CANADA Canada - Ljubica Topic, 6, Windsor, Ont, 14 May 1971

[OkieGranny]

http://windsor.ctvnews.ca/mother-still-seeking-answers-in-daughter-s-1971-murder-1.2331169#

Police say that between 8:30 and 9 p.m. a man approached Ljubica and her eight-year-old brother.

Const. Scott Chapman says, "He offered Ljubica an amount of cash to go with him. He then provided a small amount of change to Michael to ride his bike in the other direction"...

Ljubica's body was found in the backyard of a home in the 1600 block of Hickory Avenue. She had been sexually assaulted and brutally beaten.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-cold-case-1.3546558

Windsor police have released a composite DNA image of a suspect in a 44-year-old cold case involving the homicide of six-year-old Ljubica Topic. The image was created using DNA imaging technology from a private Virginia firm to predict the person's ancestry and potential appearance.

According to the images released by police, the man is likely from Northwest Europe, had fair skin, brown eyes and black hair at the time Topic was killed... Chapman said the image closely resembles an eyewitness composite created in 1971...

More than 40 years ago, near where her body was found, officers discovered two of Topic's teeth, along with an adult tooth investigators believe belonged to the suspect.

More details of the case here:

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-n...th-could-help-solve-six-year-old-girls-murder

 

[dotr]

In the past year, numerous tips were provided to the Police following a media release in April of 2015, and police have been actively investigating the leads, and have cleared over twenty individuals.

Investigators have recently sought the services of Parabon NanoLabs (Parabon), a DNA technology company in Virginia that specializes in DNA phenotyping,the process of predicting physical appearance and ancestry from unidentified DNA evidence. Law Enforcement Agencies use the company’s Snapshot™ DNA Phenotyping Service (Snapshot) for narrowing suspect lists and generating leads in criminal investigations.

Snapshot predicts that a person of interest (POI) in the TOPIC case has the following features:

• Fair skin or very fair skin with 89.2% confidence

• Brown or Hazel eyes with 97.0% confidence

• Brown or black hair with 96.6% confidence

• Zero or few freckling with 93% confidence

Snapshot predicts the POI’s ancestry is almost entirely European, primarily from the regions of North West Europe (North West European populations include: British, Dutch, Irish, North Eurpoean, Orcadian, Scottish, and United Kingdom population groups).

Using these predicted features, along with a prediction of the POI’s face shape, Snapshot produced a composite profile of what the suspect may have looked like at 25 years old, and of what the suspect may look like today at approximately 70 years old.

http://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story...t-in-1971-ljubica-topic-murder-investigation/

 

[STANDREID]

Odd that a perp would break a tooth in this sort of attack but I'm glad he did-better his neck!

Has it been revealed which of the 32 teeth it was? I assume they have checked dental records in Canada and the U.S. for men who came in for repairs to that particular broken tooth from mid-1971 to about 1980.

 

[dotr]

This link was posted by JohnAllore on different thread, the reference to this allegedly violent man ( circa 1978 ) having a broken front tooth, reminded me of this case.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=51aa66b5-504b-4439-ae77-54b069552003

Jessica described her aggressor as about her age or slightly older, somewhere between 17 and 20 at the time.
He was English speaking. Although he went by a pair of initials, she said she once saw his real name on his driver’s license.
She said he stood about 5 feet- 7 inches, had one chipped front tooth and squinty eyes "like René Zellweger," Jessica said, at a loss for how else to describe his appearance. He also had dark hair and "a long, sloppy bang."
"He looked like a no-good-nick, a bit of a hood," she said.

rbbm.

 

[dotr]

Wondering how/why the perp also lost tooth? Rbbm.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-cold-case-1.3546558
Apr 21, 2016

Police released an image of what the person may have looked like 25 years ago, and how he likely looks today at age 70.

Chapman said th image closely resembles an eyewitness composite created in 1971. The two images show a person with a similar face shape, but different colour hair.

