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A woman who was found guilty of killing her boyfriend and then dismembering him and dumping his body parts around Vancouver Island is expected to be sentenced on Friday.
Last July, Paris Laroche was convicted of the lesser charge of second-degree murder as well as interfering with a body. She was originally charged in March 2022 with first-degree murder.
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Sidney Joseph Mantee, Laroche’s boyfriend, was initially reported missing in October 2020.
At the trial, the court heard that Laroche bludgeoned Mantee with a hammer, then slit his throat while he slept. She then gutted and drained his body as if it were a deer carcass.
Laroche told undercover officers she heard an owl hooting early that morning – essentially a sign that the time had come. Laroche, who was 24 at the time, had watched videos on how to gut animals, and stored Mantee’s dismembered body in her freezer.
She then stuffed his remains in a backpack and disposed of him around Vancouver Island over several months.
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