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Facebook selfie helps convict killer because it shows the belt she used to throttle victim! Brittney Gargol was strangled by best friend Cheyenne Rose Antoine – Cops

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Facebook selfie helps convict Canadian woman who strangled her best friend – because it shows the belt she used to throttle victim<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Cheyenne Rose Antoine&comma; 21&comma; has been convicted of manslaughter thanks to this selfie of her with Brittney Gargol&comma; 18&comma;  in which she wears the belt used to strangle Gargol <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The &&num;8216&semi;best friends had been out drinking before getting into an argument&comma; in March 25&comma; 2015<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Cheyenne Rose Antoine reportedly&comma; strangled Brittney Gargol with a belt<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The killer dumped her friend&&num;8217&semi;s body by a road in Saskatchewan&comma; Canada<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Antoine then attempted to cover her tracks&comma; posting on Gargol&&num;8217&semi;s Facebook &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8216&semi;Where are you&quest; Haven&&num;8217&semi;t heard from you&period; Hope you made it home safe&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Selfie of the pair posted six hours before Gargol&&num;8217&semi;s death showed the killer wearing the belt used to strangle her <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Antoine has been sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"author-section byline-plain"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288557" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Cheyenne-Rose-Antoine-left-killed-bestie-Brittney-Gargol-right&period;png" alt&equals;" Cheyenne Rose Antoine &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; killed bestie Brittney Gargol&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&period;png" width&equals;"683" height&equals;"488" &sol;><strong>Cheyenne Rose Antoine&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; has been convicted of manslaughter in the strangling death of bestie&comma; Brittney Gargol&comma; &lbrack;right&comma;&rsqb;&period; the photograph was taken and uploaded to Facebook on March 25&comma; 2015&comma; the day Gargol died&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"author-section byline-plain">A selfie helped convict a killer who strangled her best friend to death &&num;8211&semi; because it shows her wearing the belt she used in the deadly attack&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Brittney Gargol&comma; 18&comma; was strangled to death by Cheyenne Rose Antoine&comma; 21&comma; in Saskatoon&comma; Saskatchewan&comma; Canada in March&comma; 2015&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Antoine has now been found guilty of manslaughter thanks to the image of the pair together&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Antoine claims she does not remember killing her friend&comma; but still accepts responsibility for her death&comma; according to her attorney&period; Appearing in court on Monday&comma; Antoine&&num;8217&semi;s lawyers said she had been drinking and using drugs on the night she killed 18-year-old Gargol and dumped her on a road near Cedar Villa Estates&comma; south of Saskatoon&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A passerby found the body on the early morning of March 25&comma; 2015&period; Two years would pass before Antoine would be arrested charged her with second-degree murder in the death of her friend and drinking buddy&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The suspect was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on January 15&comma; instead she entered a plead deal for the lesser included offence of manslaughter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"container-3zJLP vertical-2XJd5"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288559" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Brittney-Gargol-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Brittney Gargol 1&period;png" width&equals;"648" height&equals;"639" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>A photo of Gargol &lbrack;photo&rsqb;  and her best friend&comma; Antoine&comma; had been posted to Facebook six hours before the body was discovered<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"container-3zJLP vertical-2XJd5">Antoine initially told police that the pair had been out drinking on the eve of Gargol&&num;8217&semi;s  death&period; She later admitted they got into an argument<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The teenager&&num;8217&semi;s body was found dumped by a road south of Saskatoon on March 25&comma; 2015 with a belt discovered nearby&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;thestarphoenix&period;com&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;brittney-gargol-homicide-cheyenne-antoine-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-2015-death-outside-saskatoon" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">The Star Phoenix<&sol;a> reports that the case broke when investigators found a photograph of the two friends uploaded to social media six hours before her body was found&period; In the photo&comma; Antoine was wearing a belt that matched the one found near Gargol’s body&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;An autopsy determined Gargol died of strangulation&comma; prosecutors said Antoine she used it to garrote Gargol&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The same night&comma; Antoine posted on the victim’s Facebook page&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Where are you&quest; Haven’t heard from you&period; Hope you made it home safe&period;” That was an attempt to hide her involvement&comma; Ritter said&period; She then lied to police&comma; saying she was with Gargol on the night she died&comma; but left to go see her uncle&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The alibi fell apart when Antoine’s uncle later revealed that Antoine had told him to go along with her alibi&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;An informer eventually approached Gargol’s family with information about Antoine’s involvement in her death&period; The person said Antoine&comma; intoxicated and hysterical&comma; came to their home and said she got into an argument with her friend and choked her&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Defence lawyer Lisa Watson said her client remembers leaving a house party with Gargol and her last memory is of Gargol taking her phone&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ll never forgive myself&period; It’s wrong and shouldn’t have happened&comma;” Antoine wrote in a statement Watson read aloud in court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&NewLine;<strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288560" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Cheyenne-Rose-Antoinen-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Cheyenne Rose Antoinen 1" width&equals;"524" height&equals;"702" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Double-faced friend Cheyenne Rose Antoine&comma; has been sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">In addition to trying to cover her tracks with the Facebook message&comma; Antoine also  told police that on night the pair had been out drinking&comma; Gargol had gone home with an unknown man at the end of the night and she did not know what had happened to her friend&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;it was only after police later received a tip-off that Antoine had made the drunken confession to the killing&comma; <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cbc&period;ca&sol;news&sol;canada&sol;saskatoon&sol;women-pleads-guilty-in-brittney-gargol-murder-1&period;4487758" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">CBC <&sol;a>reports&comma; that she admitted that they had gotten into an argument&period; She maintained that she does not remember killing Gargol&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The victim&&num;8217&semi;s family were on hand for the sentencing&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You were her friend&period; She trusted you&comma;” Gargol’s stepmother&comma; Kristi Wickenhauser&comma; told Antoine&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;she could have taken Gargol to a hospital instead of leaving her to die in the street&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In his victim impact statement&comma; Gargol’s father&comma; Everett Hillbom&comma; described feeling angry and sad that his daughter&&num;8217&semi;s life was cut short&period; He was supposed to fix something on her car the day she died — &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The last time I would have hugged her&comma;” he recalled&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288565" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Brittany-Gargol-and-the-murder-weapon&period;png" alt&equals;"Brittany Gargol and the murder weapon&period;png" width&equals;"722" height&equals;"355" &sol;><strong>In her court testimony Antoine admitted the belt used in strangling Gargol &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; belonged to her&comma; she claimed she couldn&&num;8217&semi;t remember much else&period; The belt was found near the body<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Weeping intermittently throughout the victim impact statements&comma; Antoine would take off her glasses and wiping away tears&period; In a statement released through her attorney&comma; Antoine said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I will never forgive myself&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Nothing I say or do will ever bring her back&period; I am very&comma; very sorry&&num;8230&semi;It shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have ever happened&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lisa Watson the court  that a month before Gargol’s death&comma; her client went to police to report years of abuse at the hands of her foster parents&period; She didn’t feel supported and turned to drugs and alcohol&comma; Watson said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My client had some very deep&comma; personal issues that she was not dealing with&comma; and unfortunately they turned into a very tragic situation for all involved&comma;” Watson told reporters after sentencing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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