The Case of Christopher Garnier

hey you and welcome my name is Mike and in this old video we're going to Canada holy smokes I hear you say I know if we never go there so today we're gonna have little uh chinwag about Christopher Garr near garnier Christopher Garnier okay grunt yeah Christopher shampoo you better believe it Gagne this occurred in September 2015 in Truro Nova Scotia when police officer Katherine Campbell disappeared and wouldn't you know it the last person to see Katherine would be Christopher Gagne this case is a little bit infuriating a little bit odd and I don't know what other adjectives to use so let's get into it [Music] Catherine Campbell was born in January 1979 in Nova Scotia she was the middle of tree children growing up in the small town of stellar ttan Catherine from a young age just wanted to help people you know serve her community and like her father would go on to be a volunteer firefighter following this she went on to become a police officer eventually reaching the rank of constable in the true Rowe Police Department after six years there she would commute from her apartment in Dartmouth to true row every day bed and Eira's drive and Catrin Campbell went missing on Thursday the 10th of September 2015 Brett Ruskin CBC News here at the apartment of Turo police constable Katherine Campbell this in fact is her apartment balcony she was last seen here at 6:30 in the morning on September 10th she had just wrapped up a patrol shift intro and commuted back here to her home in Dartmouth and no one has seen her since police are asking anyone with information about this missing 36 year old to contact them with any details thirty-six year old Catherine was reported missing the following Monday when she ever showed up for her shift The Dispatch supervisor with the Truro Police Department was the one to raise the alarm as she was a co-worker and quite a good friend of Catherine's and you know Catherine Campbell was the high person she would always phone in if something was going on if you know she's gonna be late she was you know she was kind of a reliable in that way so with Catherine been a no-show the dispatch supervisor requested the Halifax Regional Police Department to do a welfare check on her in her in her Dartmouth Apartments you know Dartmouth is just across the river from Halifax so with a clickety-clacked knock knock on her door no sign of Catrin they entered it there was no signs of a disturbance or anything like that but her purse was gone her phone was gone her usual you know day-to-day bits and bobs were gone just like Catrin however they did find surveillance footage of her leaving the apartment a few days previous what that was that she never turned like a morning I'd like to make an opening statement then I'll fix the questions I'm superintendent Jim param the officer in charge of the integrated Criminal Investigation Division I'm here today to speak about the death of Katherine Campbell which is being treated as a homicide this file evolved very quickly to the point that we believed yesterday afternoon that it would not have a positive outcome however it would be just a short couple of days later that Katherine Campbell's body would be found in Halifax just across the bridge from Dartmouth Katherine's body was found on the 15th of September she was found near an overpass under a large wooden box inside a garbage bin nearby they found her keys and just over an hour after Katherine's body was found a man was arrested while driving his car 27 year-old Christopher Shampoo inside his car the police found a tarp rope a blanket and a five liter gas can that was half full also a backpack containing sandals a long-sleeve hoodie tree t-shirts pants sandals six pairs of underwear toiletries his passport a deck of cards and two boxes of sip relax which is a medication used for depression now there are a lot of things you know you could do with all that [ __ ] fed inside Christopher Garnier's car but two of them are burning a body and making her one truth he was also found to be driving towards where Katherine's body was found so what led to this I hear you're back and big dog I'll take you true it so to determine that we have to go back to the night of September 10th and to the early errors of September the 11th shortly after midnight on September 11th Catrin left her Dartmouth apartment complex got in a taxi to the Halifax al Hess which honestly it looks pretty fun now the taxi driver who brought her there would later say to the police you know she didn't seem drunk she seemed fine she was in ground form guess she was just dying for a few sips aren't we all while at the Halifax Ale House it seems she ran into Christopher Gagne a former paramedic they were noticed by a number of people there noticed because they were practically banging according to witnesses Christopher get NAT show be on the dance floor Christopher actually used to work as a bouncer at the Halifax Ale House and had earlier that day told a friend who was working there that he had just broken up with his girlfriend so was presumably on the rebound they were smooching away getting blitzed I hope they weren't drinking Moosehead that's not great before leaving together shortly after 3:00 a.m. the pair of them got in a taxi now back to Christopher's friend's place a fella by the name of Mitchell DeVoe see Christopher was staying with Mitchell because well he'd just broken up with his girlfriend and presumably she had choked him out and now this taxi driver would also later say to the police he didn't know their