murder

REGINA – The third homicide of 2024 is being investigated by Regina police. The Regina Police Service, in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Coroners Service, has confirmed the June 29 death of an adult male on the 1900 block of McIntyre Street is deemed a homicide. Police and EMS were dispatched to a call for service for […]

A judge has sentenced a former Saskatchewan Mountie who shot and killed his lover in a park to 11 years in prison. Bernie Herman was convicted in January of manslaughter in the death of Braden Herman. The two men aren’t related. The naked body of 26-year-old Braden Herman was found in 2021 in the park on the outskirts of Prince […]

SASKATOON – Greg Fertuck has been found guilty of his wife Sheree Fertuck’s murder almost a decade ago. The body of the mother of three has never been found. She was last seen leaving her family’s farmhouse near Kenaston on Dec. 7, 2015, to haul rock to a nearby gravel pit. In April 2016, police determined […]

SASKATOON – The verdict for a man charged with first-degree murder in his wife’s death will be handed down on June 14 as scheduled, said Justice Richard Danyliuk Wednesday. Days ahead of the scheduled June 14 verdict, Greg Fertruck, who represents himself, had filed an application with the court for a mistrial and to reopen […]

A report into how Mounties responded to a mass killing and manhunt in Saskatchewan has found some communication problems but nothing that significantly impacted the outcome. Police captured Myles Sanderson three days after he killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon. Sanderson, […]

 The Regina Police Service is investigating the death of an adult male, which is the second murder in Regina in 2024. On Saturday, June 1, at approximately 6:30 a.m., police were dispatched to the 2300 block of Reynolds Street for the report of an injured male. EMS arrived and transported the male to hospital where […]

Mounties suspected Tiki Laverdiere was dead before her burned, bludgeoned body was found wrapped in a carpet under rocks in a Saskatchewan pond in the summer of 2019. She was a 25-year-old mother of two. Her death launched five years of investigation and prosecutions, revealing a story of suspicion, drugs, booze and revenge, climaxing in one long […]

India’s envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries. High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is to address the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on the theme of current and future relations between India […]

A southeast Saskatchewan business has stepped forward with support for a woman in Oxbow who died last week.  S&C Detailing announced in a post on its Facebook page that it would donate 50 per cent of proceeds from its quick or full vehicle cleans, from April 29-May 4, to the family of Brianna Hayes. The offer includes […]

Prosecuting 10 people charged with the murder of Tiki Laverdiere over the past five years presented its own set of challenges. North Battleford Senior Crown Chris Browne and Prosecutor Charlotte Morden prosecuted all the cases of the 10 people convicted in Laverdiere’s murder. “This is a situation where 10 people were charged with this homicide for […]