The Manitoba RCMP Historical Case Unit have made an arrest in the 1985 Homicide of Michael Kalanza.
In 1985, Michael Kalanza went missing from Faulkner, Manitoba. In 1997, a group of Grade 9 students from Ashern Central School went on a field trip to the old Spearhill limestone quarry where they unearthed the human remains. DNA testing confirmed the remains were those of Michael Kalanza.
On September 15, 2015, investigators from the Manitoba RCMP Historical Case Unit arrested 50-year-old Lee Norman Pischke, a resident of the RM of Grahamdale. Pischke has been charged with the second degree murder of Michael Kalanza and has been remanded in custody.
Another male, a 53-year-old resident of Winnipeg, was arrested in connection with this case on September 16, 2015. He has since been released however police investigation continues.
