug debt
Teen stabbed
Death a homicide |
Suspicious death
WINNIPEG - Police are investigating a suspicious death
after the deceased body of a person was found in a room
at the
St Regis Hotel on Smith
Street. The deceased was Edward Denedchezhe, 60,
called by those who knew him as "Cheezie." (CTV)
MORE:
Hotel death a homicide
Death a homicide
Loner meets violent end |
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Death a homicide
CLEAR LAKE,
MB -
RCMP are calling the
death of a woman in Clear Lake a homicide. Officers
were dispatched to the 'Old Campground' area of
Wasagaming on September 17 at 7:30pm. On arrival police
discovered the body of 39-year old Sherri Leigh Green in
a cabin on the grounds. (CTV) |
Woman murdered
ISLA MUJERES
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60-year-old Renee Wathelet had moved to the small
island of Isla Mujeres, in the Gulf of Mexico off the
coast from the popular resort Cancun. Police arrested
24-year-old Jose Joaquin Palacios Garaza, and say he
committed the bloody crime. (CTV) MORE:
Montreal woman stabbed to
death |
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Dad, daughter ID'd
MONTREAL - The bodies of two people found dead in a
Brossard hotel have been identified as Albert Pelchat,
46, and his daughter Daphne, 6. (Montreal Gazette)
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Father, daughter found
Autopsies ordered |
Youth charged
EDMONTON - A 17-year-old girl from the Beaumont area has
been charged with impaired driving causing the death of
Jennifer-Lynn Clements last May. (Edmonton Journal)
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Alcohol believed to be a
factor |
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Arrest made
MANILA - Quezon City policemen said they have arrested a
suspect in the twin killings of Filipino-Canadian film
critic Alexis Tioseco and his Slovenian girlfriend.
(GMA News) PREVIOUS:
Police hunt for killers
Canadian, girlfriend killed in Manila
Vancouver film critic, girlfriend killed |
Gangster shot
CALGARY - David Tajali, known to be aligned with the
United Nations gang, was gunned down in luxury car in
the southwest part of the city. (CTV) MORE:
Gangster killed, brother injured New
details in gang shooting
Victim BC gangster |
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Boy killed in hit-and-run
JAFFRAY
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Dawson Kormilo, 8, was
riding his bike to a local swimming hole with some
friends Sept. 3 in Jaffray when he was hit by a car.
Robin Roo, 54, was charged with failing to remain at the
scene of a collision. (Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Boy dies in hit-and-run |
Man charged in brother's murder
CALGARY - John Walsh, 44, of Lethbridge, died in
hospital after an altercation inside an apartment suite
in the
1600-block of 23rd Ave SW.
Martin Walsh, 55, has been charged with second-degree
murder. (Calgary Herald) MORE:
Man charged |
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Guilty of impaired driving
VICTORIA - BC Supreme Court Justice Dean Wilson found
Andrew Anthony Charles was driving his 1993 Colt when it
struck a telephone phone just after 1am on April 23,
2005. Doreen Joseph, 20, of Alert Bay and 23-year-old
Glen Charles Jr. were killed instantly in the crash.
(Victoria Times Colonist) MORE:
Man impaired
Widow recalls tragic night |
Victim previously shot in Toronto
FORT
MCMURRAY - A Toronto police detective confirmed that
McFrinn Paddy, who was found dead in a Fort McMurray
apartment building, was one of four men shot in 2007
when their car was sprayed with bullets from a passing
SUV. (Edmonton Journal) MORE:
Drugs, bullets & murders in Fort Mac
Man found dead
Mother regrets move to Jamestown |
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Lawsuit
LAVAL
- Jocelyne Hotte pulled up alongside Lucie
Gelinas' vehicle on the Metropolitan expressway on June
23, 2001 and opened fire, killing Gelinas and injuring
three passengers. Survivors David Savard, Hugues
Ducharme and his cousin Pierre Mainville are now suing
the city of Laval and the RCMP for $3 million. (CTV)
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Killer cop |
Man to remain in custody
PEMBROKE - Ryan Andrew Guthro, 24, originally of
Kingston but most recently of Golden Lake, made a brief
appearance in bail court in Pembroke. Mr. Guthro is
charged in connection with the death of Ashley Commanda,
35, of Pikwakanagan. (Pembroke Daily Observer)
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Man struck with shovel
Death at Golden Lake |
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Baby still wearing hospital bracelet
CALGARY - One of the babies found dead in a northeast
Calgary home still had a tiny hospital bracelet from its
birth in 2005, say sources. Major crimes Insp. Guy
Slater revealed 27-year-old Harsimrat (Simmi) Kahlon
gave birth to a baby at a Calgary hospital late that
same year. (Sun Media) |
New details in babies deaths
Newborns were decomposed
Mystery surrounds discovery
Seeking answers
Mystery surrounds dead
babies
Newborns deaths suspicious |
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451 murdered in August
CARACAS - No less than 451 people are reckoned to have
been murdered last month alone in Venezuela’s
ultra-violent capital, lending weight to a newly
established ranking as the second most villainous place
on the planet. (LAHT) |
Woman beaten to death
MISSISSAUGA - Peel police say they found Nevie
Phillips suffering from "obvious signs of trauma" when
they arrived at the house on
Laburnum Cres
around 12:30am. (Sun Media) MORE:
Accused mentally ill 'Erratic'
son charged
Son charged
Woman found dead |
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Hit-and-run victim dies
OTTAWA
- Police said Bradley O'Neil, 18, died Thursday
afternoon. Andrew Wiecvzorek, 20, is charged with
failing to remain at the scene of an accident causing
death. (CTV) MORE:
Police
release names |
Fatal assault
EDMONTON -
RCMP announced they had
issued a murder warrant for the arrest of Jesse James
Larose in connection with Michael Joseph
McCarthy's death. (CBC) MORE:
Assault victim dies |
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Man charged in hit & run
EDMONTON - Police have
charged a 26-year-old man in connection with the death
of Manoli (Mike) Rurak. Rurak died in hospital on Sept.
4, 2009 after being hit by a vehicle. Edmonton Police
have charged 26-year-old Tyson Josh Olynyk with criminal
hit and run causing death. (CTV)
PREVIOUS: Hit-and-run Police
look for 911 caller |
Conditional sentence
REGINA
- Some drinks and a few moments on a dark Saskatchewan
highway shattered the lives and dreams of three people
and their families on Nov. 10, 2007. In the aftermath
of a head-on collision, 20-year-old Brandon Chief was
dead. In the offending vehicle, Dayne T. Romanus had
sustained a serious injury that would cost his leg.
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88-year-old killed in hit-and-run
TORONTO - Great-great-grandmother Bernice Field was
walking home from the bank yesterday when a driver
fatally struck her, wiping out one of five generations
in her family. (Sun Media) |
Reward offered
FREDERICTON -
Police are still searching for the
driver, a passenger and the vehicle involved in a
hit-and-run accident that killed Dianne Trottier.
(CBC)
PREVIOUS: Hit-and-run
Woman killed |
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'I've been shot by my husband'
ORANGEVILLE
- "I've been shot by my
husband - help me," Cyril Donaldson's neighbour begged
as she collapsed in his arms. Two hours later, her husband,
Hugh Ferguson, 42, who had barricaded himself in his
house in Mono Township, 13 kilometres north of
Orangeville, shot himself as police surrounded the
house. (Toronto Star) MORE:
SIU investigates
Woman pleaded for help
Teen defends killer father
Woman shot
2 dead |
Teens have long rap sheets
WINNIPEG -
Manitoba’s justice system has been playing
catch-and-release for years with two Winnipeg gang
associates now accused of killing an innocent bystander
just metres away from his five-year-old son. The
15-year-old and 17-year-old were under several court
orders when they were allegedly involved in the Aug. 11
shooting death of Scott McGillivary. (Mike on Crime)
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2 teens charged
Car thieves charged with murder
Two arrested |
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Cold case arrest
VANCOUVER - Victor Fraser, a New Westminster resident,
was stabbed to death March 10, 1998 when he stumbled on
a thief trying to break into his sister's home in the
Bridgeview area. Police arrested 51-year-old Gary
Johnston who was currently on parole for a manslaughter
conviction." (Surrey Now) MORE:
Arrest after 11 years
Arrest in cold case |
Warrants issued
BRAMPTON - Devinder Singh Gill, 33, was killed in the
early morning hours of September 11. Bullets flew around
4am at a home on
Castlehill Drive.