Last April, Windsor police said they had a profile of a suspect in a 44-year-old cold case in the brutal homicide of the six-year-old girl.

At that time, police said the six year old was was lured from her Drouillard Road home on May 14, 1971 shortly before 9 p.m. by a man who had been hanging around a restaurant across the street. Her body was found four hours later.

More than 40 years ago, near where her body was found, officers discovered two of Topic's teeth, along with an adult tooth investigators believe belonged to the suspect.

 

[Jennifer17]

I can't imagine any awful circumstance where the man would lost a tooth. Unfortunately, I can imagine how a little girl would lose teeth.

 

[dotr]

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/police-offer-new-rewards-for-cold-case-murders

Windsor police offer new reward money to help crack murder cold cases

Police announced on Monday that $10,000 is being offered for information that would help solve any of the outstanding crimes

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Published on: November 27, 2017

“We are bringing this back out to the media in hopes that people may think of something they didn’t remember,” Hill said. “If we get new information we will assign a team to follow up on that information.”

The oldest crime dates back to 1971 and involves the disappearance and murder of six-year-old Ljubica Topic. She was playing outside her home in the 1200 block of Drouillard Road with her eight-year-old brother

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Windsor murder victim Ljubica Topic, who was sexually assaulted and severely beaten in 1971. Photo courtesy of the Topic family / Windsor Star

The children were approached by a man who offered the brother some change to take a ride on his bike and walked away with the girl, holding her hand.

A neighbourhood search found the young girl’s body four hours later a short distance away in the 1600 block of Hickory Road.

 

[Deleted member 102539]

Henri Michelle Piette:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...hter-rape-sexual-abuse-rosalynn-a8111741.html
is looking like my avatar, IMO= suspect in Ljubica Topic murder. Maybe coincidence, of course.
If SUPER sleuthers are present they may have a proof. I for my part don't have the skills, unfortunately.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2653895/...f-interest-in-1971-murder-of-6-year-old-girl/

 

[MissMarple]

.Since Ljubica was probably from the immigrant family former Yugoslavia, in which language they were approached, Serbian-Croatian or English?

 

[Unit45]

I will have a look at this. give me some time.

 

[Unit45]

Henri Michelle Piette:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...hter-rape-sexual-abuse-rosalynn-a8111741.html
is looking like my avatar, IMO= suspect in Ljubica Topic murder. Maybe coincidence, of course.
If SUPER sleuthers are present they may have a proof. I for my part don't have the skills, unfortunately.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2653895/...f-interest-in-1971-murder-of-6-year-old-girl/

What your connection here?

Fill me in.

 

[dotr]

What your connection here?

Fill me in.

If i understand correctly, the man shown in FromGermany's avatar, a child molester in the US, coincidentally appears similar looking to the Parabon Snapshot composite of the man wanted in connection to the murder of Ljubica Topic.
Actually, he( Henri Michelle Piette) kind of does happen to resemble the composite, imo speculation.

https://www.google.ca/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZiuqnzfWW8zP-Y6_1rbbruy7DE3NVCHekovEnxz471uNUY_1zp8wpLsDCiZbwAcgiC8ey6M5-bC7pzcPN-47wrHaDcRitmUbvOWxvSttxFa-7tke9cO33WHkfNkB120FonMPamEwDeyLMINaa9umm-6_1b2a2ZQDAN20QZMAk73WRJ4mwHsyImTDRaxvzW4G9Wkdr5kMMvBvce_1i8IP7QKgZz_1bfb3MRN9K94hHvlDbVRSOWp-XEL9fZTySAud21pyoeiggK6fwvE8psl3lQoL9t3Tx_11RLt5niMQj7wPdh5rb45U3gMJS4ovbE-OEH3kRSsv2_1FRtM&btnG=Search%20by%20image&hl=en-CA

 

[Deleted member 102539]

What your connection here?

Fill me in.

Except interest to see a case solved, I have no connection. I stumbled over a newspaper story with the pic and thought it would be a good idea to have it as my avatar for some time.

