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Martin Carpentier's body found, showing signs he died by suicide, police say
Selena Ross and Amanda Kline
Last Updated Tuesday, July 21, 2020 5:35PM EDT
Quebec provincial police say they've located the body of a man that appears to be Martin Carpentier, the subject of a manhunt lasting nearly two weeks after his two young daughters were found dead.
Indications are Carpentier died by suicide, police said in an announcement on Twitter.
"Following information received from a citizen, the body of a man was found in the Saint-Apollinaire sector at around 7 p.m.," tweeted the Surete du Quebec.
"All signs suggest that it's Martin Carpentier. According to initial findings, he took his own life."
They said they would not be releasing a further statement at the moment.
Carpentier, 44, was sought after he disappeared along with his two daughters, Norah and Romy, ages 11 and six, on July 8.
The two girls' bodies were found in the same wooded area July 11. Their funeral was held today in Levis.
Police spent nearly two weeks exhaustively searching a 50-square-kilometre area for signs of Carpentier and asking local residents to search their property.
They said Carpentier had broken into a trailer at one point and appeared to be scavenging for food and supplies to survive.
For Saint-Apollinaire locals, it was a relief to hear the search was over, their mayor told CTV News on Monday.
The small town, which is about a 20-minute drive south of Quebec City, had been inundated by police and it had been hard on everyone, said Saint-Apollinaire Mayor Bernard Ouellet. More than that, they were living in fear, he said.
"Even though it's bad news this individual has died, for the population it's very good. Their worries can start to ease," said Ouellet.
"They've been really scared of this man -- we didn't know if he was dangerous or not."
In another sense it was a shame he was found dead, Ouellet said.
"For the family, it's different," he said. "For the family, the mother... unfortunately they won't have a full explanation. That's awful."
Police had spent the last few days warning the public not to expect Carpentier to be found alive.
On Saturday, they called off the ground search, saying today they believed there was very little chance he could have survived this long given the conditions.
"Since July 8, the date on which we found Martin Carpentier's damaged vehicle, we have received, processed, validated and analyzed more than 1,000 reports," police said at the time.
"We have searched over 700 addresses, outbuildings, cottages and other places to locate or find clues."
Police have said Carpentier and his daughters were seen in their hometown of Levis, Que., and about an hour later, they were believed to be involved in a serious car crash on Highway 20 in Saint-Apollinaire.
But when police arrived, no one was inside the wrecked vehicle and an Amber Alert was triggered the following day for the missing girls.
Comment: The above article was published on Monday, July 20th. Just a few hours earlier, on Sunday July 19th, a hitman disguised as a FedEx delivery driver shot dead the son of Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Angelucci was assassinated a week earlier on July 11th. (Note one difference between the two: in Angelucci's case, the hitman specifically requested that he come to the door to sign for a package; in Salas' case, the hitman did not appear to request Esther Salas herself.)
Now the media is linking the two deaths - which obviously are linked, given the shared modus operandi - but with the somewhat spurious suggestion - based on leaks from "anonymous law enforcement officials" - that their suspect in the Salas home attack was "men's rights attorney and activist" Roy Den Hollander, that he "held a grudge" against Salas, and now, despite shared interests as "men's rights attorneys", that he also "held a grudge" against Angelucci (according to "a friend of the family").
The Atlantic has in the meantime published a synopsis of "thousands of pages written by Hollander, and uploaded in bulk to the Internet Archive." The outlet provides no links to this content, and no screenshots, so we have to trust them that this "manifesto" is indeed out there somewhere. A search of the username Atlantic provided ("Roy17den") on "the Internet Archive", by which Atlantic presumably means this site, yields no such "thousands of pages of documents.")
Granting The Atlantic the benefit of doubt by assuming that the content is indeed written by Hollander, then he did seem like a "man on a mission" to "show Feminazis what's what." More than that, some of the quotes selected by Atlantic suggests a highly unstable individual - so unstable that he claims to have "contacted my buddies at the GRU" in order to "get those Clinton emails for Trump in 2016."
If an attorney-at-law involved in some fairly high-level cases in the USA were seeking to attract the FBI's attention, the CIA's attention, the NSA's attention, and the Mueller Investigation's attention, that is precisely what he would write and publish online. And yet it never landed him in hot water. Clearly then, anything that is claimed to have been written or said by Hollander - who is now dead remember, and thus cannot contest it - must be treated as suspect.
So what are we, for now, looking at?
Three dead bodies - one the son of a judge, the other two attorneys - all ostensibly connected by men's rights issues. Look deeper though and the judge in question was 4 days into investigating Jeffrey Epstein's banking with Deutsche Bank, while the now-dead suspect in both killings has a history with a US-Israeli-linked private intelligence firm.