Gurmit Singh Randhawa, 27, and Sawaran Singh Sekhon, 40,
are both wanted for Second Degree Murder. (CityNews)
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’Friends’ clam up
Dead man leaves behind pregnant wife
House party shooting |
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Arrest made
WINNIPEG -
Michael Jok, 17,
died on the early morning of Sept. 6 after suffering
stab wounds. Saturday, police announced the arrest of
Abiola Akintunde Matthews. (CBC) MORE:
Man charged
Family traumatized
Stabbing
Teen dies after stabbing
Teen knifed |
Mother charged
NANAIMO - A 36-year-old woman involved in a
pre-Christmas crash south of Nanaimo that took the lives
of two of her children now faces charges. Clare S.
Bekkers is charged with impaired driving causing death.
(Nanaimo Daily News) MORE:
Mother charged
Crash victims |
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Not guilty
TRURO
- The man accused of causing the death of a
three-year-old girl in 2005 has been found not guilty of
manslaughter. Judge Alan Tufts freed Terry Dean Allen,
28, of Truro, saying Crown attorneys had simply not
proven he caused Samantha Mercer’s death while he was
looking after the toddler four years ago. (Chronicle
Herald) MORE:
Not guilty verdict |
2 years
EDMONTON
- A man who left his friend
dying in a ditch near Edson after a night of drinking
and driving was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison on
Monday. Dwayne MacLean pleaded guilty earlier this year
to impaired driving causing death in a Dec. 8, 2007,
crash that resulted in the death of his friend, Corey
Colthorpe. (Edmonton Journal) |
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Crown to appeal
SASKATOON - Following a Queen's Bench trial in
2007, a jury convicted Gordon Dwight Hurley, 45, of
killing 20-year-old college student Jarita Naistus,
whose body was found in a Lloydminster hotel room on the
morning of Oct. 2, 2005. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix) |
Missing now homicide probe
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE
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The search for a teen missing since last
year is now a homicide investigation, Manitoba RCMP have
confirmed.
Jennifer Catcheway
was reported missing in
June 2008 after failing to arrive at her 19th birthday
party. (CBC) |
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Too drunk to remember
SASKATOON - Brandon Avery White was so drunk, he doesn't
remember pulling the trigger in a gang-related shooting
on Saskatoon's west side nearly two years ago. But the testimony given by witnesses at
his preliminary hearing on a first-degree murder charge
convinced him he must have been the one who killed
20-year-old Catlin Albert Opissinow, so he agreed to
plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
(Saskatoon Star Phoenix) |
Guilty plea
TORONTO -
A Toronto man has entered
four guilty pleas in court after a spectacular
high-speed collision that killed two of his friends and
sent eight others to hospital. Rehan Riaz lowered his
head and quietly said "guilty" in College Park court to
two charges of criminal negligence causing death and two
counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
(Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
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Arrest made
CALGARY - Police in Vancouver have arrested a former
Calgary man wanted in connection with a homicide in this
city. The arrest earlier today comes just two days
after police went public with a manslaughter warrant for
Ryan Charles Everett, 26, in connection with the
drug-related killing of Eric Regimbald in Aug. 27,
2006. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS:
Drugs lead to violent death,
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Man dead after altercation
CROWSNEST PASS
- A southern Alberta man is dead and another is in
police custody after a fight got out of control in the
Crowsnest Pass. George Steve English, 51, from Brocket
died at the scene. Derek Brian Plourde, 45, from Fort
Macleod was arrested and is charged with second degree
murder. (CTV) MORE:
Man charged after fatal fight
Man in custody
Man stabbed |
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'Stomped by the justice system'
TORONTO - The grandmother of US college hockey captain
Mike Serba said he was
"stomped by the justice system" that convicted his
killer of manslaughter instead of murder. Last
November, a jury acquitted Nicholas Crowdis of
second-degree murder but found him guilty of
manslaughter. (Sun Media) PREVIOUS:
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50 months
WINNIPEG - Tyson Galen McKay, 28, pleaded guilty to
criminal negligence causing death and was sentenced to
50-months in prison under a joint recommendation. Sonny James Bjarnason, 20,
was killed in August 2008, while playing a game of cards
with McKay in a Winnipeg home. (Winnipeg Free Press)
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Man charged in shooting death
Man charged |
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Trying to quit 'the game'
TORONTO - Residents in the quiet North York
neighbourhood where
Sheldon Anthony Henry
was gunned down said the father of two was trying to
turn his life around. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Victim was trying to turn his life around
Shooting
Another man gunned down |
No jail time
EDMONTON -
Family for both Christopher James Penner
and his victim, Melissa Elliott, were in court to hear
Queen's Bench Justice Andrea Moen give her sentencing
decision on a crash that happened more than four years
ago. (Edmonton Journal) |
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Gang ritual touted
TORONTO - Area residents familiar with street-gang
affiliations in The Esplanade neighbourhood said
Kamal Hercules, who had
never been in trouble with the law, was killed "for just
being there." (Sun Media) PREVIOUS:
'A
good kid'
Victim identified
Vigil held
'Too many funerals
Shooting |
Graveyard death a homicide
WINNIPEG - Officers announced today that a deceased male
who was found on Sept. 12 in the
St Boniface Cemetery
died from body trauma. Police identified the homicide
victim as Frank Green Jr., 17. (CTV) MORE:
Teen found in cemetery is homicide victim
Grisly graveyard find
Body found in graveyard |
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Woman charged
OTTAWA
- OPP say 17-year-old Emily Watts was stopped to make a
turn on Laurentian Drive in the Ottawa Valley town when
her vehicle was rear-ended. Patricia Boyce of Petawawa
has been charged with impaired driving causing death,
dangerous driving causing death, and criminal negligence
causing death. (CTV) MORE:
'A beautiful girl'
Impaired charge |
Son charged
WHITECOURT, AB
- Relatives visited a Lyons Crescent residence Friday
and found 46-year-old Ronald Greschuk dead in his
basement. Greschuk’s 19-year-old son has been
arrested. Tyler John Greschuk is charged with second
degree murder and offering an indignity to a body.
(Edmonton Journal) MORE:
Murder charge
Man charged |
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Possible vigilante justice
WINNIPEG - Police say Geraldine Beardy was involved in a
theft at the store Sept. 13 and was confronted by an
employee. She died five days later in hospital. An
unnamed 61-year-old man has been arrested and faces
charges of aggravated assault. (CTV) |
Police probe assault death
Police investigate vigilantism
Mystery surrounds death
Assaulted woman dies |
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2nd arrest
TORONTO - Toronto police said Merhawi Tekle, 26, turned
himself in. Tekle and a 14-year-old girl have both been
charged with first-degree murder in connection with the
beating death of Donald Constantine Jackson, 71. (CTV)
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Suspect surrenders
Arrest made, warrant issued
Girl charged
Girl charged
Beating now a homicide |
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Bring her back, family
pleads
Sherri McLaughlin’s
disappearance & presumed murder has gone unsolved since
she vanished Sept. 19, 1993 while riding her bicycle to
an ex-boyfriend’s house in Kamloops. (Vancouver Sun)
Family begs suspect for info |
The Vancouver Sun has learned he is Robert Daniel Dow,
who has three convictions for rape and a criminal
history of violent assaults
against women going back more than
20 years.
