
"If she wanted something, she just had to ask him, and it was done, she had it," says Madeleine Sarrazin, Océane's great aunt. I always said that the relationship was not healthy. A man of that age who always wants to be with a little girl, between you and me, it rings bells."
She had a lot of distrust of Sénécal and even talked about it with Océane’s parents.
They had then decided to distance themselves from him recently, according to Ms. Sarrazin.
Meurtre d'Océane Boyer: droguée avant d’être tuée
Everything indicates that Sénécal picked up the young Océane Wednesday, shortly after 8 am, when she had just left her home to go to school.
According to our sources, he took her to his home in Brownsburg-Chatham, where he wanted to knock her out with drugs and alcohol. Shortly after, he allegedly killed her with a blunt object, before abandoning her bruised body on the edge of a small, isolated street some 20 km north of his home.
Around 5:30 p.m., seeing that their teenage daughter was not coming home after school, Océane's parents reported her disappearance to the police. Sénécal would then have pushed the odious to offer his help to the parents in order to locate it.
"When I told you what he had done to Océane, you started to cry [...], you even dared to ask me to do research with you, in Brownsburg, you wanted me to find with you [...] or else you would have gotten rid of me too, " published Caroline Sarrazin, the mother of the little one, on her Facebook page, Friday around 8 am.
Like many members of Océane’s entourage, François Sénécal was questioned by investigators shortly after the discovery of her body. They quickly placed him on the list of potential suspects, including that he may have lied about his whereabouts, sources said. He is said to have told the police that he was in one place, when they had geolocated his cell phone and knew it elsewhere. Investigators finally arrested him at around 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Montreal.
Being friends with the Boyer family for several years, Sénécal had seen Océane grow. Relatives told us that he always covered her with gifts. The duo also did activities together on a regular basis, including shopping.