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Fatal House Explosion A Triple Homicide | Betty Anne Gagnon | Bao Tien Cao
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added July 29

Edmonton historian Lawrence Herzog writes about the Ross Brothers Warehouse and Grand Trunk's Recreation Renovation.

added July 22

Edmonton historian Lawrence Herzog writes about The Bid to Save St. Stephen's and the Historic Warehouses of 104th Street.

added July 15

Edmonton historian Lawrence Herzog writes about the Warehouses of the 4th Street Promenade and how a Design Competition Takes Off.

added July 10

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating Edmonton's fourteenth homicide of 2010 after Rajpinder Kaur Sehmbi's body was found inside a home on the city's south side. 36-year-old Tirth Sehmbi, an RCMP officer, was charged with second-degree murder.

added July 8

Lawrence Herzog writes how Edmonton's Historic Festival Opens Doors and about Opening Doors to the Past.

added June 24

A Father's Day house explosion on Edmonton's north side that left four dead has been declared a triple homicide. The death of a fourth person killed was ruled non-criminal – see Fatal House Explosion A Triple Homicide.

added June 23

A Prince George man last seen alive in Edmonton was found dead in a ditch near Fort Saskatchewan on June 18th. Five days later, RCMP announced they had launched a homicide investigation in connection with the death of 28-year-old Bao Tien Cao, the metro area's sixth murder victim of the year.

added June 19

After a seven-month investigation, Strathcona County RCMP laid charges in connection with the November 2009 death of 48-year-old Betty Anne Gagnon. Police charged Gagnon's sister and brother-in-law with manslaughter and extortion.

added June 13

Police checking on the welfare of a man discovered him dead in a north-side Edmonton home. Homicide detectives investigated the city's tenth murder of the year – the stabbing death of 44-year-old Rodney Stan Petryk – and charged the man's common-law wife.

added June 11

A noisy party first brought police to a Clareview apartment complex. Then there was a call shortly thereafter about an assault causing bodily harm at the same location. Within hours, homicide detectives were dealing with Edmonton's ninth murder of 2010 – the stabbing death of 51-year-old Frank James Jerome.

added June 6

Police are investigating Edmonton's eighth murder of 2010 after 37-year-old Apichat Sudsaneh was stabbed while coming to the aid of friends being swarmed outside a southside house party. Sudsaneh was from Thailand and had been working in Alberta for eight months.

added May 21

Homicide detectives are working their third case in five days after 23-year-old Heather Rae Thurier was shot dead inside an LRT station, allegedly over a cigarette, becoming Edmonton's seventh murder victim of 2010. A 19-year-old was later charged with first-degree murder.

added May 18

After catching up on cold cases for two months, investigators found themselves dealing with a second murder in as many days – the stabbing death of Mohammad Bashir Khan. The 56-year-old died in front of his own pizza restaurant. A 17-year-old was charged with second-degree murder.

added May 17

Edmonton police are dealing with the city's first murder since March 12th after 25-year-old Daniel Louis Thomas was found dead on the staircase below the Fairmont Hotel MacDonald. A 15-year-old was charged with second-degree murder.

added April 7

RCMP revealed that 40-year-old Vern Donald Derocher had died five days earlier from injuries received on Enoch First Nation, immediately west of Edmonton. Derocher, visiting from Hay River, Northwest Territories, was found stabbed in a home.

added March 12

Police are investigating Edmonton's fourth homicide of 2010, a workplace murder-suicide that left a third man in hospital with life-threatening injuries. Garth Radons and Dave Burns are dead after a shooting took place inside a west-end car dealership. It was later revealed Burns had a previous conviction for manslaughter.

added March 5

Stony Plain RCMP have charged a man with second-degree murder after the body of 85-year-old Peppino Bassani was found on an acreage west of Edmonton. An autopsy later determined Bassani died from blunt force trauma.

added March 4

Alberta's foster care system is under fire once again after a 21-month-old Morinville-area child was brought to an Edmonton hospital and died two days later. RCMP quickly announced the matter was being investigated as a homicide.

added February 15

Police continue to investigate Edmonton's third homicide of 2010 – the shooting death of 28-year-old Justin Lee Sullivan after an after-hours club location with a notorious history became the setting of an early morning shooting that left one man dead and another with non-life threatening injuries.

added February 1

A double murder rocked the town of Millet, south of Edmonton, after the bodies of toddlers Jayden and Connor McConnell were discovered in a family bathtub. A woman connected to the home later tried to commit suicide by jumping off an overpass.

added January 16

Edmonton police are under investigation in connection with the city's second homicide of 2010 – the officer-involved shooting of 48-year-old Bernadette Auger.

added January 6

Edmonton police are investigating their first homicide case of 2010 after 29-year-old Leslie Ann Talley was found partially-clad and dead on a road in the city's northeast.

added December 31

Edmonton's 2009 murder meter officially rests at 27, the lowest annual total since 2003. One veteran police officer suggested the year's low murder rate was primarily a reflection of the skills of emergency medical workers. Homicide section leaders said the year's high case clearance rate of 67% was the result of innovation in how the city's murders are investigated » full details »

added December 14

Edmonton police have laid a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of 29-year-old Jonathan Blaine Nepoose, the city's 26th homicide of 2009. Nepoose was stabbed in a downtown rooming house during an all-night drinking spree.

added December 12

Mystery surrounded the matter of 21-year-old Melvin Edward Hansen whose body was found in a north-end Edmonton yard after windchill temperatures reached -42C overnight. Police later determined Hansen's death was a homicide.

added November 29

Reports of shots fired brought Edmonton police to a downtown laundromat where they found the body of 23-year-old Robleh Ali Mohamed slumped behind the wheel of his car with a gunshot wound to his head – the city's 25th murder of 2009. Witnesses likened the broad-daylight shooting of the Somali man to a gang-style execution.

added November 25

Police have completed their investigation of what initially looked like Edmonton's latest murder after the bloodied body of a man was found in a north-central alley. The death was later ruled non-criminal.

added November 13

Police continue to investigate Edmonton's 24th homicide of 2009 after 21-year-old Abdulaziz Osman Isse's body was found behind the Beth Israel Synagogue in the city's west end. Church staff found the man lying face down beside a dumpster. He had suffered apparent gunshot injuries.

added November 4

At the time, it was one of Edmonton's most shocking homicides. 83-year-old Lillian Berube was viciously beaten during a robbery inside her Norwood home on August 27th, 1987. She died six days later. Rewards were offered and FBI profilers were brought in ... but the case went cold. Twenty-two years later a DNA match produced a suspect – who was already in jail.

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Ross Brothers Warehouse	The Bid To Save St. Stephen's	Homicide #14 Rajpinder Sehmbi