Son pleads guilty to storing his mother’s body in freezer

It’s been a bizarre week in Southwestern Ontario courtrooms with multiple cases involving bodies found in freezers. Chad Reu-Waters, a 48-year-old Haldimand County man, was found guilty by a jury Monday in a St. Thomas courtroom of second-degree murder and indecently offering an indignity to human remains in the death of Ashley Pereira. The 33-year-old […]

Manslaughter charges dropped against parents in baby’s death

Manslaughter charges have been dropped against the parents of a Lambton County infant who died in 2020, but they’re both still facing charges of criminal negligence causing death. Police and paramedics were called to a home on Penrise Street in Mooretown for an unresponsive infant on Nov. 20, 2020. Nine-month-old Tressa MacPherson died that day. […]