© Handout via National PostLoretta Saunders, Inuk, above, went missing on February 13. The university student was writing her thesis on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada and Nova Scotia. Her body was found on February 26, and her two roommates were arrested.
The body of a missing Inuit woman who was herself researching the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women in New Brunswick has been found just days after her tenants were arrested with her car hundreds of miles away.
Loretta Saunders, 26, was last seen alive on February 13, according to news accounts. Surveillance cameras filmed her as she left her apartment building, where she had gone to collect rent from her subletters, police told the
National Post. Over the next few days, family members received odd text messages from her phone. Then silence. Concerned, especially when one of the messages asked for information about accessing her bank account, the family reported her missing on February 17. Saunders's car was found in Ontario, near Michigan, on February 18 in the possession of her roommates, who were arrested and charged with fraud and possession of stolen goods. Police also discovered outstanding warrants for their arrest elsewhere in the country.
Then on Wednesday February 26 the pregnant Saunders's body was "found on a median off Route 2 of the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick," the
National Post reported. It was hundreds of miles from where she lived and was last seen.
Blake Leggette, 25, and 28-year-old Victoria Henneberry were arrested near Windsor, Ontario, 2,000 miles away and brought back to Nova Scotia to face the charges in Halifax. Police said they are treating Saunders's death as a homicide but did not immediately reveal whether more charges were pending. Saunders had left her boyfriend's apartment on the day of her disappearance to meet with them and collect back rent,
The Globe and Mail said.
Comment: Now if only they would go after the real criminals and fraudsters at the big banks,we might be getting somewhere!