Missing Canadian university student found dead

The body of a missing student at a Nova Scotia university was found Wednesday along the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick, police said. Police in Halifax said the death of Loretta Saunders, 26, is being treated as a homicide, the (Halifax) Chronicle-Herald reported. Saunders, an Inuit woman from Labrador, was a student at St. Mary's University, where she was writing a thesis on missing and slain indigenous women. Two people who were subletting an apartment from Saunders, Blake Leggette, 25, and Victoria Henneberry, 28, were arrested last week in Harrow, Ontario. Police said they were driving Saunders' Toyota Celica and were charged with car theft. Saunders, who was pregnant, was reported missing after she failed to return from a visit to collect rent from Leggette and Henneberry, the Chronicle-Herald said. Police have not said if they would face murder charges. "We believe we know who the individuals responsible for the murder of Ms. Saunders are and we're not looking for anyone else," Constable Pierre Bourdages, a spokesman for the Halifax Regional Police said Wednesday afternoon.