CANADA Canada- Teresa Martin, 14, Asphyxiated & Message carved into stomach, Montreal, Quebec, 12 September 1969

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July 21 2022

Expanded Quebec provincial police cold case squad has yet to solve a murder

MONTREAL — More than 50 years later, Isabel Marcotte still feels the pain of her sister's murder every day. On Sept. 12, 1969, 14-year-old Teresa Martin got off the bus near her home in Montreal's north end after going to a movie with friends.

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MONTREAL — More than 50 years later, Isabel Marcotte still feels the pain of her sister's murder every day.

On Sept. 12, 1969, 14-year-old Teresa Martin got off the bus near her home in Montreal's north end after going to a movie with friends. Her body was found several hours later in a parking lot, carefully placed in a seated position with a message carved into her stomach.

Marcotte remembers every detail of that night and the next day: her sister not coming home to the bedroom they shared; her parents' growing concern; her father going to view the body and lying to his wife over the phone, saying it wasn't Teresa, because he wanted to tell her in person.

"When my Dad came home, I knew it was her," Marcotte said in a recent interview.

Nearly 53 years later, Teresa's case remains unsolved — and it's far from the only one.

The Quebec provincial police announced in 2018 that they were increasing their cold case squad from five officers to nearly 30 in order to tackle hundreds of cases dating back to the 1960s. On its website, the police list 292 cases of unsolved murders or disappearances where murder is suspected. ''

 

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Who killed Teresa Martin?

La Presse – Nicolas Bérubé, June 6, 2021 (Original article in French can be found here) More than 50 years after her death, the murder of Teresa Martin has still not been solved. On the night…

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''A shy good student who was finishing her classical course at Regina Assumpta College, Teresa Martin was the daughter of a school principal and a private investigator. She had few friends and spent her weekends horseback riding on a Laval ranch, says her sister.

“She was a shy girl,” she says.

''In his report, the medical examiner concluded that the teenager died of “asphyxiation from probable obstruction of the external airways.” She was not raped. Neither alcohol nor drugs were in his blood.

Shortly before or after his death, he also noted, his murderer (s) used a blade to engrave the words “F. V. Frenchy I love you” on his stomach.

This “tattoo” left the police very perplexed, wrote the journalist Michel Auger in La Presse in 1969.

Is he a sinister maniac who wanted to sign his crime or a clever assassin who wanted to lead the police on a false trail? At this time, the answer is not known.
Michel Auger, in La Presse in 1969

Ms. Marcotte notes that the place Teresa had to walk to get home after getting off the bus was not lit in 1969. “In those years there were no houses. They were fields. At night it was a black hole. “

More than 30 people were questioned by investigators after Teresa Martin’s death, wrote the publication Hello Police in October 1969.''

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F.L. FRENCHY I LOVE YOU - Teresa Martin #2 / WKT5

Teresa Martin was meant to be found like that - displayed against the wall of that tavern on a Saturday morning, for families to see the ambulance and the squad

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''Teresa Martin was meant to be found like that - displayed against the wall of that tavern on a Saturday morning, for families to see the ambulance and the squad cars as they drove on their way to hockey practice or garden centres, so it would be the topic of conversation all that weekend, and into Monday morning for the local boys and girls going to school. That's certain.''

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Le Sadique Meurtrier -Teresa Martin #3 / WKT5 – Who Killed Theresa?

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Teresa Martin

Teresa Martin
''What’s said ( or not said ) about Martin five months after her murder is informative. She appeared much older than her 14-years, but she lived with her parents, and had regular habits. She attended the convent, Regina Sancta / Regina Assumpta where she was a “brilliant student”. On the evening of her death she received permission to go to the movies at Galeries d’Anjou – again Allo Police stresses to see the film “Jeux pervers”. She took the number 41 bus home around 11 pm. Approximately four hours later her body was found in the parking lot of the Vieux Cypres taverne on Henri Bourassa approximately a mile from her home. She was seated against the wall of the taverne, in bare feet without shoes, and the autopsy revealed she had been asphyxiated. Her clothing was not disheveled. She probably died when her assailant placed his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. Allo Police states she was “definitely not raped” – and here we get some new information – and she was possibly killed for “some revenge”. Finally they point to the mysterious tattoo on her abdomen, “F.V. Frenchy I Love You”, and that this was made after her death. There were no traces of drugs or alcohol in her system, and police were still searching for her assassin.''

 

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Teresa Martin was the daughter of a school principal and a private investigator.

Shortly before or after his death, he also noted, his murderer (s) used a blade to engrave the words “F. V. Frenchy I love you” on his stomach.

