Murder of Melanie Carpenter

Melanie Carpenter was a woman who was abducted from a Fleetwood Town Centre tanning salon, and found dead several weeks later. Disappearance and death: On January 6, 1995 after Carpenter had received some suspicious phone calls from a man feigning interest in a business deal, she was snatched from where she was working. The afternoon that Carpenter went missing, a bank security camera recorded a 37-year-old man named Fernand Auger making a $300 withdrawal using Carpenter's debit card. The image was shown on national TV the next day, and a warrant was issued for Auger's arrest. Auger at the time was on parole for doing an armed robbery, but before Auger could be arrested, he committed suicide Carpenter's body was found several weeks later in Hope B.C., and was concealed by a white blanket, and in a crevice. Investigation and aftermath: Just days after Carpenter had disappeared, Auger had become the number one suspect in her abduction. In 1995 the Melanie Carpenter Foundation was established. After Carpenter's death, Steve Carpenter, Melanie's father formed a petition to keep murderers in prison as speeches were made, petitions were signed and rallies were held in protest against Canada’s parole system.