Calvin Hoover, a man who lived nearby at the time of the murder, is accused by investigators of having kidnapped Christine on Oct. 3, , raped and murdered her, and left her body in a field in Sunderland, where she was located on Dec. 31 that same year. Police say Hoover would have been charged with murder if he was alive, but he Nine-year-old Christine Jessop went missing on Oct. 3, Earlier this month, police announced they had identified her killer. (Handout) A legal advocacy group is calling for an independent Guy Paul Morin at the inquiry into his wrongful murder conviction in the Christine Jessop case, December 19, Photo by Michael Peake/Postmedia/File Morin had been acquitted of the murder of nine-year-old Christine Jessop in , only to be found guilty at a retrial in He was cleared by DNA evidence in and received $ million in compensation. In , DNA evidence identified Calvin Hoover, a Jessop family friend who died in , as the real killer Global News. The location where Christine’s body was found meant that it fell to Durham Regional Police to investigate. They weren’t having much luck at first, but The wrong man, Guy Paul Morin, was twice taken to trial and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of nine-year old Christine Jessop before ultimately being exonerated Heather Hoover, the ex-wife of the man police say killed Christine Jessop in , talks with CBC News about learning and coping with the truth about the murder of Christine Jessop Murder - October 30, There is more information coming on Richard James. A Freedom of Information request for witness statements and officer's notes has been filed. Noting
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The cold murder case of Christine Jessop has been solved, Toronto police say, however, the suspect – identified as Calvin Hoover – died in Jessop’s family told Global News they Friday will mark 30 years since Christine Jessop was abducted after arriving home alone from school in Queensville, Ont., north of Toronto. Her body was found on Dec. 31, , in a wooded area in Nine-year-old Christine Jessop was abducted 30 years ago Friday and her partially clothed body was found three months later in a wooded area 50 kilometres from her Queensville home north of Toronto Step into the gripping world of true crime as we explore the perplexing case of Christine Jessop. In this haunting story, a nine-year-old girl's disappearanc Toronto police have identified a suspect in the notorious killing of nine-year-old Christine Jessop, a murder that happened north of Toronto but ended up A petition has been made calling for the community to be made safe again. A 29 year old man from the Merthyr area was arrested on suspicion of murder after the Toronto Police have released the identity of the man responsible for the murder of nine-year-old Christine Jessop The wrong man, Guy Paul Morin, was twice taken to trial and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of nine-year old Christine Jessop before ultimately being exonerated. Redgrave said it was earlier this year that he received data from a DNA sample supplied by Toronto Police that had been sitting in a cold-case file for more than 30 years
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Christine Jessop disappeared in October , after leaving home to meet up with a friend in a nearby park. Her body was found a few months later, in December. Just three months after that, Guy Paul Morin was charged and arrested for her murder, after Janet Jessop, Christine’s mother, commented about the “weird-type guy” who lived Christine Jessop Murder Lynn Ferguson was lured into a truck after a man offered her $2 to find a lost puppy Toronto Police say they have solved one of the country’s most vexing cold cases, the killing of nine-year-old Christine Jessop, whose disappearance jolted a rural Ontario town and spawned a