deadmonton - the murdered and the missing in the metro area
Homicide #22
Fatal Stabbing DowntownHomicide #21
PrimeauHomicide #20
StewartHomicide #19
KwiatkowskiHomicides #17 & 18
The Wong-Fendelet Double Murder
Edmonton's 2011 murder meter officially stands at 22
Case status: open: 9 charges laid: 11 police involved: 2
Total metro area count stands at 24
--- see note ---Fatal Stabbing Downtown
may 20th, 2011 -- woman arrested at the scene
Ronald George Primeau
may 16th, 2011 -- stabbed during street fight
Barry Raymond Stewart
may 12, 2011 -- found dead inside remand centre
John Stanley Kwiatkowski
april 14th, 2011 -- found inside Rundle Heights home
The Wong-Fendelet Double Murder
april 13th, 2011 -- missing couple found dead
Edmonton Metro Crime Watch
the latest in ongoing murder investigations, trials, missing person files, cold cases and other police matters------------------------------------------------------- other recent homicides --------------------------------------------------------
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Edmonton's 2010 and 2009 murder counts officially rest at 27, the lowest annual totals since 2003 when the city tallied just 17 deaths. There were 28 homicides in 2004, 39 in 2005 (the city's all-time one-year murder record), 36 in 2006, 33 in 2007 and 35 in 2008.
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Edmonton Metro Crime Watch
The latest in ongoing murder investigations, trials, missing person files, cold cases and other police matters (in order of most recent update).
Fatal Stabbing Downtown
Police are investigating Edmonton's twenty-second homicide of 2011 after a man was stabbed to death east of downtown.
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Just after 7:30 a.m. Friday, May 20th, officers were brought in to assist EMS personnel at a call they were handling at the Maureen Manor apartment block, 11011 83 Street.
There they had found a 55-year-old male suffering from a serious stab wound.
He was treated at the scene and then transported to hospital where he died about two hours later during emergency surgery.
A 51-year-old woman who police saywas known to the victim was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. So far, no word on charges.
Homicide detectives looking into the case are getting assistance from the Domestic Offender Crime Section.
An autopsy has yet to be scheduled and no details regarding the man's identity have been released.
The death bring the city's 2011 murder total to 22 (see note). Edmonton had recorded just six homicides at this time last year.
One local criminologist noted Edmonton's homicide rate is greater than American cities such as San Diego, Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City.
By comparison, Calgary has only recorded two murders in 2011.
Ronald George Primeau
Police continue to investigate Edmonton's twenty-first homicide of 2011 after an apparent altercation along the Avenue of Nations left a man dead.
At about 2:00 a.m. Monday, May 16th, a fight broke out between several men near 106th Avenue and 103rd Street just north of downtown. A man's body was found lying in the road when emergency services arrived.
First treated as a suspicious death, investigators later revealed that 42-year-old Ronald George Primeau had died of a stab wound. Police continue to look for suspects » full details »
Barry Raymond Stewart
Police have laid charges in connection with Edmonton's twentieth murder of the year.
Homicide detectives were called out at about 5:00 a.m. Thursday, May 12th, after 59-year-old Barry Raymond Stewart was found dead inside the Edmonton Remand Centre.
Charged with second-degree murder was 25-year-old Justin Caldwell Somers, an inmate who had been at the prison for just two days.
It was one of the rare cases where police had a man in custody before a crime had been committed » full details »
John Stanley Kwiatkowski
At about 6:23 a.m. Thursday, April 14th, 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. No suspects have been identified » full details »
The Wong-Fendelet Double Murder
Perry Kit Wong, 72, and Eloise Fendelet, 71, were last seen separately on December 27th, 2010. Their bodies were found lying side-by-side in a field west of Edmonton on April 13th, 2011.
The Wong-Fendelet double murder investigation began as a missing persons case on January 18th after friends reported the couple's disappearance. On March 23rd, homicide detectives took the matter on.
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 » full details »
Michael Roach
An altercation behind a downtown addictions treatment facility late Sunday, April 3rd, led to the death of 49-year-old Michael Roach.
Roach died of stab wounds the next day. Michael Anderson, 50, was arrested at the scene and faced charges of second-degree murder, possession of a weapon, and possession of a narcotic » full details »
Kerry Takkiruq
Police continue to investigate the death of 19-year-old Kerry Takkiruq.
On Thursday, March 31st, groundskeepers at a city-owned golf course discovered a woman's body in an area not accessible by vehicles. She was identified two weeks later after an appeal to the public.
Investigators are treating the former Nunavut woman's death as suspicious pending toxicology tests expected to take from weeks to months » full details »
Kinling Robin Fire
For the second time in 2011, a police shooting left a man dead and actions by officers under review by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team.
Late Wednesday, March 30th, 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.
When Fire ignored orders to drop the weapon, one officer shot twice. Fire later died in hospital.
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 » full details »
Bullen Ambassa
Police have charged a man with second-degree murder in connection with Edmonton's 14th homicide of 2011 after a serious assault took place on the city's north side.
At about 10:00 p.m. on Friday, March 25th, patrol officers responded to a report of an altercation at the Village Acres apartment complex near 67th Street and 130th Avenue.
33-year-old Bullen Ambassa was rushed to hospital but later died of stab wounds » full details »
Ambassa's murder had some predicting Edmonton would regain a title it once held in 2005 as the murder capital of Canada – see the March 26 update of the Last Link Why edmonton? - the early-2011 murder rate page.
Gerry Oar
Police investigated Edmonton's thirteenth homicide of 2011 after a 911 call came in from 24-year-old Gerry Oar who was reporting an assault.
At about 1:00 a.m. Saturday, March 5th, the man was found by paramedics outside a two-storey rooming house at 10715 96 Street. Oar was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead from apparent stab sounds.
Police took a person of interest, found several blocks away, into custody. They later charged 42-year-old Kenneth Berard with second-degree murder and possession of a weapon.
Detectives figured alcohol had fuelled a fight inside the inner-city dwelling that neighbours called a "crack shack."
Berard was known to police who already had six outstanding warrants against him » full details »
Cameron James Petherbridge
Morinville RCMP continue to investigate the death of 23-year-old Cameron James Petherbridge who was found inside a home in Gibbons, Alberta.
Mounties were first called to the town of 2,600 north-east of Edmonton at about 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 2nd after a 911 call came in about a disturbance.
Cause of death has not been released, with investigators only saying the occupants of the home were known to police » full details »
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Background
Edmonton's murder rate is a major concern to area residents and experts in the field are baffled as to explain why the city is home to such a high number of homicides.
The nature of Edmonton's energy-related boomtown economy plays a significant role in the city's crime statistics. Good times often attract a transient population, and with the area's metro population surpassing the million mark the provincial capital is no longer the sleepy frontier town it once was.
Second-generation immigrants make up a large percentage of Edmonton's inhabitants and the drug and gang lifestyle, along with youth-against-youth incidents, is thought largely responsible for the high murder rate.
To find out more about the reasons behind Statistics Canada's one-time dubbing of the city as "the murder capital of Canada," visit the Why Edmonton? page.
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