Posted on 10/15/2020 2:35:27 PM PDT by Kriggerel
Toronto police say DNA has helped to solve the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop, however, the suspect is now dead.
Toronto Police Chief James Ramer identified Calvin Hoover as Jessop’s murderer. He was 28 at the time of the case and he died in 2015.
Ramer said a DNA sample found on Jessop’s underwear was identified on Oct. 9 as belonging to Hoover.
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Not a “Highway of Tears” murder?
The name rung a bell - and looking at her pic, I do barely remember this. Must have made some US news, also.
No. And actually, the sheer amount of news coverage that Christine’s case got in the media is one of the go-to examples used by Sociology and Psychology professors as proof of the ‘missing white girls’ skew in the media.
Yes, I do remember this one. The wrongly accused man, Guy Paul Morin, went through hell.
Having watched every documentary I can find about the Highway of Tears disappearances, I think I understand at least one reason why they haven’t been solved, but I won’t say it here.
Dig the bastard up and kill him again
Perp killed himself.
"That half-breed done it: We all knew he was guilty, but there wasn’t no evidence. So what did I do?
Nothin’… I followed around after him and ate out my heart tryin’ to catch him up and then the army got him; and out in some mudhole in Belgium the Lord done the job for me…1917…He was the last killer ever got out of my hands…”
I remember hearing the phrase “Highway of Tears” before, and was only vaguely aware of it until reading this thread. A brief bit of research on Bing was interesting.
Brittany Martinez's killer, Edward Milka, will be eligible for parole after 20 years, which will be in 2024. His actual sentence is 55 years.
There's a similar highway in the United States: Texas route 45, which runs from Dallas to Houston and on to Galveston on the Gulf Coast. Dozens of girls, mostly young, have disappeared on or near it, with their bodies found dumped in the oil fields through which it runs. It is believed that multiple serial killers have used it over the years.
Also serial killer John Ackroyd used interstate 20 in Oregon to dispose of many women's bodies. He was a mechanic who worked for the Oregon highway department. He operated under the radar for decades.
You mean US 20? Interstate 20 doesn't run anywhere near Oregon.
"U.S. Highway 20 is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs for 3,365 miles from Newport, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts."
You better tell Wikipedia.
Two different highways; two different highway systems. US 20, Interstate 20. Used to have an old military trunk loaded with maps collected during multiple cross-country trips. Many teens obsessed with beer and weed; mine was maps. :-)
Us highways and US interstates are different systems. The western end of interstate 20 is in West Texas.
US Highway not the same as Interstate Highway.
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Per other reportage, the family knew the perp.
And cops eliminated him as a suspect...why?
I was in Junior High in Littleton CO in 1970 when 15-year-old Marilee Burt, a cheerleader at the school and daughter of a local car dealer, chose to walk home after practice rather than wait for her mother and was spotted at night a short distance from her home talking to a man in a pickup truck, still wearing her cheerleader outfit under a heavy jacket. After that, she vanished and was found dead a few days later next to a canyon bridge. She had been raped.
The girls at the school began screaming and crying when the announcement was made. This was a few days before my 13th birthday. She was a two years older than me so we’d never spoken.
50 years later and there has never been so much as an arrest. The Denver media sometimes bring up the case but several in her family have passed on since then from natural causes hoping for the day Marilee’s killer would be found. She would be 65 years old this year and her killer, if still alive, is probably in his 70s.
I think all of us can recall such horrors in our past.
For me it was two school girls kidnapped, raped and murdered in Carlsbad NM back in 1961. They lived just a couple of blocks from us.
No kids were let out in the evening for quite some time, and we read a suspect had been arrested at a Texas bar in 1962. Last I heard no one was convicted of the crime.
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