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A soldier now on trial for first-degree murder sent a message to the man who found the car belonging to the wife he’s now accused of killing to thank him and offering to give him some of her jewelry.
“Are you the man who found my Melissa’s car?” Howard Richmond asked in a Facebook message to Mike Sass on Aug. 6, 2013.
The longtime Denny’s restaurant waiter — he has worked at the restaurant for 21 years — discovered Melissa Richmond’s gold Chrysler Sebring with vanity license plates”RPGGRRL” in a parking lot near the restaurant at South Key’s on July 26, 2013. Two days after Sass located the car, Richmond’s body was found in a wooded ravine close by.
Sass testified that he had read about the 28-year-old Richmond woman being missing in a Facebook post before starting work at at 5 p.m. on July 26. As he was putting on his apron, he spotted the Chrysler facing the restaurant in the parking lot.
Sass said he called the OPP in Ottawa, but they didn’t know the woman was missing. It wasn’t until hours later that he reached out to OPP in Winchester, where Richmond lived with her husband that he was able to talk with a detective.
“I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am. Without you she might still not be found,” Richmond continued in another message on Aug. 6. “One day I would like to thank you properly. I would like to give you a piece of Melissa’s jewelry for your daughter, so she knows how you have touched the hearts of my family.”
“Tears are welling up big time … we’re all good people. I would consider it an honor,” Sass replied. Sass said he never met with Richmond to collect the jewelry. At the time, Richmond hadn’t been arrested in his wife’s killing.
Sass said he had exchanged messages with Richmond after another online friend told him that Richmond wanted to thank him. Sass said he had sent Richmond a friend request on the social media website and that was how Richmond responded.
Richmond, 52, would later be charged with first-degree murder.
In an opening address to the jury on Tuesday, Richmond’s defence lawyers admitted that Richmond killed his wife, but was in the throes of chronic post traumatic stress disorder at the time, the result of tour of duties with Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Croatia.
Prosecutors have alleged that Melissa Richmond was having an affair and was about to leave her husband when he killed her.
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“Are you the man who found my Melissa’s car?” Howard Richmond asked in a Facebook message to Mike Sass on Aug. 6, 2013.
The longtime Denny’s restaurant waiter — he has worked at the restaurant for 21 years — discovered Melissa Richmond’s gold Chrysler Sebring with vanity license plates”RPGGRRL” in a parking lot near the restaurant at South Key’s on July 26, 2013. Two days after Sass located the car, Richmond’s body was found in a wooded ravine close by.
Sass testified that he had read about the 28-year-old Richmond woman being missing in a Facebook post before starting work at at 5 p.m. on July 26. As he was putting on his apron, he spotted the Chrysler facing the restaurant in the parking lot.
Sass said he called the OPP in Ottawa, but they didn’t know the woman was missing. It wasn’t until hours later that he reached out to OPP in Winchester, where Richmond lived with her husband that he was able to talk with a detective.
“I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am. Without you she might still not be found,” Richmond continued in another message on Aug. 6. “One day I would like to thank you properly. I would like to give you a piece of Melissa’s jewelry for your daughter, so she knows how you have touched the hearts of my family.”
“Tears are welling up big time … we’re all good people. I would consider it an honor,” Sass replied. Sass said he never met with Richmond to collect the jewelry. At the time, Richmond hadn’t been arrested in his wife’s killing.
Sass said he had exchanged messages with Richmond after another online friend told him that Richmond wanted to thank him. Sass said he had sent Richmond a friend request on the social media website and that was how Richmond responded.
Richmond, 52, would later be charged with first-degree murder.
In an opening address to the jury on Tuesday, Richmond’s defence lawyers admitted that Richmond killed his wife, but was in the throes of chronic post traumatic stress disorder at the time, the result of tour of duties with Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Croatia.
Prosecutors have alleged that Melissa Richmond was having an affair and was about to leave her husband when he killed her.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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