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Money may have played a major part in the suspected double-murder suicide in East Selkirk Monday.

The bodies of a married couple, Nicole Rach-Gregoire and James Gregoire, as well as Bill Wozney, the woman’s former employer, were found Monday night in the couple’s yard at 15 Cooks Cove, which is at the end of a quiet gravel road that has only five houses.

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Rach-Gregoire had recently been fired by Wozney, her employer at Physiotherapy on the Red in Selkirk.

Speculation in the community is that Wozney may have been in trouble for thousands of dollars related to irregularities in health insurance claims from his business.

Multiple sources have told the Winnipeg Free Press Rach-Gregoire, who had been the office manager at the physiotherapy clinic, was suspected in the irregularities, which allegedly involved false invoices for non-existent clients. One source said the amount was in the six figures.

Another source said serious charges were pending. An RCMP spokeswoman, who would not confirm the identities of the deceased, said Rach-Gregoire "has not been arrested or charged by RCMP." The Mounties never comment on the status of investigations.

None of the three deceased had any outstanding criminal charges or convictions.

A person identified as a longtime client of Wozney’s said appointments were being cancelled about a month ago because of an office emergency.

"When I did finally go (for the appointment), Bill told me that he had been contacted by his insurance company about possible irregularities related to health insurance claims," said the client, who did not want to be identified. "Word got around the staff, Nicole would have heard about it, and one day she just took all the computers and threw them into the creek and disappeared. She was the office manager, and she did all that stuff, all the billing, invoicing, insurance claims, all that."

The client said the computers were tossed into the creek about three weeks ago. Wozney told the client he "lost all of the office information — client information, claim history, scheduling information, insurance information and back-up data."

Wozney, usually "a very happy, outgoing, positive sort of guy," seemed to be under a great deal of stress trying to recover from the loss of the computer information, the client said.

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"He looked very stressed and ragged," the client said.

"They had been closed down for about a week, and he said it was a miracle they had been able to reopen at all. He had also started to grow a beard. He told me that he was keeping the beard until his practice had recovered from the loss of the computers and he had resolved the possible insurance fraud issues. He said he hoped to be clean-shaven at my next appointment in a couple of weeks."

The client said Wozney was worried because "he had no proof she’d actually done anything other than the circumstantial evidence that she had apparently thrown all their computers in the river, basically."

Jason Thompson, the other physiotherapist at the clinic, declined an interview request by the Winnipeg Free Press.

A source said Rach-Gregoire had been telling people she and her husband had purchased a couple of houses in Phoenix about a year ago as investments.

"There’s rumours going around town here they’d been down in the States and come back here to pick up their stuff and (were going to) high-tail it back out (to Phoenix)," the source said.

"It’s (money) the root of it all."

ashley.prest@freepress.mb.ca