The Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in locating a potential witness in connection with a murder committed in the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in May 2022 and for which a man and a woman have were arrested last week.
This wanted person can be seen in a video made public by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) on Tuesday.
She then walked on rue d’Avila, in the borough of Saint-Léonard, on the evening of May 28, 2022 around 11:15 p.m. She was coming from rue Bélanger and heading south on rue d’Avila , specifies the SPVM.
“Investigators are looking to identify a passerby who could be a potential witness in this case,” we explain.
This is a new development in this dark story where Odna Daudier, 31, was found dead in her car more than a year ago in Rivière-des-Prairies. His body then showed no trace of violence.
From suspicious death to presumed feminicide
Initially considered a suspicious death, the case then turned into a murder investigation after an autopsy was performed on the victim’s body.
After more than a year of investigation, the police finally arrested two suspects last Wednesday. Jacques Adonai Charpentier, 39, and Mélissa Estimé, 22, were respectively apprehended in the boroughs of Anjou and Montreal-North. They were brought to the Montreal courthouse where they were charged with first degree murder, the most serious charge in the Criminal Code.
PHOTO FROM THE VICTIM’S FACEBOOK PAGE
Odna Daudier was found dead in her vehicle on May 29, 2022.
A friend of the victim then told The Press that Odna Daudier feared her ex-spouse, to the point of installing cameras in her apartment and her car.
Jacques Adonai Charpentier had, among other things, already been accused in November 2021 of having threatened to kill and strangled Odna Daudier, an event which would have occurred in a context of domestic violence. As a result of these accusations, he was prohibited from being within 200 meters of Odna Daudier, his place of work or his place of study. The prosecution, however, withdrew the charges in December 2022 due to the death of the victim.
With Emilie Bilodeau and Louis-Samuel Perron, The Press