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36 Year Old Canadian Cold Case Solved
“It had to be someone we knew well.”
On the 3rd of October 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop disappeared after getting off her school bus in Queensville, 40 miles from Toronto.
Christine’s mother Janet had taken Christine’s older brother to visit their father in a detention facility, and they weren’t at home when Christine returned from school. The little girl had plans to meet a friend after school at a nearby park, and she was seen going into a local store close to her home, to buy bubble gum.
Christine never made it to the park to meet her friend and this would be the last time anyone saw her.
The police were called immediately, and York Regional Police began to canvas the area and spoke to the residents of the small town. Volunteers searched the area for Christine, but she wasn’t found until New Year’s Eve, three months later, 30 miles away in a wooded area of Sunderland.
The nine-year-old had been raped and stabbed to death. Because of the location of her body, Durham Regional Police took over the investigation, which was now a murder…
