PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - The trial starts today for a Cape Breton woman charged in the death of a fisherman whose body has never been found.Carla Samson is facing a charge of accessory after the fact in the death of Phillip Boudreau, who disappeared on June 1, 2013.Samson owns the lobster boat that allegedly attacked Boudreau's boat in a Cape Breton harbour.Her husband, Dwayne Matthew Samson, faces a second-degree murder charge in the matter.Her father, Joseph James Landry, was given a 14-year prison sentence for killing 43-year-old Boudreau.That trial heard that Landry became enraged after Boudreau cut his lobster traps, threatened to burn his home and taunted him for years.
Trial to begin for another person charged in death of lobster fisherman
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