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How cold case DNA technique came to Ottawa from California — and where it's headed next
Family tree enthusiasts are helping police solve decades-old homicides. And the former California district attorney who helped bring the technique to the world with the prosecution of the Golden State Killer back in 2018 says it has the potential to solve many more — as long as it's managed appropriately.
Defence for alleged terror propagandist calls prosecution speculative, tenuous
The defence team for an alleged terror propagandist argued Tuesday that the Crown's case is built on shaky ground, with tenuous links between the accused's camera and racist videos found online, and shoddy testimony from a Crown expert on right-wing extremism.
Teen accused of plotting to bomb pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill denied bail
A 16-year-old boy accused of plotting to attack Jewish people in Ottawa last fall — possibly by detonating an explosive device at a pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill — was denied bail after a lengthy five-day hearing in Ottawa's Superior Court.
For roles in slaying of 16-year-old boy, 2 men plead guilty
Two Ottawa men charged in connection to the 2021 killing of a 16-year-old eyewitness to another homicide that year — and who celebrated afterward in a video posted on social media — have pleaded guilty for the roles they played.
Escort who spent time with accused murderer on night of killing testifies at his trial
A part-time sex worker who spent a short time with Nikolas Ibey in his room the same night he allegedly murdered his new housemate testified at his trial Friday that he was doing drugs and couldn't have sex, and that she never saw or heard anyone else in the house.
Racist, hate-fuelled videos promoting violence played for alleged terror propagandist's trial
In an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday, federal Crown prosecutors played three videos downloaded from social media by RCMP in 2020 — videos the Crown contends were created in part by Patrick Gordon Macdonald, an alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist who lives in the capital with his parents.
Trial of alleged neo-Nazi terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' begins in Ottawa
Using the online alias "Dark Foreigner," an Ottawa man made hate propaganda videos and images for an international neo-Nazi organization to promote hatred against Jews and others, federal Crown prosecutors alleged at the beginning of Patrick Gordon Macdonald's trial on Monday.
For brutal domestic slaying, a powerful nighttime guilty verdict of 1st-degree murder
Late Friday night, in a darkened Ottawa courthouse, a jury found Jean-Bruno Fenelon guilty of first-degree murder for killing Marie Gabriel in a jealous rage as she was trying to kick him out of her house in March 2022.
Crown opens case against Ottawa man accused of killing Inuk woman
The man on trial for first-degree murder in the death of an Inuk woman who had just moved to Ottawa from Nunavut to attend college in 2022 was drinking, taking drugs, and had been trying to find an escort for "eight hours straight" before the killing, the Crown alleged in its opening remarks.
Eastway Tank wins bid to argue Charter rights were violated in fatal explosion criminal probe
A judge has ruled that Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter can go ahead with its plan to argue that search warrants and seizures related to an explosion that killed six of its employees should be quashed over alleged Charter violations.