00:0026-year-old Loretta Saunders was a criminology student writing her thesis on missing and
00:04murdered indigenous women. She was also expecting her first child. That afternoon,
00:10she went home to collect overdue rent from her roommates. She never came back.
00:15Days later, her family received strange text messages from Loretta's phone.
00:20Something felt wrong. When police tracked her car, they found it nearly 1,800 kilometers away,
00:26being driven by her own roommates. The horrifying truth soon emerged.
00:32Inside her apartment, Blake Leggett attacked Loretta over just $4.30 in unpaid rent.
00:37He choked her, tried to suffocate her with plastic bags, and slammed her head against the floor until
00:42she died. Together with Victoria Henberry, they stuffed her body into a hockey bag,
00:48hid it in the trunk of her own car, and dumped her beside a highway in New Brunswick.
00:52Even after killing her, they texted Loretta's family pretending she was alive,
00:57hoping to steal money from her bank accounts. Both killers later confessed.
01:02Leggett received life in prison with no parole for 25 years, while Henberry was sentenced to life
01:07with parole eligibility after 10 years. The woman researching missing and murdered
01:12indigenous women tragically became one herself.
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