Updated October 18, 2025

The jury needed a couple of days to hand down the guilty verdict for manslaughter, as well as unlawful confinement and offering indignity to human remains.

Megan Gallagher was killed inside Sutherland’s garage on Weldon Avenue in Saskatoon in September 2020. Her body was transported by truck and thrown off the St. Louis Bridge into the river. Gallagher’s remains were located a couple of years later.

Nine people were charged in the investigation, but charges were stayed against Robert Tyler John and Thomas Richard Sutherland.

Robert Thomas pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to life in jail with no possibility of parole for 18 years. He was originally charged with first degree murder.

John Sanderson, Jessica Badger, and Ernest Whitehead pleaded guilty to indignity to human remains.

Summer Sky-Henry and Cheyann Peeteetuce were both originally charged with first-degree murder. They both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received seven-year prison sentences.

For years, Gallagher’s family worked tirelessly to keep her case in the public eye, organizing walks and publicly pleading for information to find her.

Gallagher was 30 years old when she was last seen by her family in September of 2020. Her body wasn’t found until two years later when remains were located along the bank of the South Saskatchewan River near St. Louis.