names he couldn't hear what they were yapping about but he did feel some kind of tension between them and after they entered that apartment well no one other than Catherine and Christopher were there so we have to piece together what we think happened I wasn't good by the way the guy who lived in that apartment - Mitchell DeVoe he wasn't there that night he had actually been out on the bier himself but in a different pub and he didn't return till the next morning so what we do know is that at about 4:45 a.m. so maybe an hour after Christopher and Catherine were seen entering the apartment Christopher was seen pulling a green thin Christopher was not only seen on CCTV he was also seen by multiple witnesses who were up early that morning this you know Friday the 11th one was a garbage truck driver another was a guy on his way to work and he said he saw a man pulling a green bin that looked heavy another witness would later see the man he didn't know who he was but he said he made eye contact and he looked quote-unquote weird pulling the bin and dragging it - well you know where he was dragging it - the next morning Mitchell DeVoe returned and he was surprised to see Christopher having a nice little snooze on the couch because Mitchell you know while Christopher was staying with them because his girlfriend had turfed him out he had set up you know pullout bed for him and the mattress was gone weird dude Webb know a mattress when Mitchell asked Chris for hey wow a mattress Christopher said bye puked oh I got sick had a bit too much to drink Croft won last night and he got sick so he drew the mattress out I was like don't worry miss youla buy a new one forget about it and in the days that followed that very weekend so I guess this will be Saturday 12 to Sunday detergent Christopher managed to get back with his girlfriend who had you know the one who had chucked him out good for him so all of these sightings were reported to police and the police were following the leads of where they think Catrin was on the night she disappeared you know from the pub to the witnesses and so they had start following Christopher he was a suspect even before Catherine's body was found so when they did find captions buddy they swooped in on him and had him by the balls after his arrest the police went to the Deveaux apartment there they found blood some of the spots were located on the floor of the den the back of the television a Kleenex box and on the handle to a cupboard that contained cleaning supplies all matched catrin's blood also on a computer they found searches for memory loss related to alcohol and memory loss due to antidepressants hmm the autopsy of Catherine Campbell revealed that she had died from strangulation and she also had a fractured nose and black eyes Christopher Garnier was then interrogated it lasted nine and a half hours today you don't remember or you don't want to remember what do you remember after she paid for the cab what do you remember Chris do you see what I'm do you see what do you see what's going on here did you when you when you put her down there Rios great hope that somebody would find her like I talked about earlier Chris when you put her down there were you hoping that somebody find her how can somebody how can somebody like if I ran over a dog if I ran over a dog I'd feel that how can somebody do something like this and then all weekend jack normal have sex with your girlfriend go to your father's birthday party and everybody says no no yeah I'm looking like always then you're driving around your your your your change and stuff when you're out trying to you're really trying you we're gonna go and do something with her body okay well the stuff you had in your current what was that for well I had my bag so wasn't sure if I was gonna meet you or not right what else but the term and guess two things which which were trip that's what I'm saying Chris from what were those things for what what did you have this form for you know what you had before you were going back down there to get her yes you were and then you're gonna what were you gonna do with the gasoline Chris stop playing this game okay seriously you know what you were gonna do there hadn't have been anybody around there and you would have went down and did that okay I group by the report yes I know I appreciate your honesty okay I appreciate your honesty I was gonna go with some where was she tell me that she wasn't still alive when she was put in that and she was put in that dump that compost bin was she still alive when she was put in that compost bin though she didn't suffer in there she didn't suffer when you threw her down over that Bank she was dead how do you know she was dead I think she was how do you know that how do you know that did you tell me that she was not alive when she was stuffed her in there how do you know that she wasn't alive she wasn't moving you're a paramedic how do you know that she was not alive she was a forgiving okay no she didn't suffer how did how did it end she and was it over quick I'm saying I think so what happened she got to that got to that point where she's going into a compost bin okay do you ever get back to Mitch's please do you remember that you remember the cab drives off someone you remember going into the house I mean she she she paid for the cab so obviously if she paid for the cab Chris I mean she could have sent to the cab just take me out of here she wanted to go back there so you didn't drag her into the house I'm saying you did not drag her into the house okay you can you can