Police Identify Body Of Missing 25 YO Mom Sabrina Patterson Start Homicide Probe

[Whisper]

New Brunswick cops search for two missing people known to each other
Nov 3 2010

MONCTON, N.B. - Police in New Brunswick are asking for the public's help in the search for two people known to each other and have gone missing from the Moncton area.
Sabrina Patterson of Riverview was last seen Friday by friends at the Coliseum in Moncton and the 25-year-old woman's car was discovered in the parking lot of the Riverview Mall.
Fred Prosser of Shenstone has been missing since Monday when the 31-year-old was last seen by friends at his home near Salisbury.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Gary Cameron said the two are known to each other but didn't elaborate, adding that they don't know if there is a connection between their disappearances.
"They are two missing person's cases, however the investigation is joint because there may be a link in their disappearances," Cameron said.
"We can't rule out any possibilities but at this point the important thing is to find both of the missing persons safely and we're asking the public's assistance in this endeavour."
He said the RCMP is looking for anyone who may have a recent photo or video of Prosser's truck, which is believed to be a 2004 grey Chevrolet pickup with the New Brunswick licence plate COT 348.
Officers say the number 31 is also on the truck, believed to be on the rear driver's side window.
Patterson is approximately five feet four inches tall, approximately 180 pounds, has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair.
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http://www.canada.com/news/Brunswick+cops+search+missing+people+known+each+other/3771198/story.html

New twist in case of missing N.B. persons
NOV 3 2010

MONCTON, N.B. - There's a new twist in the search for two missing people from the Moncton area.
RCMP confirm that Sabrina Patterson, 25, of Riverview and Fred Prosser, 31, of Shenstone were once a couple and have two children together.
Up until now the only thing police would say is that the two knew each other.
Patterson was last seen Friday by friends at the Coliseum in Moncton and her car was found in the parking lot of the Riverview Mall.
Prosser has been missing since Monday when he was last seen by friends at his home.
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http://www.canada.com/news/twist+case+missing+persons/3776948/story.html

Police find former companion of missing N.B. woman.
Nov 4 2010

MONCTON, N.B. - The former partner of a New Brunswick mother, who went missing over the weekend, was located by RCMP Thursday after going missing himself, police said.
Police were interviewing Fred Prosser Thursday.
Sabrina Patterson, 25, who is the mother of his two children, is still missing.
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Prosser, 31, was found by RCMP at his residence in Shenstone, N.B. shortly after midday.
Police were still appealing to the public to help locate the woman.
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http://www.canada.com/news/Police+find+former+companion+missing+woman/3778157/story.html

Body found near N.B. home of missing woman’s ex
NOV 6 2010

SHENSTONE, N.B. — A body was found in a wooded area in rural New Brunswick on Saturday, close to the home of a former boyfriend of a missing woman.
New Brunswick RCMP would not say Saturday whether the body had been identified as Sabrina Patterson, a 25-year-old mother of two from Shenstone who has been missing for more than a week.
Fred Prosser, the father of her children, was also reported missing Monday, but he was located Thursday by RCMP.
The 31-year-old was charged in Moncton provincial court on Friday with assaulting Patterson and stealing her cellphone on Oct. 9.
He was also charged with breaching a court order to stay away from her stemming from a previous assault charge.
None of the charges was related to her disappearance.
Prosser and Patterson had an on-again, off-again relationship dating back seven years and have a four-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl.
Patterson was last seen at an Oct. 29 Moncton Wildcats game.
Prosser’s bail hearing is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
The body was found by people travelling in the woods, RCMP officials said Saturday.
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http://www.canada.com/news/Body+found+near+home+missing+woman/3789375/story.html

Police identify body; start homicide probe
Nov 7 2010
SHENSTONE

, N.B. - New Brunswick police have started a homicide investigation after identifying a body discovered in a wooded area near Moncton as that of 25-year-old Sabrina Patterson.
RCMP say they haven't laid any charges in the death of the woman from Riverview, N.B.
Her body was discovered Saturday by a man searching a wooded area near Shenstone, N.B.
Patterson was last seen Oct. 29 at the Moncton Coliseum. Her car was later found at the Riverview Mall.
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Prosser is scheduled to return to court Tuesday for a bail hearing.
Patterson and Prosser have two children.

http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/canada/article/684861

Sabrina Patterson, 25, of Riverview was last seen by friends Friday at the Moncton Coliseum. She was later seen on video entering the Fox and Hound Pub in Riverview shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday.​

RCMP confirm that Sabrina Patterson, 25, of Riverview and Fred Prosser, 31, of Shenstone were once a couple and have two children together.​

 

[FknKraze]

This is pretty much all the updated info that I could find

Frederick Bernard Anthony Prosser, 31, appeared in Moncton provincial court yesterday for a bail hearing, but it was adjourned until Dec. 15. He's represented by Scott Fowler, but James Fowler appeared with him yesterday.
The court appearance only lasted a few minutes, but the room was full, with the accused's friends and family on one side and friends and family of Sabrina Patterson, the alleged victim, on the other side of the room. Patterson went missing on Oct. 29 and her body was found in the Shenstone area in early November.
Police have classified the case as a homicide investigation, but no one has been charged. An autopsy was performed on Patterson, but police have not released the cause of death.
Shortly after police notified the public of Patterson's disappearance, they also announced Prosser was missing. He was last seen Nov. 1, but showed up at his parents' residence three days later. Police discovered him when two officers went to the house to speak to his parents.
Prosser made his first appearance in court on Nov. 5 and has been in custody ever since. He's charged with assaulting Patterson on Oct. 9, stealing her cell phone, breaching an undertaking to have no contact with her and breaching an undertaking by failing to notify the RCMP of any change of address or occupation between Oct. 25 and Nov. 4. He pleaded not guilty to all those charges yesterday and the trial was set for Feb. 9, when he's already scheduled to stand trial for assaulting Patterson in connection with an incident that pre-dates the Oct. 9 charges.
Since Prosser's arrest, the defence has been asking the Crown to provide a copy of the information to obtain a search warrant used to search Thomas Prosser's house. He's the father of the accused.
At first Crown prosecutor Annie St. Jacques refused, saying that search had nothing to do with the assault, theft and breach charges that are before the court. The document was finally provided to the defence, but with large portions blacked out. St. Jacques said the request had been made in Fred Prosser's name but the search involved Thomas Prosser's residence, requiring the vetting.
Fowler objected and asked for a hearing to quash the search warrant.
"What they're trying to do is hide and obfuscate," said the defence.
Judge Anne Dugas-Horsman scheduled the hearing on the warrant for Dec. 15, the same time as the bail hearing.