Police don't name suspect
Who took Sherri Mclaughlin
RCMP to reveal new evidence |
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Bail granted
LONDON, ON - Since June, Jennifer Sinn, 32, had been in
custody facing three counts of causing an indignity to a
dead body and three counts of disposing of a child's
body with intent to conceal delivery. (Sun Media) |
6 years
WINNIPEG - Hugo Ruizfuentes pleaded guilty to impaired
driving causing death. Ruizfuentes' truck ran a red
light and hit a vehicle driven by Elaine Stoller, 63,
last December. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Guilty plea
Drunk driver guilty |
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2 teens held
WINNIPEG - RCMP said two 16-year-olds were in custody
yesterday in connection with the death of fellow Nelson
House resident Dakota Garth Hunter, 17. (Sun Media)
MORE: Gangs
infest reserve
Community mourns |
First Nation reeling
SECHELT - Gloria Joe said her distant cousin Conrad Joe,
32, died after being stabbed at a house party on Sechelt
Inlet Road. Phil Joe Jr., was arrested by the RCMP.
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Arrested made |
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Guilty plea to lesser charge
IQALUIT -
A man charged with
killing a young girl in
Kugaaruk three
years ago has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Shawn Kayaitok, 23, entered the plea in the Nunavut
Court of Justice in Iqaluit. Kayaitok had originally
pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in connection
with the 2006 death of the girl, whose identity was not
released. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
Murder charge laid
Missing and murdered First Nations for
Nunavut |
Police search for sedan
EDMONTON - Several witnesses told police they saw the
victim striking the vehicle with his hands and yelling
at the person or people inside before being struck by
the car as it fled the parking lot outside the Courtyard
by Marriott at
99th St & Jasper Ave at
9:50pm. Kyle William Swimmer, 34 was dead at the scene
when police arrived. (Edmonton Journal) MORE:
Victim identified
Altercation
Hit-and-run
Man killed in hit and run |
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Pals feared relapse
CALGARY - Many of Laura Furlan's friends watched her
struggle repeatedly to pull herself off the streets and
all the evils that came with that life. And now they
fear it was that realm that led to her death. The
38-year-old's body was found Sept. 8, by a man walking a
dog, seemingly dumped in
Fish Creek Park. (Sun
Media) MORE:
Victim identified
Police ID body
Body dumped
Park searched for clues |
Hearing begins
WINNIPEG -
13-year-old
Candace Derksen was last seen walking home from the
Mennonite Brethren Collegiate in the East Kildonan area
in November 1984. Her frozen body was found seven weeks
later in a shed on Cole Avenue. Mark Edward Grant, 45,
was arrested in May 2007 and charged with first-degree
murder. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
Killing could have been cracked years ago
The Derksen murder |
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10 years
MONTREAL -
A Montreal man who killed a woman while driving drunk
has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Raymond
Lévesque, 60, was sentenced Monday and had his driver's
licence revoked for life after he hit and killed Karine
Méthot, 23, in 2007. (CBC) |
10 years
VANCOUVER - In June a BC Supreme Court jury in Vancouver
found Charlie Rae Lincoln, 23, guilty in the July 2006
slaying of two-year-old Hope Lincoln in the remote BC
coastal town of Bella Bella. (CanWest) PREVIOUS:
Girl slain
BC's child deaths |
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Out on bail
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg family is reeling after learning
the man charged in a deadly hit and run was out on bail
on charges of fleeing the scene of another accident in
the spring. Melissa Ranville, 19, was walking in the
500 block of Sheppard Street in Winnipeg when she was
hit by a car and killed. Roop Singh Dhaliwal, 34, was
charged with failing to remain at the scene of an
accident causing death, driving while disqualified and
two counts of failing to comply with conditions of a
recognizance. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Charges
in hit-and-run |
Family seeks justice
LONDON, ON - All the Seaborne family of London wants is
a few more measly months of justice. Trying to see that
their son's killer, Jonathan Badger, does his full
sentence, they've run up against bureaucracy,
frustration and even a medical condition known as
"broken heart syndrome." The sentence for their son
Terry's killer dropped from a possible 25 years on the
first charge, to 7 years on conviction, to 5 years and 9
months on appeal, then to 4 years because of Canada's
early release system. Now, the killer wants out on day parole. (Sun Media) |
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Deadly attack
SASKATOON - Police
believe two men on bicycles were behind a deadly attack
that left a 52-year-old man dead. Kenward
Cote, a resident of Saskatoon, was identified by police
as the man who died from injuries sustained in
the altercation. (CBC) MORE:
Victim identified |
Victim shot in the back
TORONTO -
Tevane Sean Lennon, 22,
was shot as he was trying to bike away from his killer,
police said. The killer fired about a dozen shots as
Lennon, father of a three-year-old girl, was fleeing
south on Sultan Pool Dr. (Sun Media) MORE:
Left dead in a spray of
gunfire |
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2nd degree murder charge
WILLIAMS LAKE - Bradley William Sleeman, 26, a Williams
Lake man has been charged with second degree murder.
The victim of the homicide has been identified as Ronald
Bernard David Jr., 20. He died in hospital after
receiving injuries in an altercation near
Carson Drive in
Williams Lake. (Williams Lake Tribune) |
Help needed
BELLEVILLE - Police have released a photo of a homicide
victim whose body was pulled from the Moira River two
weeks ago. Police say their investigation suggests
Robert Vaillancourt, 61, died in the early morning hours
of July 23. (CTV)
MORE:
Police issue photo
Police comb homicide scene |
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$2,000 fine
RIMBEY
- 28-year-old Peter Oliver Jorgensen was handed a $2,000
fine in a Rimbey, Alta. courtroom. Last year,
17-year-old Jennifer Noble was killed when Jorgensen's
truck slammed into the back of the school bus she was
riding in. (CTV) MORE:
Charges stayed
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3 formally charged
KITCHENER - Police have charged three people in the
Nadia Gehl case.
Ronald Cyr, 31, Nashat Qahwash, 24, and Zdenek Zvolensky,
24 were arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Cyr is the victim’s husband. (Record) MORE:
3 charged
Police release crime scene |
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Victim identified
TORONTO - Wesler Fabian, of Ottawa, died after being
shot outside the
Howard Johnson Hotel Yorkville
around 4:30am. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Police looking for lone gunman
Man shot outside hotel Victim
in town for Caribana |
Victim identified
MONTREAL - The body of a woman found in a shed in the
north end of Montreal has been identified as that of
Pina Rizzi, hairstylist to the stars. (Montreal
Gazette) PREVIOUS:
Body found |
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Woman arrested
GRAND FORKS - Until this week, Kimberly Ruth Noyes had a
reputation among those who lived near her Grand Forks
home as a good neighbour. No one was prepared when news
broke that Noyes was wanted by police in connection with
the death of her young neighbour, John David Fulton.
(Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Family takes police to task
Police defend lack of Amber Alert
Tragic end to search
Missing boy found murdered |
3
charged
YARMOUTH - Police arrested 32-year-old Jermaine Shawn
Middleton of Yarmouth and charged him with first-degree
murder in Neil Joseph Blades’ death. The police have
also charged 25-year-old Alicia Marie Anderson of
Deerfield with accessory after the fact to murder. An
arrest warrant was issued for a third person Ian Huskins,
28, of Yarmouth. (Yarmouth County Vanguard)
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Victim identified
RCMP release identity |
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RCMP question mother
HIGH PRAIRIE
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RCMP have found the mother of a
baby found dead in a High Prairie backyard last week.
