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Linnea Veinotte was super smart, with a doctorate in genetics and a dream she shared with her husband, Matt, the high school sweetheart she had met in Lunenburg, N.S., as a teenager and later married.

The couple had two boys, ages five and six. And they had a plan, one they had hatched after Linnea was offered a job in the student learning centre at St. George’s University in Grenada: to keep their house in Glen Haven and head off for a family adventure in a sleepy Caribbean island paradise.

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Veinotte had taught on contract at St. George’s and, as her husband would later write in a Facebook post, what drew them back down south this past fall was not the “work,” but the “wonderful people.” On that front, Linnea Veinotte fit right in. The 36-year-old was a good listener with a great big heart, a mom, and the type of person that could only ever see the good in people.

On Friday, yellow police tape marked off the area where her partially decomposed body was found, buried in a makeshift grave near a rutted dirt road on the south end of an island paradise. The sky above the crime scene was mostly blue, the surrounding vegetation lush and green.