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hello everyone and welcome back to another True Crime Mysteries video thank you all for being
here today we're discussing three recently solved cold cases in Canada let's get into it
number three Muriel man on March 6 1984 50 year old Mario man's body was discovered in a freezer
in her home in Gondola Point in Kings County New Brunswick Canada two friends had gone over
to her home to check on her after not hearing from her for a few days which was unusual and
they were the ones that found Muriel's body in the freezer Muriel was widower a mother
of four and a retired nurse she was described as a strong woman generous and warm her cause
of death was determined to be blunt force trauma which had caused a skull fracture
her death was ruled a homicide Muriel at the time of her murder was dating John Maven who had been
reported to be one of the friends as well as a neighbor who had gone to find Muriel there
had been some speculation that John Maven was a suspect over the years very little information
is available today on what happened after the discovery and her case eventually went cold
on March 30th 2022 the Kennedy Casey Regional Police Force put out a press release the krpf
talked on the historical homicide of Muriel man she was discovered murdered in a deep freezer
in this release they said that they had received new information from an anonymous tip from the
public that made them reopen Muriel's Cold Case after examining the information they discovered
new suspects they also confirmed that John Maven was not a suspect in Muriel's homicide John died
in 2005 however his daughter was told by police that her father was no longer a suspect the Dark
Cloud over the family finally lifted police had never formally accused John Maven of the crime
John eventually fled Canada after receiving multiple death threats from the community he
relocated to Paris France where he remained until he passed law enforcement believed that
Muriel was killed because she had learned someone close to her was committing criminal acts and
that she was murdered so she could not go to the police her children were informed of the police
findings and have been reported never to been suspects themselves law enforcement said that
with the 38 years that had passed since miro's murder all the people involved are now deceased
they said in a press conference quote we will never be given the opportunity to validate
our findings in court our investigation is now complete and the file is closed and out
of respect are all parties concerned they will give no further details number two Lupita topic
on the evening of May 14 1971 six-year-old girl lubizza topic and her eight-year-old brother were
playing with some children in an abandoned lot behind their home in Windsor Ontario Canada when
a man came from a restaurant across the street and approached the group of kids he offered
Lupita eight bucks to do a job for him this was the equivalent of about 60 dollars Canadian today
and he also gave her brother a dime and said to go play with your bike her brother had said
that that was the last time he saw her when the man offered her his hand and she took
it walking off in the other direction after that her brother went straight home to tell his mother
about what had happened Lupita's mother went straight to the abandoned law but by the time
she arrived there was no sign of her or the man her mother immediately started looking for her
she had stopped a police officer and said that her daughter was missing very quickly after that
over 150 volunteers and law enforcement were on the streets looking for the six-year-old
at about 1am on May 15th approximately four hours after the search had started an officer found
lubizza by garage in the backyard of house only a few blocks from her home Lupita had been violently
beaten her right leg was broken and she'd been sexually assaulted police collected evidence from
the scene which included some Lupita's teeth and an adult tooth other DNA evidence was collected
at this time which was unheard of and very forward thinking of the forensic team at the time
investigators reported that she'd been attacked and killed about an hour after she'd been abducted
newspapers across the country reported about lubitz's murder in the days following police
reported in 1971 they were looking for a man in his twenties about six feet tall with a brush cut
wearing a zipper jacket and dark trousers the description is based on what the brother told
authorities during the initial investigation police asked the public for any information on
this unique couple and if anyone had seen the girl or the man as well as after as the man
would have been covered in blood please fielded hundreds of leads all across Canada even a reward
for information would get to a total of eleven thousand dollars but would never bring substantial
leads weeks months and years went by and the Beats case went cold in the next four decades
police would get over 700 Persons of Interest but none of them made it to suspect over the
years they tested DNA from the crime scene with nothing coming from those tests in 2015 they would
tie several pieces of DNA to one person but they still didn't get any hits on who that person was
2015 was also when law enforcement released information about the adult tooth to the public
for the first time in the hopes that someone might come forward about the case eventually
DNA and forensics would Advance with the evidence collected all those years ago authorities were
able to use DNA and science called phenotyping to get an idea of what the suspect had looked like
Windsor Police eventually turned to genetic geology and they reached out to the U.S company
parabon Nano labs to see if they could find any relatives related to the DNA websites like
jedmatch or ancestry.com allow you to say whether authorities can use your genetic information with
that they were able to find distant relations all over Canada the US and Europe investigators had
worked back to build family trees then forward with the genetic similarities and regions
eventually they narrowed it down to a small group and investigators were able to get authorization
to get DNA samples from this small group to rule out eventually they were able to identify a single
suspect in December 2019 The Windsor Police announced that they identified the suspect in
lubitz's case they would announce the man had died earlier that year in February 2019 they would not
release his name to the Press saying it was a violation of his rights as the man was deceased
since a man was already deceased they had used save tissue samples to match the DNA
to the original DNA from the crime scene and found it was an exact match but didn't