The remains of the infant were found by a High Prairie
man in the evening of Aug. 27 after he discovered a
disturbed patch of ground in the backyard of his
59 Ave house.
(Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS:
Infant remains found
Infant remains found |
2 men charged
PUKATAWAGAN
- Two men from Pukatawagan have been charged with
second-degree murder after RCMP found the body of
Patrick Bighetty, 26, dead in his home on the northern
reserve. Donald Wayne Colomb, 25, and Benjamin Melvin
Dumas, 23, have been charged with second-degree
murder. (Winnipeg Free Press) MORE:
Body found
Man killed |
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Arrest made
TORONTO - Police arrested 22-year-old Marvin Jarrett at
a home on Glenholme Ave. Jarrett had been wanted on
charges of first-degree murder in connection to the
shooting death of
Sebastian Herrera.
(Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
Suspect named
Killed for $50 necklace
Shooting |
Guilty plea
WINNIPEG - Elaine Stoller was driving along Grant Avenue
last December when she was struck by a truck running a
red light. Police arrested the driver of the truck Hugo
Ruiz Fuentes in connection with the death. (CTV)
MORE:
Drunk driver guilty |
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Victim identified
TORONTO - Police have made two
arrests in connection with a drive-by shooting that
claimed the life of 34-year-old
Bishen Golaub. Police
announced that Christopher Sheriffe, 19 and Awet Asfaha,
24, had been arrested and are facing first-degree murder
charges. (CTV) MORE:
Gang rivalry cited |
Manslaughter
BONNVVILLE - Police believe Clayton Tyler
Procinksi, the driver of a pickup truck, collided
head-on with a car killing 51-year-old Ivan Charles
Paul, 35-year-old Frances Gadwa, 15-year-old Alexis
Gadwa and 14-year-old Sarah Gadwa. (CTV) MORE:
Charges laid in crash that
killed family |
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Charge laid
WINNIPEG -
An autopsy has
confirmed Joshua River, 20, of
Bloodvein First Nation
died as a result of blunt force trauma. Police have now
laid second degree murder charges against Bloodvein
resident Charles Orvis, 20. (CTV)
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Man wanted is victim
TORONTO - Police have identified homicide victim number
38. He is 30-year-old Jamie Hull. He is the same
person police had recently been seeking in connection
with a death threat against a woman and her family.
(CTV) MORE:
Victim identified Man
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Teardrop quashes acquittal
TORONTO - In North American gang culture, a teardrop
tattoo on your face often means you've killed a rival
gang member. But the jury that acquitted Warren Abbey
of the execution-style shooting of a supposed gang rival
two years ago never heard about the teardrop he had
inked on his face four or five months after the murder.
(Toronto Star) MORE:
New trial ordered
Gang culture hard call for judges
Acquitted |
Victim linked to Montreal Mafia
MONTREAL - A man who once served jail time in Venezuela
with reputed mob boss Nicolo Rizzuto was gunned down in
the parking lot of the popular Italian restaurant he
partly owned in Ahuntsic. Fredrico Del Peschio, 59, of
Laval, died shortly after being rushed to a hospital
after he was shot in the parking lot at the back of the
La Cantina restaurant on St. Laurent Blvd. (Montreal
Gazette) MORE:
Mob hit? |
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Charge in homicide case
MONTREAL - Frank Antoine Joseph, 18, has been charged
with first degree murder. The charge stems from an
incident on June 14, when Louino Jeune, 20, was shot in
the head as he stood outside a building near the corner
of Allée des Pruches and Duquesne St. (Montreal
Gazette) PREVIOUS:
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Son charged
KELOWNA -
Cameron Capozzi
was charged with second-degree murder Friday in the
death of his mother, Josephine (Babs) Capozzi, in
Kelowna on Tuesday. (Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Son charged with 2nd degree
Woman identified
Mystery surrounds death
Police investigating suspicious death |
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Driver charged
EDMONTON - Police charged 33-year-old Michael Jacob
Grenke of Kelowna with impaired driving causing death.
Police said the front passenger, a 31-year-old male,
was pronounced dead at the scene. (CTV) |
Murder charges laid
MONCTON -
Norman Robert Gratton, 46, and Rebecca Nicholas, 31,
were charged with first-degree murder afternoon in the
death of Durward Jardine, 76, whose body was discovered
at a Moncton motel. MORE:
2 arrested |
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Homicide
SASKATOON
- Charlotte Dawn Jolly, a 19-year-old single mother, has
been identified as the victim. (CBC) MORE:
Teen
accused
'Do it for the baby' Victim
was single mom
Police ID victim
Victim
confronted shooter |
1 year for each life
CHATHAM - Wladyslaw Bilski was sentenced to four years
in prison for impaired driving causing the deaths of
Marion Dawson, Verna Neaves, Bernice Phillips and Jean
Ripley. (Sun Media) MORE:
4 years
Sentencing for driver |
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Call for investigation
Police investigating the disappearance of missing and
murdered women across this country are being urged to
take a long, hard look at the trucking industry,
following an FBI investigation that has linked serial
killings to long-haul truck drivers in the US.
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Yellowhead Highway 16 |
Teen faces charges
ST ROCH L'ACHIGAN
- A man is
facing charges after a car chase in May left one
teenager dead and another injured near near St. Roch
L'Achigan. Marc-Andre Chicoine Blain, 16, died in
hospital after the car he and a 15-year-old friend had
stolen lost control, flipped several times and hit a
tree. He was the passenger. (CTV) |
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Unsolved part 4
TORONTO - Since the 1960s, some 300 homicides have gone
unsolved in Toronto. In a 4 part series we profile
several victims. (Star) |
Site stores the keys to
unsolved crimes
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Even a speck of DNA goes a
long way
Cases cold but heat's still
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2 arrested
TORONTO - Charged are a 16-year-old, who cannot be
named, and David Jajua, 18. The body of
Nerio Valdez was found
Aug. 2 near a hydro field in the Provence Trail and
Cabernet Circle area by a group of hikers. (CTV)
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found
Discovery of teen's body |
Driver charged
PERTH
- Michael Whyte was killed when he lost control of his
car and was thrown from his vehicle. He was pronounced
dead at the scene. Christopher Harris, 21, is charged
with dangerous driving, racing a motor vehicle and
failing to stop for police. (CTV) MORE:
Street racing charges |
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Victim ID'd through fingerprints
MONTREAL - The woman found dead in Laval on Monday
morning was identified Wednesday as Sonia Frappier, 30.
(Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS:
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Woman's body found |
Sex convict charged
CALGARY - Norman Eli Larue has been charged with
first-degree murder in the slaying of 63-year-old Gordon
Seybold. (Sun Media) MORE:
Pair charged with murder
Mounties arrest 2
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Man dies after fight
PETERBOROUGH - Police say the two men, aged 42 and 38
from Leeds, England, were visiting Peterborough on a
fishing trip. The 42-year-old man, Stuart Firth, later
died of his injuries in a Kingston hospital. Lawrence
Carnrite, of no fixed address, is charged with assault
with a weapon in relation to the injured victim.
(Toronto Star) MORE:
Accused
says he's 'fall guy'
Dad killed in gang attack
Man killed on Canadian holiday |
Driver jailed
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg gang associate admits he was
fuelled by alcohol, drugs and a “jealous rage” when he
ran a red light at nearly twice the legal speed limit,
killed David Woodhouse, 53, an innocent motorist and
then fled the scene. Edward Carriere, 27, was sentenced
to four years in prison after pleading guilty. In
reality, he could serve as little as 18 actual months
behind bars. (Mike on Crime)
PREVIOUS: Driver
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Husband charged
MONTREAL - A 41-year-old man, once described as an
"important witness" in the death of his wife in St.
Michel, was arrested Wednesday and charged with her
murder. The couple's children, who saw their mother's
body in the home, remain in protective custody. (CTV)
MORE:
Police arrest husband
Police investigating homicide
Woman killed, 'important witness’ in
hospital |
Murder-suicide
MONTREAL - A man and a woman in their 60's died in the
domestic dispute in St-Jean-de-Matha. The woman had
returned home with a Surete du Quebec escort in order to
collect her belongings. When the officer stepped
outside the home, the woman's husband stabbed her to
death before turning the weapon on himself. (CTV)
MORE:
Woman killed while under SQ
escort |
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Driver charged
WINNIPEG - RCMP have laid charges in a crash that killed
a 17-year-old girl in June near Bethany, Manitoba.
