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

[Joe Friday]

Glad she was found. Her parents can have some peace now.

 

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/christine-wood-homicide-1.4144931

Flowers were laid at the site where Christine Wood's remains were found buried on a farm field east of Winnipeg. Wood was last spotted on Aug. 19, 2016. (Kelly Malone/CBC)

 

[musicaljoke]

Sgt. John O'Donovan says investigators don't believe Christine Wood had any previous connection to 30-year-old Brett Ronald Overby before last Aug. 19 — the day Wood was last seen alive.

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/new...cle_afc69901-1bc8-5070-ade6-42192cac64ba.html

Could the accused also be responsible for the disappearance ot Thelma Krull? When a killer picks a random person to murder, one wonders if it was a single incident or not.

 

[cvaldez1975]

What brought them in contact?


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[tarabull]

Bail sought in Christine Wood killing

Judge denies bail for Brett Overby

Body found in ditch: Accused in Manitoba woman's death denied bail for 2nd time

Judge again denies bail for man charged with murdering Christine Wood | CBC News

 

[iulia]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/christine-wood-murder-trial-1.5115319

George and Melinda Wood will lay eyes for the first time on the man accused of killing their daughter, Christine, when they attend a Winnipeg court Tuesday.

The 21-year-old disappeared in the summer of 2016 and within eight months, Brett Overby was charged with second-degree murder.
[...]
The trial is scheduled to last 14 days, all of which the Woods plan to attend.

 

[Blurgle]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...enty-of-fish-dating-site-court-told-1.5117039

Christine Wood met the man charged with murdering her through the online dating site Plenty of Fish, a jury heard in a Winnipeg courtroom on the opening day of testimony in the trial of Brett Overby.

 

[Blurgle]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brett-overby-second-degree-murder-trial-day-two-1.5118112

The man accused of killing Christine Wood told his ex-girlfriend not to say anything about him to police, according to text messages shown in court at his second-degree murder trial Wednesday.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brett-overby-second-degree-murder-trial-day-three-1.5119805

Christine Wood's blood was found on a weight bench, closet door and stairs in the basement of a Burrows Avenue home owned by Brett Overby, a Winnipeg jury heard on Thursday.

 

[Blurgle]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brett-overby-second-degree-murder-trial-day-four-1.5121504

Hands of support descended towards Melinda Wood's shoulders, as the pathologist who conducted her daughter's autopsy described how the 21-year-old died.

Dr. Dennis Rhee shared his findings Friday at Brett Overby's second-degree murder trial.

He told the court Wood was stabbed at least 14 times in the neck and upper back.

This guy (the accused, not the doctor!) is the worst.

 

[Blurgle]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brett-overby-second-degree-murder-trial-day-five-1.5124518

The man on trial for second-degree murder in the death of Christine Wood admitted to killing her Monday morning in a Winnipeg courtroom, but says he didn't mean to do it.

Brett Overby, 32, was charged in April 2017 and Wood's body was found in a farmer's field outside the city in June, 10 months after she disappeared.

 

[ValhallaWolves]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brett-overby-second-degree-murder-trial-day-five-1.5124518

I don’t know how much of this I believe. That blue star photo is haunting.... there is blood ALL OVER that room. That’s not “self defence”.

 

[Blurgle]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brett-overby-trial-closing-arguments-1.5126263

The fate of the Winnipeg man who admitted to killing Christine Wood will soon be in the hands of a jury.

Closing arguments were made Tuesday morning in Brett Overby's second-degree murder trial.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Overby murder trial closes

 

[Blurgle]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/christine-wood-brett-overby-trial-verdict-1.5126993

A Winnipeg jury has found Brett Overby guilty of second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Christine Wood.

Melinda Wood, the 21-year-old's mother, cried as the verdict was announced shortly before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday — just over two hours after the jury began deliberations.

 

[JerseyGirl]

A judge sentenced a Winnipeg man to life in prison with no possibility of parole for at least 15 years for murdering a young, Indigenous woman he’d met only hours earlier.

No parole for 15 years for man convicted of 'brutal and relentless' murder