Crime Beat: The story of Christine Jessop and Guy Paul Morin: one murder, two tragedies | S1 E11
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- It was October 1984 in a small town outside Toronto, when a young girl went missing. Almost 3 months later, Christine Jessop’s body was found more than 50 kilometres away from her Queensville home. The nine-year-old was raped and murdered. After an intense police investigation, a former neighbour, Guy Paul Morin was charged. Numerous trials resulted first in an acquittal, then a conviction to an eventual wrongful conviction dismissal. A tragic tale that affected the lives of many, and a case that has never been solved.
UPDATE AS OF OCT 15, 2020: Toronto police say DNA has helped to solve the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop, however, the suspect is now dead. Toronto Police Chief James Ramer identified Calvin Hoover as Jessop’s murderer. He was 28 at the time of the case and he died in 2015.
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This case hung over my childhood like a dark specter. I was slightly older than Christine and grew up in a similar rural community not far from Queensville. I remember being terrified that some person was out there snatching kids in a town that I knew, not some big city far away.
My mother was Guy Paul's alibi witness. He was a regular customer at her grocery store and she served him on practically a daily basis. Like usual, she served him on the day Christine went missing at a time that would have made it impossible for him to have committed the crime. Although she served hundreds of people a week, Guy Paul stood out because he was polite, friendly and very gentle natured.
My mother contacted the York Regional Police to share her interaction with Guy Paul on that day. She was never formally interviewed nor deposed by the Crown or Defense attorney. She called multiple times and thoroughly expected to be subpoenaed. There was NEVER any follow up from either the police or the attorneys.
I remember my mother being so frustrated and absolutely sick about his conviction. To know that someone is innocent and nobody was listening was a terrible burden to carry. My mother died in 2004 and up until a few years before her death, she still talked about the horrible miscarriage for both the Jessop and Morin families.
About the only bright spot in this whole debacle is that there is DNA. Hopefully they can get some sort of hit through GED match and finally bring justice to Christine. It's the least these keystone cops can do.
Another shining example of the ineptitude and tunnel vision that hangs over the Canadian injustice system. As a trial lawyer with nearly 30 years experience, I am saddened by the fact that things have gotten so much worse over time, not better.
People don’t care. They just want to close the case and go about their lives.
Sad. Well said. I concur.
What's truly sad is they took the word of a criminal over your mother, a hard working woman 😓
God bless her soul and comfort your heart and mind in Jesus name.
Guy Paul Morin did sue & won a $4.25 million settlement in 2010
He deserved way more!
Who did he sue, the police?
Good for him.....hell of a price to pay.....shoukd be billions.
@@Purco684 i have to say that i love Canada it is a fair country and admits when they have made a mistake not like their neighbors who have a history of putting innocent people in jail for years and sadly put some to death , big hurrah Canada ...
GOOD!!
This case has been solved. The DNA sample found on Jessop’s underwear was identified on Oct. 9 as belonging to Calvin Hoover. He was known to the family and died by suicide in 2015.
Whats worse than murder is convicting an innocent person. Disgusting
Neighbor: *introvert who likes music and honey*
Canada: BURN HIM
"He's a weird-type guy. He plays clarinet and does beekeeping." How boring must the people be in this town to think that is weird??
After watching several Crime Beat episodes one can honestly say that JUSTICE is a joke in Canada. Killers are given merely seven years for the crime and are allowed one day parole , an innocent person can just be picked up by cops and labeled a murderer without any evidence to back up the crime and a jury can find that innocent man guilty. A really scary place to live in.
Canada seems to be a joke
Unfortunately things like this do happen in the United States also and I'm sure around the world
Things like this happen all over the world.. not just Canada.. it's the law having blinders on. ..
Try Brazil. After that you'll see that Canada is a paradise
This program is so well done. Thank you.
I'm so confused, so the only reason why they thought he did it was just because ppl thought he was weird? For what? Being a loner?
That "weird" guy is my type of guy.Such a great guy actually.
