CANADA Canada - Jessica Godin, 18, Fournier, Ont, 22 Sept 2011

[Valleyboy]

R.I.P. Jessica.

 

[dotr]

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2011/04/c9267.html
OPP Seeking Public Assistance for Fatal Hit and Run

Public Appeal on Godin Fatal Posted on You Tube

FOURNIER, ON, Oct. 4, 2011 /CNW/ - The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) needs your help. Eighteen (18) year old Jessica Marie Lynne GODIN of Casselman Ontario was last seen alive on Thursday, September 22, 2011 between the hours of 7:00 and 8:15pm. On September 24, 2011 at approximately 2:20pm, officers of the Hawkesbury detachment of the OPP located her body near Du Parc Street, adjacent to the park in Fournier, in Nation Township,

Autopsy results indicate the victim died as a result of injuries that may have been sustained in a motor vehicle collision. The OPP believe she was the victim of a hit and run.

The Hawkesbury OPP Crime Unit, under the direction of OPP Detective Inspector Dan Nadeau, Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) has released a video on You Tube to provide information to the public about this on going investigation and is appealing to anyone with information to contact the OPP.

Go to the OPP You Tube channel found on the OPP website at www.opp.ca or click on the following links to view: in English ou en Français.

The Police are looking for your help. If you have any information about this matter please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or call Detective/Constable Dan Fedele at the Hawkesbury O.P.P. at 613-632-2729. Persons giving tips to Crime Stoppers that lead to an arrest may be eligible for a cash reward. Crime Stoppers does not subscribe to Call Display. Your call will stay anonymous and your presence won't be needed in court. Tips can also be sent via text message and e-mail. For more information visit the National Capital Crime Stoppers' website at www.CrimeStoppers.ca

 

[Valleyboy]

Update: OPP seize pickup truck in hit-and-run death of Jessica Godin


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/U...a+Godin/5692223/story.html?cid=megadrop_story


OTTAWA — Ontario Provincial Police have seized a Dodge Ram truck in connection with the September hit-and-run death of 18-year-old Casselman resident Jessica Godin.

Godin’s boyfriend, Jonathan Smith, said in an interview Thursday night that the truck was registered to the roofing company that employs him.

Smith, 23, rents a room from his co-worker, Christian Séguin, on Du Parc Street in Fournier, about 80 kilometres east of Ottawa, where Godin’s body was found Sept. 24.

An autopsy found that she died from injuries she may have received in a motor vehicle crash, and police believe she was the victim of a hit-and-run.

Séguin, 29, said police looked at the truck on the day Godin’s body was found, but they didn’t tow it away at that time.

“If you hit somebody there, that makes a big dent. We don’t have big dents,” Séguin said. “There’s lights at the corner. Somebody would have seen something, somebody would have heard something.”

Séguin, Smith and Séguin’s father, Jean-Pierre, head of the family that owns the roofing company, have all been questioned by police in connection with the investigation.

Christian Séguin and Smith were on their way to a roofing job in Ottawa on Oct. 13 when they were pulled over by OPP.

They were read their rights and arrested on charges of manslaughter, they said, then taken to the Embrun OPP station.

Séguin was released without charge 12 hours later.

Smith, who was also released without charge, said he was questioned at the OPP station for three hours. Police showed him several different pictures of Godin’s body in the ditch.

“They tried to get me to feel bad,” Smith said. “They told me what they thought, and that’s the way they saw it.”

 

[Valleyboy]

Truck seized as part of fatal-hit-and-run investigation returned to owners


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/T...estigation+returned+owners/5808319/story.html



A truck that police had seized as part of an investigation into a fatal hit-and-run in Fournier has been returned to its owners.

Ontario Provincial Police took the truck on Oct. 13 as part of an investigation into the death of Jessica Godin, an 18-year-old Casselman resident whose body had been found in a ditch on Sept. 24.

An autopsy showed she died of injuries after being struck by a motor vehicle. Investigators believed it was a hit-and-run.

The truck is registered to a roofing company run by Jean-Pierre Séguin. Police had initially arrested his son, Christian Séguin and his roommate, Jonathan Smith, on Oct. 13, but released them without charge about 12 hours later.

