Paris Laroche Murders Sidney Mantee In BC

Paris Laroche
Paris Laroche

Paris Laroche is a killer from British Columbia Canada who was convicted of the murder of Sidney Mantee

According to court documents Paris Laroche would strike Sidney Mantee in the head with a hammer as he lay sleeping on a mattress. Laroche would then slit the mans throat before dragging him to the shower where she would disembowel him.

Sidney Mantee would chop up his body and spread the parts around Nanaimo British Columbia

For eleven months Sidney Mantee would be considered a missing person until Mantee would tell a friend that she had killed her ex boyfriend. Soon the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) would set up a sting operation where Laroche would tell the undercover officers where she had disposed of the body

Sidney Mantee would be arrested and convicted of second degree murder which carries a life sentence with parole eligibility between ten to twenty five years

Paris Laroche Case

A woman has been found guilty of the reduced charge of second degree murder and for interfering with the remains of her former boyfriend.

The sentence carries an automatic punishment of life behind bars with parole eligibility of between 10 and 25 years.

Paris Jayanne Laroche, 28, was on trial earlier this year, originally charged with first degree murder for the death of Sidney Joseph Mantee. She also pleaded not guilty to interfering with a dead body.

A Friday, July 19 verdict by veteran BC Supreme Court Justice Robin Baird in Vancouver heard he he wasn’t convinced Laroche intended to kill Mantee until she woke up at on March, 5 2020 at about 4 a.m. — thus in his view the premeditation factor required for a first degree murder conviction was not met.

“It was a matter instead of revenge,” Baird said, adding the evidence showed the brutal killing was also clearly not an act of self-defence.

Laroche confessed to the killing and dismembering Mantee’s remains to several people, including a pair of undercover police officers.

She detailed the graphic slaying and how she got rid of the remains within several minutes of meeting the officers at her Rosehill St. apartment unit in late April 2021.

Laroche described she was estranged from the abusive Mantee, who was sleeping face-down on a living room mattress when she hit him multiple times in the back of the head with a small graphite sledgehammer.

Since a distressed Mantee was gurgling after being bludgeoned and didn’t die as fast as she hoped, Laroche slit his throat, dragged him to the bathtub and gutted him.

She placed his remains in the fridge and freezer of the ground-floor unit and told police she disposed of the body parts around Nanaimo.

“The violence of her attack was extreme and unmistakably punitive,” justice Baird said during his highly anticipated decision.

While Laroche will be handed an automatic life in prison sentence, it will be up to the judge to decide parole eligibility, which will be defined following a pending sentencing hearing.

Justice Baird stated the evidence showed Laroche was on the receiving end of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of Mantee.

He said Laroche was of the belief there would be a deady confrontation between the two one day.

“I find as a fact that Ms. Laroche turned in for the night, she set her alarm for an early hour the next morning because she had to go to work. Her plan for the day was to process fish, not kill Sidney Mantee,” justice Baird said during the tail-end of his hour-long ruling.

He swiftly discounted a self-defence argument, pointing to the defenceless position Mantee was in when he was drilled three times in the back of the head with the hammer.

No use of force was imminent against Laroche at the time, justice Baird noted.

“Ms. Laroche knew that he had no present capacity to harm or threaten her as she stood over him with her hammer. She acted unilaterally. It was entirely a one-sided transaction. Mr. Mantee was unarmed and defenceless. The level of violence that Ms. Laroche used was extreme and catastrophic.”

Lead defence attorney Glen Orris didn’t dispute her client killed and dismembered Mantee.

Orris unsuccessfully argued her client’s actions were unplanned and fell within the definition of self-defence and were at worst manslaughter.

The trial heard testimony from a close friend of Laroche, Robyn Bartle, who said Laroche confessed to the killing to her a little over 13 months later, indicating she’d beaten Mantee with a hammer.

Bartle, aware Mantee was previously a reported missing person, was under the impression he had moved to Victoria after the pair had split up.

She testified Mantee abused Laroche physically and emotionally.

The following day Bartle filed a report with Nanaimo RCMP, triggering the undercover police operation which initiated several days later at Laroche’s apartment unit.

Confirmed bone fragments were found at Neck Point Park and Pipers Lagoon Park by police after Laroche took undercover police on site visits around Nanaimo where she pointed out where she dumped remains over the course of several months.

