Cops allege she was murdered by Rodney Nichols, a man who was an acquaintance in Montreal back in the day. He is now 81.
Despite Herculean efforts, the investigation seemed to go nowhere fast. The woman in the Nation River was white, likely between 20 and 45 years old, around 5-foot-4, weighing a slight 100 pounds. Her brown hair had recently been dyed strawberry blond.The coat she was wearing at the time of the murder. OPP
The woman’s decomposed body was wrapped in scraps of towels, rags and other cloth. Her hands and feet had been bound with neckties.Article contentAnd for the next 48 years, her identity and death were among Canada’s greatest criminal mysteries. So far, the elderly suspect has not appeared in court and has not entered a plea. The OPP and their U.S. counterparts remain tight-lipped.
“The heartbreaking part is that Jewell’s mother clearly searched for her for years and unfortunately died not knowing what happened to her daughter,” the Doe Project said in a release. “This is yet another case that reminds us that, whether a cold case crime or a set of unidentified human remains, or in this context both of those things, every case is now theoretically solvable using forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG for short,” Arntfield said.
“Specifically, obtaining available grant money in order to have private labs assist with using FIGG to resolve cold case homicides. In Toronto, they’ve already solved three 40-plus-year-old cases and counting using FIGG. I’m not sure why more agencies wouldn’t want to emulate their success.”Article contentAnd once they had the real name of the Nation River Lady, the dominoes began falling.
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