Yes. The man arrested lived just 8 minutes by car from the Kimberley Hill. I'm now trying to find out if he has connections to the area where Thelma's body was dumped. Was he a hunter? Does he have relatives near there? Police said yesterday that he was not known to them before this week, but some on my neighbourhood FB page went to school with him and/or worked or partied with him and have said a fair bit, all negative, which I won't post because it is hearsay.
As reprehensible as I find the types of guys in white supremacist groups, I did get one of them to PM me via FB Messenger re this fellow. They really only know each other on FB, rarely in person. He said he had invited him to come shooting with him to a shooting club in the USA, and JS said he couldn't because he couldn't cross the border since he had a domestic violence charge against him.
Turns out it's very unlikely this JS, who has been charged with the horrific murder of the North Kildonan lady, killed Thelma. He has never driven, never had a vehicle nor a drivers license and, according to a friend who has known him for 28 yrs, has never been outside of Winnipeg except when he was previously incarcerated.
Are you sure?This article gives his name and some details from his fb page, so, now that he has been arrested, I believe it is within the rules to post a link to his fb.
Ex-wife of Winnipeg man charged in 'horrifically grisly' death granted protection order, court records show
A review of court records paints a disturbing picture of a Winnipeg man now charged in what the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) has described as the “horrifically grisly” homicide of a young Indigenous woman in North Kildonan.winnipeg.ctvnews.ca
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The crime rate in Valley Gardens is a bit higher than in Winnipeg as a whole, but most crime takes place in certain specific areas far from where Ms. Krull disappeared. (Crime rates here can vary wildly not just from neighbourhood to neighbourhood but from block to block.)I would love to see progress in this case, but there are no recent developments that I can find.
Do people feel safe in that neighbourhood I wonder, given that a killer and abductor may still be around there, or visiting?
Thinking of you, Thelma Krull and all your loved ones.
This case still haunts me because I knew Thelma, if ever so slightly, and live not too far from the Kimberly Hill. I know the area like the back of my hand because my sister and a friend live there. I'm so upset that whoever did this got away with it. Some locals think Thelma came across some drug deal during her walk and confronted the ones involved. My brother said it's likely some local pervert had seen her walking that route many times and decided to rape her that morning. That was my initial theory too. Others think two people were involved. The theory I've sat with the longest is that this was a "crime of opportunity". Some passerby from outside the city spotted her alone and abducted her, raped and killed her. This was likely some guy with a truck who was strong enough to take her body to that secluded place near St.Anne where the hunters found her remains. It is unlikely a city person would know how to get in there, although it might be someone who lives in Valley Gardens now who used to live around St. Anne. It was a very brazen act to take someone against her will in an open field... on a hill no less... in broad daylight, although granted there were very few people out and about on such a hot and humid morning around 8am on a Saturday. Once the remains were found, I would have liked to know all of the male employees at the nearby Concordia Hospital who come from the St. Anne area who came off shift the morning of the murder.
Possibly, although visiting hours aren't that early. I remember that morning so clearly because I was supposed to go over to my sister's that day (in the Valley Gardens area) to let her dog out to pee as she and her husband were going away for the day, and my young teen nephew who still lived at home was going to the Selkirk Rodeo with friends. He had a bad head cold though so decided to stay home. When I phoned to check on him, he said he could let the dog out, so I didnt have to come over, and it was too hot and humid to walk the dog.