Laroche told police she placed Mantee’s remains into a backpack and used public transportation, as well as walked to various locations to dispose of his remains, including public washrooms.

She appeared to sound frustrated in secret conversations with police as she explained the frustration involved with portions of Mantee’s remains containing body fat not sinking in the ocean.

Investigators only managed to retrieve small amounts of Mantee’s remains.

Laroche admitted to disposing some of Mantee’s remains at the Hub City Fisheries plant where they had both worked together and originally met.

She cut him up into fine bit-sized pieces to allow fish the ability to consume the evidence, Laroche told undercover police.

Laroche relinquished the sledgehammer to police as well as tools and other items associated with dismembering his remains under the guise they could help her get rid of incriminating evidence.

Some of those items contained Mantee’s DNA.

Defence attorney Orris told the trial mistreatment by Mantee of one of Laroche’s cats the night before the killing put his client over the edge.

“She undertook the acts in order to defend herself…having been trapped in the situation she was in and feeling that way, she had no alternative,” Orris argued at trial.

Crown prosecutor Nick Barber stated while Laroche suspected her cat had been abused by Mantee, she couldn’t confirm it as fact before she slaughtered Mantee.

Barber argued Laroche’s actions were clearly pre-meditated and unreasonable.

“If she had been afraid or felt that she needed to act in self-defence there were so many options. She could have gone to work, gone to the authorities, or gone to friends or just done nothing because Mr. Mantee was asleep,” Barber argued at trial.

Barber referenced disturbing post-offence conduct by Laroche, including her use of the same knives she used to cut up Mantee to prepare herself meals.

Mantee’s case was long considered a missing persons file until the confessions to Bartle and then subsequently undercover police shifted the case to a homicide investigation.

Nanaimo RCMP conducted several searches around Nanaimo in the spring of 2021 for forensic evidence.

Paris Laroche, who didn’t testify in her own defence, was arrested a second time with charges officially laid in March 2022.

She’s been in custody ever since.

Laroche, a former Wellington Secondary School student, unsuccessfully applied to be released on pre-trial bail last summer.

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Jeremy Skibicki Murders 4 Women In Winnipeg

Jeremy Skibicki
Jeremy Skibicki

Jeremy Skibicki is a serial killer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who was convicted of the murders of four women

According to court documents Jeremy Skibicki would stalk out homeless shelters where he would find his victims who he would then invite back to his home. The women would be sexually assaulted and murdered.

Jeremy Skibicki would murder four women, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and an unidentified victim given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman. His killing spree came to an end when someone came upon the body of Rebecca Contois. Jeremy would be taken into custody where he would freely admit to the four murders

At trial Jeremy Skibicki never denied killing the women however his defense team attempted to put forward a mental health defense saying the serial killer was driven by psychosis. However the judge did not agree and he was convicted of the four murders

Jeremy Skibicki will be sentence to life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty five years which is the maximum sentence in Canada

Jeremy Skibicki Case

A Manitoba judge has found serial killer Jeremy Skibicki guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, ruling he was not suffering from schizophrenia when he ‘mercilessly’ killed four Indigenous women.

A cheer erupted from the gallery of the courtroom in Winnipeg when Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal delivered a summary of his decision Thursday morning.

It was words the friends and families of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and an unidentified victim given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman have been waiting more than two years to hear.

The accused Jeremy Skibicki stands convicted of four counts of first-degree murder,” Joyal said.

The 37-year-old man, who sat with his feet shackled in the prisoner’s box, remained quiet and showed no emotion as the judge delivered the verdict.

During the trial, the court heard Skibicki preyed on his victims at homeless shelters, invited them back to his apartment where he abused them, often sexually, before defiling their bodies and disposing of them in nearby garbage bins and dumpsters.

“The facts of this case are mercilessly graphic – those facts were largely uncontested,” Joyal said, describing the crimes as jarring and numbing.

“It was admitted as fact the killings of all four women and the unspeakable horrors that were unleashed in those four killings were admitted by the accused.”

The investigation began on May 16, 2022, when a man looking through garbage bins in the North Kildonan area found a gruesome discovery – the partial remains of a woman later identified as 24-year-old Contois.

