Magog's intellectually-impaired murderer

Eric Arpin, dead at 9

A terrible thing happened in Magog on Friday December 16, 1994.
  On that day Eric Arpin, 9, was strangled to death by one of two intellectually-impaired brothers.
   The idea was to randomly kill any neighbourhood kid.
    Eric Arpin had just left the Notre Dame Welcome Hall on St. David St. where they participated in a community activity known as the Petits Debrouillards.
  Little Eric was walking to his house at 79-B St. Patrice E. when the brothers Camille Noel, 34 and Serge Noel, 43 spotted him at the local corner store at around 8:30 p.m.
  Camille tortured him in his basement for about 10 minutes before strangling him with a cord and leaving his body at the exit of a pedestrian tunnel near their apartment at 181 Stanley.
   Camille had decided to murder a kid because he was convinced that children in the area had been entering his house and playing with the thermostat and meddling with the birdhouses he built.
    The little boy's tuque and Petite Debrouillards magazine and diploma were found dumped nearby after Noel directed them to the site.
   Paint found on Arpin's clothing matched the paint in the Noel's basement.
   Cops rounded the brothers up one week later and eventually Camille Noel was tried and sentenced to life in prison.
   Serge, a convicted pedophile, was acquitted on a technicality, which was kept secret from the public. Nothing came of a stated intention to retry him. Residents complained that he was seen hanging around elementary schools even after the young boy died.
   The Supreme Court ordered a retrial of Camille Noel on a technicality - his testimony at his brother's trial was used against him in his own, which is apparentlyagainst the rules - in 2002 but he remained imprisoned and was found dead in the Port Cartier prison in September 2008, at age 47.