Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit charge four after 2020 Innisfail homicide
The Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit has charged four individuals in relation to the 2020 homicide of 38-year-old Blackfalds resident Ryan James Gudwer.
During this four-year investigation, Mounties say officers have undertaken a plethora of investigative steps including forensics, surveillance, obtaining judicial authorizations and speaking to witnesses.
On April 10, 2024, after consultation with Alberta Crown Prosecutors, RCMP received support to charge four individuals with second-degree-murder. As all four suspects had moved significant distances since the murder, the Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit began project K-Nova designed to locate and safely arrest each suspect. Supporting Units Codiac RCMP (New Brunswick), Abbotsford Police Department (B.C), and the RCMP Red Deer GIS/Intel Team were asked to assist.
On April 16, 2024, RCMP arrested Red Deer resident Cory William Hales, 44, in Red Deer. Mounties say Hales has been taken before a Justice of the Peace and remanded into custody, with his next court date set for May 3, 2024 at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer.