'Never should have happened': Father of woman found dead in house fire speaks out
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Pat Murphy was driving to work on a Monday morning earlier this month when he got a devastating phone call.
Pat Murphy was driving to work on a Monday morning earlier this month when he got a devastating phone call.
The mother of his daughter, Shantelle Murphy, called to tell him the 32-year-old woman and her two young children had been found dead in a house fire in Portage la Prairie, Man.
Murphy recalled the conversation with The Canadian Press in a phone call from Cranbrook, B.C., where he lives.
When he thinks back to that moment, he said, the shock still clouds his memory.
"It's so fuzzy for me. Just hearing it, I didn't know what to do or say."
RCMP in Manitoba say officers responded to the fire in the small city, about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, early on April 10. Once firefighters put out the flames, three people were found dead inside the home.
Police say an investigation determined the three had injuries that were not connected to the fire. Mounties confirmed their deaths to be the result of a homicide. RCMP have not released the cause of death.
