Last year, the Major Crimes Unit investigated 33 manslaughter and murder files with 39 victims. Of those, 31 manslaughter and murder files, with 34 victims, occured in Saskatchewan RCMP jurisdiction. The other 2 files and 5 victims were investigated by RCMP in File Hills First Nation Police District.

The files are investigated by members of the Homicide Investigation Unit. Of the victims in the files investigated in 2025, three were children aged 12 and under, three were teenagers between 13 and 19 years old, 12 were in their 20s, 10 were in their 30s, six were in their 40s, four were in their 50s and one person was in their 60s.

Five victims were in the Saskatchewan RCMP’s south district, 11 were in the Central District, and 18 were in the North District.

Investigators also worked on at least 30 unsolved homicide or suspicious death files from previous years. Investigators solved 23 of 2025’s 33 homicide files, with 10 remaining under investigation.

Twenty-eight individuals were charged last year by the Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Unit in relation to their 2025 homicide investigations.

The Homicide Investigation Unit laid seven first-degree murder charges, 17 second-degree murder charges and four manslaughter charges.

Of the people charged, 25 were male and three were female. 8 were youth between the ages of 13 and 19, nine were in their 20s, two were in their 30s, five were in their 40s, two were in their 50s, and two were in their 60s.

12 of the cases brought to charge were solved within 24 hours, six were solved within one week, three were solved within one month, and two were solved in less than six months.