 

[Deleted member 102539]

Wondering how/why the perp also lost tooth? Rbbm.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-cold-case-1.3546558
Apr 21, 2016

I think, poor little girl was kicking with her legs and knocked him out (his tooth).

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Paula Topic holds a portrait of her daughter Ljubica Topic, who was murdered, at her home in Windsor on Friday, April 17, 2015. Police have released the fact that a tooth was found at the scene of the murder in hopes someone will come forward with new information in the 44 year old case. (TYLER BROWNBRIDGE/The Windsor Star)

 

[dotr]

Dec 9 2019

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  Six-year-old Ljubica Topic of Windsor was murdered on May 14, 1971.
  

Windsor crime rate drops slightly, cold case rewards doubled
"The Windsor Police Service Board has approved doubling the cash rewards in four unsolved murder cases dating back more than 40 years.

In each of the four cases, the reward has been increased to $20,000.

The $10,000 reward amount in each of the cases was up for its two-year renewal.

It’s hoped the boosted rewards will help bring people forward to give police new leads on the cold cases."

"The Windsor Police Service Board has approved doubling the cash rewards in four unsolved murder cases dating back more than 40 years.

In each of the four cases, the reward has been increased to $20,000.

The $10,000 reward amount in each of the cases was up for its two-year renewal.

It’s hoped the boosted rewards will help bring people forward to give police new leads on the cold cases.

Police continue to investigate the murders of 6-year-old Ljubica Topic in 1971 and 25-year-old Kirk Knight in 1980."

 

[DSCrime]

Such a sad case. Just read the whole thread and clicked on some of the articles. I hope her family finally gets answers and justice.

Since Parabon did a DNA phenotype composite, wondering if they are also going to use genetic genealogy. This seems like the perfect case for that, given that it's such an old cold case.

Maybe that is what they are alluding to here:

In 1971, six-year-old Topic was lead away from her home on Drouillard Road and her body was found just four hours later. She had been violently assaulted. Hill said new technology has helped them uncover new information in the case. He could not expand on what those advancements are but said he feels encouraged that the crime can finally be solved.

BlackburnNews.com - Reward doubled for information on unsolved murders

 

[kmclaren]

"Windsor police said Friday they have closed the book on one of Windsor’s oldest cold cases — the kidnapping, savage beating, sexual assault, and murder of a six-year old girl that has baffled investigators for five decades."

Windsor police solve five decade old murder of six-year-old girl

 

[dotr]

"Windsor police said Friday they have closed the book on one of Windsor’s oldest cold cases — the kidnapping, savage beating, sexual assault, and murder of a six-year old girl that has baffled investigators for five decades."

Windsor police solve five decade old murder of six-year-old girl

Thanks for the update!
"Police said the man responsible for the little girl’s beating, sexual assault and slaying recently died.

Investigators say DNA collected in 1971, before any such technology existed, helped solve the mystery.

Police say they won’t reveal the man’s identity but confirmed he was 22 at the time of the murder. They added he wasn’t on police radar until the last couple of months."

“She was absolutely brutally, violently attacked,” he said. “Particularly considering she was a six-year-old, there was a tremendous amount of force used on her. It’s difficult to look at someone as innocent as a six-year-old child and see what happened to her.”

Windsor murder victim Ljubica Topic, who was sexually assaulted and severely beaten in 1971. (Handout / Windsor Star) Image courtesy of the Topic family / Windsor Star

The case has been reopened a half a dozen times over the years and there have been over 500 persons of interest in the case.

 

[DSCrime]

Article & video with lots of info.

Windsor police solve five decade old murder of six-year-old girl

"This man was a Windsor resident at the time. Living in the general area where Ljubica was taken and murdered. During the 1970s it appears he spent time in both Windsor and the Western provinces, before ultimately settling in the Western provinces. He was 22 years-old at the time of the murder"

It's sad that they can't release a name.

Glad that her family finally has some answers but upset that the killer eluded justice for this crime.