Twenty-three-year-old Dianne Aubert lived with her forty-one-year-old roommate Maryline Grenier in an apartment in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
At approximately one-twenty a.m. on February 16th, 1982, police were summoned to the residence after a neighbor heard moaning. Upon entering, officers discovered Dianne nude in her bed, dead from 121 stab wounds in the back. Maryline had also been stabbed in the back at least thirty times; she was rushed to the hospital and survived her injuries.
A few expensive items, such as jewelry and furs, were missing from the apartment, leading authorities to theorize that the motive may have been robbery. However, the overwhelming brutality of the attack and the fact that both women were trans suggested that this may have been a targeted transphobic hate crime, with the robbery something of an afterthought.
Neighbors reported seeing two long-haired men of average height in their mid-twenties fleeing the scene. Though investigators sought these individuals for questioning, neither was ever found.
The savage murder of Dianne Aubert and the attempted murder of Maryline Grenier remain unsolved, more than four decades later.
Crime Immemorial 