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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

CANADA - Guilty pleas for 3 murders in 2000

OFF THE WIRE

A Nova Scotia man has admitted to murdering a man for his truck and then carrying out a hit on a couple in 2000.
Michael Lawrence pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Charlie Maddison, Kirk Mersereau and his wife, Nancy Christensen.
Lawrence, 37, from Windsor, said nothing as he was led into the courtroom in Kentville surrounded by armed guards.
A conviction for first-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 25 years.
Maddison, 55, disappeared on Sept. 8, 2000, while driving from his home in Portapique to Halifax for a medical appointment. His truck was found burned in a clearing two days later.
According to an agreed statement of facts, Lawrence was hitchhiking to Halifax to commit a robbery. He was in the Truro area when Maddison picked him up.
Lawrence ordered Maddison to drive to a secluded area, and then get out of the truck. He shot Maddison twice with a handgun.
Lawrence drove on to Halifax, but he didn't go through with the robbery. He went back to the spot where he shot Maddison, and hid the body.
Planned shootings
The next day, Lawrence went to the home of Mersereau and Christensen in Centre Burlington to help murder them. An accomplice shot them first, according to the court document, and then Lawrence shot them with the same handgun he used on Maddison.
Police believe Mersereau put a bounty out on any full-patched member of the Hells Angels because he believed the club had his brother killed.
Randy Mersereau, a former Hells Angel, disappeared during a biker gxxg war in 1999. His remains were found during a police search of a property in Truro in December 2010.
Lawrence was charged with murdering Kirk Mersereau and Christensen weeks later.
Lawrence admitted to police what he did and participated in a re-enactment of the shootings, according to the agreed statement of facts, but he couldn't show police where he hid Maddison's body.
Maddison's body has never been found.
Curtis Blair Lynds and Leslie Douglas Greenwood both face charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kirk Mersereau and Christensen.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/01/10/ns-lawrence-guilty-murder.html