Jeremy Skibicki was arrested that same day for her murder. While speaking with homicide detectives, he made a shocking confession.

“I killed four people,” Skibicki can be heard telling the detectives in a video recording of the hours-long interview.

Portions of that video, in which Skibicki described the graphic ways he killed and defiled the women, formed a key piece of evidence in the trial.

“The statement was really the starting piece after Miss Contois’ body was found, and it really helped to prove the case the Crown had to prove,” said Crown prosecutor Renee Lagimodiere.

Joyal said while the details of each killing differ slightly, they all follow a general pattern: all four victims were vulnerable Indigenous women who frequented shelters.

“It is apparent from his confession with police that the accused is a man who clearly expressed racist views,” Joyal said.

While Skibicki confessed to the killings, his lawyers argued he should be found not criminally responsible for the deaths due to mental illness.

During the trial, the defence had relied on the evidence of a U.K.-based psychiatrist Dr. Sohom Das, who testified Skibicki had been hearing voices at the time of the killings – symptoms he said of a schizophrenic psychosis which rendered him incapable of knowing it was morally wrong.

Joyal rejected this evidence, finding ‘foundational deficiencies’ in the psychiatrist’s analysis – such as relying on Skibicki’s own assertions that he was being compelled by God.

Conversely, Joyal said he found the evidence of Crown-appointed forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gary Chaimowitz to be reliable, credible and extremely persuasive.

Chaimowitz had testified Skibicki had perverse sexual interests and was driven by homicidal necrophilia – sexual arousal to dead bodies. The expert testified he did not believe Skibicki had a major mental disorder, and Joyal agreed.

“The accused did not have a mental disorder such as schizophrenia,” Joyal said, rejecting the defence of not criminally responsible.
‘Justice was served today’: family

Leaving the courtroom, members of the victims’ family hugged the Crown prosecutors and thanked them.

The celebration spilled onto the steps of the courthouse, and later throughout downtown Winnipeg at Portage and Main. There they danced and drummed as they sang songs of healing and honour for the victims.

“I’m extremely happy and I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders,” Myran’s sister Jorden said outside the courthouse. “Justice was served today.”

She said it was a flood of emotions after the verdict was read.

Contois’ brother Jeremy spoke surrounded by family. He said he hopes the sentencing will bring closure to his family.

“It’s been a difficult two years,” he said.

Impact statements from the family and friends of the victims are expected to be read at a sentencing hearing at a later date. First-degree murder convictions come with an automatic life sentence with no parole for 25 years.

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/admitted-winnipeg-serial-killer-found-guilty-of-first-degree-murder-1.6959481

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David Moss Murders Seven Year Old Bella Rose Desrosiers

David Moss
David Moss

David Moss is a killer from Edmonton Alberta Canada who was convicted of the murder of seven year old Bella Rose Desrosiers

According to court documents Bella Rose Desrosiers mother was attempting to get David Moss mental health help and had brought him to a Edmonton hospital where he was accessed by doctors however the medical team did not believe he was a threat to himself or others under the mental health act

Later that day when Bella Rose Desrosiers was being put to be David Ross would appear at her door armed with a pair of scissors. He would push the seven year old mother to the side and brutally stabbed the little girl to death

David Ross would be arrested and charged with the murder of Bella Rose Desrosiers

At trial David Ross would attempt to blame his actions on psychosis that was triggered from a brain injury and that his sudden stoppage of using marijuana caused him to lose control and murder Bella Rose Desrosiers

The jury would find him guilty of second degree murder and he would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for fifteen years.

David Moss Case

Cannabis use, not a brain injury, was the cause of the psychosis that gripped David Michael Moss’s mind when he brutally killed seven-year-old Bella Rose Desrosiers, a judge has ruled.

Court of King’s Bench Steven Mandziuk on Friday convicted Moss, 37, of second-degree murder for repeatedly slashing the girl’s throat as her mother tucked her into bed May 18, 2020.

Mandziuk rejected Moss’s claim he was not criminally responsible for Bella’s death due to a psychosis caused by a 2004 brain injury. Mandziuk found it more likely Moss’s marijuana use — which he abruptly halted while experiencing a spiritual “awakening” — was the cause of the psychosis.

