A man and a woman from southeastern P.E.I. pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to the disappearance and death of 27-year-old Summer Kneebone over a year ago.
Donald Roy Holmes and Samantha Jemima Parlee-Buell are both from Pembroke, just north of Murray Harbour.
They were arrested in New Glasgow, N.S., more than a month after Kneebone was last seen alive on Aug. 7, 2023, in Charlottetown.
At the time, police said the pair was arrested under Section 182(b) of the Criminal Code of Canada on charges of interfering with a dead body or human remains.
Thursday in provincial court in Georgetown before Judge Nancy Orr, both Holmes and Parlee-Buell pleaded guilty to those counts, in addition to one charge each of misleading police.
In the wake of Kneebone being reported missing, Charlottetown police asked homeowners and businesses to preserve any surveillance video they had from the evening of Aug. 7.
Charlottetown resident Summer Kneebone was last seen on Aug. 7, 2023. (Stacey Janzer/CBC)
Social media posts begged for information on the young woman’s whereabouts, including a post submitted to the Aboriginal Alert Facebook page that flags when Indigenous people have gone missing.
Kneebone’s body was found on Sept. 15 on a rural property in Kings County.
Thursday, the Crown requested a two to three week adjournment for sentencing.
The pair will stay in custody until their sentencing date, Nov. 7 at 11 a.m. in Georgetown.
More to come.