The Misery Machine - The Case of Rori Hache & Kandis Fitzpatrick

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

In the quiet lakeside city of Oshawa, Ontario, police believed they were dealing with two separate mysteries: the disappearance of 18-year-old Kandis Fitzpatrick in 2008, and, nearly a decade later, the horrifying discovery of human remains belonging to 18-year-old Rori Hache. What they didn’t yet realize was that both cases pointed to the same predator... one hiding in plain sight.Adam Strong was not a name anyone recognized. He blended in, lived modestly, and kept to himself. But behind the door of his small apartment, he was committing acts so depraved they stunned even veteran investigators. A routine plumbing call would unravel the truth... revealing a crime scene so gruesome that officers struggled to piece together how long the nightmare had been unfolding.This week, we’re diving into the chilling case of Adam Strong: the man who dismembered two young women, evaded capture for years, and left a community haunted by questions of how he remained unnoticed for so long. This is a story of tragedy, justice, and the terrifying reality of a killer hiding in an ordinary neighborhood.Support Our Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PayPal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join Our Facebook Group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: miserymachinepodcastTwitter: misery_podcastDiscord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#themiserymachine #podcast #truecrimeSource Materials Available Upon Request.

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But it's not purely a center for harmless fun. For decades, human remains. remains have been fished out of Lake Ontario, placed there by anything from accidental drownings to something more sinister. While some of the remains are identified, others are shrouded in perpetual mystery. In 2017, a fisherman spotted a torso from Lake Ontario and called the police. Luckily, these remains were able to be identified rather than stored away for years on end. They belong to Rory Hashay, who was 18 years old, expecting a child and missing for 10 days.

A decade before Rory died, she was preceded in death by another teenage girl. Candice Fitzpatrick was born in 1989. Her home life was turbulent. She became hooked on drugs and was familiar with local law enforcement. She was last seen in 2008 when she was 19 years old. The Fitzpatrick family was told they could not file a missing person's report for Candice because of her lifestyle. Her addiction and self-sabotaging behavior barred.

her from the law enforcement resources she so desperately needed. Her father, Bill, searched the streets of Oshawa, Ontario, and even went to neighboring cities hoping to find his daughter alive. He also used social media to spread the word about Candace's disappearance. He continued to do this as days turned to weeks, turned to months, and finally years, with no sign of his beloved daughter. The man responsible for Candace's disappearance in death was named Adam Strong. Adam was born in Cornwall, Ontario in 1972, and his childhood was something of a mystery.

As an adult, he worked as a gas station operator. He was a recluse with few close relationships, if any at all. Adam previously resided at two Oshua addresses before settling into a house on 19 McMillan Drive. He rented out the basement apartment for 10 years. He largely kept to himself and was only acquainted with his neighbors. They didn't have any issues with him. Adam's kitchen was a mess of dirty dishes, trash, and rotten food. He owned a collection of BDSM gear, magazines, weapons, adult toys, and an autopsy table

kept folded and tucked behind his couch. He fancied himself a dom but was the kind of person that others within the BDSM space would actively distance themselves from. His focus was not on mutual pleasure, but his own pleasure, which he got from violence and desecration of corpses. How Candice and Adam met is still unknown, but one way or another, she ended up in his apartment. During an encounter, Adam killed Candice.

Her death may have been accidental, though, we can't know for certain. Adam dismembered Candice and hid her remains. He kept a ring from her finger as a memento. Rory Chantelle Hashay was born in June of 1999. Her friends and family described her as wise, fierce. She was a member of a cadet program and was named cadet of the year when she was 13. Like Candace, Rory had personal struggles. She was loved dearly, but her home life was troubled.

In high school, she was driven to substance use and self-destructive behavior. She ran away and returned on her own in multiple instances, sometimes disappearing for months on end. For a short time, Rory was improving and she confided in her Aunt Michelle that she thought she might be pregnant. Michelle accompanied her to a dollar store to buy a pregnancy test. It came back positive, and Rory wanted to keep her child. She was young, but she believed she could be a good mother if she put her mind to it. Then in mid-August, Rory and her mother, Shanan's house caught on fire. It killed their beloved pet dog and put Shanan in the hospital.

