Witnesses helped solve brutal Saskatchewan killing

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.

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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.

“When you have something like this, something so brutal, people became very self-interested as they were looking at life in jail and very serious ramifications,” Graham said.

“I think that’s just the brutal nature of this … people were a little more forthcoming with what they knew.”