Jean-Pierre Calce, 36, and Sydney Normandin, 37, lay dead in their east end apartment for five months before anybody noticed they were dead.
They died around 9 December 2002 at 505 Prefontaine.Their decomposing bodies were discovered five months later, on 7 May 2003.
Cops believe that Calce stabbed her to death but she managed to injure him mortally as well before succumbing. A cop at the time told me that there were flies in the apartment so there wasn't anything really macabre going on when the bodies were found.
About 90 percent of Montreal welfare recipients living in subsidized housing get their rents automatically withdrawn from their accounts.
For this couple, their cycle of direct deposit-automatic withdrawal kept going through so that's one of the main reasons that nobody noticed.
Wonder who is living there now and whether those occupants know about the grisly event that took place there?
I once looked in on the apartment. It seems alright. Prefontaine has been flooded with crack and hookers for ages though.
About 90 percent of Montreal welfare recipients living in subsidized housing get their rents automatically withdrawn from their accounts.For this couple, their cycle of direct deposit-automatic withdrawal kept going through so that's one of the main reasons that nobody noticed.
Wonder who is living there now and whether those occupants know about the grisly event that took place there?
I once looked in on the apartment. It seems alright. Prefontaine has been flooded with crack and hookers for ages though.
I'm wildly guessing again, but think this happened down my street. Wheelchair guy and his care-giver in murder-suicide after drug deal between them goes wrong?
ReplyDeleteStill close to where I live, but not the same story. Besides, in my tale, the client murdered the care-giver and went to jail, (both men, and I used to see them perambulating down the street here) but I thought I might have misremembered it.
ReplyDeleteWhy does Quebec seem to have the best crime and sordid events stories? Is it all because of 'Allo Police?
If you examine the stats there's a lot more violent crime in other provinces. Alberta has ten times the rate of criminal assault as Quebec. We've just maintained a stronger journalistic tradition of reporting on it because the old time crooks were often flamboyant, colorful scoundrels and it stemmed from our Lohanesque interest in their foibles. I've written two or three articles examining the media cult of crime in Quebec, maybe I'll post one here one day.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great subject. I have journalist acquaintances who used to brag about being able to get crime figures any time on the phone, because they loved the publicity. That changed after the gentleman got shot in the Journal de Montreal parking lot. Wonder what sparked it?
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