tell me that you told me you assured me and I'm hope she wasn't alive you put her in the compost bin right and you know whether that's the case because you said she wasn't breathing she wasn't moving she wasn't saying anything right I don't even remember most the conversation we were at the house I remember my front doors or the pillow if she was bleeding this is where the sofa would be the stand of the bed and she's diagonal like this on the battery again this is her head okay and you're standing there and you punch her two or three times right and she's still down on her back right Chris you're solet you're angry you're really angry you're angry enough people like I said earlier you don't go around punching women you've never punched Brittany ever there's no history you're going around punching women randomly what did she say to you you're stressed you yours things are messed up for your girlfriend left Jeff [ __ ] is piling up like it's all over the place just snap puncher yes Christopher then wrote a letter which was read out by a cop who listened to that in a second but it feels quite a disingenuous you know as [ __ ] considering everything that happened I'll read it out loud okay I don't know where to start I only hope this will give you some closure I never wanted this to happen I've always been a caring person but this is my darkest moment I don't expect you to forgive me for what happened so I won't ask for your forgiveness I do need you to know that I'm so sorry this happened if I could give my own life to get hers back I would I will carry this with me for the rest of my life Christopher Gagne was charged with second-degree murder and indignity to human remains he pled not guilty after the confession anchor the letter he's got bollocks he got bail $100,000 e-news and was put under house arrest however he was eventually arrested again after breaching his house arrest and his trial for the death of Katherine Campbell began in November 2017 over two years since what happened Christopher claimed that you know during that interview and the letter he wrote he was just given police what they wanted to hear yeah that old one you know the older acting like a hard man an innocent man when you're removed from being in a room with police officers and you're about two years removed from what actually happened the defense went with all Catron's fault yeah rough sex she you know she was asking for it yeah he said she asked him for rough sex and for him to choke her and then you know it was an accident he accidentally killed her he also accidentally fractured her nose and blackened both her eyes accidents happen guys they also said the defense well Katrin was a police officer she can handle herself if he was assaulting her why didn't she fight back beat the bejesus out of him and get this Christopher was also diagnosed with PTSD for murdering somebody so totally portraying this as her own fault she basically asked for it I know poor Christopher has post-traumatic stress disorder consequences of which Christopher Garnier's father wrote to the judge have caused him to have night terrors flashbacks difficulty sleeping hyper vigilance and more I know right I mean we never we never think of the trauma killers have to endure you know when they're uh killing in the end Christopher was found guilty on both counts second-degree murder an indignity to human remains he was sentenced to life in prison well Aaron as you can probably imagine the reaction inside the courtroom was extremely emotional on both sides members of Katherine Campbell's family were celebrating they were crying they were very emotional about the verdict members of Christopher Carney's family who have been here through the trial as well also a lot of tears on that side in particular from his girlfriend Brittany Francis who's been here holding his hand every single day as he's come in and out of court she broke down into tears I saw him as he was whisked back into court to take a long look at her as he sat down it's obviously a very emotional day for two families here in Halifax with his sentencing and you were able to hear but what both the crown and the defense had to say take us through the Crown's argument first certainly yeah the crown had an awful lot of evidence to present in this case this case began back on November the 20th they brought forward a lot of video evidence they brought forward testimony from a number of police officers so in essence the story that they told to the jury was this Christopher Garnier and Katherine Campbell both went to a downtown Halifax bar on the night of September the 10th the early morning of September the 11th they met for the first time they spent several hours there together left together in a taxi and they went back to an apartment where Christopher garne was spending the night because he'd just broken up with his common-law girlfriend he was staying at a friend's place that friend incidentally was picked up by police at night and spent the night in a drunk tank now there's video evidence of a lot of this case which makes it rather unique so there was evidence brought in to show that pair in the downtown Halifax bar then there was evidence of them leaving and hailing that taxi but then there's about a 45 minute gap between the time that they are dropped off at that McCully Street apartment in downtown Halifax to the time that Christopher garni is picked up again on video camera on surveillance camera just outside the apartment he fetches a green bin and then he wheels that green bin down a Halifax Street