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Melissa Merritt found not guilty of killing former mother-in-law, faces retrial in ex-husband's murder | CBC News LoadedMelissa Merritt found not guilty of killing former mother-in-law, faces retrial in ex-husband's murder
Melissa Merritt was found not guilty in the death of her former mother-in-law, in a verdict delivered by a jury at the Superior Court of Justice in Brampton. The jury could not reach a verdict on whether she was guilty in the death of her ex-husband. A Brampton jury has found Melissa Merritt not guilty of killing her former mother-in-law in a retrial more than a decade later, but it could not reach a verdict on whether she was guilty in the death of her ex-husband.
Her ex-husband, Caleb Harrison, was found dead in August 2013 in the same home where his mother was killed, on Pitch Pine Crescent in Mississauga, Ont. Merritt was originally charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings. She had pleaded not guilty to both counts.Court previously heard Bridget was murdered by Merritt's common-law partner, Christopher Fattore, in her home in 2010.
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