Escalation: Marie France Comeau & Jessica Lloyd

In late 2007, a series of break-ins in the province of Ontario, Canada went under the radar. Most of the items stolen didn’t exactly hold any sentimental or monetary value. It would be almost three years later that the police found out the truth about the break-ins, when two women had been brutally murdered.

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