Tara Miller Murder Trial: Raw Street Grudges

0:00The trial for the murder of Calgary's Tara Miller kicked off this week on April 20th, 2026. Four people, Shiana Poppelstone, Greg Schuster, Jared Burke, and her pre-gill face first-degree murder charges. Miller, who was 37, had her body found in a roadside ditch near Okotaks on March 30, 2023. Prosecutors laid out how it went down. Miller got assaulted in her home starting around 7pm on March 29th. She suffered blunt-forced head trauma, strangulation, and a lethal dose of fentanyl forced into her system. The Crown says the group confined her in a stolen white Chevrolet Silverado and dumped her body before midnight. Tensions were building against Miller for days, with motives ranging from her trying to evict Burke and Schuster over rent to beef over her. Boyfriends crew, disapproving of their relationship, drug money drama, and enemies in the trade. And jail calls from her boyfriend even pushed for a beat down, with her heard pleading

1:00in the background. Video from her Saddlemont neighborhood caught the four rolling up around 7pm, and jail location from a suspect's phone pins the dumpside around. 11pm that night. The Crown argues they all jumped in on the unlawful confinement that turned planned and deliberate. All four remain locked up as the case unfolds in Calgary's Court of Kings bench, laying bare the raw edges of street grudges gone deadly. That's her update from Calgary News today, powered by AI.