“This was an unspeakable tragedy,” Mandziuk said. “Mr. Moss took a young child’s life in a shocking and agonizing way that has caused unimaginable damage to Bella’s family, friends and community.”

“The evidence establishes that it is more likely than not that Mr. Moss’s psychosis was not caused by the 2004 brain injury, but rather by cannabis-related causes — use, intoxication, withdrawal.”

Moss and Bella’s mother, Melissa Desrosiers, knew each other from high school and reconnected a year before the murder. A few months after, Desrosiers’s husband died by suicide and Moss, a tattoo artist, gave her a memorial tattoo

The day of the murder, Melissa picked Moss up at his home. She planned to take him to hospital, believing he was suicidal. An Edmonton police mental health team assessed Moss a few hours before but found no grounds to detain him under the Mental Health Act. Bella and her little sister were in the car and offered him a picture they had drawn.

Planning to have an aunt come by while she took Moss to hospital, Melissa tucked the girls into bed. Moss, meanwhile, showered and rested in the basement bedroom. Suddenly, he appeared in the doorway of the girls’ bedroom, naked except for his underwear and carrying an eight-inch pair of scissors.

Moss pushed Melissa aside and slashed Bella’s throat. He pulled her from the top bunk as her mother desperately fought to stop him. He then dragged her body down to the living room and continued the attack.

After he had finished, Moss sat on the couch and waited. Screaming, Melissa grabbed the scissors, threw them outside and tried in vain to treat Bella’s wounds.

Moss was arrested and told police he had cut his fingers during a “murder.” He later made a series of unsolicited comments, including “do you know why I did it? Cause I f—ing liked it.” He also called himself a pedophile, and said he’d had sex with his dog.

While in custody, Moss continued to make bizarre remarks and at one point repeatedly bashed his face into a concrete bench, knocking out teeth and leaving him in a pool of blood.

Crown and defence agreed Moss was psychotic, but disagreed on the cause. To be found not criminally responsible and be sentenced to a mental hospital rather than prison, Moss needed to prove it was more likely than not his psychosis was caused by a “disease of the mind” rather than induced by a substance.

Moss’s case focused on a 2004 traumatic brain injury, caused when Moss was hit on the head with a rock. Moss’s sister testified he became more withdrawn after the injury and suffered bouts of depression. He also suffered seizures, the last of which was in 2009.

Court heard extensively about Moss’s unusual behaviour in the lead-up to Bella’s murder. A year prior, he’d talked about killing his wife and their children. In the weeks before the killing, he claimed he was experiencing an “awakening, which was giving him “high levels of insight, gratitude, and freedom from fear,” Mandziuk said. Around the time of the killing, Moss was also caught up in a number of conspiracy theories around vaccines, 5G and aliens.

Moss was also a habitual marijuana user. At the start of the pandemic, which forced the closure of Moss and his wife’s tattoo shop, he increased his consumption, before suddenly stopping due to the “awakening.”

Marc Nesca, a psychologist who testified for the defence, diagnosed Moss with schizophrenia-like psychosis caused by the 2004 brain injury. He downplayed the role cannabis consumption played, saying the amount Moss used was relatively small.

The Crown, however, countered with two psychologists and a psychiatrist, who agreed cannabis use was at the root of Moss’s psychosis.

Mandziuk sided with the Crown experts. He noted their conclusion that it would be unusual for psychosis to suddenly emerge 16 years after the brain injury. He also had trouble believing Moss’s evidence, which was detailed in some places but sparse in others.

Mandziuk also declined a request from defence lawyer Rod Gregory to convict on the lesser offence of manslaughter.

“Being psychotic does not, in and of itself, negate intent,” Mandziuk said. “A person does not have to possess a clear and cogent understanding of reality to commit murder.”