The stress was too much on Rory, and she turned to drugs again. At 18 years old, she was expecting a child, had relapsed, and lost her part-time job. On August 29th, 2017, one of Rory's friends and their mother took Rory to the hospital after she suffered some kind of mental break. They left her alone in the waiting room. Fifteen minutes later, Rory left without even being admitted. Somehow, she stumbled across Adam Strong. She was vulnerable and he was predatory. Like with Candace before her, Adam and Rory had some sort of encounter. During that time, she had turned to sex work to make ends meet, and we don't know if it was consensual or it was essay. The only people who can know are Rory and Adam, and Rory cannot tell us herself as she is no longer

with us. Adam has not said despite having ample opportunities to do so. What we do know is that Adam had bound Rory in his bedroom. After taking what he wanted, he beat Rory with an object. Authorities suspect a hammer until she lay still. Then, He dismembered her. He then took his boat out into Lake Ontario and threw her torso in the water, while other parts of her were flushed down his toilet. He kept a freezer in his bedroom and he stored the rest of Rory's remains there. He planned to flush more parts of her over time.

Just like with Candice, he pocketed one of Rory's rings. At this point, Adam didn't have two rings, but three, which he kept on a necklace chain. No one knows where he got his third ring. Currently, investigators believe he had at least one other victim. One month later on September 11th, a fisherman contacted authorities explaining he found a torso in Lake Ontario. The examination was difficult at first. They couldn't identify the deceased with fingerprints or by their face so they had to run a complete DNA test. They did spot part of a tattoo on the neck, but it was indecipherable.

After the tests were run, the torso was confirmed. to belong to Rory Hachey, and the investigation pivoted from missing person to homicide. Investigators tried to chase more leads to learn who was responsible for Rory's death. The trail turned colder with each passing day. Rory Hachay might have become one of many people on the growing list of cold cases, if not for a chance, encounter. New residents moved into 19 McMillan Drive, taking up the second floor. Not too long after, they asked Adam about a noticeable, disgusting odor.

He explained he had problems with the plumbing, but it was on his list of things to do. But the smell persisted and was soon accompanied with clog pipes. Adam told the residents he was trying to fix the blockage himself, sending updates through texts. He went on with no improvement. One of the later texts Adam sent said, what a nightmare this has been. Soon, the residents called a plumber themselves. Sean Farden arrived at the house in the late afternoon of December 29th, 2017. He scoured the plumbing upstairs for any sense.

signs of blockage but didn't find anything wrong with the pipes. Sean went downstairs and asked Adam if he could check out his bathroom. Adam seemed nervous, but he agreed. While Sean searched the basement's pipes, Adam hovered around him awkwardly. The entire toilet in the bathroom was already removed and there was a strong pungent smell. Sean said it smelled very bad, not even like a drain smell really. The blockage was stubborn so Sean shifted his attention to the kitchen sink. Sean put a metal plumbing snake down the drain and pulled out a stringy type substance. He couldn't tell what it was at first, but he continued his work. Unchecked the upstairs apartment and found more of the substance.

As he pulled more, he looked closer and found hair, bones, and something like decomposing flesh. Adam continued to hover and watch, playing the part of the onlooker. Or into Sean, he was saying that's disgusting, that's a vial, what is it? Disturbed and suspicious, Sean sealed the substance in a bag. First, he called his boss for direction and advice on what to do next, and they both agreed this was something that the police need to be contacted over. Communications.

I'm a plumber, and I'm on site for a job. We got a, we were a snake in a drain, and we were, we've been pulling back, we probably pulled back about 10 pounds, 15 pounds of, like, it looks like flesh type of stuff, meat, and we don't know what it is. When Sean waited outside until officers arrived, Adam joined him asking if the pipes would be fixed. Sean said that another company would be on the property tomorrow to take care of it. Sean recounted he was quite happy and said that was great. He went back into his house. The responding officers met Sean outside. Constable Kevin Park and Sergeant Andrew Groves were among them.

