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Gosling, 27, centre bottom, and her children, top left to right,
Janayah, 4, Jenika, 8, and Landon, 7 in an undated family photo.
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The Canadian Press
Published Friday, April 15, 2016 2:35PM EDT
Last Updated Friday, April 15, 2016 5:13PM EDT
TISDALE, Sask. -- Mounties found the bodies of the woman and her three children in their mobile home nearly one year ago.
The yellow trailer is still parked in the Wicks' Mobile Home Park on the outskirts of Tisdale in east-central Saskatchewan.
Cody Wicks, who is taking over the business from his father, says he fixed up the trailer soon after the killings and new renters moved in a couple of months later.
"The only damage was in one bedroom," says Wicks. "I replaced the floor and one wall."
An online petition had called for the trailer to be destroyed, but Wicks says support waned.
And although the crime may well have been the worst to happen in the town of 3,200 people northeast of Saskatoon, Wicks says many residents aren't dwelling on it.
"Nobody talks about it anymore."
Mounties discovered the bodies of Latasha Gosling, 27, and three of her children -- Jenika 8; Landen, 7; and Janayah, 4 -- in the trailer last April 22.
Officers said at the time that Gosling's boyfriend, Steve O'Shaughnessy, had killed them and fled the trailer with a fourth child -- the couple's six-month-old girl. He then drove 140 kilometres to a home in Prince Albert, where he killed himself.
The baby was found unharmed.
A family member later revealed that O'Shaughnessy, a 23-year-old oilfield worker, had taken photos of the bodies and sent copies to the cellphone of Gosling's estranged husband, the biological father of the three older children.
RCMP didn't comment on the gruesome allegation and announced Friday that they don't plan to reveal more details of the case.
"We recognize the public's desire to learn the details of a tragedy. In this instance, it is information we cannot share," Staff Sgt. Murray Chamberlin said in a news release.
"Because there will be no criminal charges, and thus no court proceedings relating to this investigation, specific details regarding this investigation will not be released."
The statement added that the investigation is taking considerable time, but is almost complete.
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice says it isn't planning to hold an inquest into the deaths. But the file could still go before the province's new domestic violence review panel, which is expected to start its work this summer.
It's not clear if there was domestic violence in the couple's relationship before the killings. Gosling's friends and family have described O'Shaughnessy as controlling and particularly jealous of her estranged husband when he visited his children.
O'Shaughnessy's family said at the time that he suffered from mental-health problems, but had no history of violence.
A friend of Gosling's, who asked not to be named, said on Facebook that she and others plan to decorate the graves on the first anniversary of the deaths.
"I think for the most part everyone would like these events to stay private."
By Chris Purdy in Edmonton
The yellow trailer is still parked in the Wicks' Mobile Home Park on the outskirts of Tisdale in east-central Saskatchewan.
Cody Wicks, who is taking over the business from his father, says he fixed up the trailer soon after the killings and new renters moved in a couple of months later.
An online petition had called for the trailer to be destroyed, but Wicks says support waned.
And although the crime may well have been the worst to happen in the town of 3,200 people northeast of Saskatoon, Wicks says many residents aren't dwelling on it.
"Nobody talks about it anymore."
Mounties discovered the bodies of Latasha Gosling, 27, and three of her children -- Jenika 8; Landen, 7; and Janayah, 4 -- in the trailer last April 22.
Officers said at the time that Gosling's boyfriend, Steve O'Shaughnessy, had killed them and fled the trailer with a fourth child -- the couple's six-month-old girl. He then drove 140 kilometres to a home in Prince Albert, where he killed himself.
The baby was found unharmed.
A family member later revealed that O'Shaughnessy, a 23-year-old oilfield worker, had taken photos of the bodies and sent copies to the cellphone of Gosling's estranged husband, the biological father of the three older children.
RCMP didn't comment on the gruesome allegation and announced Friday that they don't plan to reveal more details of the case.
"We recognize the public's desire to learn the details of a tragedy. In this instance, it is information we cannot share," Staff Sgt. Murray Chamberlin said in a news release.
"Because there will be no criminal charges, and thus no court proceedings relating to this investigation, specific details regarding this investigation will not be released."
The statement added that the investigation is taking considerable time, but is almost complete.
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice says it isn't planning to hold an inquest into the deaths. But the file could still go before the province's new domestic violence review panel, which is expected to start its work this summer.
It's not clear if there was domestic violence in the couple's relationship before the killings. Gosling's friends and family have described O'Shaughnessy as controlling and particularly jealous of her estranged husband when he visited his children.
O'Shaughnessy's family said at the time that he suffered from mental-health problems, but had no history of violence.
A friend of Gosling's, who asked not to be named, said on Facebook that she and others plan to decorate the graves on the first anniversary of the deaths.
"I think for the most part everyone would like these events to stay private."
By Chris Purdy in Edmonton
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