Moss faces an automatic sentence of life in prison, with no chance of parole for 10 to 25 years. A date for sentencing has not been set.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-man-who-killed-7-year-old-girl-found-guilty-of-murder

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Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li Murder Tyler Pratt

Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li
Lucy Li And Oliver Karafa

Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li are two killers from Ontario Canada who would be convicted of the murder of Tyler Pratt

According to court documents Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li would meet Tyler Pratt and his partner Jordyn Romano at a warehouse in Stoney Creek Ontario under the guise of starting up a new business venture. However when the pair would arrive they would be ambushed

Tyler Pratt would be fatally shot and a pregnant Jordyn Romano would be shot in the chest however she was able to crawl to a nearby road and flag down help. Unfortunately the fetus would not survive

It turned out that Oliver Karafa owed Tyler Pratt millions of dollars that Karafa had no intention of repaying

Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li would fly to Hungary the next day where they would eventually be arrested and extradited back to Canada

The married couple would be convicted of the first degree murder of Tyler Pratt and the attempted murder of Jordyn Romano

A first degree murder conviction in Canada comes with an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for twenty five years

Oliver Karafa And Lucy Li Case

A Hamilton jury has found Oliver Karafa and Lucy Li guilty of first-degree murder of Tyler Pratt and attempted murder of his partner Jordyn Romano in 2021.

Cheers erupted in the courtroom when the jury confirmed its verdicts from Romano and her friends and family. Romano sobbed, giving her mother a long hug.

“Bye Lucy,” Romano shouted as Li was led out of the courtroom.

Neither Karafa nor Li showed emotion as they learned the verdict. The Toronto residents stood at separate desks with their defence lawyers, the courtroom behind them packed with police officers, court staff and spectators watching the end of the seven-week trial.

The jury reached their verdict after less than a day of deliberations.

First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

The two couples were friends and business partners when Karafa and Li, who lived in Toronto, lured Pratt, 39, and Romano, 26, to a Stoney Creek, Ont., warehouse in February 2021 under the guise of a cannabis-growing business opportunity.

Pratt flew in from Vancouver for the meeting, also hoping Karafa would pay him back millions of dollars supposedly earned through other investments.

But Karafa, then 28, and Li, then 25, didn’t have Pratt’s money and actually planned to kill them.

They succeeded in murdering Pratt, but Romano, who was shot in the chest, managed to survive, crawling to the road and flagging down help. She was 13-weeks pregnant at the time and the fetus did not survive.

The jury reached their verdict after a seven-week trial that closed with Karafa admitting, through his lawyer, Peter Zudak, to firing as many as nine shots at Pratt and Romano.

But Zudak argued Karafa had no plan leading up to the shooting, or had created one that was so poorly orchestrated it didn’t meet the threshold for first-degree murder.

Karafa should be found guilty of second-degree murder of Pratt and not guilty for the attempted murder of Romano, Zudak said.

Li’s lawyer Liam O’Connor argued she was naive and had no idea Karafa was going to kill anyone, so she should be found not guilty of first-degree murder or attempted murder.

She was finally standing up for herself in court after years of Karafa manipulating her, O’Connor said.

Crown attorney Mark Dean, however, proved Karafa and Li created and carried out an intricate murder plot that ultimately fell apart when Romano survived.
The murder plot

Karafa and Li first met Pratt and Romano in 2020, the jury heard during the trial.

Pratt was an international drug dealer living a lavish lifestyle while Karafa was also a criminal entrepreneur with several schemes on the go.

Pratt invested roughly half a million dollars into a personal protective equipment venture run by Karafa at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was waiting on his returns, the jury heard.

Karafa and Li didn’t have the money yet, so they created various stall tactics and started planning the shooting, the Crown said.

In the lead up, Karafa and Li arranged to switch Li’s SIM card with a friend who’d stay at their Toronto condo around the time of the shooting.

They told their friend, who testified during the trial, that they were going to a secret business meeting not even their family could know about and said he should pretend to be Li.

Prosecutors say it was to create a “digital alibi” so if police were to track their phone calls and texts, it would show them far away from the warehouse, Dean said.

The jury also heard Karafa had plans to sell two vehicles, including an Audi he bought from a friend’s mom and Romano’s Range Rover, leading up to the shooting.

They used the Audi to drive to the warehouse and then got rid of it and Romano’s vehicle after attempting to kill her, the Crown said.
How the shooting played out

The plan went into action on the evening of Feb. 28, 2021.

The couples gathered at the warehouse, under the pretense of waiting for a real estate agent to meet them.

Romano, who took the stand during the trial, said she was sitting in her Range Rover with Li to warm up, Li, seeming nervous, got out of the car and cleared the way for Karafa to shoot Romano in the chest.