http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/1334098

Also here is a link to her face book

http://www.facebook.com/people/Sabrina-Patterson/517287455

 

[DamagedGoods]

I was looking for stuff for another case and found a ton of updates for this one.

Fred Prosser was eventually found guilty and was sentence to life with no chance of parole for 25 years, after his first trial was declared a mistrial because one of the jurors was a member of an anti-Fred Prosser Facebook page.

Timeline up to Dec 4, 2012:
http://globalnews.ca/news/311118/timeline-sabrina-patterson-murder-and-trial-of-fred-prosser/

From the first trial:

MONCTON – The judge in the first-degree murder trial of Fred Prosser has declared a mistrial.

Global’s Brion Robinson was at the Moncton courthouse this morning, when it was revealed one of the 12 jurors selected Monday was found to be a member of an anti-Prosser Facebook group.
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The woman’s family says they want a fair trial after Judge George Rideout declared a mistrial. After consulting with the Crown and Prosser’s defence, Rideout set Nov. 20 as the date to being the new jury selection and trial.

Aside from the murder charge, Prosser was also charged with sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, anal sexual assault and two counts of breaching a court undertaking.

http://globalnews.ca/news/267444/moncton-judge-declares-mistrial-in-fred-prosser-murder-trial/

And newer trial:

Today, a series of witnesses testified Fred Prosser said he would be better off if his on-again, off-again girlfriend Sabrina Patterson, and mother of his two children, was dead.

They told the court Prosser even explained how he would kill her and what he would do with her body.
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He also faces three sex-related charges and two breaches of an undertaking in connection with the case.

A mistrial was declared in July on the first day of testimony after it was discovered a juror made comments on an anti-Fred Prosser Facebook site.
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St. Jacques said she will produce DNA evidence showing Patterson’s blood on Prosser’s jeans and in the back of his truck, as well as Prosser’s DNA on the back of Patterson’s neck.

The Crown alleges the cause of Patterson’s death is manual strangulation.

St. Jacques also alluded to evidence that Patterson’s wallet, purse and jacket were found around the Prosser home.

After lunch, several witnesses testified that Prosser had previously told them he would be better off if Patterson was dead, and that he would bury her in the woods after killing her. (Did any of these witnesses bother to tell her, or the authorities about this??)

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/testimony-begins-in-fred-prosser-murder-trial-1.1048365

Sobs could be heard throughout a Moncton courtroom as Fred Prosser was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his former girlfriend.

A jury convicted Prosser, 33, of strangling Sabrina Patterson, 25, Tuesday morning in Moncton provincial court.

Prosser was also found guilty of sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault causing bodily harm in connection with the case.
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The jury, consisting of seven women and five men, began deliberations Monday afternoon and spent the night sequestered at a hotel in Moncton.

They deliberated for a total of ten-and-a-half hours over two days.
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Judge George Rideout wasted little time in handing down a sentence after the verdicts were read.

The first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Prosser was also sentenced to five years for sexual assault, and seven years for aggravated sexual assault causing bodily harm.

“We were told it could happen. We could give a victim impact statement, but it would prolong it,” says Dale Patterson. “Where it was first-degree with sexual assault, the sentence is automatically life.”
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The Crown called about 40 witnesses to the stand during the course of the two-week trial, including a forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on the victim.

Dr. Kalman Protzner confirmed Patterson was strangled and also told the court she was likely raped.

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/fred-prosser-found-guilty-of-first-degree-murder-1.1065099

And then, because he hadn't quite put her family through enough, he filed an appeal stating that his conviction was a "miscarriage of justice" which coincidentally, I agree with him on. He should have had NO chance of parole.

Fred Prosser, 33, launched his appeal through lawyer James Matheson.

Sabrina Patterson disappeared in October of 2010. Her body was found in a wooded area of Shenstone, N.B. nearly two weeks after she was reported missing.

Fred Prosser is appealing his first-degree murder conviction in the death of former girlfriend Sabrina Patterson.

Prosser contends his first-degree murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice. The Court of Appeals could acquit Prosser or order a new trial.

Patterson’s family says the move only adds insult to her death.

“I think justice was served. I think it was a fair trial,” says Dale Patterson, the victim’s brother.

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/patterson-family-appalled-by-fred-prosser-appeal-1.1103649

I haven't been able to find anything about what happened with the appeal.

I believe this is run by her family:
http://sabrinapatterson.ca/

 

[Momzilla]

So sad! It looks like the red flags were all there- he came right out & told people that he would kill her!?!- IMO, every person who heard these threats yet did nothing to report them, should be charged with a crime!

 

[DamagedGoods]

Oh, I forgot to mention, the FB in Fkn's post isn't the same Sabrina.