There are so many children that have been raped and murdered and there is never justice for them! Anyone sexually attracted to children needs to be separated from society indefinitely. There is no known way to cure a humans sexual desires. The risk of physically & mentally fracturing the child for life is to great of a risk to take lightly. I myself have never had help and struggle everyday, it's exhausting!! I just set auto control and put on my happy face & take it day by day. I pray for change & for no more children to have their innocence stolen from them, it truly is a life sentence that survivors deal with while the rapists get away with it.
There are so many young ladies that have gone missing and they too like the children have gone unsolved because we have a bunch of IDIOTS working as RCMP ITS so sad they are arrogant and lazy and rely way toooooo much on the public to solve these cases ! I say to the RCMP YOU are discussing excuses for so called police ! Why dont you go to the states and learn how real police officers solve cases and find missing people GET UP OFF YOUR LAZY ASSSSESS ! And do your dam Jobs your getting paid for ! People would respect you more if you would maybe find Kimberly Mac Andrews or Madalyn Scott Find theses girls and maybe we will respect you more ! Just think how these poor families are feeling Oh Ya you dont give two shits do you !
Was there any pedophile in this video?
@Jennifer i think they should get the death penalty, .....murdering a child and raping a child is the most heinous crime......these people dont deserve to breath.
I actually have commented the same exact thing (essentially) in many other videos. Child sexual offenders have the highest chance at reoffending once released, yet get some of the most lenient sentences. That makes absolutely no sense. Why make a child suffer a life sentence (or no life, like in this case) & let the person who did that ever walk free?! I don’t agree they should be kept alive. There’s no use for them in society, anywhere. They can give nothing to any community. Most of the studies done on them have been done as thoroughly as possible, so that’s really not even an option. We cannot learn any more from them, than we already know. Also, no one is sentenced to life or death without DNA evidence in the last 25yrs to present, so this error doesn’t happen in these cases anymore.
@Jennifer not by the man that's in this video tho I think thats what they mean
And what a very nice man to forgive. Instead of being strange, he and his parent’s are lovely.
They were accountable. He sued and is a rich man now.
The snow during the funeral just made it seem worse to have to lay her to rest..but then they said the plot was next to their house. I don’t know how parents live through that kind of heartbreak. Rip christine
The neighbor: plays clarinet and keeps bees. Police: He must be the killer. Arrest him.
The cop who said Morin made the Red Rum comment, was he prosecuted for perjury? What about the jail house snitch was he prosecuted for perjury? They should have thrown the book at them, Paul Morin just seems like a really lovely guy, and he is way more forgiving than I would be.
How can you be a 'quiet little girl' and 'very vivacious' in the same breath?
I am both
@@alysononoahu8702 OK, fair enough! :)
Around the right ppl someone can be happy, feel comfortable, which deemed it to be an extrovert.
However, if some are uncomfortable or not a desire to feel happy with the ppl, or person around you. Then you are deemed an introvert. So it just depends 🤷♀️💥
i thought that too
@Kay Scarpetta that was my immediate thought when the mother described christine as such.
Crime Beat has done a great job of producing this. I am a fan of crime documentary and this was informative without overly repeating. I have followed this story since the beginning and now I fully understand the miscarriage of justice. I would like to hear how DNA captured the killer. Professional and detailed. Well done.
This just goes prove you can’t believe ANY jailhouse snitch because they WILL say whatever they have to in order to get out even putting a innocent man behind bars when they wouldn’t even do their own time. I don’t think they should EVER take a word of a jailhouse rat with ANY case for any reason because their word isn’t trustworthy.
"He was a weird guy. He played clarinet." Oh...
The case is finally SOLVED and the murderer can’t be caught.
I feel it's so sad that many years later no one caught Christine's killer. How is that justice? To this day, I can feel her mother's sadness and disappointment. My heart sank for that poor woman.
@Jennifer I wouldn't feel surprised if that's true.
I feel it's awful that everyone pointed the finger at the wrong man. He was innocent all along and he served time in jail for nothing. It's unfortunate that the other suspects weren't looked into further.
I wonder if the case is still open so they can find Christine's killer?
EXCUSE ME?????
and what about this man who for over 10 had to go thru hell, when he had nothing to do into this?
sorry, but I feel more sadness for him right now !
He doesn't sound odd to me. Maybe he enjoyed playing the clarinet and maybe the bees was a hobby, and he keeps to himself - sounds like a wonderful neighbor. 2020, the laws acts about the same.
Yeah but it’s 2020 and we don’t think it’s odd but when this crime happened it was 1984 so it is weird at that time
@@priyankasubba6316 1984 or 2020 anyway... playing clarinet and bees are not weird enough to become asuspect in a rape&murder!
..... and in the meantime, the killer was living in freedom, while innocent man jailed. It’s a tragedy!
I think Guys a polite, gentle man. He lost so many years and never became bitter. He was so strong and composed. It must have been difficult for his family and Christines poor loved ones.
Calvin Hoover, a family friend. He attended the wake, the funeral and helped during the search. Familial DNA connected the murder to him. He was never prosecuted. He committed suicide in 2015.
Whoever did it, I bet she isn't his only victim.
"Weird guy...in fact, he played clarinet." Idk that made me chuckle. He seems perfectly fine to me and I hate that this happened to him.
I can’t stand not one single one of my neighbours so I guess I’ll be the number suspect if I don’t go to their funeral if their death was not due to natural or accidental cause
Heehee, hilarious
Did they ever find who killed Christine? Did her family find Justice? This is just heartbreaking! I hope that she gets justice!
Morin needs justice too
Sounds like a witch hunt, because he was different he was ram roded. I pray they find this murder, for this poor girl.
gettingolderwithgrace graham wow, here in the USA that’s double jeopardy, once found innocent, no more trial.
It struck me when the mother said "finally, somebody has paid for Christine" and then corrected it to "the guilty one". I totally get that the parents were absolutely distraught about the loss of their little girl and wanted closure but it was so obvious from all the "evidence" that it could not have been him. Can you find closure if the person that actually did it is still roaming free?
I would have people like Guy Paul Morin as a neighbour any day.
Deb Down Under dont wish please 😂
Deb down under 😂 my finger touched those Alphabets wrongly
When you develop such a close relationship with the victims family police lose their ability to be unbiased and fact driven. Their drive to get justice for their friends becomes overwhelming. There needs to be a separation of feeling and facts within the justice system.
Polygraph results are inadmissible in many jurisdictions even if both parties are in agreement... but some snitch in prison can provide admissible testimony. That is ridiculous and not conducive to a fair trial.
Did they ever get a parents and brothers dna? What about the friend that she was supposed to go visit family members or neighbors? This case was botched!!!
I have no idea how police could be proud of themselves or to represent the law knowing the wrong person has been convicted
Vicki ... AGREED! And in the end, the prosecutors were also unable to extract their feet from their mouths.
It's amazing to see the change he went trough while in Prison... From the shy weird loner to the puplic speaker.
I'm so thankful he was so forgiving of the family. They had their hearts ripped out and I'm sure having someone to direct the anger and pain at helped a little, even it was the wrong someone.
... that makes them bad people. Ruining an innocent person’s life because you’re angry at someone else is evil.
@@susiechoban1542 I don't know if I would go so far to call them evil. They were led to believe that he was guilty by the police and they really didn't have any reason to doubt the police. Like I said, I'm glad he didn't fault them for their mistake. However, the investigators should be faulted and held accountable.
I just want to say that the fact that there was a formal and from the looks of it successful inquiry about what happened, what went wrong, who was involved and most importantly how do we prevent it from happening again as well as several of the people involved apologized without excuses for the role they played that helped this tragedy to play out in this way.
It's so sad to what happened in this sad story. No one caught and the person the family thought was the killer was innocent all along. Where is the justice for Christine Jessop. Her mother needs the peace in knowing her killer is there to serve his time or their time. I wasn't even born then. Watching this made me be a scared person to have to grow up with a killer or killers on the loose. I hope that one day they will find them and bring long awaited justice to this family.
For some reason when they were saying the criminal profile I just pictured them saying,
"He is probably white his first name is probably Guy middle name Paul last name is probably Morin, he's probably between the ages 19-27 *coughs* 24,and lives in the town *coughs* next door of the victims house, we have no clue who he is-- but he probably keeps bees--- *coughs* and plays the clarinet, that's all thank u" I dont know why but that thought made me laugh, like they were so dead set on getting the poor guy.
