The latest development to get Soucy's hopes up, only to see them come crashing down again, seems particularly cruel. In the aftermath of a disturbing trial that saw him sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering Alexandre Livernoche - a 13-year-old Sorel boy missing for days before his body was found buried in a sandpit near his home - convict Mario Bastien told a Surete du Quebec officer that he could provide information about Jolene's disappearance.
It turned out that during the days of intense searching after Jolene's disappearance, Bastien, who then lived on the South Shore, had pestered the MUC police with bogus information - just as he had done while police and volunteers combed through Sorel when Alexandre went missing.
But a crime tabloid recently reported that the two-day interrogation of Bastien over Jolene's disappearance proved to be a waste of time and that the murderer and sex offender appeared simply to have been trying to delay his transfer to a federal prison, where inmates tend to despise child killers and pedophiles.
"It was all a fabrication to win some time," Soucy said. "He used my daughter's name to buy time and I'm still looking for my daughter after 27 months. No one wants to find their kids dead, but I had a hope of maybe finding her through Bastien. It turned out to be all lies."