Crime Immemorial

Eleven-year-old Marie-Ève Larivière was having dinner with her extended family at a house on Beausoleil Street, in the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul neighborhood in Laval, Québec, Canada. At a little before seven p.m. on March 7th, 1992, the girl offered to walk to a nearby store to buy some bread. She was only visiting the area, and though her family gave her directions to the store, once she set out, she wound up getting lost. She ended up at a different store altogether, but she bought bread there, and the helpful clerk even drew her a map so she could get back to her family’s home. The store employee’s sighting of her at seven-forty-five would sadly be the last time the girl was seen alive.

The following day, after an extensive search, the girl’s clothed body was discovered next to the railroad tracks in an industrial area in Chomedey, more than four miles from where she was last seen and, perhaps significantly, only about half a mile from the St-Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary. She had been raped and strangled.

There doesn’t appear to have been much progress in the investigation since the 1990s, but the case remains open, and the Laval Police still encourage anyone with any information about the murder to contact them and help solve the tragic crime.