Warning: This story contains graphic details.
CALGARY — The family of a woman who was murdered and dismembered 15 years ago is preparing to fight again.
Convicted axe-murderer Deborah Point is attempting to get early parole.
Loved ones of the victim are now vowing to do all they can to keep Point behind bars.
Calgary physiotherapist Audrey Trudeau disappeared in February of 1999. She was 44 years old at the time.
Her family was devastated, but nothing could have prepared them for the news: Trudeau was not only murdered, but chopped up, put into boxes and hidden away in a garage.
“Everytime it comes up I just cry, even by myself. I have her picture up. Everytime I look at it I say, ‘Why? Why? Why?’ she did nothing wrong. Audrey did nothing wrong but help people,” says Trudeau’s sister Frances.
Trudeau’s roommate Deborah Point was arrested just days after the gruesome discovery in July of 1999.
The motive in her death is believed to be sex or possibly money.
Point was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years.
“I wish we would have had the death penalty here,” says Frances.
“She took a life she can stay there for life… she can rot in there I don’t care.”
After 15 years in jail, a defence lawyer in the case suggests Point should be let out based on good behavior and strong community support.
She is now 54 years old and has applied for a judicial review for her parole ineligibility.
“It makes me sick, just makes me sick: weak all over that she would have the audacity to even think of asking the lawyer to try to get her out,” says Frances.
The National Parole Board will have the final say in whether Point should be released.
The board denied her escorted temporary absences to visit family in 2012 saying, “you deny being responsible and have maintained this position since arrest.”
“Given… your unwillingness or inability to be honest… and your rationalizations and justifications of your behaviors… the board finds your risk unacceptable.”
Point has maintained her innocence since her arrest in 1999.
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