Katherine Janeiro, 20, discovered stabbed to loss of life in her Dunlop Avenue West condominium on Oct. 10, 1994
The trial of an area man charged within the 1994 stabbing loss of life of a younger mom in her condominium is scheduled to start Tuesday in a Barrie courtroom with jury choice.
Robert MacQueen is scheduled to face trial on second-degree homicide starting Sept. 3 within the loss of life of 20-year-old Katherine Janeiro.
MacQueen, who was also called “Bruce Ellis,” was charged with first-degree homicide in January 2021, greater than 26 years after the younger woman’s physique was found in her Dunlop Avenue West house, close to Anne Avenue. He was 58 years previous when he was arrested.
The cost was decreased to second-degree homicide following a preliminary listening to in December 2022.
MacQueen was granted bail in July 2023.
Not one of the allegations have been examined in courtroom and MacQueen is presumed harmless except confirmed responsible.
Janeiro was discovered deceased by buddies on Oct. 10, 1994. On the time, police mentioned she suffered a number of stab wounds.
Her two-year-old daughter had been visiting her grandparents on the time.
The preliminary Barrie police investigation included assist from the Ontario Provincial Police’s forensic identification bureau. Whereas the OPP took over the case in October 1999 to make the most of an unspecified investigative method, it was turned again to Barrie police in February 2012.
Police say investigators then utilized newer forensic instruments by way of the Centre of Forensic Sciences to re-examine among the present proof.
MacQueen was charged on Jan. 13, 2021. Police on the time mentioned new data had come to gentle a few 12 months earlier.
Police have mentioned Janeiro and MacQueen knew one another.
In keeping with information studies printed by the previous Ontario Chronicle, Janeiro’s physique was discovered mendacity on the ground, lined in blood with scratches on her face.
She’d been at a pair of downtown bars most of Sunday evening and early Monday morning previous to her physique being found.
Her loss of life could have been the results of a theft, police mentioned on the time.
Janeiro’s phone had additionally been stolen from the crime scene.
In March 1995, solely every week after police introduced they have been on the lookout for the cellphone, it was present in a creek not removed from the homicide scene. Its reminiscence was intact, however police mentioned it introduced investigators no nearer to discovering her killer.
Janeiro left house at age 16 and moved to Barrie. A 12 months later, she gave start to a child woman.
About 10 months previous to her loss of life, Janeiro had moved into the Dunlop Avenue condominium along with her toddler.
Her mother and father, Dinora and Fernando Janeiro, who had spoken to Examiner reporters about their daughter’s homicide, have each since handed away. Dinora died Might 18, 2012, in Toronto, adopted by Fernando on Jan. 19, 2014, additionally in Toronto.
Katherine, who was the Janeiros’ solely baby, grew up on a quiet road in a middle-class neighbourhood.
In a story printed within the Examiner on Oct. 14, 1994, Dinora says: “She was so good, blissful and enjoyable. A superb coronary heart and soul. All that for nothing.”
