On March 1st, 1991, a set of disfigured human remains was discovered in Parc Louisbourg in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The body had been wrapped in garbage bags, placed in a box, and discarded at the city dump. The lack of snow on the box indicated it had only been in the dump for a very short time.
Forensic examination determined that the remains were those of a white male aged between thirty and forty-nine. He was small, standing only about five feet two inches and weighing just over a hundred pounds. He had brown hair and a graying mustache. His teeth were in good shape. He was uncircumcised, and he had a vaccination scar near the shoulder of his right arm.
The victim, later dubbed Cartierville John Doe, was found nude and had been brutally mutilated, stabbed 127 times all over his body, with particular focus on his face and genitals. His hands had also been severed, possibly to forestall identification.
Due to the savagery of the slaying, authorities were operating under the assumption that the murder was either a crime of passion or connected to organized crime.
An artist produced a portrait of what the victim might have looked like, but no one came forward to identify him. As of this writing in 2025, the identity of both victim and killer remains a mystery.
Crime Immemorial 