Constable Park saw the fleshly like substance maybe 13 or 14 inches long, but didn't want to jump to any conclusions too quickly. He later said that. I'd never seen anything like this before, so I wasn't sure. More officers arrived at the scene. Constable Park led them to the basement apartment, and they questioned Adam. He asked what Adam had flushed down the toilet that had clogged the pipe so badly. According to the constable, Adam said, as nonchalantly as a child caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar, and I quote,

Okay, you got me. The gig's up. It's a body. If you want to recover the rest of her, it's in my freezer. Sergeant Groves opened the freezer. He found human remains in a garbage bag, a dead raccoon, and a bomb fashioned from plastic pipes and matchheads. Adam was cuffed and taken to the police station.

The officers had to wait for the bomb squad to go through the apartment and safely remove the bomb before they could search the apartment any further. They collected DNA samples from his apartment and samples from the basement matched DNA of Candace they had on record. One sample was found on a specialty hunter's knife for skinning animals. They found Rory's blood on an air mattress, the walls, and the ceiling. They also opened a bag next to Adam's bed and pulled out Rory's sneakers, covered in her dried blood. An autopsy of Rory's remains found fractures and bruises around her skull,

but experts couldn't agree if these injuries occurred before or after she had died. Since some of Rory's remains were missing entirely, and others were put into Adam's freezer and thawed, the examiners couldn't rely on their typical tests. The results wouldn't be completely accurate, but they tried anyway and did the best that they could. How do you feel hearing that they found the DNA of this other missing teen in his basement? I felt, Rachel, from the get-go that this was a seasoned person that has done this before because my daughter was tough. She was very tough and she would not have been an easy catch for anybody to handle. You know what I mean? So I knew he knew what he was doing.

I had a feeling speculation again. I'm mom. I don't have to play around with fancy words. That's the last place my daughter's remains were found in. He's lived there for 10 years. In my opinion, he's responsible, hands down. But system works a different way, right? Still no more.

It's, it's, oh, it's the worst feeling in the world. It's the worst feeling in the world because you almost feel like Rory's being minimized. That's how I feel almost, you know what I mean? Because she's not, like, where else in the world have you heard the case like this? This is crazy. But I believe in my detectives, Rory's detectives, that they're taking their time for a reason. I come from a police decorated background of the family, so I understand the protocol that comes with it is at home frustrating but sitting in there today I'm glad that I'm not

putting negative pressure on the police force you know I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad that I'm not getting in their heads and taking time away from the investigation you continue to show up at Adam strong support appearances yes press conferences like this yeah it's going to be so difficult it is we were in the hospital we had a house fire right before worry went missing so imagine how we carry our face around every day knowing that as we're leaving I had to go to Sunnybrook Hospital to save our life. Rory's losing hers, you know, and that's very, very difficult for me to have to live

on a daily basis because she's my best friend. Police also looked into Adam's phone and Google records as part of their investigation. They learned Adam had been to the Toronto Harbor the previous week, a short time before the fisherman reported finding Rory's torso. He had tried to shut off his phone's GPS data, but it's still pinged in the harbor. Adam's boat was also taken into police custody. It was 18 feet long, and police at the time suspected he may have had help towing the boat onto the lake, but nothing came with these suspicions. The evidence piled up to the point that officers needed a portable storage pod in order to store everything that they found. The police presence was a lengthy one. During that time, someone placed a cross-shaped flower arrangement outside the house, which stood out against the winter snow.

Some items like the air mattress, autopsy table, and weapons were shipped off to the center of forensic sciences in Toronto. as Ashwa didn't have the resources to analyze the evidence properly. Adam was surprisingly forthcoming when interrogated by Detective Paul Mitten, though he adamantly said he only dismembered the two women. He explained the measures he took to weigh down Rory's torso to keep it at the bottom of Lake Ontario. It was surprised that it was found at all. He did not answer any questions about how Rory died in the first place. He also said flushing remains down the first place.

toilet was an effective way to dispose of a body. At the time, authorities suspected Adam did the same to Candace's remains, and that's why her body was still missing after all of these years. Adam was as nonchalant in the interrogation room as he was in the apartment. If not for the subject matter, one would guess he was talking about some kind of deadline instead of a horrific crime. He mentioned he could have removed the remains and DNA evidence from his apartment sooner. You said, God damn it. Procrastination, eh? Introducing Taco Bell's new jalapino citrus salsa

