4case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 4 case files in Edmonton. By legal status, 4 marked solved.
SOLVEDListenEdmonton, Alberta, Canada · 2008
John Brian Altinger, a 38-year-old Edmonton resident, was lured through a fake dating profile and killed by filmmaker Mark Twitchell in October 2008. Twitchell was convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011.
Credit: WinterforceMedia WinterE229Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenHUB Mall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 2012
On June 15, 2012, security guard Travis Baumgartner shot four coworkers, killing three, at HUB Mall on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton, then fled with the stolen armored truck and cash before being arrested at the U.S. border the next day.
SOLVEDListenEdmonton, Alberta, Canada · 2017
On September 30, 2017, Abdulahi Sharif rammed and stabbed an Edmonton police officer, then fled and struck four pedestrians with a rental truck during a police chase; all five victims survived, and Sharif was later convicted of eleven criminal offences but not charged with terrorism.
The files run from 2008 to 2017. The 2010s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Murder of John Brian Altinger, from 2008.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (3), mass shooting cases (2) and robbery and burglary cases (1).
1 file of the 4 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary from 1 creator.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Hub Mall Breezeway University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada 02-A — Credit: WinterforceMedia WinterE229Public domainSource
4. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Murder of John Brian Altinger, from 2008. Open the file
Murder of John Brian Altinger, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
