I am here to represent my niece and honour my niece. Her name is Teresa Sara Katcheech. She was murdered a few months back, in 2026, here in Edmonton. And burned. She was found in a house, burned basically beyond recognition.
She was born April 23rd, 1986, here in Edmonton, to my brother Wayne Katcheech and her mom. Her mom's name is Gina Scivoletto. She was a mother of three, a sibling, a daughter, a granddaughter, a niece. She was loved very much by the whole family. As a child she was always involved in stuff. She liked bowling, dancing, swimming. She loved her grandparents very much as well.
Read More About Clifford Katcheech Honoring his Niece, Teresa Katcheech
Around the age of 15 she got into hanging around with the wrong crowd, and she ended up on the streets of Edmonton. When she passed away she was 39, and she had spent most of those years on the streets. At the time when it happened, it happened just off of 95th Street in the Little Italy area. Her grandfather was Salvitore Scivoletto, so she kind of grew up in the Little Italy area all her life. That's where she hung out all her life. She was addicted to drugs, substances. She struggled with that lots. She moved to NWT with her mother, however the addiction to the substance was becoming increasingly difficult to overcome, even in NWT at one point in her life.
Eventually she found herself back here in Edmonton, in the inner city. She moved to Saskatchewan for a while to live with her family on her dad's side. After almost 20 years of living in and out of Edmonton, and also in the inner city of Edmonton, she was found in the McCauley, Boyle Street area, basically around the Little Italy area. She was murdered and burned. At this point in time, the investigation is still ongoing. We have heard rumours that the police are onto something, but of course they can't tell us anything until they get concrete evidence, apparently.
Her murder took place on February 9th, 2026, at a house on 93rd Street and 105th Ave. She was laid to rest beside her grandmother on her dad's side, in Kelliher, Saskatchewan.
I was her only family here in town on her dad's side. The rest of the family all live in Saskatchewan. She had no family on her dad's side that lived here during that time that it happened. I would go down there periodically and find her, just to see how she is doing. I'd give her a few bucks here and there. I would pick her up when our reserve used to come to Edmonton at Christmas time and hold the big dinners. I would go pick her up and bring her to the dinners and make sure she was taken care of that way. I would go look in on her, I would keep an eye on her once in a while for her dad. I would say me and my daughter, Jayden, were probably the last ones that saw her before all that happened, and it was pretty painful, you know.
I remember her as a child. When she was a baby, I used to take care of her lots. That was my little baby. I kind of protected her lots back in the day. I was a young guy myself too. In the end I was the last one to basically see her in the family, and it was a very disturbing thing to hear happen to your... I don't care where people come from in this life, I don't care what they do in this life, nobody deserves to die like that.
Yeah, that's about all I have to say about her. She was very loved by the whole family, and she's missed, she's missed dearly by the whole family. Another thing too, she's got three children, a little girl and two boys, that have to live the rest of their life without a parent. That's kind of a sad thing for those children as well. It's a shame that these children have to live a life by themselves now and not have a mother or a father in their life. They actually live with family, and it's a good thing that they are, instead of having to live in the system. Yeah, that's the story of my niece, who I loved very much.
"With events like this and getting to share your niece's story, what's one of the main takeaways you want society to take from this?" (WLMN Interview Question, 10:50, H. Williams)
Well, the thing I noticed during the time this happened here, a lot of bad comments were coming on online. A lot of people were making comments that "she had it coming," "she deserved it," you know, the life she lived. I don't think people realize that this could happen to their own child, you know. You should never look down on anybody like that, unless you're helping them up. And I don't care what life they're living, I don't care if they have all the money in the world, it can happen to their own children, that easy. Because my niece lived that lifestyle, she didn't deserve to die that way, and she didn't deserve to have people treating her and talking about her that way. The one thing I think everybody should learn and should realize in this life is, it can happen to you.