(Edited because my auto correct is not working)
I don’t know how this ends because I am only few minutes in but lawyers shouldn’t be allowed to make up circumstances and illnesses just to get someone off the hook whether they are guilty or not!!!
Also, he was a 'weird guy' because he played the clarinet and kept bees? He sounds potentially interesting and intelligent to me. Come check out my neighbors....
It says in he called upon psychiatric evidence meaning most likely a previous diagnosis from a psychiatric professional. His lawyer didn't "make it up" it would never be accepted as evidence if it was just a lawyer armchair diagnosing his client with a mental health disorder.
Never let the truth get in the way of closing cases.
I don’t understand. How did truth get in the way? Seems suspicion got in the way cause to Christine’s family the neighbor seemed odd and not having friendly interactions with them. So sad.
Jailhouse informants needs to be scrapped they should never be used in any testimony in court how can you trust a criminal that is just looking to get some time off their sentence to tell the truth! I can't honestly believe why any Court would allow it
cant believe the prosecutor at 29:44 believes the truth is Morin killed her but DNA proved otherwise
The smug prosecutor all happy. Like it’s all about winning, not about guilt or innocence.
disgusting behaviour on the part of hte police and public!
I served time with guy morin ,the whole joint knew that he is not guilty. We all figure that her brother did it. Now where is he and family.
What's so weird playing a clarinet?
Unfortunately stories like this are a dime a dozen in the US and people sit on death row for decades for crimes they didn't commit...they are exonerated if they are lucky.
Anyone else binging true crime documentaries? Bc I've been doing it for days lol
Any crime of this nature, especially against a child makes me feel so sad and fearful of the people I walk past and the people in my life. You never know who's out there and who will be a victim of crime.
It reminds you to embrace life and love the people who are special to you because you never know what will happen next. And to celebrate the lives of those who this world has lost.
An apology finally.!!! But not from the Jessops . If they had looked for the real killer back then ???This kind of thing happens more than we know
Agree totally.
The mistake the Jessop's made was to trust the police, the experts and other authorities. As it turned out, the killer was known to the family.
And the killer killed again because he got away the first time
So he had hobbies and kept to himself. A lot of us weirdos would be in trouble.
was anyone else annoyed at how long the pauses in paul's lawyer's words were.
Yes! ...ha!
That is the problem when police and the court's have tunnel vision.
You would think that instead of pushing to convict someone because of public pressure to solve the case, the police would rather convict the RIGHT person to prevent more victims from the same perpetrator.. 🤷🏻♀️
Oh just apparently lives next door let’s just say he did it makes me so mad !
Kimberly Arrington How many cases have we seen where witnesses called the police and they were told they were told a detective would get back with them and it never happened.
This has got to be the most forgiving man on Earth!
First not guilty, second guilty? Is that double jeopardy????
this has been solved, im surprised this channel doesnt post a comment updating their viewers
We posted an entire episode update!
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//and he's a breaking news update ua-cam.com/video/fpJtuHY4amc/v-deo.html
@@CrimeBeatTV thanks
Not only the wrong guy suffered, but they never searched more to actually have more evidence to find the real killer
Crooked justice system
The bus driver should've been investigated.
Do people pay attention when watching videos? Said she went home first then dropped off nag at house then was supposed to go meet her school friend at a park but never made it.
Calvin Hoover apparently
This is a very sad case..😢😢
Rest in peace Christine i no you will be with god up in Heaven .. Fly high with the Angel's
Did they check the brothers DNA?
That was my thought too but how did her body end up 50 miles away
why did you think brother he might of had friend or did he take her there an rape kill her there
If there was ever a Canadian version of Steven Avery, it's Guy Paul Morin. Two innocent men who were framed by police and were literally made out to be guilty.
I would take DNA from the Family men members to check them off, then you could work on getting DNA from the men of ages 19-27 from the town.
Queensville is right off the 404 Highway. The 400 isn't all that far away either. So, IMO there's no reason to focus solely and limit the investigation to the town.
My heart goes out to both families.
Was the DNA sample ever sent through CODUS?
