Katherine Janeiro, 20, discovered stabbed to demise in her Dunlop Road West condo on Oct. 10, 1994; Robert MacQueen charged with second-degree homicide
Robert MacQueen, who’s charged with second-degree homicide within the 1994 stabbing demise of a younger mom in her Dunlop Road condo, arrived on the Barrie courthouse this morning aided by a walker.
MacQueen was on the Mulcaster Road courthouse as jury choice started.
Janeiro, 20, was discovered deceased by pals on Oct. 10, 1994. On the time, police stated she suffered a number of stab wounds. Her two-year-old daughter had been visiting her grandparents on the time of her demise.
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 Road West house, close to Anne Road. He was 58 years outdated when he was arrested.
Katherine Janeiro was killed in her Dunlop Road West condo in October 1994. | Photograph from Barrie Police Service
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 until confirmed responsible.
MacQueen, with gray hair and barely hunched over, arrived on the courthouse Tuesday morning together with his lawyer, Mary Cremer. He supplied a fast howdy as he handed by members of the media standing outdoors the doorways of the native courthouse.
MacQueen’s trial was certainly one of two circumstances the place jury choice was taking place right this moment. The method continues tomorrow on the Barrie courthouse.
Outdoors of the 2 courtrooms, roughly 50 potential jurors waited within the hallway to be vetted.
Within the Janeiro murder case, 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 means of the Centre of Forensic Sciences to re-examine among the present proof.
MacQueen was charged on Jan. 13, 2021. Police on the time stated new data had come to mild a few yr earlier.
Police have stated Janeiro and MacQueen knew one another.
In keeping with information studies revealed 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 demise might have been the results of a theft, police stated 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 in search of the cellphone, it was present in a creek not removed from the homicide scene. Its reminiscence was intact, however police stated it introduced investigators no nearer to discovering her killer.
Janeiro left house at age 16 and moved to Barrie. A yr later, she gave delivery to a child woman.
About 10 months previous to her demise, Janeiro had moved into the Dunlop Road condo along with her toddler.
Janeiro’s mother and father, Dinora and Fernando, who had spoken to Examiner reporters about their daughter’s homicide, have each since handed away. Dinora died Could 18, 2012, in Toronto, adopted by Fernando on Jan. 19, 2014, additionally in Toronto.
Katherine, who was the Janeiros’ solely little one, grew up on a quiet road in a middle-class neighbourhood.
In a narrative revealed within the Examiner on Oct. 14, 1994, Dinora says: “She was so sensible, blissful and enjoyable. A superb coronary heart and soul. All that for nothing.”
