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An eighteen year old woman disappears. Her ex-boyfriend is suspected of being involved with her disappearance, but he is not talking.

Knowing that they have to do something to get the kid to open up, the police devise an elaborate plan to trick him into believing that he has won a trip to see a hockey game. While on the trip, the suspect befriends an undercover cop who claims to belong to a criminal gang. After having done a few errands with this faux gangster and having earned a few bucks at it, the kid is told that he could join the gang providing that he confesses his previous crimes to the "boss". The suspect then confesses to choking his ex-girlfriend, strangling her with a hair dryer cord, and then drowning her in a bathtub. After cleaning her body, he buried her in a fresh grave at the local cemetery. Police move in for the arrest.

Sound like the plot from last night's Lifetime movie?

It is not.

This story is out of good old Manitoba!

Elaborate Sting Nets Man in Grisly Murder.