Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Dad "suspect" in murder of 11- and 13-year-old daughters during his child access time; mom, new boyfriend also dead (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

The "suspected" killer dad is identified as MARTIN GODIN.

What is not particularly well-identified in this article is that this a child custody-related set of murders. Notice that Daddy "allegedly" killed the girls in his own home (during what, I suspect, was court-ordered access), while his ex-wife, the mother of the girls, was killed elsewhere.

Once again, a crime that might have been preventable if this father had been denied access to his victims.

Wonder if Dad had a background of domestic violence (which was apparently ignored by the courts in granting him his custody/visitation "rights).

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Girl+taken+life+support+after+Isidore+family+tragedy/9471650/story.html

Girl taken off life-support after St-Isidore family tragedy Martin Godin, father, remains prime suspect

By Anne Sutherland, THE GAZETTE February 5, 2014 1:00 PM

Girl taken off life-support after St-Isidore family tragedy Martin Godin, father, remains prime suspect

Béatrice Godin, 11, was taken of life support on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 night and died. Her death brings to four the total of people allegedly killed by Martin Godin, her father. The tragedy unfolded Saturday, February 1.

MONTREAL — Béatrice Godin, 11, was taken of life support on Tuesday night and died.

Her death brings to four the total of people allegedly killed by Martin Godin, her father.

Godin remains in critical condition in hospital and Sûrété du Québec Sgt. Richard Gagné said that investigators have not been able to question him about the circumstances surrounding the events of last weekend in the Chaudière-Appalaches area south of Quebec City.

Godin, 54, was found unconscious in his home in Saint-Isidore at midnight Saturday. His two daughters were with him in the house at the time. The eldest, Medora Godin, 13, was declared dead on the scene.

SQ officers went to Godin’s home after a grisly discovery at the home of his former wife on Saturday night.

The bodies of Nancy Samson, 44, and her boyfriend Benoît Daigle, 39, were found at 8:45 p.m. outside a chalet in Ste-Croix-de-Lotbinière, about 70 kilometres away. Samson managed to call 911 before she died.

Sergeant Jean Tremblay with the SQ said that all the victims died a violent death, possibly from gunfire. Godin is the prime suspect in the killings.