Raymond Cormier has been found not guilty in the 2014 death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine.
The unanimous verdict by the seven-woman and four-man jury came after two days of deliberations.
The 56-year-old Cormier had pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of Fontaine, whose body was found wrapped in a duvet cover and weighed down with rocks in Winnipeg’s Red River.
Her death reignited calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
can someone please give me some legal insight into how he was found “not guilty” when she was clearly murdered? i just don’t understand HOW i’m so angry
Experts testified the river had washed away any DNA on the cover, but with Cormier on their radar, investigators went undercover and offered him an apartment.
Bugs captured what formed the heart of the Crown’s case.
Cormier was recorded telling a woman that he would make a bet that Tina was killed because he had had sex with her and then “I found out she was 15 years old.”
In another recording, Cormier was heard arguing with a woman and saying that there was a little girl in a “grave someplace screaming at the top of her lungs for me to finish the job. And guess what? I finished the job.”
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