Quebec Police End Manhunt For Martin Carpentier

[unkl brws]

I had been hearing about this story in the news for the about the last two weeks but in the last day or two I felt this has a "Missing 411" air about it. As a brief synopsis, Martin Carpentier was driving with his two daughters and then was involved in an vehicle accident outside Quebec City in Canada. The media (as far as I've seen) hasn't given any details about the accident itself which I thought was odd. After this accident, the three of them take off into the bush and the next day the police issue an Amber Alert for the two missing girls. A few days later the bodies of the two girls were found but police won't say how they died. The search continued for Carpentier until yesterday when it was called off. This article goes into a bit more detail -
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This article is from a week ago - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mont...tier-day-6-quebec-provincial-police-1.5647248

The questions for me remain; What are the details of the car accident? Why did they run into the bush? How did the two girls die and did Carpentier murder them? Why has the search for him been called off?

It's all a bit bizarre.

 

[Candice]

This article gives more detail about the crash. The crash sounds like it was really serious, yet when the witness got to the car nobody was inside.

Manhunt for father after deaths of daughters who were subject of Amber Alert

The Surete du Quebec (SQ) has confirmed that the bodies found by a search and rescue team in a wooded area of Saint-Apollinaire on Saturday are those of Romy and Norah Carpentier.

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A woman driving in the area, Lyne Provencher, said she witnessed the crash.

She said she saw a car headed toward Quebec City fly off the road, hit a sign and some trees, and then flip over.

"I was driving towards Montreal when I saw a cloud of dust and, boom, the car ended up in front of me suddenly," Provencher said, adding that she had to think fast to avoid a collision.

"I stopped on the side of the road and I ran to see if there were people inside – nobody," she said, adding that three people called authorities at the same time.

"We were screaming and panicking," she said.

When firefighters arrived, they used spotlights to search the area.

"Only Martin's cell phone was in the car," she said. "His stepfather called saying he was waiting for Martin to arrive, and that he's told him he was going for ice cream with his daughters," adding that he thought it had been a long time.

Provencher said authorities then contacted the girls' mother to inform her and ask if she had her daughters with her, since the children didn't appear to have been in the car.

Provencher shot video from the scene and posted it to Facebook. The post has since been removed.

"There's nobody. The tires are blown out, the windows are blown out. There's no one in the car or in the field," she is heard saying in the video. "It's crazy. I don't understand."

 

[unkl brws]

This article gives more detail about the crash. The crash sounds like it was really serious, yet when the witness got to the car nobody was inside.

Manhunt for father after deaths of daughters who were subject of Amber Alert

The Surete du Quebec (SQ) has confirmed that the bodies found by a search and rescue team in a wooded area of Saint-Apollinaire on Saturday are those of Romy and Norah Carpentier.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

Wow. It does give more detail about the crash but still no idea about what could have caused it. It doesn't sound like there was another car involved in the accident. Very strange.

 

[neema]

This article gives more detail about the crash. The crash sounds like it was really serious, yet when the witness got to the car nobody was inside.

Manhunt for father after deaths of daughters who were subject of Amber Alert

The Surete du Quebec (SQ) has confirmed that the bodies found by a search and rescue team in a wooded area of Saint-Apollinaire on Saturday are those of Romy and Norah Carpentier.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

Hum... so strange, IMO it is like they were "taken" mid drive. Then the car just crashed.

 

[Pearce]

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They say they found his body and it's believed he took his own life. Don't know what to think other than the whole case is strange

 

[unkl brws]

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They say they found his body and it's believed he took his own life. Don't know what to think other than the whole case is strange

Yes, very strange.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/martin-carpentier-body-found-1.5656886

The police are not saying much or confirming whether the body that was found was even Carpentier -

Police said on Twitter that they located a body in the Saint-Apollinaire area at 7 p.m. ET after police received a tip from a citizen.

"Everything suggests that it is Martin Carpentier," the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said Monday evening. "According to initial findings, he took his own life."

The SQ says it will not comment further for now.

It's probably standard procedure to perform an autopsy to verify the body's identity but that usually means you can't identify the person visually and need to use DNA or dental records for verification (osit). Anyway, I'm curious to see if there are any further developments in the days/weeks ahead.

 

[unkl brws]

The Sûreté du Québec held a press conference today on the investigation -
Missing Quebec sisters killed by father before Amber Alert was triggered: police

The tragedy began with a car accident on the evening of July 8. Based on the investigation, police say the car crash was not a deliberate action and that Martin Carpentier in fact tried to gain control of the vehicle without success.

Prior to the crash, there was no indication of what would later unfold: the father and his daughters had gone out for ice cream. Police found a cone inside the car.

Up until the car crash, police say the man's behavior was considered normal, and no one from his family was concerned he was a threat to his daughters. Police would not speculate on what transpired after the crash.

"As to what was going on in his mind? I don't want to go there," said Lapointe.

There is still no further detail as to what caused the accident. It doesn't sound like he was speeding and lost control or that there was a mechanical failure of some sort. Since he tried to gain control of the vehicle, what caused him to lose control in the first place?!

The girls' bodies were found 750 metres away. Lapointe said they were killed soon after with a blunt object. He would not elaborate on the manner of their deaths.

Still no detail on how the girls died, other than they were hit by a "blunt object".
All of this happened within 12 hours and Carpentier was found 5.5 km from the scene of the accident. I might be wrong and this is a tragic murder/suicide, but it still has a "high strangeness" feel to me. The coroner is now investigating and at this time, I don't know if the results of the investigation will be made public.

 

[unkl brws]

This is a follow up story of the coroner's report on this incident which has just been released;

Two sisters killed by father could have been saved if Quebec police acted sooner, coroner says.

The blame has been placed on the father:

The coroner says she believes the father intentionally caused the crash in an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself and his daughters.

According to the report, the father panicked after receiving documents regarding his pending divorce from his daughters' mother, Amélie Lemieux and it was a turning point in the events that ultimately led to him killing himself and the two girls.