Christopher Ryan Rollings, 19, is facing numerous
charges including impaired driving causing death. The
victim,
Jodie Lynn Vandenberghe,
17, was killed instantly June 19 when she was ejected
from the vehicle after its driver lost control on a
gravel road. (CTV) |
Manslaughter charge
TORONTO - At about 10pm Tuesday, 17-year-old Patrick
John Smith was hanging out with his girlfriend and
another friend in an apartment on
George St, when police
say his friend's handgun went off, hitting Smith in the
torso. Police recovered the unregistered handgun at the
scene and charged 18-year-old Quincy Callaghan-Thomas
with manslaughter. (CityNews) PREVIOUS:
5 shot, 1 dies
Night of gun play |
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Man admits committing murder
TORONTO - A former Canada Post supervisor admitted today
to the 1992 killing of his girlfriend, two years after
the Supreme Court of Canada threw out his conviction in
a landmark decision because key evidence was obtained
through hypnosis. Stephen Trochym pleaded guilty to the
manslaughter of Donna Hunter, who was found slashed and
stabbed in her High Park apartment. (Toronto
Star) MORE:
Man admits to 1992 murder
After 17 years
Canada bans post-hypnotic evidence
2007 SCC 6 |
Gang hitmen get more jail time
TORONTO - Three Galloway Boys gunmen got the toughest
sentences possible yesterday for attempted murder and
for committing crimes as members of a gang. Tyshan
Riley and Philip Atkins, both 26, and Jason Wisdom, 23,
got life sentences for attempted murder in an ambush at
a Malvern intersection that also took the life of
Brenton Charlton March
3, 2004. (Sun Media) MORE:
Concurrent life sentences
Trio jailed
Galloway Boys convicted
Emotions run high as trio convicted |
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Beaten man dies
MONTREAL - A 52-year-old man who was badly beaten while
he was collecting beer cans near the Prince of Wales
rail bridge more than a week ago has died from his
injuries. Kenneth Dabene died after his family decided
to take him off life support. (CTV) MORE:
Man beaten on pathway dies |
Arrest made
PORT HAWKESBURY - RCMP officers picked up 37-year-old
Marcus Wilson, of Quinte West, at a truck stop near Port
Hawkesbury, NS. He was wanted for first degree-murder
in the death of 36-year-old James Read, also of Quinte
West. (Sun Media) MORE:
Slaying at CFB Trenton
Death near military quarters |
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Vet killed in hit and run
KELOWNA - Police in Kelowna are looking for a
hit-and-run driver who struck down a 78-year-old war
veteran as he walked along the side of the road early
Saturday morning. Arthur Horton's body was found on the
south shoulder in the 3100-block Sexsmith Road just before 5am Monday. (Vancouver Province) |
Father fights through pain
SMITH
- Four family members were found dead inside a house
Sunday. Granddaughter Misty, her mother Jolene,
grandfather Ian Paget, and grandmother Joan. It's
believed the grandfather committed the murders and then
took his own life. (CTV) MORE:
Family killed by gunfire
Violence 'out of character'
Family found dead |
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Fight, stabbing
POWELL RIVER - Police had been called to a report of a
fight in the
4000-block of River Road
on the Sli’ammon First Nation in the early-morning
hours. When they arrived they found 20-year-old Emma
Megan Wilson suffering from a stab wound. (Vancouver
Province) |
Dad dismembered, son charged
WINNIPEG - In a set of truly disturbing allegations, a
17-year-old boy is accused of fatally stabbing his dad,
cutting the body into pieces and dumping the remains in
wilderness north of Winnipeg. (Sun Media) MORE:
Teen accused
Teen charged |
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Infant dies in assault case
HALIFAX - A
baby girl suspected of being abused has died in a
Halifax hospital. . The parents of the infant, both 23,
are in custody while they await a court appearance on
counts of aggravated assault. (CBC) |
Motorcyclist charged
EDMONTON - A 30-year old Edmonton man has been charged
in the fatal collision that claimed the life of his
20-year old passenger. Curtis Chilke has been charged
with dangerous driving causing death. (CTV) |
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Not criminally responsible
TORONTO - For weeks, Charlene Chambers was constantly
hearing loud voices. Finally, she silenced what she
believed was a demon growling at her from inside her
3-year-old daughter. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
'Very sweet and pleasant kid'
Mother charged with murder
Toddler's burned body found in home |
Man killed at birthday party
TORONTO - A birthday bash turned deadly at an upscale
home in Scarborough as an 18-year-old man was gunned
down in a suspected drive-by shooting. The victim,
Tevon Mitchell, also
known to his friends as T-Pain, was among the crowd out
front. (Sun Media) MORE:
Teen shot dead at party
Teen shot at house party |
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Deadly shootout
ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Henry Burgess died after being shot
in Sandoval County, north of the New Mexico capital of
Albuquerque. During the shootout Sergeant
Joe Harris was fatally
shot in his lower torso. Police have since confirmed
that Burgess was the prime suspect in the murder of Leis
Carlsson and Ann Durrant - two campers who were shot to
death in their tent in 1972. (CTV) MORE:
AMW: Joseph Henry Burgess
Fugitive accused of murdering couple
Slain burglar tied to Canadian killings |
Teen found guilty
VICTORIA -
A 17-year-old
youth has been convicted of the second-degree murder of
University of Victoria student Philbert Truong last July. Judge Evan Blake also found the youth
guilty of the attempted murder of Thuan Le and Robin
Lepard, who were seriously injured during the early-
morning shooting on July 19, 2008. (Victoria Times
Colonist) PREVIOUS:
Trial to determine if killing was planned
'You'll have to shoot me first'
Shooter has Red Scorpion link
Charges laid
1 dead, 2 wounded |
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'If my son was guilty, he was crazy'
CALGARY - The Hollywood lifestyle corrupted
Ryan Jenkins, a former
Calgary man accused in the slaying of his ex-wife
Jasmine Fiore, his
father said. (Calgary Herald) |
Blood spatters found in Fiore's car
Sister was mystery woman
Jenkins found dead
Suicide details
Case Contrasts Law Enforcement Styles
Manhunt: Ryan Jenkins |
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Youth murder sentence
EDMONTON - A teenage gangster who stabbed his girlfriend
to death because he feared he would be killed if he
didn’t do it was handed the maximum youth sentence of
seven years in a Dawson Creek, BC courtroom Thursday.
Neither the killer nor his young victim can be named
under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. (Edmonton
Journal) PREVIOUS:
Last moments revealed in court
Guilty plea |
Killer released
CALGARY -
Police issued a warning that Matthew
Adrian Boyes, 38, has been released in the Calgary area
from jail. Boyes served a 6-year manslaughter sentence
for killing Huy Quang Nguyen in 2002. At the time of
that killing, Boyes was on parole for another
manslaughter where he was sentenced to 8-years behind
bars for killing a male prostitute. (Calgary Herald) |
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Suspect arrested
QUESNEL - Police are investigating an apparent targeted
murder in Quesnel. One man has been arrested after
police were called to a residence at 2am Wednesday.
Police found a dead Caucasian male in his 40s. The
victim is known to police. (Vancouver Province) |
Suspicious death
DOLLARD DES ORMEAUX - A 29-year-old man is dead after he
fell seven stories from an apartment balcony on
St-Jean Blvd
in Dollard des Ormeaux. The man suffered injuries to
his upper body that may have been inflicted before he
fell. (Montreal Gazette) |
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Death under investigation
WINNIPEG - The body of a missing woman from Hollow Water
First Nation has been found. The body of 42 year old
Barbara Cawley was discovered in an outdoor area of
Hollow Water. (CTV) |
Man shot at birthday party
LAVAL
- Police were called shortly after 1:15am at
Vanier Blvd & Dinel St
and found the lifeless body of the victim outside the
home - and many witnesses fleeing the scene.