“They didn’t find nothing,” Jean-Pierre Séguin said Saturday evening. “They released the truck, they released everything. They’ve cleared the vehicle, period.”

 

[Hazel]

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http://youtu.be/EHOUR7XhWnc

 

[Hazel]

Grieving mother asks driver to develop conscience

Family searching for answers in hit-and-run

Ottawa Citizen October 14, 2011

Jessica Godin, 18 and pretty as 18 can be, died in a ditch. Or close to one.

If the driver had stopped and come to her aid, called 911, run to a nearby house - lifted a blessed finger - would she have lived? We can never know. But this is the kind of question that will haunt the waking hours of loved ones; as long as they have hours awake.

For the rest of us, it is what makes a hit-and-run fatality the most dastardly, cowardly act. It is not the "hit" part; it is the "run" part.

Nathalie Godin of Embrun is Jessica's mother. She has heard very little from police since Jessica was found at about 2: 20 p.m. on Sept. 24 in the hamlet of Fournier, 80 kilometres east of downtown Ottawa.

First she lost her daughter.

Now she has to live without the how and the why. She is appealing to anyone with information to come forward.

"You know, we can only hope that whoever did this grows a conscience and comes forward," she said this week. "Somebody out there knows something. That's all I can hope for right now."

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/G...p+conscience/5549061/story.html#ixzz1fcMD8i8F

 

[Hazel]

<< snips >>

Not to mention that Fournier is a tiny place. There is very little traffic on a Thursday or Friday night. Or any night.

It is not a stopover between A and B. It is too far from the 417 to be a shortcut. There are no arenas or stores or bowling alleys in Fournier, things that might bring a long-distance visitor.

It is, then, likely a local motorist.

The mayor said the corner near where Jessica was found is welllit. The speed limit, sometimes ignored, is 50 km/h. There are no sidewalks.

There might be one car passing every five minutes, he said.

"Hopefully someone is going to have enough of a troubled conscience and they'll 'fess up," St. Amour said. "Somebody must know something, and it must be terrible to live with that."

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Grieving+mother+asks+driver+develop+conscience/5549061/story.html#ixzz1fcNvIi1o

 

[Valleyboy]

Hope they are checking all the barns and quarries in the area.

 

[Hazel]

$50,000 REWARD - Victim: Jessica Marie Lynne GODIN

Uploaded by OPPCorpComm on Mar 22, 2012

Victim: Jessica Marie Lynne GODIN
$50,000 REWARD
The Government of the Province of Ontario is offering a total reward of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the death of 18-year-old Jessica Marie Lynne GODIN.

Jessica GODIN was last seen on September 22, 2011. Her body was found on September 24, 2011, at approximately 2:20 p.m., in Fournier, Nation Township, Ontario. Police believe she was the victim of a hit-and-run occurrence.

Investigators urge any person with information regarding the person(s) responsible for the death of Jessica GODIN to immediately contact the Director of the Ontario Provincial Police Criminal Investigation Services at 1-888-310-1122 or (705) 329-6331, or their nearest police authority. Further information about this case is available on the OPP website at www.opp.ca.

Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.
This reward will be apportioned as deemed just by the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services for the Province of Ontario and the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.

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[Hazel]

A $50, 000 reward offered in hit-and-run death

Police hope the monetary reward will lead them to someone who can help solve the case. In addition to the reward, police have also released a new Youtube video which details the crime.

Officers will also be canvassing motorists on Friday along Du Parc Street between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Hawkesbury OPP at 613-632-2729 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

read more: http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/local/on/a_50_000_reward_offered_in_hit-and-run_death/086a10cd

 

[OkieGranny]

http://blackburnnews.com/bri-ontario/2014/09/22/police-appeal-for-tips-on-2011-death/

Provincial police are appealing for any possible tips in the death of an 18-year-old woman in eastern Ontario three years ago...

Police say officers have conducted almost 100 interviews and completed more than 300 assignments in an attempt to identify the suspects...

Police also announced the renewal of a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.