deadmonton 2009 - february crime report

At about 12:30 p.m. parents of the woman found her lying dead in the kitchen of 6 Willowdale Drive, inside the Oak Ridge trailer park at approximately 66th Avenue and 11th Street.

Emergency services were immediately called. Homicide detectives soon responded, securing the home and area with crime scene tape and searching of clues.

“It looked a little suspicious to them,” Det. Bill Clark said, referring to arriving officers at the scene.

“We've had a chance to examine the scene ... we do not know the cause of death [but] there does not appear to be indications of foul play.”

Clark said the woman lived alone and neither she, nor the house she was found in, was known to police.

An autopsy later showed the woman's death was non-criminal in nature and police have closed their investigation.

At about 10:25 a.m. Wednesday, February 25th emergency medical services were called to a home near 115 Avenue and 71 Street to attend to a woman suffering cardiac arrest.

When paramedics found the woman already dead at the scene they called in police.

Arriving officers figured the woman died under suspicious circumstances and turned the matter over to homicide detectives.

After spending less than an hour at the scene, investigators turned the matter over to the medical examiner's office to make sure the woman's death was not the result of foul play.

No further details were released.

Travis Casaway was released from the North Slave Correctional Centre after completing a five-year sentence for sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon.

Casaway is considered by police to be a violent sexual offender who poses a risk of significant harm to the community.

Police said Casaway will be residing in Edmonton and they described him as a 21-year-old male, 5-feet 9-inches, 213 lbs with brown eyes and black hair.

A larger picture of Casaway (taken March 2008) can be seen here.