I think the police just wanted to pin it on someone and that was Guy Paul's it is terrible that this guy was innocent and the real monster was still out their just so sad for the wee girl and her family and also Guy Paul's and his family two.
angels _up_in_heavenxx u think? This is what exactly happened and what they are explaining happened 😳
angels _up_in_heavenxx Yes n when the real monster strikes AGAIN n he will because he got away with it once you best believe there will be a next!
So if your weird then you must be guilty. Detectives are not always right . So do not be weird. Bad detective work very sad
Robert Gardea you are right everyone has weirdness I m guilty.
This is a mistake that alot of forces make, they find someone suspicious, they're so caught up in rapping up the case and helping the family that they even unknowingly fabricate evidence under pressure, while the real killer gets away.
the cops did not do it well. totally F Up
The cops should've been tried for trying to fix the evidence and witnesses. Evil as the killer!
Did they even consider anyone else... Like possibly the dad or friends of the parents? Such bullshit, ruined that guy’s name & for what? To say you have solved it?! Sickening... Maddening. Just crazy!
Very sad.
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it seems to me that when parents lose their child they feel the need to destroy other people life, no matter what!
When you add evidence that ia tainted that is not being over zealous. That is being intentional pinning a murder on someone.
The Jessops won’t ‘get justice,’ because they fought teeth and nail *for* utter, despicable injustice. Little Miss I’m-Nothing-More-Than-The-Stereotypical-Housewife Janet did not like the fact that her neighbour was cultured and had hobbies unlike her dull self, and couldn’t be bothered to want to spend time with the likes of her, so she pointed him out to the police as a suspect, and she altered her own testimony WILLINGLY and INTENTIONALLY in order to help the police. She can act like she was manipulated by the police into changing her timeline, but we all heard her say she’s do anything to get someone found guilty - and we all know she did, by changing her testimony to fit the police’s timeline so Mr Morin could be found guilty. What she did is unforgivable. Mr Morin has “forgiven” her so he could find peace and not live his life with boiling hatred for this lying, scheming family. We all know in his heart he will never stop holding them accountable for all they did against him. And for that reason, they will never find the true justice that they chose to stray the police away from.
I feel Morin May be on the spectrum, which explains his odd social behavior.
What the hell are you talking about been living under a rock have you
Maybe this?...i.pinimg.com/originals/60/83/1c/60831c2194c6f2e346a3b0d983debd30.jpg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Omgosh wth... Did you even watch the whole program?
You can judge alot of things by alot of people doesn't make them innocent and it doesn't make them guilty.
Autism spectrum, high functioning.
Um..I know many bee keepers and clarinet players. That isn't really grounds to say someone is weird... not even that long ago.
Hair analysis is such garbage. Most fiber analysis, bite mark analysis as well. Thank goodness for DNA.
Every day is the 1st day when u loose a child. Those who have lost understand
What about the Double Jeopardy law?
George ... When a mistrial is declared for various reasons...judge inappropriately instructed the jury, witness tampering, withholding of evidence, etc... it is not DJ to declare a new trial.
It wasn't a mistrial he was aquitted the first time so in America would have just been free. But this happened in Canada so who knows
So the initial reason why Mr. Morin became a suspect is that his family kept to themselves and had no interaction with the neighbors? And how did the second jury even come to the conclusion that Mr. Morin was guilty?
The real criminals must be laughing of the detectives and justice. Public, states and public should have patient and not put pressure in order to find a guilty. Justice is matter !
Love these but, REALLY SO MANY COMMERCIALS‼️ did they cut him A check ten years pain and suffering? Should have‼️
This was a very sad 😞 story . God bless the mothers heart
for the sake of getting "someone/anyone" an innocent man goes to jail!
Why do these parents let their children go places alone without adult supervision. These parents need to be held accountable.
This case rides on DNA evidence; the best hope for resolution being GG (genetic genealogy.) While there is something to be said for identifying the offender, he’s likely to be dead. Sadly, the Jessops might never get their day in court but at least will have the certainty of knowing WHO did it. As for “why” - most offenders don’t understand why they commit these horrific crimes. How ironic that Ted Bundy’s one wish was to be “normal.”
Damn Bee Keepers! 🙄🐝
Did they ever find the murderer? I know they had DNA..not sure if I missed it.
I dont know but these parents are weird..Did they ever investigate the Father
God bless you morin and rest in peace christin .