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The message from the sister of murder victim Leeanne Lawson is simple: Turn yourself in. “I pray that the person who did this stands up and comes forward, doing the right thing not only by us, but by themselves as a human being,” Melissa Sauder told the Sun Monday. A single red rose was left […]
MoreThe sister of Ottawa’s latest murder victim feared for Leeanne Lawson’s life on Ottawa’s Lowertown streets. “The area that she was living in, I’ve been there,” Melissa Sauder told the Sun, adding she’s visited Lowertown twice in the last three years. “It was scary. I came in there with my fairly nice car,” she said. […]
MoreLeeanne Lawson usually wrote letters to her sister. When four months went by without one, her sister knew something was up. “This summer I was so worried, because it never goes that long,” Melissa Sauder said. “Something wasn’t right.” Her worst fears were confirmed around 7 p.m. Friday when police told their mother her sister’s […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/31/murdured-teen-laid-to-rest Valerie Leblanc loved wearing fedoras and many of the hundreds who attended her funeral in Hull Wednesday donned them in her honour. “She would just get up in the morning and put on a hat,” friend Julie Racicot, 21, said after the ceremony at St. Joseph Cathedral. Mentioning Leblanc’s trademark brought a […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/30/no-suspects-leading-up-to-leblanc-funeral Despite having no suspects, Gatineau’s police chief is confident his squad will find Valerie Leblanc’s killer. “There is a lot of work that has been done since day one,” chief Mario Harel said during a press conference at Gatineau city hall Tuesday. “We are investigating each lead.” Police set up a command […]
MoreThe woman accused of leaving a man to to die on Bronson Ave. last week is the sister of a man who was also left to die — stabbed and bleeding — in an Ottawa park 10 years ago. Layla Farook Aman, 24, was just 14 when her brother Tareq Farook Aman, 19, was stabbed […]
MoreA two-day prostitution sweep netted 18 arrests in Lowertown and Vanier, but Ottawa Police say it’s not an issue specific to downtown neighbourhoods. “We find prostitution across the city,” said Insp. Uday Jaswal. “A lot of it is driven by poverty, addiction.” Police arrested 18 women Wednesday and Thursday, laying 44 charges. Prostitution isn’t illegal, […]
MoreCops are still looking for the person responsibe for the hit-and-run crash that killed 22-year-old Dan Miller. A woman described as a “person of interest” spoke to Ottawa Police Friday, but she later walked out of the Elgin St. station without being charged. Her name was not released and charges were “not immediately pending,” said […]
MoreA 22-year-old Sutton man was arrested Wednesday and is facing several child pornography-related charges after allegedly luring a Renfrew girl last winter. Provincial police searched the man’s home in this Lake Simcoe community north of Toronto, and seized two computers after investigating for nearly seven months. The family of the victim, in her early teens, […]
MorePolice caught the break they were looking for Thursday when a tip from the public led them to a car driven in a deadly hit-and-run accident. Late Thursday night, Ottawa cops said they had located a black Nissan Maxima that struck and killed Stratford native Dan Miller on Bronson Ave. around 3:18 a.m. Wednesday. Miller, […]
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