✝️ Marylène Lévesque, age 22 – January 22 2020, Québec City, Québec, Canada 🇨🇦💔
Marylène lived in Saguenay with her partner. She had a little dog. Every two weeks she travelled to Quebec City for three days to earn money in a massage parlor and make her living. She did not like it, but it was important for her to being able to pay her bills.
Marylène was murdered by 51-year-old Eustachio Gallese. Gallese had met Marylène in June 2019 during visits to an erotic massage parlour for sexual purposes — something he was granted permission to do by a parole officer, despite his history of domestic violence.
The permission was subsequently revoked by the Parole Board of Canada in September 2019, but when he pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder last February, Gallese told a judge he didn’t abide by the edict.
Gallese was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for 25 years for Marylène’s killing. During that hearing, the court heard that Gallese began to develop a “certain attachment” to Marylène, but had become jealous and obsessed and feared rejection when he stabbed her 30 times before turning himself in hours later. At the time, Gallese had been serving a sentence for second-degree murder in the killing of his ex-spouse in 2004.
