Carolyn Cockburn was watching the news at her Toronto home when an item scrolling across the bottom of the screen made her gasp.

Her old friend, Barbara Morgan, had been killed in Simcoe. And Morgan’s son, Justin, was charged with the crime.

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“I couldn’t believe it,” Cockburn told The Hamilton Spectator.

Morgan, 71, was found dead inside her home near the fairgrounds on Oct. 5.

Justin Morgan, 45, was arrested five days later, not long after police searched his home a few blocks away from his mother’s.

“I knew Justin as a child, and I’m surprised at all this. I thought he was very close to his mother,” Cockburn said.

“As he got older, it did seem like he was having trouble morphing into an adult. I don’t remember any friends around.”

Cockburn had not seen her frien

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