Ex-Wife, Boyfriend Charged in Separate Killings of Mississauga Family Members

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Peel police have finally laid murder charges related to the suspicious deaths of Mississauga man, Caleb Harrison, and his mother, Bridget Harrison, who were both killed in the same home at a three years gap. The prime suspects charged jointly with first-degree murder charge were Caleb’s ex-wife, Melissa Merritt, and her common-law spouse, Christopher Fattore, who were arrested in Nova Scotia on Tuesday. Both suspects are scheduled to appear in court in Halifax on Wednesday and return to Ontario in police custody.

According to the investigation, it was concluded that both mother and son died of asphyxiation in the family home on Pitch Pine Cres., i.e. Bridget in 2010 and Caleb last August. Bridget’s death was deemed suspicious so the case remained open but was unsolved for several years. However, Caleb’s death in August 2013 death was ruled a homicide. He was living in the Mississauga home with his two children. Meanwhile, Caleb’s father and Bridget’s husband, Bill Harrison, passed away previously in the family home a year before his wife. Though the official cause was never determined, the case is being deemed as not suspicious at the time.

At the time of Caleb’s murder, police announced it was investigating all three deaths in order to determine if they are connected. However, Police now claims having had found no evidence indicating that Bill’s death was a homicide, though it is still under investigation. According to his neighbors, Caleb had worked hard to improve his life in the years before he died and was a model father.

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