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Amber Alyssa Tuccaro (3 January 1990 – disappeared 18 August 2010) was a Canadian First Nations woman from Fort McMurray, Alberta, who went missing in 2010. Tuccaro was last seen near Edmonton, hitchhiking with an unidentified man. Her remains were found in 2012. As of 2024, her case is still unsolved.
Palmira Silva. On 4 September 2014, 82-year-old Palmira Silva was beheaded in her back garden in Edmonton, London, by 25-year-old Nicholas Salvador, who was on a rampage.. Friends of Salvador had recently noticed odd behaviour by him, including drug and alcohol abuse and an obsession with videos of behead
Brett Morgan grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. [7] Morgan was married twice, with both women fearing him due to his violent tendencies. [7] His first wife, going by the name of Sandra at the preliminary inquiry of his murder trial, [7] described how she married Morgan at the age of sixteen when she was seven months pregnant with his child. [7]
Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer.After dropping out of school, he left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm, and inherited it in the early 1990s.
Captain Nichola Kathleen Sarah Goddard, MSM (May 2, 1980 – May 17, 2006) [1] was the first Canadian woman to be killed in action since World War II, the first female Canadian Armed Forces member killed during combat duty, and the first Canadian female combat soldier to be killed on the front lines.
Nicole Hoar, a white woman who disappeared in 2002, received a disproportionate amount of media attention at the time of her disappearance. Hers was the first of the Highway of Tears cases to be covered in The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, and Edmonton Journal. Gladys Radek, a native activist and the aunt of victim Tamara Chipman, "believes ...
Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011 for the murder of John Brian Altinger. [2] His trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fictional character Dexter Morgan.
Nellie McClung (1873–1951), first woman appointed to the Board of Governors of the CBC (1936); one of The Famous Five [23] Emily Murphy (1868–1933), first female magistrate in British Empire and petitioned Supreme Court of Canada to allow women the vote; one of the Famous Five; [24] has received modern scrutiny for her support for eugenics