The 2023 Alberta Homicide Victim List is available here

Wood Buffalo RCMP responded to a suspicious death at a residence in the Timberlea neighborhood of Fort McMurray on September 21st.

On arrival, police located 43-year-old Norman Lineham, deceased in his basement suite with suspicious injuries. An autopsy was completed in Edmonton at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, which determined the death to be a homicide.

On Sept. 29, 2023, the RCMP Major Crimes Unit arrested and charged 39-year-old Thomas Matthew Cooper, a resident of Fort McMurray, with second-degree murder of a 43-year-old resident of Fort McMurray.

Both people were charged originally with second-degree murder, but their charges upgraded to first-degree murder.

Charlotte Mackey was arrested and charged on October 27th. She is to appear before the Alberta Court of Justice in Fort McMurray on Nov. 20, 2023.

Update May 28th 2026: Charlotte Mackey, has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 2023 killing of her ex-boyfriend, Norman Lineham. Mackey, who can apply for parole after 12 years, and her then-boyfriend Matthew Cooper, who received a similar sentence with parole eligibility after 13 years, admitted to breaking into Lineham’s apartment and attacking him while he slept after Mackey became enraged over insulting Facebook posts.