A Canadian girl who was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after police found a crucial clue in a picture posted to Facebook has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Cheyenne Rose Antoine, 18 years old at the time, was convicted of killing 18-year-old Brittney Gargol in 2015 and dumping her body on a road south of Saskatoon.
Antoine initially tried to cover up her crime, posting on Facebook the next day wondering where her friend was.
But it was a photo on Facebook that ultimately punctured her story.
A picture she uploaded onto the social media website just six hours before the killing showed the two girls posing. In the bottom-left corner, Antoine’s belt is visible.
It’s the very same belt found next to Gargol’s body, according to police. They believe she used it to strangle her friend.
More information was gleaned from other Facebook posts that helped establish a timeline for the night.
After the evidence emerged, Antoine admitted to killing Gargol, though she says she doesn’t remember it. Both girls were using alcohol and drugs on the fateful night, police said.
“I’ll never forgive myself. It’s wrong and shouldn’t have happened,” Antoine wrote in a statement her lawyer read aloud in court.
A preliminary hearing for the second-degree murder offense was scheduled for next week, but instead, Antoine reached an agreement involving her pleading guilty to the lesser offense of manslaughter.
She will now serve seven years in prison.
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