maybe one of the guys test-driving tim's truck opened his mouth and said something incriminating in front of tim, and that's why they chose to kill him.

i heard about this on the radio this morning!! WONDERFUL!!!! 

interesting. the article has been retracted. hope that means a good thing...

Denis's body has been found.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa/foul+play+suspected+after+body+found+Quebec/8212561/story.html

No foul play suspected after man’s body found in Quebec
 
OTTAWA CITIZEN APRIL 8, 2013 3:40 PM

OTTAWA — Quebec police have found the body of a missing longtime Ottawa resident.

Denis Piffard, 51, had been missing from his Ottawa home since late December.

Police found Piffard’s body on Sunday near a home along the Ottawa River in Fassett, Que., about 90 kilometres east of Ottawa, after receiving a call reporting the body.

Police said Monday that the body appeared to have been in the water for some time. An autopsy will be performed.

Ottawa police said they do not suspect foul play at this time.

sad story but good, quick work. my condolences to Catherine's family and friends.

good news.

Father watches as bodies of wife, son pulled from icy river
 
By Gary Dimmock, Ottawa Citizen January 22, 2013 8:10 AM
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Father+watches+bodies+wife+pulled+from+river/7853507/story.html

OTTAWA — It was just before midnight down at the Fitzroy ferry dock when police divers hauled up Daron Graves’ brand new Dodge from the bottom of the Ottawa River.

His father, Dave Graves, stood at the dock as police used a heavy crane to lift the 2013 Dodge Dart from the river.

They pulled the bodies of his wife and son from the car at 12:05 a.m.

That’s when he heard the music.

He was standing at the shoreline anchor point of the ferry dock this morning, going cold watching the police look for his wife Donna, 61, and son Daron, 29. He was standing on the dock “as far out into the river that I could go.” And he could hear this music.

He then realized there was no music. It was his own humming that he heard. He was humming a Christmas carol. It was Julie Andrews singing It Came Upon A Midnight Clear.

“In my heart I know Donna and Daron were talking to me. (Listen to the words and music) I heard the music before I realized that it was me who was humming — and the words began to appear in my mind,” Graves recalled.

“I spontaneously began clapping in joy,” he recalled.

Donna Graves, 61, and her son, Daron, 29, never made it home after another good night at the sports pub. They had gone for groceries and then hit The Prior Sports Bar and Restaurant for dinner and some billiards. His wife called him at home around 11 p.m. on Thursday and told him they’d be on their way home soon but they never made it.

He’s gone over different theories in his head about how his wife and son met death just 100 feet from his property, where sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, their car plunged into a stretch of open water on the Ottawa River.

“I watched Daron come out of Donna’s womb and now I was watching as both Donna and Daron came out of another womb — Daron’s car — I was watching another birth not a death — a birth into the next step of the Ascension Journey,” he typed in a message to the Citizen.

Ottawa Police and the coroner’s office are now investigating the events that led to the deaths of the mother and son who somehow drove past the laneway to their home on Ferry Hill Road, beyond the dock and out onto the ice a further 100 feet before they hit open water and plunged. The car landed upside down under nine metres of water. Police used explosives to blast a hole in the river ice for divers to access the water.

Daron had planned to celebrate his 30th birthday with friends and family around a campfire this Saturday night at their riverfront property. The father said he’s decided to go ahead with the campfire party, with him supplying the firewood and friends and family bringing their own drinks.

The recovery operation took four days and had divers braving dangerous conditions, notably cold temperatures and shifting ice.

“I’m not going to get over it, but I will get past it,” said Graves.

yes both bodies were found in the submerged car. the father suspects car problems and that will be investigated. such a sad story.

Crews blast ice to recover car, body submerged at Fitzroy

By Gary Dimmock, Ottawa Citizen January 21, 2013 11:02 PM

OTTAWA — As police divers braved extreme conditions Monday on the Ottawa River to recover the bodies of his wife and son, both believed to be inside their submerged car just 100 feet from his riverfront property, Dave Graves kept running through theories about their doomed trip hom.

Graves, a retired combat-systems engineer, talked matter-of-factly about how his son Daron Graves, 29, and wife Donna, 61, could have ended up driving their 2013 Dodge Dart down Ferry Road, past the laneway to their home on the right and onto the frozen river 100 feet from shore only to plunge in a stretch of open water. Police divers have told him that they have found two bodies inside his son’s submerged car, resting upside down under nine metres of water.

He first explored driver error, and listed off possibilities ranging from impaired driving to falling asleep at the wheel, but then ruled each one out, leaving only possible mechanical or electronic problems with the car. Either way, the Ottawa Police will be performing a forensic analysis of the Dodge. The provincial coroner’s office will also be investigating.

Graves said he couldn’t thank the police enough for their four-day search and recovery operation. He also thanked the press for spreading word about his wife and son, who he reported missing Friday morning after they never made it home from a sports bar and grill in Arnprior Thursday night.

The ferry doesn’t run in the winter so city road crews plow the snow down the Ferry Road hill to the foot of the ferry dock, leaving a snowbank that blocks access to the terminal. Graves launched his own search for his missing wife and son on Friday morning, driving their route and checking hospitals, but said he didn’t think his son’s car could be in the river because there was a fresh snowbank at the foot of the terminal Friday morning. But on Friday night, police found tire tracks and debris from a car on the shoreline and near the terminal. The discovery prompted police divers to start searching the river. It would be another full day before they found the car while working under harsh conditions.

“I just don’t know how it happened,” said Graves. “I’m not going to get over it, but I will get past it.” The retired engineer said those “who knew Daron and Donna will know how to remember them.”

Police divers found the car on Saturday and said they were able to see one male body inside. They could only see 15 centimetres in front of their faces under water. On Sunday, Graves said, police told him “with certainty” that they could see a second body in the submerged car. The marine unit resumed the recovery operation Monday and at first cut a hole in the river but later said they intended to use explosives because the ice was too thin to cut a bigger hole for divers to enter the river. Police said the submerged car, upside down and beneath nine metres of water, would not be affected by blasting because the water would absorb most of the impact.

Police were expected to use a heavy-lift crane to pull the car from the river so they could start a full investigation of what happened to it and its occupants Thursday night. Donna and her son had gone to Arnprior to pick up groceries for a Saturday night dinner party. Daron, a construction worker, also wanted to pick up some new work gloves. They later went to The Prior Sports Bar and Restaurant for dinner. Donna called her husband around 11 p.m. to say they were on their way home, said David.

“They would not drive if they shouldn’t be driving,” Graves recalled. “They would call me, I would go get them.”

When Graves woke up Friday morning around 9 a.m., his wife and son still hadn’t returned to the house, just metres from the ferry dock. He thought the pair must have had a few more drinks at the pub and stayed at a friend’s house in Arnprior.

He called friends but had no luck. He searched his online banking records, he said, and found a charge for around $35 from the restaurant. He searched all routes from Arnprior to his home in Fitzroy, then reported the pair missing to police.