A 30-year-old man was charged April 7 in connection to the homicide of Christine Wood, a 21-year-old woman from Oxford House who went missing in Winnipeg Aug. 19.
Brett Overby of Winnipeg, who was arrested March 21 on an unrelated matter when police executed a search warrant at a Burrows Avenue residence, was charged with second-degree murder after the Winnipeg Police Service's Forensic Identification Unit spent several days at that residence gathering evidence.
Wood was with her parents in Winnipeg to accompany another family member to a medical appointment at the time she went missing. The former University of Winnipeg student went out for the evening Aug. 19 and never returned, with calls and texts to her cell phone going unanswered. Members of the Winnipeg Police Services missing persons unit began collaborating with homicide investigators in January.
Winnipeg police continue to investigate and ask anyone with information about Wood's disappearance to contact homicide investigators at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477).
