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2 P.E.I. residents charged in connection with Summer Kneebone disappearance

Two people from southeastern P.E.I. have been arrested and charged in connection with the disappearance of Summer Kneebone, according to Charlottetown police.

Donald Roy Holmes, 44, and Samantha Jemima Parlee-Buell, 32, have been charged

Many unanswered questions remain in Kneebone disappearance, police chief says after 2 arrests

1 year ago
Duration 2:34
'Our investigators have been working diligently to fill in those blanks,' Police Chief Brad MacConnell says. Warning: this contains details some may find disturbing.

Warning: this contains details some may find disturbing.

Two peoplefrom southeastern P.E.I.have been arrested and charged in connection with the disappearance of Summer Kneebone, according to Charlottetown police.

In a news release Thursday, police saidDonald Roy Holmes, 44, and Samantha Jemima Parlee-Buell, 32, are bothfrom Pembroke, just north of Murray Harbour in southeasternP.E.I.

They were arrested in New Glasgow, N.S.

Police said they were arrested under Section 182(b) of the Criminal Code of Canadaon charges of interfering with a dead body or human remains.

Police said Kneebone has still not been found, but their investigation leads them to believe she has died.

"What our investigation has provided us [with] is the probability that that has occurred," Charlottetown Police Chief Brad MacConnell said.

Summer Kneebone
27-year-old Summer Kneebone has been missing since Aug. 7. (Submitted)

"It is difficult to hear and to think about, but based on what we've learned through our investigation, that is what we believe at this point.

"Again, we haven't located Summer so there is no certainty in that, and we're hoping through this arrest and continued investigation, we can get those answers and get a clear picture of what happened here."

Police say the investigationcontinuesand they're urging anyone who had contact with Holmes and Parlee-Buell since Aug. 5 to contact Charlottetown police.

"Our thoughts, as a police agency, are with the family and friends of Summer at this time as they hear this difficult news as this situation develops,"MacConnell said.

"Hopefully this step will help get them closer to some closure, if that's ever possible in a circumstance like this."

Missing since Aug. 7

Kneebone, 27, hasbeen missing since Aug. 7. Police, family, friends and volunteers havebeen searching for her since she was reported missing a week later.

Kneebone's phone and bank cards have not been used since the night she vanished. Video footage showed her walking on Charlottetown's University Avenue that evening, before she was detected riding as a passenger in two different vehicles.

A man driving the second vehicle was interviewed last week as a "person of interest" and this week police interviewed a second person of interest, a woman well-known to the driver.

Police did not say whether the two people interviewed earlierare the same two who've been charged.

Charlottetown Police Chief Brad McConnell in uniform stands in a room at the police station.
Charlottetown Police Chief Brad MacConnell said that although two people have been charged in the disappearance of Summer Kneebone, police are not prepared to say definitely that Kneebone is dead. 'What our investigation has provided us [with] is the probability that that has occurred,' he did say. (Steve Bruce/CBC)

With files from Stacey Janzer