Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Unit: male arrested in woman’s 2018 death
January 31, 2022
Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan
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Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Unit have arrested a male in relation to the death of Deanna Greyeyes.
On November 26, 2018, 66-year-old Deanna Greyeyes was located deceased in a rural area near Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. She had been reported missing to the Blaine Lake RCMP a day earlier.
Saskatchewan RCMP Major Crimes Unit has been investigating since that time. On January 28, 2022, officers arrested Stephen David James Greyeyes of Blaine Lake, SK in the Prince Albert area. He has been charged with:
1 count, second degree murder, Section 235, Criminal Code
1 count, indignity to a body, Section 182(b), Criminal Code
Stephen David James Greyeyes will next appear in Saskatoon Provincial Court on February 14, 2022 at 9:30 a.m.
Man accused of killing aunt, addicted to meth says family member
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Teresa Greyeyes admits to having mixed emotions after hearing her brother has been charged in connection with the death of her aunt.
Stephen David James Greyeyes, 34, from Blaine Lake, was arrested on Jan. 28 and is being charged with second degree murder in the death of 66-year-old Deanna Greyeyes in November 2018.
The Elder’s body was located by a search party in a rural area near Muskeg Lake Cree Nation just a day after being reported missing to the Blaine Lake RCMP. In addition to the murder charge, Stephen Greyeyes also faces one count of causing indignity to a body.
Theresa revealed to paNOW she was not surprised to hear her brother has been charged, adding she has known for while and has been quite outspoken about his involvement.
“That weekend was an ordeal,” she recalled.
Without going into further detail, Teressa said her brother has struggled with a crystal meth addiction, and she believes that played a large role in what happened.
“I love my brother and I absolutely believe that on a sober, good day, he would have had just as much love for her as we all do,” Teresa said.
Stephen Greyeyes is scheduled to make his next court appearance in Saskatoon on Feb. 14. As much as her instinct knew her brother was involved, Teresa explained she still holds out hope he was not the only person, and that there is more to the story.
And while also acknowledging the recent news does create some sense of relief, Teresa added there is also an added sense of grief.
“Because essentially I have also really lost my brother,” she explained. “It”s a lot to take in.”
Prior to her disappearance and death, Deanna Greyees was an active and respected member of the community, both as a proponent for treaty rights and also laying the foundation for the community’s police management board. Reflecting back on her aunt, Teresa said she thinks about her often.
“She was a giving person and a forgiving person as well,” she said.
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Blaine Lake RCMP: Found human remains
2018-11-28
On November 25, 2018, Blaine Lake RCMP received a report of a missing person form the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. Deanna Greyeyes had not been seen in the past few days and her family was growing concerned as it was out of character for her to not be in contact with her family members.
On November 26, a local search party made up of residents of the community were searching for Greyeyes in rural area near Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in the mid-afternoon, when they discovered human remains that have since been positively identified as Deanna Greyeyes.
The RCMP Major Crime Unit North has been involved in the investigation since the morning of November 26 with the assistance of the RCMP Forensic Identification Units from Saskatoon and North Battleford.
The Major Crimes Unit is currently trying to retrace Greyeye's movements and who she may have come in contact with over the last few days in order to further the investigation and is seeking the public's assistance.
If anyone saw Greyeyes between November 23 to 26 or saw her 2015 Red Kia Optima 4-door sedan during the same time period, they should contact police with their information.
If you have information about this or any other crime, please contact Blaine Lake RCMP at
306-497-3600 or you may contact Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at
www.saskcrimestoppers.com.
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‘He was taken by a meth addiction’: The man accused of killing Deanna Greyeyes is her nephew, niece says
Stephen Greyeyes has been serving a prison term for dragging an RCMP officer with Deanna’s car the night before her body was found.
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A poster of Deanna Greyeyes hangs outside the home of her niece, Theresa Greyeyes. (Photo provided)
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For more than three years, Theresa Greyeyes and her family had suspicions about the death of 66-year-old Deanna Greyeyes.
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On Monday, their suspicions got closer to being confirmed when RCMP announced an arrest had been made. Stephen David James Greyeyes, 33, is charged with second-degree murder and offering an indignity to a body in connection with Deanna’s death in 2018.
Theresa said she has conflicting feelings because Stephen is her brother, and Deanna’s nephew.
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Deanna was last seen on the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, where she lived, on Nov. 23, 2018. Theresa said her family reported her missing two days later, and told RCMP that Stephen had been spotted driving her car.
She said it was suspicious because nobody loaned her brother their vehicle.
Deanna’s body was found in a field near Leask, Sask. on Nov. 26, 2018. Speaking with The StarPhoenix in March 2021, Theresa said she had stared at that very spot many times while searching the night before.
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During that search, which Theresa organized, an RCMP officer stopped Stephen in Deanna’s car on a rural road near Leask, about 100 kilometres north of Saskatoon.
He initially pulled over and allowed the officer to approach before hitting the gas and dragging the officer, who was still partially in the car, a Saskatoon provincial courtroom heard in 2019.
Theresa Greyeyes, left, and Amanda Wolfe hold a poster with the names of three women: Deanna Greyeyes and Joanne Wolfe, two women from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation who were killed months apart in November 2018 and January 2019, and Ashley Morin, a woman from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation who went missing the same year.
Theresa Greyeyes, left, and Amanda Wolfe hold a poster with the names of three women: Deanna Greyeyes and Joanne Wolfe, two women from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation who were killed months apart in November 2018 and January 2019, and Ashley Morin, a woman from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation who went missing the same year. jpg
Theresa said she believes the search for her brother in connection with that incident completely eclipsed the initial missing person report that led to him being pulled over.
“Do you all know about my missing auntie? I didn’t see the RCMP up the next morning. They weren’t searching for her. We did, and as a community, we found her.”
To this day, Theresa said she still hasn’t been told how her auntie died.
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She said she’s not sure what led to charges being laid more than three years later, but her brother was set to be released from prison on Tuesday. He was serving a nearly four-year sentence for aggravated assault of a peace officer, failure to remain at the scene of an accident, driving while disqualified, resisting arrest, theft of gas and breaching his probation.
Theresa said she wonders if police were waiting for his sentence to conclude before laying charges in connection with the homicide.
At his 2019 sentencing hearing, Stephen’s lawyer called him “an awful addict” who has never been appropriately treated for his addiction.
“He was taken by a meth addiction. Meth kills. It kills the people who are struggling with it, and family members that love that person,” Theresa said.
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“I refuse to carry any hate or division in my heart regarding this, because (there was) if ever a time (Stephen) needs to know he’s loved, it’s now.”
His next scheduled court appearance is Feb. 14 in Saskatoon.
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