How Chris Garnier became a suspect in the killing of an off-duty police officer
HALIFAX — When Const. Catherine Campbell didn’t show up for work on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, officers went to her Dartmouth apartment to look for her.
They found a tidy apartment with the TV on and an alarm clock sounding — but the petite blonde officer was not there.
What followed was the kind of police procedural work well-known to anyone who watches TV’s Law and Order: a series of clues that led them to her body, in thick brush near the Macdonald Bridge in central Halifax, roughly 40 hours later.
By then, they had already zeroed in on Christopher Garnier as a person of interest, according to evidence presented in the ongoing trial’s first two weeks.