Great article, lots of details and pics.
July 30 2021 By Caley Ramsay rbbm.
Alberta RCMP review 45-year-old cold case homicide of Edmonton-area teen - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta RCMP’s historical homicide unit is reviewing the 1976 death of a 17-year-old girl in hopes of solving the 45-year-old cold case.
Aug. 2 will mark 45 years since Marie Judy Goudreau was killed. She had just graduated from high school in 1976 and had been accepted into college in Edmonton for the upcoming fall.
“She has secured a summer job and looked forward to a career in law enforcement,” says her sister, Monique Goudreau, in a video supplied by the RCMP.''
''Just after midnight on Aug. 3, 1976, the Leduc RCMP were called about an abandoned vehicle on Range Road 244, about three miles (five kilometres) south of Township Road 510, which is now Ellerslie Road.
Police found a blue Plymouth Cricket, which had reportedly been parked there since about 11 p.m. the night before. The vehicle was registered to Goudreau’s father.''
Photos from the scene on Range Road 244 south of Ellerslie Road where the car Marie Judy Goudreau was driving was found abandoned on Aug. 3, 1976. Courtesy, Alberta RCMP
''RCMP said the vehicle was stopped in the southbound lane of the road, the engine was still running, the headlights were on and the driver’s door was open. The driver’s side window was also rolled down about three-quarters of the way.''
''Goudreau told her friends that she was tired from a day at work at the Woodward Café at Southgate Shopping Centre. She left her friend’s apartment around 10:30 p.m. to drive home to her family farm in Beaumont, Alta., according to RCMP.
Police said while Goudreau was driving down Range Road 244, witnesses reported an idling truck at a nearby intersection. RCMP said the driver of the truck has never been identified.
Inside the vehicle, police found a brown leather purse with money inside, a pair of sandals and a mahogany-coloured leather coat, which was folded neatly in the back seat. All of the items belonged to the teen.''
2:30 Alberta RCMP review 45-year-old cold case homicide of Edmonton-area teen
''Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1976, Goudreau’s body was found on a rural property about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometres) north of Devon in Parkland County. Her body was in a water-filled ditch near Highway 60, RCMP said.
“Her cause of death was strangulation,” Zazulak said.
Police searched the area extensively and learned that Goudreau’s brown pants and navy blue ankle socks were missing.''
July 30 2021 By Caley Ramsay rbbm.
Alberta RCMP review 45-year-old cold case homicide of Edmonton-area teen - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
The Alberta RCMP’s historical homicide unit is reviewing the 1976 death of a 17-year-old girl in hopes of solving the 45-year-old cold case.
Aug. 2 will mark 45 years since Marie Judy Goudreau was killed. She had just graduated from high school in 1976 and had been accepted into college in Edmonton for the upcoming fall.
“She has secured a summer job and looked forward to a career in law enforcement,” says her sister, Monique Goudreau, in a video supplied by the RCMP.''
''Just after midnight on Aug. 3, 1976, the Leduc RCMP were called about an abandoned vehicle on Range Road 244, about three miles (five kilometres) south of Township Road 510, which is now Ellerslie Road.
Police found a blue Plymouth Cricket, which had reportedly been parked there since about 11 p.m. the night before. The vehicle was registered to Goudreau’s father.''
Photos from the scene on Range Road 244 south of Ellerslie Road where the car Marie Judy Goudreau was driving was found abandoned on Aug. 3, 1976. Courtesy, Alberta RCMP
''RCMP said the vehicle was stopped in the southbound lane of the road, the engine was still running, the headlights were on and the driver’s door was open. The driver’s side window was also rolled down about three-quarters of the way.''
''Goudreau told her friends that she was tired from a day at work at the Woodward Café at Southgate Shopping Centre. She left her friend’s apartment around 10:30 p.m. to drive home to her family farm in Beaumont, Alta., according to RCMP.
Police said while Goudreau was driving down Range Road 244, witnesses reported an idling truck at a nearby intersection. RCMP said the driver of the truck has never been identified.
Inside the vehicle, police found a brown leather purse with money inside, a pair of sandals and a mahogany-coloured leather coat, which was folded neatly in the back seat. All of the items belonged to the teen.''
''Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1976, Goudreau’s body was found on a rural property about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometres) north of Devon in Parkland County. Her body was in a water-filled ditch near Highway 60, RCMP said.
“Her cause of death was strangulation,” Zazulak said.
Police searched the area extensively and learned that Goudreau’s brown pants and navy blue ankle socks were missing.''
