SOUTH RAWDON: A 35-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a woman from 2017.
On April 3, 2017, the body of 27-year-old Laura Ross was found in a burned-out garage at her property on Hwy. 202 in South Rawdon. Ross was a mother of two young children at the time.
Investigators determined the fire had been intentionally set and Ross’s death was ruled a homicide.
In July 2017, the NEN MCU charged Joshua Eric Crowell, then 27, of Upper Sackville, with Murder (second-degree).
The charge was later withdrawn by the Crown in 2019.
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On October 2, 2025, investigators re-charged Crowell, now 35, with Murder (second-degree) in Ross’s death.
He was safely arrested on October 1 in Halifax.
“Over the course of this exhaustive investigation, officers collected and analyzed a substantial amount of evidence and spoke with many witnesses who shared critical information,” said Cpl. Angela McKay (retired).
“We never waivered in our commitment to Ms. Ross and her loved ones despite setbacks at various times in the investigation, and new evidence has enabled us to now re-charge Crowell.”
Crowell was scheduled to appear in Shubenacadie Provincial Court on Oct. 2.
File # 2017-385114