10/3 podcast: The death they called an accident: How one niece uncovered the truth

An east-end seniors residence on De Pontoise St. where, in 2022, resident Rolande Ducharme was stabbed to death in a brutally horrific random attack. Élise Quenneville-Proulx received an 18-year prison sentence for the attack. (Tim Snow / Montreal Gazette files)

When an elderly woman was found dead in a Quebec seniors home, paramedics police, and a doctor originally determined it was an accident.

And it may have stayed that way, if not for the help of her niece.

Montreal Gazette crime reporter Paul Cherry joins host Dave Breakenridge to discuss what authorities missed, how the woman’s niece uncovered the truth, and what happened to the woman’s killer.

Background reading: She was covered in blood, with 34 stab wounds. Judge shocked that cops, paramedics and a doctor thought her death was accidental

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