Episode 428:OnOctober 3, 1984, nine-year-oldChristine Jessopstepped off a school bus inQueensville, Ontario, and walked toward home. She was never seen alive again. Her body was found on New Year’s Eve, fifty-six kilometres away. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed.
What followed was one of the most consequential criminal proceedings in Canadian history — and the quiet destruction of a man who lived next door.
This is Part One of a two-part series.
Sources:
- Kirk Makin,Redrum the Innocent(1992) — Viking Canada.
- Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin — Full text (netk.net.au)
- The Canadian Encyclopedia — Guy Paul Morin Case
- Innocence Canada — Guy Paul Morin case file
- Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions — Guy Paul Morin
- Library of Parliament — Wrongful Convictions in Canada (2020)
- Bruce MacFarlane — “Wrongful Convictions: The Effect of Tunnel Vision and Predisposing Circumstances in the Criminal Justice System” (2006)
- Federal Prosecution Service — Chapter 5: Jailhouse Informers
- Federal Prosecution Service — Chapter 8: DNA Evidence
- The Canadian Encyclopedia — Morin Inquiry Report
- Kaufman Report — Wikipedia summary
- Globe and Mail — “Morin Informant Named Dangerous Offender” (2007)
- CBC Digital Archives — Guy Paul Morin acquitted
- Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation
- Williams Treaties — Government of Canada
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