Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press january 1995 to wrapped up in rhonda9 murderer could t Deal with stunned friends say Sybil Redekop staff reporter Roy Lavoie Deal with the collapse of his marriage and a restraining order that kept him from seeing his Chil his friends Ive known Roy for 15 he want an emotional and i never saw a tear come out of except with the recent situation with Kyle adoption Battle grandmas vying for custody by Linda Quattrin As questions remain about the tragedy of the Lavoie the Fate of their three Young children hangs in the and those children six year old Foury Earold Kyle and age become the Centre of a heated custody Rita a close Friend of Rhonda said Roy Lavlies Margaret filed an application for custody with the courts on Fri both families have made applications for duty Dennis Sheardown said Emerson said she and Rhonda discussed the care of the children should any thing happen to Rhonda about 10 Days i told her i would take the Emerson but she wanted them to be with her the other Side of the family will respect Emerson said Rhonda and her Mother inlaw Margaret Lavoie tolerated each other but there had been friction Over the Margaret Lavoie declined comment Rhonda Judy pro was also not speak ing to the Media the three children have been in prot Savages care since their father abducted their Mother Early thursday morning As they a Trust fund has been set up for the Lavoie children at the Toronto Dominion 2539 main donations can be made at any woman failed by system his said one who requested that Friend admitted his acquaintance with another wife Mur Carlyle Lavlies Friend after a Friend of Rhonda Lavlies told the free that he was in a car with Thomas when Thomas abducted his common Law Marilyn in Thomas was convicted of killing Jensen with a Lavlies friends were still trying to come to terms yesterday with news that Lavoie had abducted his wife and committed a murders i cide just outside they thought they had convinced Lavoie that he should stay away from his estranged wife and be patient about re acquiring visitation rights to his i kept nagging at i always tried to talk to him to see How he was said one longtime who was supposed to work on a car with Lavoie the night Rhonda Lavoie was he was really wrapped up in Roy and Rhonda Are said to have crossed paths wednesday night just hours before he abducted her in separate vehicles waiting at a traffic friends described Lavoie As a qui energetic Man whose passion was he worked As an Auto body he want a Lazy kind of one Friend if you called him up for help with hed do Lavoie grew up in Beausejour and attended what is now called Edward Schreyer his father died when he was in Grade he was expelled for hitting a and finished High school in he met Rhonda at a party about eight years and they began Liv ing common Law in they were married in september she was Way too i told him that at the said a Roy was a bit of a smart ass but didst have a history of he when he started a he matured in a hell of a he he was very Well liked and he was Good to he lived for his at the time of the Roy Lavoie was free on bail on charges of sexual sexual As Sault with a forcible confinement and uttering he was also charged with breaching the terms of his bail by being in con tact with his wife and with break Young murder victim was totally devoted to her pal says by Linda Quattrin staff reporter friends say Roy Lavoie was a quiet Man who lived for his ing and entering her the two friends said they did not get along with Rhonda who they characterized As they said Rhonda had a hard life Lavoie had been living with his Mother since the friends said their marriage prob lems were less than three months and Only began after Rhonda he was t an emotional and i never saw a tear come out of except with the recent situation with his marriage growing up in Foster roys friends say while a restrain ing order prevented him from see ing his she would drop in at his residence and was still phoning and a Friend went to North they allege Rhonda and Rita Emerson met two men and that Rhonda began seeing another Man after the at a time when most teenagers Are out on dates having Rhonda Lavoie then Rhonda Small was raising a Tod she was 17 and was going to school downtown at the adolescent Parent Centre when she met 19yearold Rita both were new moms and they quickly became we hit it off right recalled Kevin Rhonda first child was in the toddler room and he kept calling me so i was bugging Rhonda that i was going to take him that was five years ago and from then on they spent a lot of time to Gether because of their five she was a totally devoted Moth said who is studying to become a teacher at the Winnipeg adult education those kids were the Centre of her children became a part of Rhon Das life not Long after she met her future Roy who was raised by her Mother after her parents was 14 when she encountered 22 year old Roy the two met at a party in their Home town of Emerson and it want Long before they were an when Rhonda was 16 she got preg Nant and she and Roy decided to move out on their because she was so Young and he was so much that was a prob Emerson adding that Rhonda had been in Foster care be fore she had her first when Kevin was about 18 months the couple moved from because Jour to where Roy had found a he had a hard life he didst have a Emerson said of whom she considered a Friend As i think he really believed he was