‘Crime of Vengeance’: Saskatchewan RCMP Say Witnesses Key to Solving Brutal Slaying

Mounties suspected Tiki Laverdiere was dead before her burned, bludgeoned body was found wrapped in a carpet under rocks in a Saskatchewan pond in the summer of 2019. She was a 25-year-old mother of two. Her death launched five years of investigation and prosecutions, revealing a story of suspicion, drugs, booze and revenge, climaxing in one long night of torture. Ten people were eventually convicted, with the final cases recently wrapped in court, freeing up documents that had been under a publication ban. The savagery of the crime helped clear the path for investigators, said Supt. Joshua Graham, head of the Saskatchewan RCMP major crimes unit....