GUILTY Canada - Christine Wood, 21, Winnipeg, 20 Aug 2016 *Arrest*

"As people head into the long weekend, we are asking them to keep Christine at top of mind. We need the public to help us find her," said Christy Dzikowicz, the organization's director of missing children services.
"Any information, no matter how small, could be that piece of information that helps bring her home to her family."

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Wood vanished in Winnipeg while accompanying a family member to a medical appointment in the city. She left their downtown hotel Aug. 19 in the evening and never returned.
The young woman attended the University of Winnipeg and is familiar with the city, said her family.

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She was last seen on Friday, August 19 in St. James near Polo Park. Since then, people have also reported seeing her around Winnipeg in the Osborne Village area, downtown near Portage Place, the North End and St. James, and east of Polo Park.

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otto said:

Finally some information is released:

"According to her parents, Christine was familiar with downtown Winnipeg. She had lived in the city for more than two years while she was in school as a business administration student at the University of Winnipeg. Christine had arrived in Winnipeg two weeks earlier than her parents and had been staying with a boyfriend.

On Aug. 19, the day she disappeared, Christine and her mother spent a nice day shopping together downtown. Later that day, the Woods watched Christine get ready for a night out in the city while they stayed at a Days Inn hotel. George and Melinda haven’t seen or heard from their daughter since that night.
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Const. Jason Michalyshen with the Winnipeg Police Service said they have been receiving a lot of credible tips from the public.
“Investigators are moving forward with those tips,” he said. “They've been helpful, but the bottom line is we have not been able to reunite Christine with her family.”"

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/every-...-in-hunt-for-missing-manitoba-woman-1.3063269

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On Friday night, police arrested Brett Ronald Overby, 30, of Winnipeg and have since charged him with second-degree murder

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Winnipeg police have charged Brett Overby, 30, with second-degree murder in the death of Christine Wood. (Instagram)


On March 21, investigators spent several days at Overby's home in the 300 block of Burrows Avenue. One neighbour said the identification unit removed a number of items including two interior doors before leaving the scene.
According to court documents, Overby was arrested on March 24 and charged with assaulting a former girlfriend between 2011 and 2016.
It's not yet clear what led officers to the man's North End home, or how he's connected to Wood

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"I never met Christine personally but I've been spending a lot of time over the past seven and a half months thinking about her," he said Saturday.

Favel said Wood's mother Melinda phoned him Friday night to say her daughter had been killed.

"To have this be the outcome is obviously — it's not what we were hoping for ... and we feel for the family," Favel said.

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Ayashley said:

Wonder how her mother found out... How horrible to have what happen to Christine but to be the one to tell the detectives what happened to your child and not the other way around..

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...Officers were called to the Rural Municipality of Springfield just after 10 a.m. Thursday after a farmer checking on his canola crops noticed a partially uncovered hole that looked like it had been dug up or uncovered by an animal, a source told CBC on Friday.

The decomposed remains were found inside the shallow grave located in a ditch off Spruce Road, south of Highway 15.

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