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The detective said it wasn't up to him or the police to give Adam a deal. Confused, he asked. Don't the families want to know what happened? It doesn't matter as long as I'm convicted. When the news broke, 19 McMillan Drive was dubbed a House of Horrors. New residents in the upstairs apartment had understandably moved out. The landlord did open the apartment upstairs again for renters, but kept the basement boarded up. As time progressed, Oshoa residents gradually demanded that this house be torn down. Late March of 2018, Rory's godmother, Chrysia, started a petitioner.

On Change.org, which currently has over 7,000 signatures. She wrote in the description. On August 28, 2017, Rory Chantel Hachay went missing in the city of Oshawa, Ontario. The city and much of the country banded together trying to bring her home safely. In fact, she became known as Oshua's girl. Having recently turned 18, she was barely an adult, and so bringing her home safely was our one true desire and drive. September 11th, 2017, he tore her. also was discovered in our city's harbor, which was subsequently identified as belonging to Rory. December 29th, 2017, more of Rory's remains were found in a basement and 19 McMillan Drive, Oshawa. This home is located in central Oshawa between King Street and Bond Street.

Now being known as a House of Horrors, clearly this property does and will continue to carry stigma associated with the events that occurred there. When people pass by it, it will act as a visual reminder of the horrific acts that occurred there. It is for these reasons that I am appealing to John Henry, Mayor of Ashwa, to consider invoking the Civil Remedies Act in relation to this property. The potential for further crime to or upon this residence as a result of its most recent history is real. Additionally, if left standing, it will act as a bastion of anguish and damage for the family and friends of Rory as well as for our community in general. I am pleading for relief for all parties who have been impacted. I am making a plea that this relief come in the form of

an order to demolish the house at 19 McMillan Drive so that it can no longer be a visual reminder of the depravity which occurred there and in our community. We want to heal. We are ready to begin healing. Our community deserves this chance to heal. Thank you for your compassion and your consideration. Around the same time, the Haché family organized a protest outside the property. 30 people were in attendance, carrying signs calling for the property's demolition. Ashe family had contacted the city multiple times requesting they purchased the property and tear it to the ground, but their calls were dismissed or outright ignored. John Henry, the mayor of Oshua at the time, was approached for comment by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the demonstration. He said the following.

If this has been seized by the government or by the proceeds of crime, if the building had been structurally deficient, that's a different story. In this case, we don't have a tool to go buy the property other than going to the homeowner and buying it directly. But then we would have to demolish all properties where sad things happen. I'm going to be here at every court day. I want the judge. I want the crown. And I want the public to see that Rory was, she was not misplaced in life. She had a family.

We love her. We're going to represent her to the best of our ability during this case. Rory, to me, is everything. I have nothing without my daughter. I have nothing without her. And I really don't know what life's going to be like from this point out of my family because we're never going to be the same again after this. When the trial began, Brian Gwerton, the prosecutor representing the Crown, said in his opening statement, Both girls were vulnerable, were essentially homeless with no fixed address.

Both girls suffered from drug issues and sometimes worked in the sex trade to help fund their drug habit. In court, Adam admitted that the Crown prosecutors had proved he dismembered the two women, but he still said he was not guilty for their murders. The press described his attitude as cavalier, carefree, and unbothered. As early as the preliminary trials, Adam refused to cooperate with the courts and his own attorneys, behaving like a spoiled child. In one of his earlier court appearances, while the judge and the attorneys discussed future hearings, Adam said,

My schedule's open. The judge told him it wasn't funny to make comments like that. Adam pressed further looking around the courtroom and said, It was here. Everybody's laughing. In November, after a hearing where Adam appeared through a video call, one of his attorneys said that he would call Adam later that day in jail. Adam said, with the prosecution and the judge still listening, I was up all night. I'm tired. I want to go to bed.

