RCMP have laid a murder charge against a Newfoundland woman’s ex-boyfriend, nearly five years after the woman’s remains were found in a wooded, west-central Saskatchewan area.
Police arrested Joseph “David” Caissie Tuesday morning near the SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon in connection to the death of Carol King. He’s since been charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of offering an indignity to a human body.
“We are extremely sad but extremely happy at the same time and have a sense of relief knowing that charges have been laid,” King’s family said in a statement.
King disappeared on Aug. 6, 2011 near Herschel, Sask. Her car was found days later in a slough east of her home, and later that month her remains were found a few kilometres from where the car was recovered.
She was 40 years old. King moved to the Prairies from the East Coast a few years prior to her death.
Her house was damaged in a fire a few months after she disappeared. RCMP said at the time the fire was likely set deliberately.
A mysterious memorial was also erected a few months after the death. Someone put up a granite stone bearing a cross on an abandoned property in the area.
A passage on the memorial read: “The Lord he came and got me, and took me far away. Remember, I wasn’t in my body when the Devil came to play.”
It also stated: “Please don’t give him your hate, he’s not worth it.”
Caissie, who is from Bluffton, Alta., spoke with CTV News a few days after the fire. He said he had nothing to do with the death and the strange circumstances surrounding it.
He’s set to appear in Saskatoon Provincial Court Wednesday morning.
--- with files from The Canadian Press
