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Too True Crime
#612: Melissa - Feb. 15, 2026
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Melissa, Age 39
Moncton, New Brunswick
February 15, 2026
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Today we're talking about the femicide of Melissa in Moncton, New Brunswick. Police discovered her body in a garbage bin on February 15, 2026, about one kilometer from her apartment. Evidence later revealed that the killing took place inside her home. Authorities arrested 35-year-old Devlin and charged him with first-degree murder. Devlin had a significant legal history, including a 2020 conviction for a shooting involving a separate individual, where he served over four years for discharging a firearm and aggravated assault. At the time Melissa was killed, a warrant existed for Devlin's arrest because he failed to report at a correctional center in St. John after his release from a Quebec prison. The exact relationship between Melissa and Dublin has not been confirmed. On March 19th, a little over a month after the killing, a 36 year old man named Joshua was also arrested and charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder and indignity to a human body. Melissa's sister Sarah remembered her as a woman who lived with conviction and a strong willed personality. Sarah shared that Melissa's three children would be well cared for and watched over by their family.