On August 28th and 2019, he was meant to appear via video call for a hearing. He was absent with no excuse. Judge Jocelyn Spire, who oversaw the hearing, hinted she would order Adam to appear in person. His attorneys, Tom Balka and Justin Gile, said they would pass along the message. Among the courtroom audience were Candice and Rory's loved ones, including Bill and Shanan. While they mourned, they watched Adam's blatant disregard for the things that he had done. This was the final straw for Bill. He stood up in court, yelling to speak with a prosecutor, telling the judge to shut up as she

him off and demanded that Adam be forced to appear in person. He shouted, Bring him in person, you fucking idiots. He left the courtroom understandably upset. Shann was allowed to speak to Judge Spire about how the length of the court process frustrated the victim's families. In their exchange, Judge Spire emphasized, saying about Bill, I understand the gentleman is under a great deal of stress. To this, Shannan said, that gentleman waited 10 years to find his daughter. The evidence that he murdered Candace and Rory was technically circumstantial. The Crown relied heavily on the DNA evidence as the backbone for their case.

Even one of the prosecution's expert witnesses, a forensic pathologist, admitted under cross-examination that there was nothing definitive. He had written his report that the lack of the usual indicators, and I quote, raises the possibility the head injuries occurred during, the post-mortem period. Attorney Tom Balkan, the defense clarified, and I quote, there is no positive evidence that the defects to the head occurred before death, and the witness responded correct. It is remarkable there was no bleeding between the brain and the skull. There was more evidence associated with Rory as her death was more recent, and evidence relaying to

Candace paled in comparison. Because of this, Judge Joseph DeLuca ruled that the prosecution could apply evidence for Rory's death to Candices if their arguments were sound enough. Sean Farndon, the plumber, took the stand for the prosecution and recounted how he found flesh in the property's plumbing. He was visibly shaken, needed to take a break during his testimony. After taking a step outside the courtroom, he recounted Adam's peculiar behavior, smell coming from the drain, and how he decided this required police attention. The defense pressed the forensic pathologist, one of the witnesses for the Crown's argument. The toxicology report had found traces of crystal and Rory's system, but couldn't pinpoint the specific type.

Tom Balka said, surely you cannot rule out a drug overdose in this case and in these circumstances. And the pathologist replied, I cannot exclude the possibility of drug toxicity causing death, no. Detective Constable Desiree Hammond testified about the evidence collection and analysis. She explained the lengths they went to make sure they covered all of their bases. She said, we wanted to do a thorough search. While on the stand, Detective Hammond was presented with the photographs of the crime scene. They were also shown to the jury, but not to the gallery. Judge DeLuca had ordered that they be sealed.

Adam interrupted the testimony, telling Judge DeLuca he didn't want the gallery to see the photographs. Judge DeLuca warned Adam if he interrupted again. He would have Adam removed from the courtroom. Sergeant Groves, one of the initial responding, officers also took the stand. In his testimony, he described the contents of Adam's freezer, Rory's head, pelvis, arms, hands, feet, and legs. One of the bags was open, and that one had a dead raccoon in it. When a forensic witness described how Rory's torso was maimed and disemboweled, one of the onlookers in the gallery stood up, looked at Adam, and shouted, you fucking animal.

Judge DeLuca gently told the onlooker they needed to maintain the decorum of the courtroom, but consoled the gallery, saying, the courtroom needs to be a safe and respectful place. I can't imagine what it must be like for the family members and others to sit there while we're going through this. The prosecution's closing statement affirmed that it was Adam and Adam alone who killed Rory and Candace. Attorney Ginwan Kim said, Mr. Strong assaulted Ms. Hashan. He caused her to die. Mr. Strong similarly killed Ms. Fitzpatrick and dismembered her body. Adams' lawyers restated their client's plea that he did dismember the women's corpses but did not commit murder.

Attorney Tom Balca said, What happened to Ms. Hashay and how she died remains a mystery, unproven by the crown. Something happened to Candace Fitzpatrick that was not the fault of Mr. Strong. He did not cause her death. He did not kill her. Defense attorney Gile added, Here's a man who's scared to get out of prison. He wants to be comfortable in jail because he doesn't want to get out of jail.

