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It says the 70-year-old will serve the sentences consecutively. 

IHIT says in a news release that Abbotsford police received a report about a missing 22-year-old woman on July 20, 2017, prompting an "extensive search and investigation."

Police say they found the body of Chelsey Gauthier in Mission, B.C., about a month later, but it wasn't until September 2022 that Losch was charged with second-degree murder and indignity to human remains.

The release says he was found not guilty of second-degree murder on July 22, but was convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter as well as indignity to human remains.

This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Dec. 18, 2025.