Quebec Cold Case: Man Faces First-Degree Murder Charge in Young Girl’s 1994 Killing

Published on December 12, 2023

Quebec provincial police say they’ve arrested a 61-year-old prison inmate in the killing of a young girl in a Montreal suburb nearly three decades ago. Investigators say Réal Courtemanche, detained at La Macaza Institution in Quebec’s Laurentians region, is facing a first-degree murder charge in the 1994 killing of Marie-Chantale Desjardins. Ms. Desjardins was just 10 years old when she disappeared on July 16, 1994, after she left a friend’s house at the end of the day in Ste-Thérèse, Que., northwest of Montreal. Her body was found four days later in the neighbouring community of Rosemère in the woods behind a shopping centre....

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