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Manon Dubé was a 10-year-old child who disappeared from the streets of Sherbrooke in the late afternoon of January 27th, 1978 in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Less than 2 months later, her body was discovered face down in a brook near Ayer’s Cliff, 30 miles south of her Sherbrooke home . The case is classified as an unsolved death. In the summer of 2002, a series of articles for Canada's National Post newspaper gave compelling evidence that Manon Dubé was a victim of murder, and that her death was possibly linked to two other unsolved local cases; the death of 19-year old Theresa Allore in 1978, and the murder of Louise Camirand in 1977.() The theory was supported by geographic profiler and then FBI consultant, Kim Rossmo, who suggested a serial sexual predator may have been operating in the region in the late 1970s and advised police to investigate the three deaths as a series. Rossmo gained notoriety in 1998 when he suggested the creation of a serial killer task force to Vancouver police in the cases of missing women from the Vancouver's downtown Eastside. Robert Pickton was eventually arrested and found guilty of six murders, though he was accused with, and implicated in an additional 26 murders of Vancouver missing women. The deaths of Manon Dubé, Theresa Allore and Louise Camirand remain unsolved cold-cases. ==Disappearance== In the early evening of Friday, January 27, 1978, 10-year-old Manon Dubé was playing with her friends. They decided to go sledding on the snow banks behind the parking lot of the local Caisse Populaire Bank. This was close to Manon’s home, only three blocks from where her mother was waiting for her in their first-floor apartment on rue Bienville in the southeast end of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Around 7:30 p.m., as it got dark, the children decided to head home. From the Caisse Populaire on the corner of Belvedere and Union, the young girls crossed the street and proceeded to walk east on rue Union, passing in front of St. Joseph’s Elementary School. At the corner of Union and Craig, one block from Manon’s home, they stopped. Manon’s younger sister, Chantel, decided it is too cold to walk and ran ahead. This corner is the last place Manon was seen alive. She never arrived home; she simply disappeared. When Manon Dubé was reported missing by her mother, police acted swiftly. They immediately published a bulletin with her picture. Police dispatched a 16-officer search team and combed a nearby wooded area with two tracking dogs. An additional 13-officer party conducted a house-to-house search along rue Bienville. They failed to find anyone who saw the missing girl. Manon’s sister, Chantel, told police someone in a dark Buick had been following her and her cousin during the last week. Other parents mentioned that strangers have approached their children on the street in recent months. Less than a week into the disappearance, investigators got what appeared to be a break. Manon’s mother received a telephone call demanding $25,000 for the safe return of her daughter. Mrs. Dubé told police that on three separate occasions since Manon went missing, her telephone rang, but when she answered it, the person on the other end hung up. Mrs. Dubé was a recent widow who, upon the death of her husband, received approximately $20,000 from his insurance. Perhaps someone was aware of this money and kidnapped Manon in order to collect it. The following day police announced the ransom call was most likely a hoax. The Dubé’s telephone number was broadcast on a local radio station. Someone probably called up Mrs. Dubé as a sick joke. Hope turned to despair. Mrs. Dubé prepared for the worst: “I can’t help but think she has been abducted, attacked, or raped. I pray to God this hasn’t happened.” The police widened their search parameters and began to look in the surrounding Eastern Townships countryside. More than 1,500 people on snowmobiles volunteered to search the area farmlands. Clairvoyants from the region were consulted in hopes of locating Manon. Finally, on the evening of Friday, March 24, two young boys found Manon’s partially frozen body face down in a brook near Ayer’s Cliff, 30 miles south of her Sherbrooke home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manon Dube」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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