{"id":564952,"date":"2026-03-27T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:16:14","slug":"man-in-p-e-i-arrested-by-edmonton-police-charged-with-murder-of-missing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564952\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in P.E.I. arrested by Edmonton police, charged with murder of missing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 47-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a woman who went missing in southeast Edmonton last summer.<\/p>\n

John Angus Joseph MacArthur is also charged with indignity to a body in the death of his partner, Marika \u201cMika\u201d Sutton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sutton\u2019s death is being treated as an intimate partner homicide.<\/p>\n

Sutton, 29, was last seen in early August 2025 in the Richfield neighbourhood of Mill Woods. She was reported missing on Sept. 25 by family members living out of province.<\/p>\n

Within a month, investigators believed Sutton was dead and that her disappearance was criminal in nature, stated the news release. Edmonton homicide detectives took over the case on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n

On March 17, investigators travelled to Charlottetown and arrested MacArthur<\/a>, the news release said. He was brought to Edmonton where he remains in custody.<\/p>\n

Police said MacArthur and Sutton were in an intimate relationship. The news release noted that investigators uncovered a history of domestic violence, though there had not been any reports filed to police.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sutton\u2019s body has never been recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Investigators believe Sutton\u2019s remains were disposed of sometime between Aug. 22 and 29 along Highway 2 between Wetaskiwin and Lacombe.<\/p>\n

At the time, MacArthur was driving a 2014 black Jeep Patriot with Alberta licence plate CFB 2578.<\/p>\n

Investigators are asking anyone who may have seen the vehicle in an unusual location along Highway 2 during that time to come forward. They are also appealing to landowners, hunters and others who frequent the area to watch for any signs of Sutton\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n

Police are expected to provide more information at a news conference on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-564952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}