he's then picked up later near the McDonald's bridge for anyone who's familiar with Halifax close to the Halifax Harbour and he can be seen wheeling that green bin around the crown alleges that he and Katherine Campbell got home to that apart they were in for a very short time before he punched her and then strangled her until he could hear her last breaths and then he used a mattress to drag her body outside he put the body into that green bin wheeled it through downtown Halifax dumped it in some bushes then he dumped the green bin in another location he came back to the apartment and got rid of a number of pieces of evidence some of which was never even found in this case including the mattress and then he went to sleep the defense in this case didn't argue with anything that was caught on video they did say Christopher garni was on video dragging that green bin through Halifax that morning but what they said that differed from the Crown's case was just that 45 minutes that key time when the pair was in the Macauley Street apartment they say that Christopher Garnier and Katherine Campbell went back to the apartment she offered to engage in rough sex and that Christopher Garnier was going on along with that when an accident happened and she was killed by accident they say that then he was in a dissociative State he wasn't thinking clearly and he doesn't remember the entire period of time from when Katherine Campbell was killed - the next morning save just a few glimpses so their case was that Christopher Gagne was not in control of his actions from the time that Katherine Campbell died accidentally obviously that was not what the jury agreed with Erin however when would he be you know eligible for parole at Christopher's parole hearing to see when he could possibly be released Christopher's girlfriend wrote I consider myself incredibly lucky to call Christopher my significant other he truly is the best kind of person inside and out he has saved me from me and given me something to look forward to for the future our future well two things one Christopher probably doesn't have much of a future and two he was hooking up with and then murdered a woman you know during that uh that like day you guys were broken up [ __ ] that doesn't uh bother you like at all weird his parole eligibility was set for thirteen and a half years true out all this remember poor Christopher has his PTSD he needs treatment who is paying for his treatment you if you're Canadian his treatment was paid for by Veterans Affairs Canada which is the department within the Government of Canada wit responsibility for pensions benefits and services for War veterans now Christopher never served in the armed forces of Canada but his dad did which meant he was entitled to it Christopher Gagne from Halifax is serving a life sentence for killing off-duty police officer Katherine Campbell back in 2015 at trial an expert for his defense testified Garnier developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the murder so it's good to know that you know he is getting treatment for his PTSD which is no joke but the PTSD he got for murdering somebody as opposed to actual people who've been in combat situations yeah it seems possible that maybe Christopher took at the anger he had you know from breaking up with his girlfriend on Katrin you know maybe that that's what drove him to do what he did he was angry about something you know whatever happened I guess we don't really know because well there was only two people there and one of them can't tell the story they were both drinking although his determined Katrin she had been drinking but she wasn't that drunk well whatever happened you know saying it was a some kind of a sex act gone wrong is a joke because you know any daddy accidentally strangled her he also accidentally fractured her nose and gave her black eyes really really how do you accidentally fracture someone knows even if you're having a hard core buying session it's probably possible to be fair but not in this case the defense was pretty disgusting blaming Katrin for her own death that she asked for it what you know just because he's eligible for parole in 13 years does not mean he will get parole in 13 years he could be in there hell of a lot longer probably will be the fact that he got the Veteran Affairs Department to pay for his treatment caused quite an outcry in Canada it seems that he might not be receiving it anymore but a motion to revoke the Veterans Affairs Canada benefits that have been extended to Christopher Garnier was defeated so they tried to remove it and people voted against removing it maybe they just thought it would set a precedent but to be fair this guy really in December 2019 Christopher Gagne appealed the results of his appeal are still pending Christopher his last name is also kind of funny garnier because not only is he a sham he's also piece of poo too thank you so much for watching I really appreciate it I will see you as always real soon in the next video take care of yourselves Mike you [Music] you

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Published: Fri May 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/CCBelieve]

Does it talk anywhere about Cipralex being in either one of their systems? When mixed with alcohol, it can cause black outs...

[u/NeverGeen]

Being from Halifax, there is a pretty substantial rumour among the locals that his girlfriend was the killer. Went over to his friend's place to make up, found them in bed together and strangled her, while he is taking all the blame.