Veteran aimed not to ‘fall through the cracks’ but still killed partner, himself
Jennifer Lynne Semenec died far from her home in North Bay, Ont., at the hands of a veteran with PTSD who had said he wouldn’t be “another soldier who falls through the cracks” of treatment.
As Semenec’s children and sister prepare for her April 22 funeral, they are recalling her life — and wondering if former master corporal Marc J. Poulin’s descent into tragedy might have been avoided.
Word of the couple’s deaths came with a phone call from an RCMP detective who’d been at the scene in Springhill, N.S., when the bodies were found on March 20.
The officer told Jessica Ridley that her 45-year-old sister was the victim of “blunt force trauma to the head” and that Poulin, 42, had taken his own life after a fire was set in the small white house they were renovating.