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This is my first post on WS, hello to all. I heard about this very tragic story of Sonia last night on an episode of Trace Evidence and couldn’t sleep all night. I find this case so baffling and sad. I’m also perplexed this case hasn’t solved in 8 years. I’m thinking of her parents and other family members, still in the dark.
What I find very strange is that the police didn’t release any details to the parents of the cause of death of Sonia. Why do you think that is?
I’m also, as you do, thinking a lot of why the killer took her out of the house. I was thinking, maybe she said to him early on ‘my boyfriend is coming home soon’ hoping he would leave. He believed her or not, but became worried she might have spoken the truth. And took her bleading but alive in a hurry outside.
Thinking along the same medical lines.. speculationO/T but very interesting, IMO
'Never a cold case': Robert Steven Wright, 39, of North Bay facing 1st-degree murder charge in Sweeney case - Sudbury.com
The DNA collected at the scene has never been matched to anyone in the available DNA databases. The case remains unsolved.
“The Renee Sweeney suspect DNA is already in the crime scene index,” said Greater Sudbury Police Det. Staff Sgt. Jordan Buchanan.
Now that the new DNA databank is in place, Buchanan said Greater Sudbury Police will also be loading in all of the DNA from its historical unsolved missing persons cases — there's 10 stretching back to 1974.
In 2017, the DNA collected at the scene of Sweeney's murder was used to produce a new composite sketch of what the suspect may look like.
Using DNA collected at the murder scene, the composite image was produced by Parabon NanoLabs, a DNA technology company in Virginia, with its Snapshot DNA Phenotyping Service.
O/T and even more interesting, IMO
Man accused in Sweeney murder a North Bay lab tech
The suspect in Renee Sweeney’s murder more than 20 years ago is a North Bay Regional Health Centre employee.
Sudbury detectives arrested Robert Steven Wright at work Tuesday and charged him with first-degree murder.
Wright is a 39-year-old emergency room lab technician. He is originally from Sudbury and attended Lockerby Composite School. He would have been 18 at the time of the slaying. Police released a graduation photo of Wright, taken when he was at Lockerby in the late 1990s.
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CANADA - Canada - Renee Sweeney, 23, Sudbury, Ont, 27 Jan 1998
It would be highest time to officially permit, IMO.But, the process is not permitted in Canada.
bbmBumping for Sonia and wondering if she had ever complained or commented that she received threatening calls or if she thought she was being followed?
Could her car have been followed the night of her murder, or possibly the perp hid in the back of her car?
Cannot recall offhand where SV's family lived, thinking either they lived in London, Ont. or SV once used to live there?
speculation, imo.