It was one of the strangest cases in Canadian history.

A squashed piece of fruit and a tiny pinpoint reflection in a picture was the only evidence.

But was it enough to catch a killer?

On June 19, 1989, there was a thunderstorm in Collingwood, Ontario.

But the rain didn't stop 33-year-old Debbie Timlock from venturing out that night.

She was a pretty, the vicious woman that loved to ski and I had a sailboat in the harbor.

She liked to sail and she liked people.

Debbie, a single mother, left her six-year-old daughter Lacey at her parents' home for the night.

Debbie and a few of her friends went to a local restaurant where they visited with each other.

And it was later in the evening when Debbie and her friends said goodbye to each other in the parking lot.

Her friends said Debbie left alone and presumably went straight home.

At 3.25 in the morning, however, she phoned police to report she had been attacked.

She indicated she had been assaulted.

I don't believe she was in total understanding of what had occurred.

She was struggling to stay conscious.

But by the time police arrived, it was too late.

When I entered through the door of the apartment, I could see that there was an unclosed female body laying on her back next to the coach.

Beside her left arm, which was outstretched, was the handset of a telephone.

There was a great deal of blood on the floor.

It was like something like this couldn't happen, you know.

It's a small town and lie.

Investigators followed the trail of blood through the hallway and found a pair of metal frame eyeglasses and a woman shoe, both covered in blood.

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