Identification of a girl’s killer in Canada, 36 years after the crime
DNA enabled the identification of the killer of a nine-year-old girl 36 years after her abduction and murder in a case that shook Canadians in 1984 and led to the conviction of an innocent man, according to Toronto police.
The investigators said that they discovered the identity of the killer after sending a DNA sample taken from the girl's clothes to a specialized American laboratory that gave them the name of Calvin Hoover, who died in 2015.
This 28-year-old man at the time of the events committed suicide, according to several media reports. Close to the girl's family.
Christine Jessup was kidnapped after leaving her home in Queensville (North Toronto) on October 3, 1984, and then raped and killed by knife stab wounds near Toronto.
Her body was found in a field about fifty kilometers away, three months later.
Guy Paul Moran, a neighbor of the victim's family, was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison.
He had always publicly declared his innocence before he was acquitted and released in 2015 on the basis of DNA analyzes.
He obtained from the Ontario government an amount of $ 1.25 million in compensation for this judicial error.
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