This “tattoo” left the police very perplexed, wrote the journalist Michel Auger in La Presse in 1969.

One of her parents was a private investigator. Could be this is someone out for revenge. I wonder if any of the cases handled by her PI parent involved a F.V. somehow. Sounds like initials to me. Also, "Frenchy" sounds almost like a slur towards if not people from Quebec, French people in general, imo.

 

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Advanced DNA offers hope to solve cold cases, but some Canadian cops slow to adopt it

Advances in DNA technology are being credited with solving a growing pile of cold case murders in the United States, but some Canadian police forces are lagging behind their U.S. counterparts in adopting the new methods.

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''Advances in DNA technology are being credited with solving a growing pile of cold case murders in the United States, but some Canadian police forces are lagging behind their U.S. counterparts in adopting the new methods.

Experts say a research technique called genetic genealogy — which involves comparing DNA from a crime scene to the vast amount of public data that has been uploaded to private platforms such as Ancestry.com and 23andme — represents the best chance of solving decades-old murders.

Some Canadian police, however, are slower to embrace it, in part because of privacy concerns and because it has yet to be tested in the Canadian court system.


Diane Séguin, head of biology and DNA for Quebec's forensics lab, said the province is beginning to apply genetic genealogy in a few "very high-profile cases" in partnership with police and prosecutors, who would be responsible for defending it in an eventual trial.

"We are just starting in Canada to use those technologies, because the legal side is not really clear," Séguin said in an interview this week.''

''The technique has been used a few times in Canada — most notably to solve the 1984 killing of nine-year-old Christine Jessop in Ontario. That case was solved with the help of Texas-based forensics lab Othram, which has also helped to identify decades-old remains in Regina and Edmonton.''

''Séguin, meanwhile, she said the technique may not immediately yield as many results in Canada as in the U.S. because Canadians don't upload their DNA to public websites as often as Americans do, meaning investigators have a smaller pool of samples to draw from.


Nevertheless, she said the Quebec lab is forging ahead in using new technologies to solve cold cases. Séguin said the lab, which handles all the forensics work from police forces across the province, works on about 50 cold cases per year.''

 

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One of her parents was a private investigator. Could be this is someone out for revenge. I wonder if any of the cases handled by her PI parent involved a F.V. somehow. Sounds like initials to me. Also, "Frenchy" sounds almost like a slur towards if not people from Quebec, French people in general, imo.

There was much turmoil in Montreal at that time, a revenge message is plausible, imo. speculation, fwiw..

Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec - Wikipedia

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1968-69

• On September 25, a bomb explodes at the MacDonald monument on Dominion Square in Montreal.
• On October 14, bomb explode at the headquarters of the PLQ and the Union nationale (UN).
• On November 12, a bomb explodes at the Chambre de commerce de Montréal.
• On November 22, two bombs explode at the Eaton store of downtown Montreal.
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• On December 31, four bombs explode the same day.

• On January 2, three mail boxes located near federal offices explode.
• On January 8, a bomb explodes near the domicile of Jean-Paul Gilbert, Montreal chief of police.
• On February 13, a bomb explodes at the building of the Montreal Stock Exchange. Some 27 people are injured.
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• On June 15, a bomb explodes at the headquarters of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Sherbrooke (SSJBS). (The SSJBS had invited Pierre Trudeau to preside the religious ceremonies of June 24.)
• On September 29, a bomb explodes at the domicile of Jean Drapeau, the Mayor of Montreal.
• On November 20, 1969 at 9:03pm a bomb exploded in the ground floor stairwell of the Communications Arts building (Bryon building) at Loyola College. Damage to the building was estimated at $150,000. Despite there being hundreds of evening students in classrooms on the upper floors of the building, fortunately there were no injuries.''

Also..

''1969: Montreal’s ‘night of terror’​

Montreal is in a state of shock. A police officer is dead and 108 people have been arrested following 16 hours of chaos during which police and firefighters refused to work. At first, the strike's impact was limited to more bank robberies than normal. But as night fell, a taxi drivers' union seized upon the police absence to violently protest a competitor's exclusive right to airport pickups. The result, according to this CBC Television special, was a "night of terror." Shattered shop windows and a trail of broken glass are evidence of looting that erupted in the downtown core. With no one to stop them, students and separatists joined the rampage. Shop owners, some of them armed, struggled to fend off looters. Restaurants and hotels were also targeted. A corporal with the Quebec provincial police was shot and killed at the garage of the Murray Hill limousine company as taxi drivers tried to burn it down.''