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Only three days ago, Corey Volland was described in the obituary for Laura Wigelsworth as “the love of her life.”

Now, he’s charged with second-degree murder in her death.

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Wigelsworth’s body has been found May 10 outside the small community of Vanastra, where the couple lived. Volland was arrested Saturday, and appeared in a London court by video Sunday.

“No way. 100 per cent wrong. Nobody that knows him thinks he did it, not a chance,” Brian Cooper, co-owner of Bucky Joe’s General Store in Vanastra, said Sunday.

“I’ve known him my whole life. I don’t think he’s even been in a fight his whole life.”

Some in a community that can never forget the wrongful conviction of Stephen Truscott — 59 years earlier in the same area, in Huron County north of London — are finding the charge hard to believe, Cooper said.

“There’s still someone out there,” he said.

OPP arrested Volland Saturday after an autopsy in London Friday showed Wigelsworth was a victim of homicide.