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Wondering why he's still alive
WINNIPEG
- Mike Halabiski has spent many sleepless nights lately
wondering why he’s still alive. His common-law wife,
Cheryl Robert, was standing directly beside him when she
was shot in the head and died. (Mike on Crime) |
Wedding reception seen as Warriors event
Gang members at wedding
Wedding shooting reveals gang war
3 shot at wedding |
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Guilty verdict
BARRIE
- Over the past two months, the jury sat through
horrific evidence of how
Katlin
Cousineau - a 23-year-old with
the maturity of a 13-year-old - was trapped in the
basement, naked, while Paul Bradey, 46, burned her
entire body with a blow torch November 11, 2005. Bradey
then schemed to burn his house down to hide the
evidence. (Sun Media) |
Guilty of murder in torture
death
Final moments detailed
Abuse a game
'She was just lying there, humming'
Woman suffered 'degradation'
Judge shaken by 'sadistic’
death |
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18 years
TORONTO - Arssei Hindessa was found guilty of stabbing
Natalie Novak to death on May 15, 2006. (CTV)
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No parole for 18 years
'We feel betrayed'
'Natural born killer' guilty
Saying goodbye to a dear friend |
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Friends shocked
WINNIPEG - Her friends say they cannot believe that
Nicole Redhead would harm her daughter, let alone be
implicated in her death. The 27-year-old was charged
with second degree murder Thursday in the death of her
20-month-old daughter Jaylene. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Mom charged |
Arrest made
TORONTO - Abdi Warsame, 16, was found beaten to
death May 4, 2008 in the stairwell of a Cougar Ct.
building where his family lived. Adrian Narayan, 20, of
Toronto, is scheduled to appear in court. (Sun Media)
MORE:
Arrest in beating death
Suspect charged
Victim was 'severely beaten to death' |
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Man charged with killing child
RED
DEER - The toddler died after a violent incident on Oct.
12, 2008, at a house in the
4800-block of 46th St
in Red Deer. After a lengthy investigation, Evan
Gilmer, 30, was re-arrested and charged with
second-degree murder. (Edmonton Journal) |
'Garbage’
WINNIPEG - Roni Tyson Harper, 24, and Graham Phillip
Wood, 19, each pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in
connection with the June 2008 attack. Harper, at the
time, was leader of a gang called the Garden Hill
Crazies (Sun Media) |
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Injuries missed
MONTREAL - Brazilian authorities who conducted the
initial autopsy of
Arturo Gatti overlooked
certain injuries, a pathologist hired by the ex-boxing
champ's family said after a 2nd forensic examination.
(CTV) |
1st autopsy incomplete
Death ruled suicide
Gatti hanged self from staircase
Gatti family wants new autopsy |
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3 arrested in death down under
MELBOURNE - Victoria police say Cain Anthony Aguiar, 25,
was drinking alone at the Blarney Stone Hotel on
Anderson Street in Yarraville on July 9 when he
allegedly got in a fight with a group of men as he left
the hotel shortly before midnight. (Vancouver
Province) MORE:
3 in court over fatal bashing |
Sentence 'a joke'
EDMONTON - Family members of victim Judy Dickie called
the sentence a "joke" and rejected the apology given by
killer Joseph Trevor Halcrow, who maintained the deadly
Oct. 14, 2004, shooting was an accident. (Sun Media)
MORE:
Manslaughter sentence
She died 'scared and alone' |
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Warlord's son snatched for murder
LONDON -.
A judge allowed publication for the first time of a deal
which saw the Foreign and Home Offices pay the African
state, which has no diplomatic ties with London, to
seize 29-year-old Mustaf Jama in the desert two years
ago, close to his warlord father's headquarters.
(Guardian UK) MORE:
Robber convicted
Gangster jailed for life
Sharon Beshenivsky |
Charges laid
ORILLIA, ON. - Charges have been laid against the owners
of a Muskoka seniors residence where a fire in January
claimed four lives. Two residents, aged 86 and 90, died
of smoke inhalation in the blaze at the Muskoka Heights
Retirement Residence in Orillia, Ont. Two more people
died in March of injuries they suffered in the blaze.
(CTV) MORE:
Fire brings charges |
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3 years
CALGARY - Christopher Thomas Guthrie pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the one-punch death of Donald Gregg
Foran, after the two got into an argument when the
deceased refused his request for 50 cents. (Sun Media)
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Assault victim dies |
Man found dead a homicide
BELLEVILLE - Police are treating the case of a
61-year-old local man found dead in the Moira River as a
homicide. Robert Vaillancourt was recovered from the
water behind 350 Front St. after emergency crews were
called at about 11am. (CTV) MORE:
Death ruled a homicide |
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Charges laid
CALGARY - 29-year-old Chang Yong Yun is charged with
second-degree murder in the stabbing death of
33-year-old James Dale Larter. (CTV) MORE:
2nd degree charge
Police arrest suspect
Man found stabbed dies |
Woman dies
MONTREAL - Vivian-Marie Carcasse was arrested trying to
leave the hospital after bringing the victim to the
emergency room in his arms. The woman was declared dead
shortly after. (Montreal Gazette) |
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2 charged
TORONTO -
Annushath Indrakanthan,
19, was swarmed on July 20 outside a strip mall on
Bonis Avenue. Charged
with first-degree murder are: Vikas Dahiya, 21, and
Antriksh Singh, 19. (CTV) MORE:
2 men charged
Another Tamil man beaten and killed
Swarming |
Park swarming
TORONTO -
Kristian Thanapalan never
stood a chance. The 22-year-old was swarmed by as many
as 25 men and beaten to death with baseball and cricket
bats. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Beating death
Swarmed, beaten to death
Park brawl |
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Guilty of manslaughter
MISSISSAUGA - Jurors acquitted Jason Hay, 21, of
first-degree murder in the Nov. 3, 2007 shooting death
of
David Latchana, 23.
(Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
Victim gave evidence in gang trial
Arrests in shooting death
Murder warrant issued |
Man charged
REGINA - A
man, 22, is to appear in a Regina court charged in
connection with the death of an 18-month-old boy.
Police arrested Jason Brian Emil Will and charged him
with aggravated assault. (CBC) MORE:
Boy's death suspicious |
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Arrest made
CHETWYND - A 24 year old man has been arrested and is
awaiting a court appearance in Dawson Creek, charged
with the murder of Annie Davis whose body was found on
Jackfish Lake Rd near Chetwynd on May 8th of 2008.
(Opinion 250) MORE:
Male charged
Chetwynd rattled by murder
Deceased, victim of murder |
Judge delays decision
VANCOUVER - Paul Wettlaufer appeared in Surrey court to
ask a judge to end the 10-year-driving ban imposed when
he was sentenced six years ago - but the judge says he
needs more time to make a final decision. (CTV)
PREVIOUS:
Killer bids to regain license
Hit-and-Run driver wants his license back
What is Carley's law? |
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18 month conditional sentence
WINNIPEG -
Michelle Camire, 27, was found guilty of manslaughter
earlier this year following a jury trial. Queen’s Bench
Justice Deborah McCawley said Camire was an otherwise
good mother who “momentarily lost it” and committed a
horrible act she will regret the rest of her life.
