Police confirm explosion deaths are homicides
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EPS Homicide Section investigators confirmed on Thursday that three of the four people whose bodies were discovered after a house explosion in north Edmonton on Sunday were homicide victims.
Craig Donald Huber, 29, and Bradley Warren Winter, 26, lived in the house next door to the explosion site. The Medical Examiner’s office has concluded that both died from blast related injuries.
Jeanne Cathleen Heard, 47, lived in the house at 18011 - 91A Street that blew up on Sunday. Investigators are treating her death as a homicide, but the Medical Examiner is conducting further tests to confirm a cause of death.
Dwayne Richard Poirier, 46, also lived in the home at 18011 - 91A Street. Police have ruled his death non-criminal.
According to friends, Poirier and Heard were engaged to be married. Friends of Heard feared the worst after the explosion when she failed to show up for work.
Winter and Huber lived in the house next door with Winter's fiance Amy Fuechtmann and her three year old son Jacob. Fuechtmann and her son were pulled from the rubble of the home following the explosion by good samaritans.
“We know that it was non-accidental, that the two individuals died because of blast, and the two other individuals in the house, we are still awaiting toxicology." Insp. Darren Eastcott of the Edmonton Police Service told media on Thursday.
When asked by reporters if someone set off the explosion, Insp. Eastcott replied "Somebody did something to cause their deaths."
The cause of the blast is still under investigation.