Karafa then shot Pratt, who was standing nearby, multiple times, killing him.

Karafa and Li left in Romano’s Range Rover to ensure nobody had heard the gunshots. When the coast was clear, they returned only to find Romano had disappeared.

Surveillance footage shows the Range Rover circling the area, with Li visible in one of the shots. They were “hunting” Romano, Dean said.

“After a full hour they decided to cut their losses,” Dean said. “What are the chances she crawls all the way from the back to the front of the parking lot, in the dead of winter, and finds life-saving treatment?”

But that’s exactly what Romano did.

When Karafa and Li found out she’d survived, they fled to Europe.

They were eventually arrested in Hungary a few months later and extradited back to Canada, making international headlines at the time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/karafa-li-guilty-verdict-1.7213791

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Adam Strong Murders 2 In Oshawa Canada

Adam Strong is a killer from Oshawa, Ontario, Canada who was convicted of the murders of Rori Hache and Kandis Fitzpatrick

According to court documents plumbers were working on the home of Adam Strong when they came across flesh like substances in his pipe and notified police. Investigators were able to link Adam Strong to the murder and disappearance of Rori Hache whose torso was found in Lake Ontario. The rest of Hache body was inside of his freezer

After more investigating inside of the home of Adam Strong they were able to tie him to the murder and disappearance of Kandis Fitzpatrick who disappeared a decade earlier. The DNA of Fitzpatrick was found in the basement of Adam Strong

Adam Strong would be arrested, convicted of the murder of Rori Hache and the manslaughter of Kandis Fitzpatrick. Adam would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty five years which is the max sentence in Canada

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Adam Strong Case

An Oshawa man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years after killing and dismembering two women a decade apart.

Adam Strong received the life sentence Friday for his first-degree murder conviction in the killing of Rori Hache in 2017.

He also received 18 years in prison, to be served concurrently, for his manslaughter conviction in the death of 19-year old Kandis Fitzpatrick in 2008.

Hache’s godmother welcomed Friday’s sentencing. “It does not change the fact our girls are not coming home, but today we let them rest,” Krysia Meeldyk told reporters outside court in Oshawa.

“Today, this monster is off our street and is no longer a part of our day, he’s no longer a part of our lives.”

The two women disappeared roughly a decade apart — Fitzpatrick was last seen in 2008, while Hache, who was 18 and pregnant, went missing in August 2017.

Hache’s torso was found in Lake Ontario about a month after she vanished.

Police did not link her death to Strong until later that year, after plumbers working on the house where he lived found a flesh-like substance in the pipes.

Fitzpatrick’s body was never found, but court heard police found her DNA in Strong’s basement, including on a hunting knife.

During the trial, Strong acknowledged the Crown had proven he dismembered the women, but argued they failed to prove he killed them.

Bill Fitzpatrick told court in a victim impact statement Thursday that he scoured the streets of Oshawa and other cities after his daughter vanished.

He said he was devastated when police told him nearly 10 years later they found her DNA in Strong’s home and believed she was dead.

“After all the years of searching, this was not the outcome I expected. I was shattered by the news,” he told court.

Hache’s mother, Shanan Dionne, who could not make it to court because she had tested positive for COVID-19, delivered a victim impact statement via video conference and detailed the family’s extensive search for her daughter.

Fishermen found a torso in the Oshawa harbour on Sept. 11, 2017, court heard. Several months later, DNA on the torso matched Hache’s DNA, court heard.

“This is when I knew this was a nightmare I was never going to wake from,” Dionne said in her statement.

Data from Google showed Strong’s phone at the harbour a week earlier, court heard.

Months later, in late December, police caught a break in the case.

Strong’s upstairs neighbours called plumbers over to fix blocked pipes. The plumbers found the problem in Strong’s apartment and pulled a fleshy-like substance from the pipes.

They put that in a bag, brought it outside and called police, who arrived quickly. Officers then knocked on Strong’s door.

“OK, you got me, the gig’s up, it’s a body,” an officer testified Strong told him. “If you want to recover the rest of her, it’s in my freezer.”

Inside, officers found the rest of Hache’s body in the freezer in Strong’s bedroom. DNA testing from the apartment also later revealed a match for Fitzpatrick.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/adam-strong-sentenced-to-life-1.6044616

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