[5] She worked as a writer, illustrator, freelance journalist and archivist, offering her services to Canada Post and Canadian Geographic.
[7] His first wife, going by the name of Sandra at the preliminary inquiry of his murder trial,[7] described how she married Morgan at the age of sixteen when she was seven months pregnant with his child.
[8] Sandra decided to leave Morgan and made plans to fly to Inuvik, Northwest Territories to live with her grandmother.
By this time, Morgan had also accumulated charges of possession of stolen property, false pretenses, forgery, break and enter and theft.
[12] She met Morgan at the hearing of the case in 1993 as he was testifying against his former cellmate, Larry Fisher, who was the real perpetrator of the crime.
[13][14][12] After hearing Morgan testify, she was touched by his willingness to speak up against his cell mate and decided to tell him so before he left the courtroom.
[16] On April 22, 1995, Ellis was planning on spending the night at an ex-boyfriend's home to celebrate his daughter's birthday.
[17] Police believe Ellis had confronted Brett Morgan and demanded him to pay her back, and a fight ensued.
[18] This location was close to the property of Ellis's ex-partner, John Maisonneuve, which Morgan purposefully chose in an attempt to frame him for murder.
[19][17] Ellis's car was found on April 24, abandoned on the side of the road with her purse and overnight bag locked inside.
[21] Marie Parent was studying to be a private detective and decided to take a look at Louise Ellis's missing person case for her final assignment.
[22] After seeing Morgan speak on television, Parent decided to offer her private investigator services in the search for his girlfriend.
[24] On July 5, 1995, the police instructed Parent to get Morgan out of the house so they could plant a covert listening device in his truck.
[4] In March 1998, Brett Morgan was convicted of the first-degree murder of Louise Ellis and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility for parole for 25 years.
[29][30] Ellis's name is featured on Enclave, a monument commemorating the lives of Ottawa women who were murdered by men from 1990 to 2000.
[35] D'Amour Road was written by Sigrid Macdonald, who was an acquaintance of Ellis's through the David Milgaard Support group.