release why there was a saved tissue sample from this suspect Windsor Police didn't form
the top hitch family and have since asked for privacy not giving any comments to the media
this is an end of this case though The Windsor Star would fight a Freedom of Information battle
that would drag on for more than three years to get the name of the suspect released to the public
in February 2023 The Windsor Star released the name of the assailant Frank Arthur Hall who was
70 years old when he died Lupita may not be his only victim and they hope that releasing the
name helped to solve other unsolved crimes Frank Arthur Hall was 22 when libitza was murdered he
lived approximately two kilometers down the road from the topic family he eventually moved from
Ontario to Edmonton Canada where he lived until he died after more than 50 years Lupita's case
is closed with her family and Community getting answers about who committed such a horrific crime
this is a case that really Shook and rattled the community here in Windsor in Southwestern
Ontario back in 1971 we're talking about a six-year-old girl lubica topic and she was
just playing outside of her home with her brother at the time around dusk and her brother stepped
away police said a stranger approached her lured her away and offered her some money and that was
really the last anyone had seen of her and it wasn't until police started searching for her
there was a massive response with officers and members of the community as well and later that
night police say an officer did find her outside and she was sexually assaulted and murdered and
police say that five decades went by without any real substance to allow them to make an arrest
in this case hundreds of tips from all over this country and the United States and it wasn't until
2019 that police say they believe they identified the person responsible for this and that was
because of DNA a advancements and there were more than 500 Persons of Interest in this case but they
say they believe that this person was the one who committed these crimes and at the time though in
2019 they wouldn't identify this person they said they were deceased they wouldn't have their day
in court and that really outraged a lot of people in this community who thought the identity of this
person should be made public and it wasn't until late last night that Windsor Police sent out a
news release identifying the person in this case believed to have killed six-year-old in Windsor
as Frank Arthur Hall police say he was 22 years old at the time and lived nearby but later in
his life moved to Edmonton where he died at the age of 70 in 2019. now you may be wondering why
all of this is coming out now well police say there was a change in leadership that allowed
them to reevaluate why they didn't release the name back in 2019 they also say they want to be
fully transparent and that releasing a photo and a name of the suspect or the person believed to have
committed this crime may help them get information from the public for other investigations that
are conducting but they wouldn't elaborate on that but what they didn't say in the release
was was that there were Freedom of Information requests from media Outlets including the CBC
trying to get access to this person who who they believe killed and committed such a heinous crime
they said at the time that this would be an unjustified invasion of their privacy and the
deceased no longer posed a threat to Public Safety so clearly a change of opinion on that
the name has now been released and some closure for the family and the community here in Windsor
number one guilein papay
on the morning of April 28 2019 year old college student guilein palve was discovered deceased in
her basement apartment in John Kerry Quebec Canada about 200 kilometers from Quebec City she had been
found by a friend who had dropped her off at 9 30 PM the night before as gilan had an early morning
the next day after calling several times with no answer her friend went to her apartment and
found the door ajar lights on and music playing she found Elaine almost naked and called 9-1-1
Elaine had been severely beaten and sexually assaulted she had lived with two other female
college students at the time but they were not home at the time of the attack
DNA was collected from the scene but nothing came up when entered into several major databases
this case would eventually be handed over to Quebec's major crime unit
eventually Quebec authorities would tie Elaine's case to a case in Quebec City that had happened in
July 2000 where a woman was sexually assaulted severely beaten and left for dead this woman
survived her attack though we know little details of the attack due to a court-ordered publication
ban put in place to protect this victim's identity the two cases eventually went cold after decades
the case would be passed down from detective to detective Until It ultimately was stored with the
Quebec coal case unit in 2018 they got a massive increase in resources which were put to reopening
the case over the years they came up with a few suspects all of whom would get cleared one by
one through DNA comparison on October 12 2022 the Quebec police announced their first case solved
after the expansion of their Cold Case unit in 2018. after 22 years they had arrested a suspect
in the lane pop van case law enforcement said that they used forensic biology techniques to find the
killer but did not release specific information as to how the suspect has been identified as 47 year
old Marc Andre granon of Granby Quebec on October 13 2022 he was charged with first-degree murder
attempted murder and sexual assault in the two cases from 2000 which will be two separate cases
in court law enforcement have released pictures of grenade through the years as they are still
investigating that there might be more victims out there and that he might be a Serial Predator he
moved around frequently and there were large gaps of time when his whereabouts couldn't be accounted
for he also has a lengthy criminal history publication ban is keeping much information
about his arrest secret but some information is slowly coming forward shortly after his arrest
they got warrants to search his home and take fingerprints as well as DNA which matched the DNA
found in 2000 this band still protects how they found granon as a suspect he is currently being
held in prison while he waits trial which is said to start in the spring of 2023. law enforcement
are still investigating the possibility that there may be other victims or open cases that may be
tied to Grinnell anyone with information is being asked to contact Crime Stoppers
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