Woman guilty of murdering, dismembering boyfriend in Nanaimo, B.C.
CTV
A 28-year-old British Columbia woman has been found guilty of killing and dismembering her boyfriend on Vancouver Island nearly four years ago.
A 28-year-old British Columbia woman has been found guilty of killing and dismembering her boyfriend on Vancouver Island nearly four years ago.
Paris Laroche was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of interfering with human remains in the death and disappearance of Sidney Mantee, 33, in October 2020.
On Friday a B.C. Supreme Court judge found Laroche guilty of the lesser charge of second-degree murder, as well as the interference charge.
In May 2021, seven months after Mantee's disappearance, Mounties searched the Nanaimo apartment shared by the couple, and confirmed suspicions the missing man had met with foul play. That July, police announced the missing person case had turned into a homicide investigation.
Earlier this year, one of the officers involved in the investigation testified at trial that he had extracted a confession from Laroche after posing as the brother of a woman who was previously in a relationship with Mantee.
"The cover story was that my sister had been in an abusive relationship with the victim and that we were there that day to try and locate the victim," the officer told the Vancouver courtroom.
The officer, who met Laroche outside the couple's Nanaimo apartment, told the woman that he and another family member were out for revenge against the missing man.