a Good Emerson described Roy Lavoie As having a rough and Tumble Way that his kids he want a he was a sick Man who needed help and didst get Emerson said Rhonda fractured two vertebrae in her neck after a car Accident when her second was eight months not Long after she got her first Job As a waitress at a Perkins restaurant but had to quit after a second car Accident further injured her Emerson said Rhonda had been considering a separation for about a year after Roy became increasingly jealous and they finally separated in and she had filed for divorce the Day be fore her Rhonda Lavoie teen Mother her divorce papers make chilling Reading in Light of her in her she describes an abduction in november during which Roy tied her up in his car and ran a tube from the exhaust pipe through the Sun that he relented when she promised not to Call it was almost identical to the Way he killed both of them Emerson said she and Rhonda went on an annual trip together to grand Forks and on the last trip Days before Roy first assaulted and threatened to kill his estranged wife in november they had dinner with two Roy was convinced she was hav ing multiple affairs and sleeping which want she coping with the loss of her Best Emerson finds it painful to think of what could have the Day Roy and Rhonda Digap Rhonda told Emerson she was thinking of going Back to school to study social nursing or Emerson hit it off right away Public safety has to be top priority critics by Michael Thibault free press correspondent critics of Canadas bail system say Rhonda Lavlies death proves that the Law has its priorities when a judge or magistrate Grants the primary consideration is whether the of fender will show up for the secondary consideration is whether the offender will endanger the Public safety has to become the primary nip Justice critic Gord Mackintosh said last there is a Lack of real response in the jus Tice system to the epidemic of violence against he Mackintosh said that the court system Doest take the Issue of Domestic violence seriously last Roy who was found dead with his wife on was released on bail in spite of a list of violence related charges and even though he was charged with breaching previous bail Rocco de whose wife started Ca Veat canadians against violence every where advocating its an organization that seeks changes in bail and parole said last night the people who release dangerous offenders into society should be held More the de Villiers daughter was killed several years ago in by a repeat sex offender who had recently been freed on if i let someone who has been drinking drive Home from my and they Are in an then i am held he so Why the Justice system be held responsible when they release someone who later commits a crime after their daughters de Villiers and his wife started a petition demanding a change to the Justice they collected More than million its changing de Villiers said of the Justice but he said he still believes that the Justice system is too biased in favor of the accused to the exclusion of the Vic judiciary should serve our not the interests of he Justice to probe what went wrong the Manitoba Justice department was to begin its investigation today of How its procedures failed Rhonda the Mother of three whose estranged husband killed her and him self Rob the acting director of prosecutions for said last night he would Cut Short his weekend to begin the Rhonda and Roy were found dead at about 6 they were both in the Buck of his Van in a machine shed on an abandoned farm near North of his body was Bare from the Waist up she was topless except for her there was a Mark on one of her As if she had been tied up at some Point in the but her body was not tied a Hose ran from the vans exhaust pipe into the passenger Compart autopsies Are not scheduled until but police were treating it As a murder suicide by Carbon monoxide r6y Lavoie was free on fac ing various charges based on a nigh Long sexual and physical As Sault on his wife last about a week after the charges were Laid and he was granted he was charged again this time with breaking the terms of his bail and breaking into Rhonda Lavlies taken before a he was granted bail the Crown appealed that but a court of Queens Bench judge upheld Finlayson investigation will of what was said and done at those it has been the provinces since a stalker killed a Eustache couple last to have a Crown attorney at All bail the Eustache shortly before the had been granted bail by a magistrate at a hearing where Only an ramp officer Finlayson could not say last night who had opposed bail on when Lavoie appeared before a magistrate charged with sexual forcible confine sexual assault with a weapon and uttering court Docu ments say the magistrate was Wachniak and that at had opposed Wachniak ordered that he have no Contact with his wife and stay at least three blocks from her about a week Roy Lavoie was charged he had broken into his wife installed a tape recorder to tap her Telephone Calls and put a child Monitor in the ceiling of the rec Finlayson said Crown attorney Michael Mann opposed bail when Lavoie appeared before magistrate Lynda Michaluk in Michaluk would have had Access to a 24hour court information another response to the Eustache stalking it gives around the clock Access to restraining or Ders and other bail but Michaluk also granted also imposing a no Contact Mann could not be reached last night and Mihaluk was not Tang i pc ;