The day after being told the story, I searched online to find out more. Apparently, the news had been in the French press for the last four days before my search, but only now was it filtering into the English media.

“Friends of accused killer, presumed victim, left reeling by account of lurid Mile End death”, CBC reported on its website, above a photo of a white guy with dreadlocks, the handyman’s friend, holding a fish in a photo he never imagined would be used to announce his murder. “The police, they don't have anything. They don't have a body. There's nothing", CBC continued.

That never stopped Raymond Muller being charged for the murder of Cédric Gagnon though.

Gagnon met Muller awhile back when Muller and his family were all living in an old bus. Mueller was a nice guy, quiet, kept to himself, while all the time just trying to get himself and his family through it all. So Gagnon gave them all somewhere to live in his studio a couple of years ago. A few weeks ago, Muller killed Gagnon. He killed him over an argument about the band they were both in. Murdered him at the same studio he had given Muller and his family shelter in, just up the way, North of where I live, up there on Rue Bernard, past Cafe Felice and the Dollar Store.

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