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Roommate arrested in slaying of lay minister
Police have arrested the deaf roommate of a slain Chilliwack church official, but no charges have yet been laid in the death.
The body of Robert-Jan (Robbie) Planje, 64, was found last week on a forest service road near Hope by a man walking his dog. The lay minister at Chilliwack United Church had not been seen since Dec. 12.
Officers searched his home after his disappearance and found signs of an altercation, calling in the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
Planje's longtime friend Colleen Crook said that his roommate had been arrested and then released by police in the hours before the disappearance after an incident at Planje's Chilliwack mobile home.
Planje -- whom Crook described as "the sweetest, kindest man you're ever going to meet" -- had taken the man into his home after Planje dated his mother, she said.
He considered the deaf man his stepson, she said.
Police have arrested the deaf roommate of a slain Chilliwack church official, but no charges have yet been laid in the death.
The body of Robert-Jan (Robbie) Planje, 64, was found last week on a forest service road near Hope by a man walking his dog. The lay minister at Chilliwack United Church had not been seen since Dec. 12.
Officers searched his home after his disappearance and found signs of an altercation, calling in the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
Planje's longtime friend Colleen Crook said that his roommate had been arrested and then released by police in the hours before the disappearance after an incident at Planje's Chilliwack mobile home.
Planje -- whom Crook described as "the sweetest, kindest man you're ever going to meet" -- had taken the man into his home after Planje dated his mother, she said.
He considered the deaf man his stepson, she said.