Canada- Quebec City, Guylaine Potvin, College student, S. Assaulted/ Brutally murdered in apt. April '00, *Marc-André Grenon, 47, ARRESTED Oct '22*

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Oct 12, 2022 rbbm.
''MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say they’ve made an arrest in the homicide of a junior college student 22 years ago.
Guylaine Potvin was found dead in her apartment in Jonquière, Que., about 215 kilometres north of Quebec City, on April 28, 2000.

Provincial police say they’ve arrested Marc-André Grenon, 47, in connection with Potvin’s murder.
Grenon, of Granby, Que., east of Montreal, is also charged with attempted murder and sexual assault in connection with the case.
Police say that their investigation turned up similarities with another case in Quebec City from 2000, in which a female student, living alone, was assaulted and left for dead but survived the attack.''
 
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Marc-André Grenon
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Oct 14 2022 rbbm.
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''A man charged this week in connection with a murder and separate sexual assault 22 years ago is suspected by police of having other alleged victims.''

The Sûreté du Québec are investigating Grenon within a “serial crimes management structure,” spokesperson Sgt. Beatrice Dorsainville said in an interview Friday. That type of operation, she said, allows various police forces to pool resources to identify predators.


“Given that we’re talking about the same suspect alleged to have committed the same type of crime on similar victims, this is why the management structure for serial crime investigations was deployed,” Dorsainville said.''

''Dorsainville said it’s possible there could be victims in different parts of the province — between 1993 and 2022, Grenon lived in Quebec’s most populous regions, including Saguenay—Lac-St-Jean, Quebec City and the Greater Montreal Area.''

''Serial crimes? Quebec police believe there could be more victims after arresting man in 22-year-old killing''​

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Jan 15, 2024
''The trial for a man charged in the murder and sexual assault of a junior college student almost 24 years ago got underway with jury selection Monday morning.

Marc-André Grenon, 47, of Granby, Que., is charged with the first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault of Guylaine Potvin, 19, who was found dead in April 2000 in her apartment in Jonquière, Que., about 215 kilometres north of Quebec City.

Grenon was present in court and pleaded not guilty to the charges.''
 
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Morgan Lowrie Jan 15, 2024
''Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a man charged with the sexual assault and murder of a 19-year-old Quebec junior college student nearly 24 years ago.
Marc-André Grenon is charged with the first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault of Guylaine Potvin, who was found dead in April 2000 in her apartment in Jonquière, now a borough of Saguenay.
Grenon was present at the courthouse in Chicoutimi Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charges.''

''Huot said Potvin’s body was found on April 28, 2000, in the basement apartment where she lived, mostly unclothed and bearing multiple injuries. An autopsy would conclude that she’d been strangled and sexually assaulted, and scene analysis suggested the assault began while the victim slept, he said''.

“The analysis of a forensic biologist then allows us to conclude that the genetic profile obtained on the straws in question is associated with that found 22 years earlier at the crime scene,” he said.''
 
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January 23, 2024
''Earlier this week, the trial heard that partial fingerprints found at the scene could not be linked to Grenon. As well, the bite mark found on the victim’s breast could not be linked to the suspect, whose mouth had changed because of dental work in the intervening years, the defence and prosecution said in an agreed statement.

Quebec Superior Court Justice François Huot told the jury that these findings do not exclude the possibility that Grenon was at the scene but could not be used to implicate him.''
 
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Feb 14
''SAGUENAY, Que. — The Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin nearly 24 years ago now admits to causing her death, a Crown prosecutor said Wednesday.''

''Bernard told the jury that the evidence at the crime scene suggests Grenon sexually assaulted Potvin in her bed as she slept — a place where she should have felt safe — and strangled her with a belt.''

“Despite all the strength and determination that Guylaine Potvin could give, Marc-André Grenon succeeded in his project, which was to satisfy his sexual urges, and at all costs, even if the death of the victim was to result.”
 
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''Jurors have found a Quebec man guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin in 2000.
The trial of Marc-André Grenon took place in Saguenay, Que., and the jury's verdict was delivered Tuesday at 5 p.m., after less than three hours of deliberation.
Spectators in the packed courtroom could be seen hugging and wiping away tears after the verdicts were read.
Grenon, 49, was also found guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of Potvin in her basement apartment in April 2000 in Jonquière, Que., now a part of Saguenay, some 215 kilometres north of Quebec City.''

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''Justice François Huot addressed Grenon moments after a jury convicted him at the courthouse in Saguenay, Que.
"I want to make this clear: I only feel disgust and contempt for the actions you took on April 28, 2000," Huot told Grenon, who declined the judge's invitation to address the victim's parents, present in the courtroom.
"You are an individual, as I mentioned a few moments ago, who is completely devoid of morality. You are sexually depraved and a murderer."
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Huot did not hold back as he sentenced Grenon, describing the convicted killer as a coward who attacked a vulnerable victim while she was asleep with her teddy bear, and then went on to enjoy 22 years of undeserved liberty before his arrest.

"Tell me, accused, while you were abusing Guylaine, did you feel strong? Did you feel courageous? Did you feel like a man, a real one?" he asked. "What a demonstration of force. What a demonstration of courage. It’s absolutely disgusting."

''The jury did not hear that Grenon, of Granby, Que., east of Montreal, is also charged with attempted murder and sexual assault in connection with a case in the provincial capital just months after Potvin's killing.
Police said their investigation into Potvin's murder turned up similarities with the Quebec City case from July 2000, in which a female student, living alone, was assaulted and left for dead but survived the attack.''
 
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