(Mike on Crime) PREVIOUS:
Guilty of manslaughter
Baby death hangs jury
Mistrial
'My baby, I've killed him' |
Plea bargain
SWAN RIVER
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Melissa Audy, 25, pleaded guilty
to failing to provide the necessities of life and was
sentenced to one year in jail as part of a plea bargain
between Crown and defence lawyers. The facts of Venecia
Audy’s tragic August 2006 death in the village of
Bowsman
have become public for the first
time. (Mike on Crime) COMMENT:
Child must come first, not
unfit parents |
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Birthday party brawl
BURLINGTON - A 17-year-old is in custody after trying to
flee on a skateboard from the scene of an early-morning
birthday party brawl that left a 16-year-old boy dead
and two others wounded. (Sun Media) MORE:
Teen charged
Teen charged in party slaying
Stabbings |
Sea-Doo hit-and-run
NEGUAC,
NB -
France Allain was driving
a speedboat in Neguac Bay with two other people on board
when a Sea-Doo being ridden by a man collided with the
boat, RCMP said. Allain was killed when the small craft
rode up on the boat and struck her. (CBC) |
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Abbotsford highest homicide rate
The murder rate
across Canada rose in 2008 with Abbotsford-Mission
having the highest per capita homicide rate in the
country. (CanWest) |
Police-reported crime
statistics 2008
Crime numbers don't add up
Police-reported crime down
in 2008
World's highest murder rate |
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Family charged
KINGSTON - Mohammad Shafia, 56, his wife Tooba Mohammad
Yahya, 39, and their eldest son, Hamed Shafia, 18, all
face first-degree murder charges in the deaths, which
came to light last month after a Nissan Sentra was
discovered in the canal near the Kingston Mills Locks.
(Montreal Gazette) |
Family problems evident before killings
Daughter’s lifestyle angered parents
Were deaths a matter of 'honour'?
Parents, brother charged
An honour killing?
Police ID 4
Family believes deaths were an accident
Death plunge a mystery
4 bodies found |
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Drunk driver gets 5 years
HAMILTON - Robert Harpwood begins serving a five-year
prison term for driving drunk and killing two of his
closest friends. Michael Smith, 22, who was seated in
the rear of the GMC Jimmy, was killed instantly in the
April 20, 2006 crash. Stephanie Opalchuk died in
hospital five months later. (Hamilton Spectator)
3 killed in hit-and-run
Suspected drunk driver kills
3
5 years for drunk driver
5 years
Motorist guilty
Grieving family
Accused driver free on bail |
5 years for drunk driving
death
Bear sentenced to six years
Drunk driver to serve 3
years
Punishment 'too light'
Drunk driver's house arrest
falls short: MADD
Drunk is no defence
6 years
Drunken
car thief gets 6 years
Drunken car thief
2 arrested
Hit-and-run driver charged
Man left to die
Drunk driver sentenced to jail
Cabbie killed by drunk teen
Taxi driver killed |
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A public shame
WINNIPEG - The young woman with a million-dollar smile
was found face down in a ditch July 2, days after being
reported missing, yet again, by family. Cherisse Houle,
17, also had haunted, sorrowful eyes that spoke volumes
of her life as a teen exploited on the streets.
(Free Press)
Cherisse would have been 18th
Chronic runaway
RCMP identify girl |
'Survival
sex'
Dead teens tied to drug lair
30
unsolved and counting
Valentine's Day march
Action group
Sisters in spirit
Project disappear
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Possible murder-suicide
VERNON
- RCMP were called to the Holiday Park property in the
2700-block of Lakeshore Rd
after reports of shots being fired from a trailer near
the back of the park. The ERT team entered the home and
discovered the bodies of the couple who lived at the
home: Peter Zieman, 71, and his wife, Bernice, 68.
Police have learned through their investigation that
the man was suffering from a terminal illness. (Vernon
Morning Star) |
Charges laid in stabbing
CALGARY - 44-year-old Luc Beaudry was stabbed at a
residence located in the
7200-block of 20A St SE
just before 8am Friday. 37-year-old Darcy Hunt has been
charged with one count of second degree murder.
27-year-old Brian Blais has been charged with one count
of assault, one count of assault with a weapon, and one
count of assault causing bodily harm. (CTV)
MORE:
Friend 'died in my arms'
2 in custody after stabbing |
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Murder charge
MONTREAL - A 21-year-old Sept-Îles man was charged with
second-degree murder Monday in connection with the death
of Eric Tremblay, who was found in
Viger Park. Julien
Labrie appeared briefly in Quebec Court. (Montreal
Gazette) MORE:
Charges expected |
Man turns himself in
ROSETOWN, SK
- Delbert Stephenson, 64, was found dead in a ditch
behind a Rosetown motel early Tuesday. On Wednesday,
Greg Ross Edward Jones, 23, turned himself in to RCMP.
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17 years
ST.
JOHN'S - Warren White, 36, pleaded guilty last month to
second-degree murder in the death of Amanda Power, 29,
whose torso was discovered in a suitcase near their
Warbury Street home. (CBC) PREVIOUS:
Man dismembered girlfriend
Jarring photographs
Chilling evidence |
2 charged
MAGRATH
- Lyle Scott Madge, 29, died shortly after being stabbed
outside a house in front of witnesses Saturday at 2am.
Addison Wakefield has been charged with second-degree
murder. Kristian Ramberg is charged with assault
with a weapon. (Calgary Herald) MORE:
Murder in Magrath |
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4th arrest
BRAMPTON -
Police initially
arrested two suspects,
a 16- and a 17-year-old the next day, and another
17-year-old turned himself in to authorities on Sunday.
But there was one underage suspect still outstanding
and cops wound up arresting the boy, also 17, late
Wednesday. All four suspects are facing second-degree
murder charges. (CityNews) PREVIOUS:
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Boy shot
Suspected drug deal
15-year-old dead
Last moments |
Remains identified
EDMONTON - Dental records match those of Alysa Zatelny,
19, a Grande Prairie woman last seen by a friend on June
11. The medical examiner is still working to figure out
how Zatelny died. Christopher Francis Podruzny, 21, and
a 14-year-old girl who cannot be identified have been
charged with causing an indignity to a human body.
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4 arrested
WINNIPEG - The homicide investigation from a call that
came in about a stabbing on at Aikins Street and Alfred
Avenue has turned into a list of offences that would
indicated a rampage though the streets of Winnipeg.
Arrested are: Randall Preston Bourassa, 21, James
Michael McMahon, 21, Matthew Larocque, 18, and 17 year
old male youth, all are from Winnipeg. (CTV) MORE:
4
charged in killing |
Ex faces murder charge
ST. JOHN’S -
Ray Newman, the
estranged husband of a woman found slain in her St.
John's apartment more than two years ago, was charged
Thursday with second-degree murder in her death.
Newman, 31, has been charged in the January 2007 death
of Chrissy Predham-Newman. (CBC)
MORE:
Charges laid in 2007 killing
Don't make assumptions
Slain woman planned to divorce husband |
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Driver allowed man to drown
LONDON, Ont. - Lambton OPP said Lawrence Roderick Bush,
48, the suspect in the bizarre crash that killed Roland
Bruno, 47, of Sarnia, remains in custody and that
charges have been upgraded. (Sun Media) |
Suspect arrested
CALGARY -
Aaron Stevens was wanted
for the first degree murder of 29-year old Daniel
Levesque. Levesque was brutally killed in his home on
Braniff Rd. SW on June 29, 2008. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
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Driver facing charges
HAMILTON - An initial investigation showed that a black
SUV that was driving west on York Blvd had struck and
killed 81-year-old Tong Vi Duong of Hamilton. Allan Maki, 40, of Stoney Creek, faces
three counts of criminal negligence causing death and
three counts of dangerous driving causing death.
(Toronto Star) MORE:
Victims were newlyweds |
Arrest made
MISSISSAUGA
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At 1:39am, police
responded to a shots-fired report at a home on
Monica Dr.
They found 22-year-old Brampton resident Nicarno Anthony
Wright. Neil Adrian Davis, 26, made a court appearance
to face a charge of first-degree murder. (CTV)
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Man slain at house party
Police investigating house party homicide |
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Man charged
WINNIPEG -
The body of
Lillian Ann Green, 45, was found Tuesday evening inside
a suite at the Madison apartment building on Evanson
Street. Winnipegger Athan Kaz Courchaine, 30, has been
charged with second-degree murder. (CBC) MORE:
Death a homicide
Woman found dead |
15-year-old charged
TROUT LAKE
- A 15-year-old male youth
has been charged with second-degree murder in the death
of a 21-year-old male from the Peerless Lake Settlement
near Red Earth Creek. An autopsy concluded that the
death of Dylan Fleury Netowastenum to be a homicide.
