Woman who orchestrated murder of girl, 14, granted day parole

A young woman who sexually blackmailed her boyfriend into killing a 14-year-old girl more than a decade ago has been granted day parole for six months.

According to The Canadian Press, the Parole Board of Canada made the decision following a hearing in Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday.

Melissa Todorovic was convicted in 2009 for orchestrating the murder of Stephanie Rengel, a girl she had never met but saw as a rival.

Rengel had previously dated Todorovic’s then-boyfriend, David Bagshaw, years earlier and became the focus of her jealousy.

Todorovic threatened to break up with Bagshaw or withhold sex unless he killed his former girlfriend.

He eventually stabbed Rengel multiple times and left her to die in a snow bank outside her home on New Year’s Day, 2008.

Todorovic was sentenced as an adult to life in prison in 2009 with no chance of parole for seven years. She challenged the ruling but it was upheld on appeal.

Bagshaw is also serving an adult life sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder.