Family ties: Sutherland-Kayseas sisters connected by allegations of gangs, kidnapping and murder

The allegations, as has previously been the case with the Sutherland-Kayseas sisters, are violent and disturbing.

Sharise Sutherland-Kayseas is one of four people charged with first-degree murder in the death of Sheena Billette on Dec. 23, 2019.

The 28-year-old's body was found on the roadside seven kilometres north of La Ronge, Sask.. RCMP were not immediately able to identify her.

Sutherland-Kayseas is also charged with kidnapping and forcible confinement. The 24-year-old is now in custody.

The allegations and circumstances echo another case, in which Sutherland-Kayseas was acquitted — but her sister was convicted.

The Crown alleged that she helped kidnap and terrorize a woman named Kathy Belanger. Sharise was acquitted of kidnapping and forcible confinement in that case July of 2018.

Her co-accused in that case was her younger sister, 21-year-old Shaylin Sutherland-Kayseas, who was eventually convicted for kidnapping Belanger.

The Crown had initially alleged that the sisters and another woman kidnapped Belanger because she had been telling people that Shaylin had "bodied" Dylan Phillips, 26, who was beaten with a fence board and shot at his Saskatoon home in October 2016.

The kidnapping came to light during Shaylin's 2018 trial for first-degree murder in Phillips's death. Prosecutors alleged that she shot Phillips to advance the criminal interests of the Terror Squad, a Saskatoon gang.

Shaylin was eventually convicted of second-degree murder in Phillips's death.

The sisters' close relationship came into focus during Shaylin's trial.

Phone calls made by Shaylin while she was in custody at Pine Grove Correctional Centre were played in court at her trial.

In the calls, she urged her sister, and other Terror Squad members, to destroy evidence that could link her to the fatal shooting of Phillips.

None of the current allegations against Sharise Sutherland-Kayseas have been tested in court, and RCMP are saying little about the circumstances of how Billette died.

She returns to court in La Ronge on Jan. 30.