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This is hot off the presses and even has a couple of candidates for (possible) railroading.
Loretta Saunders last seen on February 13

The roommates of a pregnant missing Halifax university student have been charged with fraud and possession of stolen goods after they were found in Ontario with the missing woman’s car.

The family of Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuit woman and criminology student studying incidents of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada, say they fear the worst.

RCMP in Halifax say the couple, 25-year-old Blake Leggette and 28-year-old Victoria Henneberry, will return to court in Windsor, Ontario tomorrow for a bail hearing.
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There are interesting details:

Ms. Saunders, originally from Hopedale, N.L., had taken two roommates into her Halifax high-rise apartment on Cowie Hill Road to help cover her school expenses, said Mr. Saunders. He is not sure if she met the renters on Kijiji, an online advertising site, or was introduced to them by her boyfriend.

“She was having a hard time getting her rent from them. It’s been a while since they paid her,” said Mr. Saunders.

“She went to get her rent Thursday and said if they didn’t have it she’ll tell them they have to leave. When she got there they weren’t home. She phoned them, apparently, and told them they had to leave.”

Video surveillance from the apartment shows her leaving the apartment on Thursday, Feb. 13, alone. It does not appear she was followed, said Mr. Saunders.

My heart is breaking more and more as time passes
The apartment management says the building has a controlled-access lobby and monitored security cameras.

Alarmingly, text messages were sent from Ms. Saunders’ phone later that evening claiming she was locked out of her online banking and could not remember her mother’s maiden name to bypass security, the family said.

The next day, Valentine’s Day, her phone was briefly in contact by text message with her sister, Ms. Terriak, around 1 p.m.

“The conversation was suspiciously short,” Ms. Terriak said.

By Feb. 17, the worried family reported the woman missing to Halifax Regional Police. Officers were soon knocking on doors in the apartment complex asking questions.

Police won’t say what they learned, but investigators contacted the Ontario Province Police in Essex County about the case. It is thought that cellphone signals were traced to the area.

On Tuesday evening, Ms. Saunders’ car was found in Harrow, Ont., south of Windsor, and two people — Ms. Saunders’ two roommates — were arrested on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle.

On Wednesday afternoon, Leggette and Henneberry, 28, appeared briefly in a Windsor courtroom. They remain in Windsor jail.
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and the two in custody seem like unsavoury types:

Halifax Constable Pierre Bourdages confirmed the pair know Ms. Saunders, but would not comment on the nature of their relationship. Mr. Leggette and Ms. Henneberry appear to be a couple in Facebook pictures, into heavy metal music, tattoos and body piercings. The two spent time in Alberta, with at least Ms. Henneberry attending Athabasca University. She has gone by different last names and was recently engulfed in an highly personal online feud on a gossip website with people accusing her of an unsavory lifestyle.


THE CANADIAN PRESS/HOLoretta Saunders and her car were last seen on the morning of Feb. 13, near her high-rise apartment on Cowie Hill Road in a working-class neighbourhood. The apartment management says the building has a controlled-access lobby and monitored security cameras.
Both were already wanted on outstanding warrants. Mr. Leggette has a warrant for failing to appear in court in Calgary and Ms. Henneberry for a threatening incident from January 2011, in Halifax. That incident did not involve Ms. Saunders, police said.
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So they must be guilty.
 
Eyes Wide Shut

Naw. I'm sure it's just an innocent misunderstanding. They are no more likely to be guilty of car theft than Dellen Millard.
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The most shocking part, for me, is that apparently two murderers from a cartoon have escaped in to the real world. Do they wear stripey vests, and have facial scars?

Often criminals are incredibly stupid, and obviously guilty. It's Hollywood that makes everything in to The Thomas Crown Affair.


This part where we find out the apparently murdered and missing Canadian woman is "a 26-year-old Inuit woman and criminology student studying incidents of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada" about made my head explode. It's so meta I'm tempted to move the roommates down to merely suspicious, and start looking for some kind of Hipster-Supervillain.
 
Or maybe it is a college student prank?

She's living off of the stored up rent cash?
 
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anglolawyer said:
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So they must be guilty.
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So do you really think innocent people are being railroaded? They haven't been charged with murder, and possession of stolen property -- particularly a car -- is pretty straightforward, unless they want to claim that their missing roommate "lent" them her car. People murder other people and take their stuff every day, and more often than not they get caught. What do you see as the issue here?
 
I posted this because it could turn out to be another Knox saga and here we all are, in on it at the start without having to read seven continuations to get up to speed!
 
anglolawyer said:
I posted this because it could turn out to be another Knox saga and here we all are, in on it at the start without having to read seven continuations to get up to speed!
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A big difference is that they are not in Italy. I haven't seen too many complaints about negligent and corrupt Canadian jurisprudence.
 
Bob001 said:
A big difference is that they are not in Italy. I haven't seen too many complaints about negligent and corrupt Canadian jurisprudence.
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I can do negligence and possible corruption - Nyki Kish. There's a thread right here. Seriously, those two things are exclusive to human beings, not Italy.
 
anglolawyer said:
I can do negligence and possible corruption - Nyki Kish. There's a thread right here. Seriously, those two things are exclusive to human beings, not Italy.
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Without understanding the details of the Nyki Kish case, I note that she or her lawyers elected that she be tried for murder before a single judge of questionable competence. I can't imagine why she didn't demand a trial before a jury of her peers, as provided by Canadian law. She couldn't possibly have ended up worse off.
http://www.freenyki.org/
 
It's possible that they killed her, but it's also possible that she fell off the wagon and started taking heroin (presumably) again.
There's also an extremely tiny chance that she poked around into the wrong murder and upset someone, but I'm guessing that this isn't the plot of a film.
 
Lolly said:
That's because the Mounties always get their man.
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A little Blue Oyster Cult seems appropriate here-
Canadian Mounted, baby police force at work
Red and black, it's their color scheme
Get their man in the end...

... Horn swoop me bungo pony on dog sledge on ice
Make a dash for freedom baby, don't skate on polar ice
It's too thick to be sliced by the light of long and white polar nights
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Bob001 said:
Without understanding the details of the Nyki Kish case, I note that she or her lawyers elected that she be tried for murder before a single judge of questionable competence. I can't imagine why she didn't demand a trial before a jury of her peers, as provided by Canadian law. She couldn't possibly have ended up worse off.
http://www.freenyki.org/
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There was an anti-panhandler thing surrounding the trial and her lawyers were not equipped with a crystal ball. There is a thread for her case if you want to discuss it.
 
Yeah I don't see anything unusual here. They're being held for possession of stolen property while authorities continue to investigate the disappearance and amass more evidence. That's pretty SOP.
 
#findloretta

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...possession of stolen property -- particularly a car -- is pretty straightforward, unless they want to claim that their missing roommate "lent" them her car...
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And lent them her bank card, too.

Nyki Kish should have tried that, instead. Oh well, hindsight.
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Bait and Switch

Pass. No one could compete with the comical remarks you've already made on that thread.
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