This is Christy and welcome to Canadian true crime, episode 10, Paula Gallant.

This podcast contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature.

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This is a true crime story, but it's also the story of three sisters

and the unique bond that they shared.

The Gallant family consisted of older sisters, Lana and Lynn,

and 36-year-old Paula Gallant,

who was a bit younger and affectionately referred to as

the baby of the family.

The sisters had lost both their parents to illness over 15 years before this story begins,

but had successfully forged ahead in life by ensuring they remained connected as the last

remaining members of the family.

Lana and Lynn became surrogate parents to Paula, and now all three of them were married and were

godparents to each other's children. Paula and her husband Jason had been married for two and a

half years and had an 11-month-old little girl called Anna. The bonds of love between these three

surviving sisters were strong. Friends called them three peas in a pod. The year was 2005,

and it was the day after Boxing Day in a community west of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia is one of three maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada and is the second

smallest province in the country. On December 27th, after spending Christmas and Boxing Day together

as a family, older sister

Lana had checked in with her younger sister Paula at about 1.30 in the afternoon.

They had a benign conversation with Paula saying in passing that she planned to be home

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