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Calgary Man Who Strangled Wife So She'd Stop Talking Gets Life With No Parole For 10 Years

The Canadian Press, 04 Dec, 2017 02:12 PM
    CALGARY — A Calgary man has admitted to killing his common-law wife and hiding her body outside the home they shared.
    Joshua Burgess entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder at what was supposed to be the beginning of his second-degree murder trial.
     
    Actress Shannon Madill, who was 25, was reported missing on Dec. 1, 2014, after failing to show up for a family event.
     
    Her body was discovered seven months later buried in the backyard of her home.
     
    Members of Madill's family expressed their grief in victim impact statements and voiced anger that Burgess had pretended to be remorseful while she was missing.
     
    Madill's father says he feels a sense of betrayal, because his daughter's death came at the hands of someone he knew.

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