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The story of another suspicious death at the residence involved below appeared on the Edmonton Sun's web site on August 31st, 2007 – see latest update.

A man returning to his home at 11202 95 A Street at about 6:30 a.m. on March 20th, 2007 found his roommate tied up and dead. A 911 call from inside the home brought Emergency Medical Services.

Paramedics attending the scene thought the circumstances were suspicious and they called police.

First officers on the scene then called homicide detectives and the house was turned over to a forsensics team.

Sgt. Jay Lokken confirmed the death was being treated as suspicious.

There was no information released about the man's identity other than he was in his fifties.

Neighbours said two people were living in the home. Vicki Cunningham said one of the men looked to be in his late 40s.

“He’s a very nice guy,” she said. “Pleasant, chatty. I don’t know what more to say. I knew him to wave at him.”

"I was in the house once. All the walls in the living room were covered in bookshelves full of books.”

Stacks of books could be seen through a front window of the home. An Australian flag hung in a corner window.

She said the man had a roommate but she didn’t know what he looked like.

The home on the downtown's northeast corner was described as a modest single-storey bungalow that appeared fairly run down.

Another neighbour said the man was an “odd duck” who kept to himself. “He never cut his grass in the summer and it got about knee-high so we complained.”

After the forensics team left and the body was taken away for autopsy, a single police vehicle remained at the house for most of the day.

There was initial confusion in the media about who exactly lived in the home.

An early CTV Edmonton report quoted neighbouys who said a middle-aged man and a woman lived there. Global Edmonton reported that two men occupied the residence.

But it was the Edmonton Sun who got the facts from a man who lived there.

Four single men lived in the modest bungalow, each with his own room but with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities.

The Sun reported the man as saying nothing unusual happened in the house overnight, although he said he did hear a couple of strange, "mournful sounds" coming from the room of the man who died.

"It was a mournful, sad sound," the man said, who figured he heard the two sounds between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

He wasn't alarmed because the man, who was single and unemployed, often snored and talked in his sleep.

"He was a great guy, a wholesome person," the man added, saying he didn't notice anything unusal when he left for work at around 6:25 a.m.

Minutes later, another roomate found the man dead under "unusual circumstances" and called 911.

A source told the Sun that investigators were looking into the possibility that the man may have died accidentally on his own.

Police did not give any details about the state of the body and also did not comment on early media reports the man was found "tied up."

An autopsy held March 21st, 2007 on the 56-year-old man, who died in his bedroom, was inconclusive.

Police said they would wait several weeks for several toxicology test results to determine the course of the investigation. They also did not indicate why they continued to classify the death as suspicious.

As the death has not been proven to be criminal in nature, the identity of the victim was not released, police said. Next of kin were notified.

The story of another suspicious death at the residence involved above appeared on the Edmonton Sun's web site on August 31st, 2007.

The report was eerily familiar, with the newspaper using quotes and descriptions what were nearly identical – see Booklover Found Dead Again?

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