Daughter of Winnipeg couple slain in Jamaica takes some solace after killer gets life sentences
Melbourne and Etta Flake were found bound, beaten, suffocated in apparent robbery in 2018
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The daughter of an elderly Winnipeg couple who was murdered in Jamaica in 2018 is grateful one of her parents’ killers has been brought to justice but says the man’s co-accused is still free.
“We recognize how fortunate we are that we have somebody who can pay for their crime because there are so many families whose hearts are aching because they have nobody, they have no clues,” said Debbie Lee Olfert in an interview from St. Thomas, Jamaica, Thursday night.
“It’s such a relief to know that this person isn’t running around free.”
Olfert’s parents Melbourne Flake, 81, and Etta Flake, 70, were found dead in January 2018 with their hands and feet bound at their vacation home in St. Thomas.
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