In 2016, some of the most high-profile court cases in Edmonton and northern Alberta will be resolved in court.

Tavis Vader

One way or another, the murder case against Travis Vader will come to an end in 2016. Vader was charged in the deaths of St. Albert couple Lyle and Marie McCann after they went missing in July 2010 while headed to British Columbia in their motorhome. Vader is currently alleging an abuse of process by the prosecution and arguing his charges should be stayed. If they aren’t, Vader will go to trial on March 7.

Loblaw stabbing

Jayme Joshua Pasieka is scheduled to face a jury in February on two charges of first-degree murder, four charges of attempted murder and four charges of aggravated assault. Pasieka was arrested on Feb. 28, 2014 after several people were stabbed in a Loblaws warehouse. Fitzroy Harris, 50, and Thierno Bah, 41, were killed.

Camrose group home killing

On Jan. 22, the young offender who killed a worker in his Camrose group home will learn if he will be sentenced as a youth or an adult. Now 20, the youth was 17 when he stabbed and beat 61-year-old Dianne McClements in the basement pantry of the Marler Supported Independent Living home in May 2012. The youth pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Paul Band sexual assault

James Clifford Paul, 22, faces a lengthy prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to a vicious sexual assault on a seven-year-old girl that left her with a permanent brain injury. In Dec. 2014, a drunk Paul beat and sexually assaulted the girl behind a Paul Band First Nation gas station. He left her in some bushes, unconscious and barely breathing. On Jan. 6, his sentencing hearing will be scheduled.

Wife who stabbed her husband 40 times

In March, during a four-day sentencing hearing, Edmontonians will learn more about Amanda McInnes’ motivation for killing her husband. In December, McInnes admitted she tied her husband to his bed and stabbed him 40 times, then tried to make it look like the act of a serial killer by writing misleading messages on the wall with crayon. McInnes, 30, killed Tye Christopher Kaye, 27, during a 2012 weekend attempt to reconcile after being apart for a year.

Work camp killings

The case of Daniel Goodridge will continue through the courts in 2016. The 28-year-old faces two murder charges after Hally Dubois of Red Deer and David Derksen of La Crete were stabbed to death in a work camp near Fox Creek in July 2015. Dubois, 50, was the camp’s manager and Derksen, 37, was a client staying there. Goodridge, who worked in the camp’s kitchen, was shot by RCMP during his arrest. He has been in custody ever since and has undergone a psychiatric assessment.