Charges laid in Catherine Campbell homicide

HALIFAX – A 27-year-old Halifax man is expected in court this morning to face second degree murder charges in the death of Catherine Campbell.

Twenty-seven year-old Christopher Calvin Garnier faces charges of second degree murder and indecently interfering with a dead human body.

Thirty-six year-old Campbell, a Truro Police Services constable, was reported missing Monday morning when she didn’t show up for work.

Initially police said she was last seen entering her Dartmouth apartment on Windmill Road on Thursday, Sept. 10 -but Halifax Regional Police investigators later confirmed she was seen in a downtown Halifax bar early in the morning of Sept. 11.

Her body was found early Wednesday morning below the on-ramp to the Macdonald Bridge, beside Barrington Street.

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About an hour after police made the discovery, police made a traffic stop in Clayton Park-and arrested Garnier in connection with Campbell’s death.

On Wednesday, police said Campbell and Garnier knew each other, but investigators wouldn’t confirm how long they knew each other or the nature of their relationship.

Campbell was a police officer in Truro for close to six years. She moved to Dartmouth’s Albro Lake area three and a half months ago.

Campbell’s parents drove to Halifax from Stellarton, NS, on Tuesday to meet with investigators. At the time police were calling her disappearance a missing persons case. On Tuesday, Campbell’s mother, Susan Campbell, described her daughter as “very outgoing and friendly.”

Campbell was the middle of three children in her family. Before becoming a police officer, her father, Dwight Campbell, said she volunteered with the Stellarton fire department for ten years.

Halifax police continue to investigate the murder and ask anyone who may have seen Campbell the night of Sept. 10 or early Sept. 11 to come forward to investigators.

Halifax Regional Police Supt. Jim Perrin will have an update on the case at 9:30 a.m.

–With files from Marieke Walsh, Global News.