I think he's essentially trying to make the best out of a bad situation by seeing if he can get something out of this. On March 16, 2021, Judge Joseph DeLuca found Adam Strong guilty of murder charges for Rory and manslaughter charges for Candice due to lack of evidence. He said, I am satisfied it was Mr. Strong who caused Rory Hachey's death. I am satisfied Ms. Hachay died of blunt force trauma applied to that. ahead, regardless of how the sex act started. I find it became non-consensual as soon as Mr. Strong started beating Ms. Hachay. I do not know why Mr. Strong decided to kill Ms. Hachet during this encounter. Perhaps the violence simply formed part of the sex Mr. Strong wanted to engage in. A courtroom audience applauded the verdicts. Adam, in contrast, was shaken. His nonchalant and

apathetic demeanor turned into worry as he realized all at once his life would never be the same, all because of his own selfish actions. Rory's mother, Shanand Dion, remarked, he looks a little rattled right now. After the guilty verdict, Rory's godmother, Chrissia Mildick, said, I'm relieved we have the first-degree verdict on Rory, but it comes with some sadness to.

I'm very sad for the Fitzpatrick family today. The whole trajectory of our lives has been changed by a chance encounter with a monster. This man blended into our community. He was a block away from the police station, and he committed these heinous acts. His sentencing was pushed from April to May due to the catalog of cases that piled up from the pandemic. There were 13 victim impact statements in total.

Candice's father, Bill, said in his victim impact statement, nothing in the world compares to losing your child. After all the years of searching, this was not the outcome I expected. He took so much from us. I was shattered by the news. Candice will never get to know her nephews and nieces. Candice will never get the chance to be a mom. Rory's mother Shanan was sick

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She said, when I learned she was dead, when I knew this was a nightmare as never going to wake from, I will never see Rory fall in love, graduate school, be married, have children. everything has been taken for me. This monster took my angel and mutilated her. He planned on her being a missing person forever. Rory's godmother Chrysius said to the press, it does not change the fact our girls are not coming home, but today we let them rest.

Today this monster is off our street and is no longer a part of our day. He's no longer a part of our lives. His incomprehensible acts of violence will stay within my mind forever. I can and will likely envision the facts of this case for the rest of my life. Well, waiting for the sentencing, Bill said to the press,

even if for some reason the judge found him not guilty, I know he did it. Everybody in that courtroom knows he did it. It's been bad. It plays on your mind. But I had to be there every day to represent her. I want her to be proud of me. I want to see justice for Candace and Rory. I didn't know Rory, but they're together now.

They're our girls. In his sentencing judgment, Judge DeLuca said, the chances that Mr. Strong would have twice found himself in need of a chest freezer to store the dismembered body parts of young women who met their deaths innocently is so infinitesimally small that it suggests the opposite conclusion. Adam Strong was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 25 years. Six months into his sentence, Adam finally confessed to where he hit Candace's remains. He accompanied investigators to a space between Sacredo Drive and Britannia Avenue East and pointed to the general area where he remembered putting her.

The investigators searched and eventually found remains belonging to a young woman, and after some laboratory tests, they were confirmed to belong to Candace. February 16th of 2022, Detective Sergeant Doris Carrier said in a press statement, This discovery and the details obtained through our interview will not change the outcome of these tragic events or the trauma endured by the victim's family and friends. Our goal in this recovery was to be able to provide some closure to Candace's family, and all that were affected by this crime. Shanan said,

today Candace comes home. It felt like November 9th, 2017, all over again to me. That's what it felt like. It's just a rush of emotions, and it's a miracle she's home. Adam's confession did not lessen his sentence. He is still incarcerated. The third ring on his necklace is still an enigma.

We still do not know if there is another victim whose remains are unaccounted for. If there is, let's just hope that one day the remains can be laid to rest in peace and dignity, and that their loved ones will find the closure that they so desperately deserve. While we will never know the exact situations that led to Adam being able to corner Rory and Candace and murder them, it is very important that we highlight this story for women to be cautious around strange men.

If you want to hear about another case that touches on women being targeted by strangers, please click here to watch the case of Julia Rosson.