Repeat Offender: The Murders of Chantale Deschesnes and Marylene Levesque

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 7 a.m.

b"Episode 279: In Quebec City, on October 21, 2004, Dario Gallese got an alarming phone call from his younger brother, Eustachio Gallese. In the call, Eustachio admitted to killing his girlfriend, Chantale Deschesnes, 32, and, following his brother's advice, contacted the police to report the crime. Eustachio was arrested, charged, and convicted of the second-degree murder of Chantale. In late 2006, Eustachio was sentenced to life in prison without parole eligibility for 15 years.\\xa0\\nIn 2019, Eustachio was placed into a halfway house on day parole. In September, in what would be a controversial decision, his case management team allowed Eustachio Gallese to visit sex workers to have his sexual needs met, as long as he was \\u2018transparent\\u2019 with his case management team about these visits.\\xa0\\nOn the night of January 22, 2020, Eustachio Gallese walked into a Quebec City police station and admitted to having murdered another woman, a 22-year-old masseuse named Maryl\\xe8ne Levesque, whom he\\u2019d become obsessed with. Maryl\\xe8ne\\u2019s body was found in the Sainte-Foy (Sant-Fwa) hotel room where Gallese said she would be. She\\u2019d been stabbed 30 times.\\nA month later, Eustachio Gallese, then 51, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. After a public outcry inciting parliamentary debate, the Correctional Service of Canada and the Parole Board of Canada announced a joint investigation into Gallese\\u2019s release.\\nSources:\\n2004 CanLII 56627 (QC CS) | R. c. Gallese | CanLII\\n2009 QCCA 1071 (CanLII) | Gallese c. R. | CanLII\\nMeurtre de Maryl\\xe8ne L\\xe9vesque: une vigile contre les f\\xe9minicides\\nMeurtre \\xe0 Sainte-Foy: \\xabC\\u2019\\xe9tait pr\\xe9visible\\xbb, d\\xe9nonce la fille de la victime\\nDebates (Hansard) No. 14 - February 4, 2020 (43-1) - House of Commons of Canada\\nStigma and Criminalization of Sex Work Facilitated the Murder of Maryl\\xe8ne Levesque\\nCorrectional services missed signs leading up to Maryl\\xe8ne Levesque murder, says report | CBC News\\nWarning signs were missed prior to murder of Maryl\\xe8ne L\\xe9vesque: report | Watch News Videos Online\\nInternal investigation into the murder of Maryl\\xe8ne L\\xe9vesque: Pierre Paul-Hus calls for the immediate reopening of the internal investigation | Pierre Paul-Hus\\nJoint National Board of Investigation: Correctional Service of Canada - Parole Board of Canada\\nEnforcing prostitution laws could have saved Maryl\\xe8ne L\\xe9vesque | The Star\\nMaryl\\xe8ne L\\xe9vesque - Investigation Report | PDF\\nCapitalism Is Killing My Fellow Sex Workers\\nHow Canada\\u2019s sex work laws put lives at risk | CityNews\\nQuebec City man sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years for 1st-degree murder of sex worker | CBC News\\nhttps://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-wants-answers-on-how-moderate-risk-murder-suspect-made-parole\\nCorrectional Service Canada takes concrete actions in response to Board of Investigation results\\nWhy Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"