Tuesday, December 23, 2025
ADVT 
National

4th Person Charged After Woman's Body Found In Shopping Cart In Edmonton Alley

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 24 Nov, 2015 01:09 PM
    EDMONTON — A fourth person is facing charges after a woman's body was found in a shopping cart in an Edmonton alley.
    Andrea Marie Berg, who was 42, was discovered dead on June 16 in the alley in the area of 124 Street and north of 113 Avenue.
     
    Witnesses who found Berg said her legs, arms and mouth had been taped and her face was bloody.
     
    An autopsy showed she died of blunt force trauma.
     
    Carrie Goldien Jones, who is 34, is charged with second-degree murder.
     
    Sophie Isabelle Frenchman, who is 48, and 36-year-old Lana Jane Pelletier are also charged with second-degree murder, while 50-year-old John Charles Kisil is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder.
     
    Berg's friends have said she struggled with addiction and was in treatment last year.
     
    A spokeswoman with the Hope Mission said Berg was a beloved member of the social care agency and served in many areas with the agency's church, including its choir.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Opposition Says Manitoba Government Breaking Promise Of Doctors For All

    Opposition Says Manitoba Government Breaking Promise Of Doctors For All
    Manitoba Health Minister Sharon Blady said Tuesday she is amending — not breaking — a long-standing promise to find a family doctor for every Manitoban by the end of this year.

    Opposition Says Manitoba Government Breaking Promise Of Doctors For All

    Ammo And Tools Found On Suspect During Vancouver Bait-Bike Sting: Police

    Ammo And Tools Found On Suspect During Vancouver Bait-Bike Sting: Police
    Vancouver police say officers seized 50 rounds of ammunition from a man during a recent sting using a bait bicycle.

    Ammo And Tools Found On Suspect During Vancouver Bait-Bike Sting: Police

    Saskatchewan Firefighters Want Workers' Compensation To Recognize PTSD

    REGINA — Saskatchewan firefighters are asking the provincial government to make it easier for them to get treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Saskatchewan Firefighters Want Workers' Compensation To Recognize PTSD

    Coroner Links Missing Woman, Human Remains Through Dna In B.C. Cold Case

    Coroner Links Missing Woman, Human Remains Through Dna In B.C. Cold Case
     Skeletal remains found nearly nine years ago on an island off British Columbia's Sunshine Coast have been identified through DNA analysis.

    Coroner Links Missing Woman, Human Remains Through Dna In B.C. Cold Case

    B.C. Legislature Breaks After Child-Welfare, Freedom-of-Information Debates

    Fierce debates over child-welfare policies and the government's deletion of potentially sensitive emails dominated the fall legislative session in British Columbia.

    B.C. Legislature Breaks After Child-Welfare, Freedom-of-Information Debates

    Ancient Giant Wasp Species Discovered By British Columbia Researcher

    Ancient Giant Wasp Species Discovered By British Columbia Researcher
    Bruce Archibald was searching for fossilized insects in British Columbia's southern Interior when he cracked open a rock and found a beautifully-preserved giant horntail wood-wasp.

    Ancient Giant Wasp Species Discovered By British Columbia Researcher