Pregnant woman found dead after the tenants she evicted are found with her car and debit card

Tragedy has struck a small community in Halifax, Canada, after a pregnant woman was found dead by the side of a main road.

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by Ellie Hooper |
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Loretta Saunders, 26, was last seen going to collect rent from tenants of her Halifax apartment on February 13. Since then, family and friends have been desperately searching for the student - who was three months pergnant.

Yesterday, Police confirmed that they had made a tragic discovery - finding Loretta's body off a highway more than 450 miles from her hometown - in New Brunswick, Canada.

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In an ironic twist, the criminology student had recently completed a thesis about murdered aboriginal women.

The victim's tenants, Victoria Henneberry, 28, and Blake Leggette, 25, were arrested in Ontario - over 2,000 miles from Halifax, after they were found in possession of Ms Saunder's car and debit card.

Police have not confirmed if the pair will face charges of murder on top of their other chargers for theft.

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Ms Saunders had only started renting her Halifax apartment to the pair last month to help her pay for her school feeds. She was see leaving the apartment on CCTV on February 13, and was never seen alive again.

Her boyfriend, Yalcin Surkultay, was the last person to see Loretta alive earlier that day. The couple had been together two years and were sharing an apartment so that she could rent hers out.

Loretta was three months pregnant

According to her brother, Loretta she was already having trouble with the tenants despite them only having moved in a month ago, and had said she would have to ask the to leave if they didn't hand over the rent when she went to collect it.

Edmund Saunders said: 'When she got there [to their apartment] they weren't home. She phone them, apparently, and told them they had to leave.'

Six days later, Henneberry and Leggette pair were arrested in Ontario, in possession of Saunder's car and debit card.

Leggette is scheduled to appear in court for a bail hearing on Friday, while Henneberry is scheduled to make an appearance in Halifax provincial court on Thursday.

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