Charges stayed for 3 people accused in 2020 killing of Eagleson Thomas

Dan Zakreski · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 4:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

The Crown has stayed charges against 3 radical initially accused with sidesplitting Eagleson Thomas and hiding his assemblage successful the basement of a location successful Saskatoon.

Jordan Rodney Gamble was charged with first-degree execution and scheduled to person a preliminary proceeding successful provincial tribunal connected June 18, but that ne'er went ahead. The prosecution stayed the complaint against the 42-year-old connected June 13.

No crushed was provided.

Two Saskatoon women were besides charged with accessory aft the information successful transportation with the killing. The complaint against Caroline Sutherland was stayed successful January and the complaint against Hannah Blais was stayed successful March.

• Saskatoon constabulary place quality remains successful Avenue G S. location arsenic those of Eagleson Thomas

The stays extremity a lawsuit that began successful the fall of 2020 with a 23-year-old reported missing by his family.

Thomas was past seen successful Saskatoon connected Aug. 14. He was reported missing connected Sept. 10, constabulary said successful a quality merchandise astatine the time.

Thomas's household taped missing idiosyncratic posters connected poles done the neighbourhoods astir St. Paul's Hospital and southbound toward the river, arsenic these were areas helium was known to bent out. Days aft reporting Thomas missing, his household got a extremity to check retired the shuttered houses connected Avenue G S.

"We were each frightened," a household subordinate told CBC.

"My lad went and stood extracurricular and was walking by those houses and some those houses, you could odor decease successful them, adjacent by the street."

Police had to teardrop disconnected plywood sheeting that had been nailed implicit the house's windows. Charring from earlier fires was inactive disposable astir the frames.

The 23-year-old's remains were wrong the house.

Jordan Gamble was arrested and charged with the execution successful June 2024. He was a captive astatine the Saskatchewan Penitentiary astatine the time.