(CTV) MORE:
Death a homicide
Death investigated |
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Suspects arrested
TORONTO -
Mexican nationals Juan Antonio Reyes, 23, and Ana Laura
Rodrigues, 19, were arrested on Nov. 28 by Mexican
authorities. The two now face extradition to Canada.
Police in Toronto had issued arrest warrants for the
pair in July after Consuelo Valencia-Russo, 44, was
found in the trunk of her Toyota Corolla in the visitor
parking lot of the building she had lived in for 10
years. (CanWest) |
Suspects to be extradited
Pair arrested
Mexico wasn't far enough
Teacher's final moments
Suspects identified
Police hunt for suspects
Woman found in car trunk
Body is teacher
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No charges
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE - Two men who were arrested and
questioned in connection with the disappearance of
24-year-old Amber-Lynn McFarland have been released
without being charged. Mounties arrested McFarland's
ex-boyfriend, 39-year-old Kelly Garrioch, and his friend
40-year-old Graham Saxon. (Free Press) |
Men released
Ex-boyfriend also arrested
2nd arrest made
2nd arrest
Case now a murder
investigation
Missing woman feared slain |
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Arrest in double homicide
BRAMPTON -
On June 6, Peel
police responded to a report of shots fired at
8678 Chinguacousy Rd.
There's they found Terrence Elliott Hughes, 40, and
Garth Nicholas Palmer, 29. Police arrested Mustafa
Omar, 22, at his home in Toronto and charged him with
second-degree murder. (CTV) MORE:
Police make arrest
Hughes & Palmer homicides
2 killed named
Mystery surrounds shooting
Victims identified
2 dead in shooting |
15 years
NORTH
HERO, Vt. - A Vermont judge has sentenced a 51-year-old
Montreal woman to 15 years in prison for drowning her
8-year-old son three years ago. Louise Desnoyers
pleaded no contest earlier this year in the death of
Nicholas Desnoyers-Langlois. She told authorities she
held her son under water so he wouldn't have to suffer
through her impending break-up with his father. (AP)
MORE:
Mom sentenced
Mother charged
Vermont State Police |
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'Remorseless' girl out of jail
WINNIPEG - A 15-year-old girl who pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the beating death of Spence Street
resident Audrey Cooper has been released from custody
and ordered to live in a group home for troubled youth.
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not ready to release killer
Only 12 and already a killer
Teens charged in 'random' homicide |
Suspected dealer gunned down
LAVAL
- The list of enemies Bachir Ayad could have assembled
in his line of work is potentially long. That is the
daunting task Laval police investigators face as they
attempt to find out who was responsible for what appears
to have been a well-planned hit on Ayad in front of his
home in Laval's Chomedey district. (Montreal Gazette)
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Adult sentence
TORONTO - A
Toronto judge has decided that the teenage girl convicted in the murder
of 14-year-old Stefanie Rengel must take responsibility for the crime as
an adult. Melissa Todorovic, 17, was sentenced as an adult
for first-degree murder.
(CTV)
A danger to the public
Teen sentenced as adult
Life for teen
M.T. apologizes for murder
Gag orders in a Facebook age
Police identify victim |
Life sentence
Stefanie Rengel
Natural born killer
Adult sentence
'I can't ever forgive
myself'
Killer weeps
Killer speaks
'I wish I could change everything'
Psychiatric tests ordered for M.T
Guilty plea
Rengel case statement of facts
What the jury didn't hear
'Did you do it
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Murder charge
GATINEAU -
A 26-year-old
Ottawa man appeared in Gatineau court on a first-degree
murder charge following the death of 19-year-old David
Valladares, who was shot and killed outside the Cabaret
Le Pink strip club in
Aylmer. Mohamed Farouk
Ahmed was arrested in a Gatineau residence on Des Grives
Boulverad along with Mustafa Ahmed, 21, of Ottawa, and
Adil Hassan Omer, 25, of Gatineau.. (Ottawa Citizen)
MORE:
3 arrested
Bloodbath at strip club |
10 years for 'random' killing
TORONTO - "Nick Brown was peacefully riding a TTC subway
train when he was attacked by the accused who was armed
with a sharp knife in a random, unprovoked killing,"
said Mr. Justice Eugene Ewaschuk in sentencing John Paul
Vallon, 28, for manslaughter in the April 13, 2007,
death of Brown, 21, on a train entering the Victoria
Park subway station. (Sun Media) MORE:
10 years for subway killing
Family outraged
Subway killer gets 10 years
Arrest in stabbing
Man charged |
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Family mourns loss
WINNIPEG - Albert Goosehead, 12, was beaten to death
with a baseball bat. It happened on the
Bloodvein First Nation,
but the family still does not have many concrete details
of exactly what happened to their boy.
18-year-old
Tennessee Waylon Weedmark is charged with second-degree
murder. (CTV)
MORE:
Boy beaten to death |
Arrest made
TORONTO - Police have made an arrest in the murder of
22-year-old Toronto resident Zabiullah Mojaddedi. He
was murdered in an alleged drive-by shooting on
Gilder Dr
Aug. 5. Police announced that Tristan Lall, 25, of
Toronto, was arrested without incident. (CTV)
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15 years
MONCTON -
Court of Queen's Bench Judge George Rideout ordered
David Joseph Ouellette to serve a life sentence with no
chance of parole for 15 years for second-degree murder
in the killing of Douglas Edgett, and seven years for
manslaughter for killing Cheryl Pyne. (CBC) MORE:
No remorse
Guilty pleas
Guilty pleas in cold cases
RCMP lay charges in cold cases |
Teen sent to jail
HALIFAX - A 19-year-old was handed a youth sentence
Friday in the stabbing death of a Cole Harbour man
nearly two years ago. The Dartmouth teen pleaded guilty
to a charge of second-degree murder for killing Matthew
James Ayer. The 28-year-old was found lying on the
sidewalk on Halifax's Gottingen Street around 3:20am on
Oct. 15, 2007. (CBC)
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Landfill, ditches scoured
WOODSTOCK - The 8-year-old girl disappeared in
Woodstock, Ont., on April 8 and the search for the
little girl turned into a search for her remains after
two people were arrested on May 19. Michael Rafferty,
28, and Terri-Lynne McClintic, 19, are charged with
first-degree murder and kidnapping. (CP) PREVIOUS:
Remains confirmed
Murder of Victoria Stafford
Charge upgraded
'Intelligent' & 'weird'
Twists, turns, tears
and an arrest |
2nd man dies
TORONTO - Two men are dead after they were stabbed in a
waterfront parking lot following an early morning boat
party. The fights - two related incidents - broke out
shortly before 2:30am in a parking lot at
Polson Pier among
several people who had been on the boat. A 27-year-old
man died within hours. The second man, identified by
friends as 24-year-old Andy Charles, succumbed to his
injuries. (Toronto Star)
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Mom 'not responsible'
KITCHENER -
The night Paula Lee tried
to end the lives of her two children, the normally
devoted mother was "very ill,'' a judge said yesterday
in finding her not criminally responsible for her acts.
The judge called Lee's actions the night of July 18,
2007 "tragic.'' (Record) MORE:
Stress made Paula Lee snap |
Boyfriend guilty
SARNIA - Thomas
Moffit has been convicted of second-degree murder in the
2007 killing of his girlfriend,
Shelley Mathieu-Read,
whose body has never been found. A Superior Court jury
deliberated for only one hour yesterday before handing
down its decision. (Sun Media) MORE:
Moffit guilty |
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