Connie Oakes case: Red car police said was used in murder was sold for cash, drugs before killing
Car was bought by drug dealer named ‘Ginger’ who was initially fingered by Crown’s star witness
Connie Oakes
Imprisoned Cree mother prevented from attending 23 year-old son’s funeral
Connie Oakes sent a beaded hawk feather and starblanket which were buried with son
Love in the face of death
With weeks left to live, his mother behind bars, Joseph decided to marry Courtney
Medicine Hat police could face public investigation over how officers handled murder case against Cree woman
(Connie Oakes. Photo courtesy of Oakes’ family) Jorge Barrera APTN National News CALGARY–A southern Alberta…
Police fed information to stoned Crown witness to build murder case against Cree woman: court docs
A star witness for an Alberta Crown prosecutor says she was fed evidence by police while stoned during “coercive” interrogations to build a murder case against a Cree woman, according to court documents filed with the Court of Appeal of Alberta.
A boot print, a knife, a murder and a Cree woman’s claim of innocence
Three days after she was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man with a knife through the neck, Connie Oakes, wearing a grey T-shirt and grey sweat pants, picked up the telephone receiver on the other side of the Plexiglas in the visiting area at the Medicine Hat, Alta., remand centre and said she didn’t do it.