Sorry to say deugirtni, you're mostly right about this. Sorry to say because it does seem that a great deal of stress has been placed on LB's family piling sorrow upon sorrow. We'd learned from MSM (somewhere) that there was some tough love going on in that family in their dealings with their daughter so, on top of everything else, their grief and guilt must be just terrible. But the fact is that support and information is provided to victim's families but only within a fairly restricted range - namely, to the spouse of a victim or to the parent or guardian of a child (both as defined by the Family Services Act of Ontario). Unfortunately LB's parents obviously do not fit in either category and as such, are not entitled to receive any details whatsoever. So it was that they first learned that police had determined that their daughter had been murdered when there was a televised press conference announcing that DM and MS had been so charged. And so it was that her uncle conducted his sad vigil at the Ayr farm last September, during the last LE investigation, hoping for any stray details about the death of his niece. And so it is that her family can have no access to information about what happened to their daughter or where she died or what happened to her remains until the trial, which may be a year or more from now. It may feel heartbreakingly insensitive but apparently "them's the rules". Prosecution, and certainly not police, are under no obligation to bring her parents into the loop, but they do have a responsibility to the spouse of TB.
Yet, at the same time the Coroner's report that they have no record of her death in Ontario is exceedingly curious.
According to the Coroner's Act of Ontario
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90c37_e.htm#BK14
Duty to give information
10. (1) Every person who has reason to believe that a deceased person died,
(a) as a result of,
(i) violence,
(ii) misadventure,
(iii) negligence,
(iv) misconduct, or
(v) malpractice;
(b) by unfair means;
(c) during pregnancy or following pregnancy in circumstances that might reasonably be attributable thereto;
(d) suddenly and unexpectedly;
(e) from disease or sickness for which he or she was not treated by a legally qualified medical practitioner;
(f) from any cause other than disease; or
(g) under such circumstances as may require investigation,
shall immediately notify a coroner or a police officer of the facts and circumstances relating to the death, and where a police officer is notified he or she shall in turn immediately notify the coroner of such facts and circumstances. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.37, s. 10 (1).
So, if these rules were followed by LE, then LB did not die in Ontario.
Also
Where body destroyed or removed from Ontario
21. Where a coroner has reason to believe that a death has occurred in circumstances that warrant the holding of an inquest but, owing to the destruction of the body in whole or in part or to the fact that the body is lying in a place from which it cannot be recovered, or that the body has been removed from Ontario, an inquest cannot be held except by virtue of this section, he or she shall report the facts to the Chief Coroner who may direct an inquest to be held touching the death, in which case an inquest shall be held by the coroner making the report or by such other coroner as the Chief Coroner directs, and the law relating to coroners and coroners’ inquests applies with such modifications as are necessary in consequence of the inquest being held otherwise than on or after a view of the body. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.37, s. 21.
I think, if I were that poor girl's parents, I'd be insisting on an inquest in the loudest possible and most public terms. Regardless of the "rules" the rights of common decency, if nothing else, should allow them to be told what happened to their daughter and try to begin to come to grips with it without further delay, IMO. IMHO. MOO. They've become the shadow victims, with no rights, no access and no recourse. That's bloody terrible, if you ask me leaving them still hoping against hope that she may yet come walking through the door. IMO. MOO. IMHO. If, on the other hand, their denial has some basis in fact, then a request for an inquest might, at the very least, confirm that impossibility because the Coroner's office has not been informed of LB's death either in Ontario or anywhere else that has been designated by an Ontario LE.
