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'Someone knows something': Yukon RCMP make appeal for information in 2014 homicide

The police believe somebody has information about the murder of 69-year-old Allan Waugh at his home in Whitehorse in 2014.

Police believe somebody has information about who killed the Whitehorse man

Allan Waugh, pictured in 2007. Waugh was found dead in his home in 2014. (RCMP)

Yukon RCMP have put out another appeal for information about the death of Allan Waugh who was killed six years ago.

The police say Waugh, 69, was found in his home in the early morning on May 30, 2014. 

They believe he was killed at the hand of someone who entered the home overnight.

"Someone knows something about what happened and who killed Allan on that fateful night over six years ago," it says in a recent RCMP news release.

"Allan's death has been extremely hard on his family and community, and his children have had to go through the past six years without knowing what happened to their father."

Cst. Michael Simpson in the Yukon RCMP historical cases unit said police have not given up on finding out what happened.

"When a matter has been a number of years like this one, we believe that people know information about what happened that they learned … over the years," said Simpson.

Simpson said police have made it easier for people to provide information to the historical cases unit.

There is now a dedicated telephone tip line and an email address. The number is 867-667-5500, email at, mdiv_hcu@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

The police have made periodic appeals to the public for information over the years.

Family members of murder victim Allan Waugh spent a weekend in 2018 hanging up posters urging people to contact RCMP if they know anything about Waugh's death on May 30, 2014. They also handed out posters at the McIntyre subdivision in Whitehorse where he lived. (Jackie McKay/CBC)

Waugh's family has gone door to door looking for information, put up posters and led a community march in hopes of learning what happened to him.

Simpson said there are persons of interest and the investigation is ongoing when asked if there was progress or any recent new information.