"There's been a lot more to this case than that. You had people whor didn't have a criminal history engaging in criminality," he says. "A live gets lost, and the whole case gets lost when you reduce it down to murder for lobster."
In 2013, a small boat called The Midnight Slider was found floating empty in the waters off of Isle Madame in Nova Scotia. "Murder is not something that occurs in this neck of the woods very often," says Jake Boudrot, editor of the The Reporter, "There's always been a tradition of taking care of families, watching out, looking out for one another."