Homicide

Saskatoon cold cases

  • Alexandra Wiwcharuk

    Alexandra Wiwcharuk
    Wiwcharuk, a nurse, was last seen on the evening of May 18, 1962. On May 31, a boy scrounging around the scrub near Spadina Crescent and 33rd Street saw her exposed hand. Her skull was broken, her face bludgeoned and her windpipe clogged with sand and dirt. An autopsy determined she was raped and still alive when she was buried, ultimately choking to death.
  • Al Graham, Frank Harder and Dorothy Cathcart a.k.a. Dorothy Hall

    The three were murdered at the same time, execution-style, in 1974. Their bodies were found in a house on 20th Street West, and for years police suspected one person of being the killer, but they haven’t been able to gather enough evidence to lay a charge.
  • William Gill (missing)

    William Gill (missing)
    Gill was last seen leaving an apartment on Appleby Drive in Saskatoon in the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 1981. He had been out earlier that evening at a local nightclub with a co-worker from his place of employment.
  • Robin Ermine

    Ermine was shot in the head at point blank range with three bullets in his own living room on Aug. 14 or Aug. 15, 1987. Ermine’s family later claimed his death was not fully investigated because he was a “street person” and a member of “the criminal fraternity.
  • Shirley Lonethunder (missing)

    Shirley Lonethunder (missing)
    Originally from the White Bear First Nation in Southeast Saskatchewan, Lonethunder disappeared from downtown Saskatoon on Dec. 24, 1992.
  • Gary Nippi

    Nippi bled to death from a severe beating Oct. 5, 1996 following a rowdy party where hair spray was consumed. Elroy Lafond was charged with the murder, but the charge was stayed after a Crown witness changed his story. Specifics from the hearing can’t be published because of a publication ban.
  • Rizalino Cajuguiran

    A preliminary autopsy report concluded that Cajuguiran died from blunt force trauma to his body. The 43-year old unemployed man was found in his basement suite at 102 Ave. U South. There were no obvious signs of trauma on the body and no known history of medical problems.
  • Donna Kasyon

    At about 12:45 a.m., 20-year-old Kasyon’s lifeless body was found at the bus mall in the 3100 block of Laurier Drive. She was stabbed in the chest and although she rushed to the hospital, she died as a result of her injury. It was not known how she arrived on Laurier Drive. She was known to be a sex trade worker.
  • Glen McCoy

    McCoy, 84, died after he was found seriously injured in his home. His house had been broken into. A starter pistol was found at the scene. In the weeks following McCoy’s death, police sought three men seen in the area at the time of the murder.
  • Delbert Desjarlais

    Desjarlais, 46, died from stab wounds. His body was found in a Caswell Hill home at 824 Ave. F North.
  • Logan Quadri

    Quadri, 28, was apparently sitting in the driver’s seat of a car parked at the Shell gas station on the corner of Avenue P and 22nd Street when he was stabbed in the chest. According to a station attendant, Quadri exited the car and fell to the ground. He was taken to hospital where he later died.
  • Hughie Assiniboine

    Assiniboine, 23, died from internal damage and blood loss resulting from a stab to the chest. There was an afternoon fight involving about 13 people outside 1622 22 Street West. At the time, police were investigating possible ties to city gangs.
  • Darren Greschuk

    Greschuk, 31, died in hospital after being shot on July 8. The tow truck company owner and father of one was asleep with his wife inside their home on the 1000 block of Avenue J South. An armed intruder entered the unlocked premises at about 4 a.m. and demanded money. Greschuk was shot during a struggle with the intruder, who fled the scene.
  • Paul Jacobson

    Jacobson, 44, was discovered in a ditch by a passerby at Central Avenue and Agra Road in the Sutherland area. His body had likely been in that location for less than a day, said police at the time. It was the second body discovered in the area that year.
  • Spencer Whiteman

    Spencer Whiteman
    Whiteman, 21, was fatally stabbed after an altercation at a west-side apartment on Jan. 1, 2009. Police released few details about the incident.
  • Morgan Doucette

    Although Doucette was listed as an open investigation, the StarPhoenix could not obtain any details about the case. (Note: only the year of the case is known)
  • Karina Wolfe (missing)

    Karina Wolfe (missing)
    Wolfe, 20, was last seen by her mother at around 6 p.m. on July 2, 2010, in the 800 block of Appleby Drive while she was waiting for a bus.
  • Anthony Gunn

    Police were responding to a report of an assault in the 600 block of Avenue M South when they found the body of 23-year-old Gunn, a member of the English River First Nation. Gunn’s identity did not become public until members of his family gave his name to the media.