Ex-boyfriend charged with 1st-degree murder of Carol King
CBC News | Posted: July 19, 2016 6:18 PM | Last Updated: July 19, 2016
David Caissie is accused of killing King in 2011
Carol King's ex-partner, 53-year-old David Caissie, has been charged with first-degree murder and indignity to human remains over her death in 2011.
Caissie was arrested on Tuesday morning near Saskatoon and the RCMP announced the charges at a news conference in the afternoon.
They said they had talked to the accused during the initial investigation but he was not a suspect at that time.
In December, 2011, Caissie declared his innocence in an interview with CBC.
"I want them to find out who did this ... so that people will know that I had nothing to do with it," Caissie said at the time.
King's family members expressed relief at news of the charges on Tuesday.
The body of the former Newfoundland woman was found at a rural property in the Herschel area of Saskatchewan in 2011.
She had been missing for three weeks.
Police launched a homicide investigation into her death, which they said was suspicious.
King, 40, was last seen alive on Aug. 6 in Herschel, about 150 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon. Her vehicle was found Aug. 10 in a slough.
Originally from Mattis Point, N.L., she had moved to Saskatchewan about three years before her death.
A friend said she was heading to Rosetown to give a statement to police about being harassed on the day of her disappearance.
In December 2011, the home where King lived was burned in a fire which police believed was lit by an arsonist.