Canadian police reported 505 homicides in 2013 alone, even though that is 38 fewer than the previous year, that is still a very shocking number. There are about 1.44 homicide victims per 100,000 people. This marks the lowest homicide rate since 1966. Christine Jessop is just one of the approximately 200 homicides that occurred in 1984. Christine disappeared on October 3, 1984, sometime after being dropped off by the school bus at her house. Christine’s body was found on December 31, 1984, about 50 kilometers from her home in Queensville which is north of Toronto, Ontario. Christine had been raped and then stabbed to death and left there to die. During this case they accused Guy Paul Morin, Christine's neighbor, of the rape and murder. There …show more content…
The police first became interested in Guy on February 14, 1985 when Christine’s mother had mentioned that their 25 year old neighbor (Guy) was a “weird-type guy”. The police then became more interested in Morin so much so that they set up surveillance at his house on February 19, 1985. When investigators interviewed Guy he ultimately did not confess to anything as well as having no evidence to suggest that he raped and murdered Christine police continued to detain him. Even though the police found almost nothing in the interview, the police were sure that they had found the prime suspect. The reason for that was because there were fibers found at the crime scene that were contaminated within the Center of Forensic Sciences. This contamination could have contaminated the earliest findings. This is very serious because no interferences with a fiber sample can be safely drawn from the fiber. The contamination was known to Miss Nyznyk and Mr. Erickson (the expert witnesses from the Center of Forensics sciences) before the first trial and this information was withheld from the police, the defence, the prosecution, and the court. This is showing how even the expert witnesses have tunnel vision in some cases. Mr. McGuigan a police office that was on the Morin case thinks that Mr. Morin is innocent and he also believes that Mr. Morin and his family created a dishonest alibi. A person that is thought to be innocent is known for forming false alibis. This police officer thinks that Mr. Morin did not confess to Mr. May, one of Mr.Morin's inmates. The basis that he still accepts Mays evidence even though Mr. Morin was proven innocent, that Mr. May is Not