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added January 12

Edmonton historian Lawrence Herzog writes about Edmonton's Incline Railway, part of his Lost Series.

added December 14

Local historian Lawrence Herzog writes about Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels - Part 2, another in his Lost Series.

added December 2

Local historian Lawrence Herzog writes about Edmonton's Lost Boomtown Hotels, part of his Lost Series.

added May 20

Long weekend plans were cancelled for homicide detectives after a 55-year-old man was fatally stabbed east of downtown. Police arrested a woman at the scene in connection with Edmonton's twenty-second murder of 2011.

added May 16

Edmonton's troubled Avenue of Nations has claimed another life after 42-year-old Ronald George Primeau was fatally stabbed during a street fight – the city's twenty-first murder of 2011.

added May 12

It was one of the rare homicide cases where police had a man in custody before the crime had been committed. 59-year-old Barry Raymond Stewart was found dead in a cell inside the Edmonton Remand Centre. A fellow inmate was charged with his murder.

added April 14

At about 6:23 a.m. EMS were called to a home in Rundle Heights after a woman found her common-law husband dead. It was figured 29-year-old John Stanley Kwiatkowski had been attacked during a break-in and robbery. A two-year-old child was also struck in the city's nineteenth murder case of the year.

added April 13

Perry Kit Wong, 72, and Eloise Fendelet, 71, were last seen separately on December 27th, 2010 and their bodies were found lying side-by-side in a field west of Edmonton three months later.

The Wong-Fendelet Double Murder investigation began as a missing persons case in January after friends reported the couple's disappearance. After Wong and Fendelet's bodies were found, police seemed to know little more about what had happened and said even less, not commenting on reports that the couple were wrapped in garbage bags and had been murdered "execution style."

added April 3

An altercation behind a downtown addictions treatment facility led to the death of 49-year-old Michael Roach. The homeless man died of stab wounds the next day and a man arrested at the scene faced charges of second-degree murder, possession of a weapon, and possession of a narcotic.

added March 31

Police continue to look into the suspicious death of 19-year-old Kerry Takkiruq after groundskeepers at a city-owned golf course discovered her body in an area not accessible by vehicles. Investigators are now waiting for toxicology tests for direction in the matter.

added March 31

For the second time in 2011, a police shooting left a man dead and actions by officers under review after a complaint came in of a distraught man in the city's west end. According to police, 38-year-old Kinling Robin Fire emerged from his vehicle and threatened officers with a weapon. Family said Fire was upset over a custody dispute and had digested a bottle of sleeping pills. However, they dispute claims he was armed or anticipated "suicide by cop."

added March 25

Police have charged a man with second-degree murder in connection with Edmonton's 14th homicide of 2011 – the stabbing death of Bullen Ambassa. The 33-year-old Sudanese man died after a fight inside a northside apartment.

added March 5

Police figure an alcohol-fuelled fight in an inner-city rooming house – known to neighbours as a crack shack – was behind the death of 24-year-old Gerry Oar. A man with six oustanding warrants was charged with second-degree murder and possession of a weapon in Edmonton's thirteenth homicide of 2011.

added March 3

Morinville RCMP continue to investigate the death of 23-year-old Cameron James Petherbridge who was found inside a home in Gibbons, Alberta. Cause of death has not been released, with investigators only saying the occupants of the home were known to police.

added February 27

A federal maximum-security prison in northeast Edmonton was locked down after the stabbing death of 45-year-old Gyozo Victor Barasso. The death brings the city's 2011 murder toll to 12.

added February 20

A stabbing in a northside rooming house had homicide investigators working on Edmonton's eleventh murder of 2011. Police say 28-year-old Stacy Steinhauer died as the result of an alcohol-fueled altercation. A 25-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder.

added February 17

Two years after the death of a mentally-disabled seven-year-old boy in January 2009 the case was deemed a homicide – bringing 2011's official count to ten. A 31-year-old caregiver faces four charges including manslaughter.

added February 16

Homicide detectives, first summoned to a sudden death call inside a house on Millbourne Road, were soon invstigating the homicide of Marietta Echavez. Her common-law husband was later charged in connection with Edmonton's ninth murder of 2011.

added February 13

For a while it looked like police were investigating a homicide after a body was found in a north-end neighbourhood. Despite an autopsy suggesting 39-year-old Vanessa Cardinal's death was non-criminal in nature, investigators said they were continuing to treat it as suspicious.

added February 12

After just 38 days into 2011, Edmonton had already recorded seven homicides. The early-2011 murder rate became headline fodder. While police viewed the numbers as a statistical aberration, criminologists fell into two camps – with one comparing them to the weather.

added February 10

Edmonton police announced that the December 1st, 2010, death of 45-year-old Jaswinder Takhar was a homicide. Police first considered the death suspicious and had to wait for further testing after the inital autopsy had been completed before logging the murder as the city's eighth murder of 2011.

added February 9

A dispute over a cab was thought to be behind Edmonton's sixth homicide of 2011. 19-year-old Colby Baker-Buhay died in hospital after police responded to what appeared to be a minor assault outside a downtown night club. Two men were charged with manslaughter.

added February 8

Police continue to investigate the city's seventh homicide of 2011 after 40-year-old Jeanette Marie Cardinal's body was found in a north-central Edmonton apartment building.

added February 5

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is looking into the police-involved shooting death of 17-year-old Cyrus Green that occurred while officers were investigating a robbery complaint.

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