Raw Deal

What happened?

Oxford real estate developer Philip Fontaine was found dead in his home in the early morning hours of Saturday, July 11, 2020.

Fontaine's young wife, Ashley, found his body in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor around 1:00 a.m. Both Mrs. Fontaine and her stepson Grant reportedly arrived home minutes before the 911 call was made.

In January 2022, as the case was about to come to trial, the defense claimed to have evidence exonerating the accused and implicating another suspect.

At the prosecutor's request, the detectives reviewed the case file as part of the preparation to address the defense's assertion.

Help investigate the case

The Raw Deal case documents are presented in chronological order in the Case Files.

• Click the Evidence, Interview, Biography, or Press tag at the top of the Case Files page to filter by document type.
• Click the Day tags at the top of the Case Files page to filter case documents by the day they happened in the investigation.

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Where do you start?

If this is your first look at the investigation, you may want to start with the Case Recap or one of these case documents:

• YCSD incident report
• Photos from the crime scene
• Interview with the victim's wife
• Interview with the victim's son
• Local TV news report on the death
• Biography of victim Philip Fontaine

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