“A real life horror movie.” — Senior Crown Prosecutor Chris Browne
“The most horrific gang murder in Saskatchewan history.” — Defence lawyer Patrick McDougall
In April 2019, Tiki Laverdiere—a 25-year-old mother of two from Edmonton—traveled to Saskatchewan to attend a funeral. She never came home.
Over a prolonged period, Tiki was beaten, stabbed, tortured, set on fire, and ultimately murdered by people she once trusted. Her killers were members of the Westside Outlawz and Redd Alert street gangs. Ten people were convicted.
This fully revised Second Edition has been carefully refined to improve clarity and flow. Chapters have been restructured to eliminate redundancy, the narrative has been tightened, and a comprehensive new index has been added. This edition also includes updated parole and appeal decisions, and the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling on Soaring Eagle Whitstone’s appeal.
Drawing on five years of court reporting, exclusive interviews with RCMP Major Crimes, and testimony from the trials and sentencing hearing, this book provides the definitive account of a case that exposed the fractures beneath the surface of a small prairie city: gang violence, intergenerational trauma, systemic racism, and the systems that failed Tiki long before she died.
Tiki Laverdiere Deserved to Come Home. Her life mattered.