Two Charged With Murder of Quebecer Daniel Langlois and Partner in Dominica

Published on December 8, 2023

Two men have been charged in the death of Quebec-born film entrepreneur Daniel Langlois and his partner in the Caribbean nation of Dominica, the country’s director of public prosecutions said Thursday. Sherma Dalrymple told a news conference that Jonathan Lehrer and Robert Thomas Snider were charged Wednesday with the murders of Langlois and his partner, Dominique Marchand. She said the two men appeared in court but have not yet entered a plea, adding that a preliminary inquiry is scheduled for March 15. The bodies of Langlois, 66, and Marchand, 58, were found last Friday in a burned out car near the luxury resort they owned in Dominica, a small volcanic island located between Guadeloupe and Martinique....

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