Sask. RCMP speak on Tiki Laverdiere murder investigation [Video]

The last of 10 people convicted in the brutal killing of a 25-year-old Edmonton woman was sentenced on Friday, closing a chapter on one of the largest homicide investigations for the Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Investigations unit.

The case dates back to April 27, 2019, when Tiki Laverdiere, 25, went to Thunderchild First Nation, a community an hour away from North Battleford, to attend her friend Tristen Cook-Buckle’s funeral.

She was last seen and heard from two days later.

Superintendent Joshua Graham, head of the Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Investigation unit, said it initially started as a missing person case, but police shifted to a homicide investigation about a month later.

In July 2019, Laverdiere’s remains were found in a rural area near North Battleford.

“The offence was quite brutal, cruel, and frankly inhumane, so it was something the investigators were very motivated to get to,” Graham told CTV News.

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