CANADA Canada - Susan Assin, 20, found nude & stabbed to death with screwdriver, Kenora, Ont. 13 June 1974

[dotr]

$50,000 for information on Kenora cold case - kenoraonline.com
Oct 31 2020

Photo courtesy of the OPP
''Police are continuing to search for the killer of 20-year-old Susan Assin of Grassy Narrows First Nation, and a $50,000 reward is offered for anyone with information on the case.

Assin of one of the unsolved cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. She was one of 11 siblings in her family, and was visiting friends in Kenora at the time of her disappearance, June 13 of 1974.

By June 17, Assin’s remains were found north of Highway 17 off of Jones Road, wearing only socks. Police say she was stabbed to death, with serious blunt force trauma to her head.

Assin’s family has disclosed she struggling with drugs and alcohol at the time and they believe that she was stoned to death and stabbed with a screwdriver, though police have not confirmed these details.

If you have any information regarding the murder of Susan Assin, you’re asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122, 1-705-329-6111, the Kenora OPP at 1-807-548-5534, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).''

 

[Tony1902]

Dotr
Thanks for posting this. Has anyone considered sending whatever DNA is available on these women to Othram or another agency? Is there a group involved in identifying these cases and possibly tracking please where these incredible women were lost forever? It makes me furious. Merci

 

[dotr]

Dotr
Thanks for posting this. Has anyone considered sending whatever DNA is available on these women to Othram or another agency? Is there a group involved in identifying these cases and possibly tracking please where these incredible women were lost forever? It makes me furious. Merci

Hi Tony1902, nice to "see you"!
Canada seems to be starting to use the new DNA technology, just recently an old, cold case (Christine Jessop) was finally solved via Othram.
Assuming and hoping all these other cases will in due time come under DNA's truth machine! imo.

 

[dotr]

Ryan Forbes Oct 29 2020

$50,000 for information on Kenora cold case

Police are continuing to search for the killer of 20-year-old Susan Assin of Grassy Narrows First Nation, and a $50,000 reward is offered for anyone with information on the case. Assin of one of the unsolved cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. She was one of 11...

kenoraonline.com

''Police are continuing to search for the killer of 20-year-old Susan Assin of Grassy Narrows First Nation, and a $50,000 reward is offered for anyone with information on the case.''

''Assin’s family has disclosed she struggling with drugs and alcohol at the time and they believe that she was stoned to death and stabbed with a screwdriver, though police have not confirmed these details.

If you have any information regarding the murder of Susan Assin, you’re asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122, 1-705-329-6111, the Kenora OPP at 1-807-548-5534, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).''

 

[branmuffin]

Grassy Narrows Reserve isn't that far from Dryden, Kenora and Winnipeg but it may as well be thousands of miles in terms of culture clashes and the desperation and trauma that white culture inflicted on First Nation peoples. For over fifty years Grassy Narrows has been dealing with the fallout of mercury-poisoned water when the Dryden pulp and paper industry dumped 10 tons of untreated mercury into rivers.

Judging by Susan's image above, I think she may have been a victim of mercury poisoning as well as fetal alcohol syndrome. She has many of the characteristics of children with the disability.

I'm curious about the issue of stoning her mother mentioned. Most aboriginal cultures had their own way of dealing with injustices. Stoning is an ancient form of punishment that spans continents and is usually community-based. Most of the verification of this form of punishment in the modern day is within the indigenous communities of Australia and Muslim societies.

I'm going to hazard a guess that this woman was probably murdered by some one or some people within her own reserve. I don't believe it has anything to do with the list of murdered and missing women of aboriginal women. The added injury of stabbing by a screwdriver suggests someone who wanted to ensure she didn't survive the stoning.

The two forms of injuries also suggest someone who didn't have access to a weapon like a gun or a knife. Long guns and knives are an integral part of aboriginal culture for hunting and trapping. Almost everyone that lives in that part of Canada own long guns, whether they are aboriginal or not. It's a way of life.