Date: 12/12/05 - A jury in Longueuil, Que. has found Mélanie Alix guilty of two charges of murder. The 31-year-old woman was found guilty of killing her mother and infant son by drugging them and setting separate house fires...
A jury in Longueuil, Que. has found Mélanie Alix guilty of two charges of murder. The 31-year-old woman was found guilty of killing her mother and infant son by drugging them and setting separate house fires. The jury deliberated five days before finding Alix guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of arson and one count of attempted murder. Alix killed her one year-old son in a fire at her home in 2003, and her disabled mother in a fire two years earlier, in 2001.P> She claimed her son was killed in the house fire, but an autopsy revealed he had died hours before firefighters were called, and that he had been drugged.
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