Nova Scotia man charged with second-degree murder in Bible Hill death

A wellness check on Bomber Drive ended with a body in the house and, more than a year later, a second-degree murder charge against the man who was found unconscious there too. Lee Andrew MacDonald, 49, was arrested Tuesday and appeared in Truro provincial court Wednesday, where he remained in custody.

Police were called to the Bible Hill home on the morning of January 3, 2025, after concerns about the residence. Inside, officers found the body of a 42-year-old woman and an unconscious man later identified as MacDonald, who was taken to hospital that day. What started as a welfare check quickly turned into a homicide investigation, but the case did not move to a murder prosecution until much later.

The Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service later ruled the woman’s death a homicide, and RCMP said MacDonald and the woman knew each other. Investigators have also said they do not believe the death was related to intimate partner violence, a detail that narrows the likely dynamics of the case and points away from the most common first assumption in domestic death investigations.

That leaves the arrest as the key shift in a file that sat in the gray area between tragedy and charge for more than a year. The scene on Bomber Drive was always going to draw attention, with one woman dead, one man unconscious, and no immediate public explanation for what happened inside the house. The charge against MacDonald suggests investigators were able to move that case out of the realm of unanswered questions and into a formal homicide prosecution.

Even now, the core facts remain stark: a January welfare check, a dead 42-year-old woman, an injured man in the same home, and a murder charge that arrived long after the first officers walked through the door. The case now moves forward in court, with the original mystery of Bomber Drive still sitting at its center.