Woman speaks about slain cousin, Myrna Letandre

Patty Sinclair talks abouther cousin,Myrna Letandre, whoseremains were found inside a Winnipeg rooming house last week.

In a one-on-one interview with CBC's Katie Nicholson, Sinclair also talks about her frustrations with police and how her cousin's murder has affected the family.

She also talks aboutpraying for her cousin while she was missing.

"I would ask the Lord if she's alive then make a way for her to come home [and]if she is gone then let us gather her bones and put her in the ground," Sinclair said.

"I always hoped that the latter would never come butthat's the way it is."

Family members hadasked police to check out the rooming house, in the city's Point Douglas neighbourhood, some years ago but nothing happened.

When Letandre went missing in Oct. 2006, her sister confronteda man namedTraigo Andretti, who was living in the house at the time.

Andretti, 37, was arrested last week and chargedMonday with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, 41-year-old Jennifer McPherson, in British Columbia.