May 26th, 1986.

Robus Churbe, Northwest Territories

After returning home from a trip, the sister of 15-year-old Mary Ann Birmingham enters

the residence and discovers that Mary Ann has been stabbed to death.

Once later, a local resident named Jopie Esitick pops up on the radar as a potential suspect

after he is charged with a similar stabbing death of two other victims.

Even though Esitick is initially charged with Mary Ann's murder, he denies any involvement

and the evidence is deemed insufficient for him to stand trial, so the crime is never

solved.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be returning to our podcast

Home Country of Canada to do something a little different from the norm.

We're going to be profiling the stories of nine missing and murdered indigenous women

from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

As you probably know, earlier this year, The Trail Went Cold reached a milestone in which

we managed to cover at least one cold case from all 50 American states, so I made it a

goal to eventually do the same thing for every Canadian province and territory.

And I'm pleased to say that on this episode, we're finally going to achieve that goal

by covering cases from our country's two remaining territories, Nunavut and the Northwest

Territories.

Of course, there aren't a lot of cold cases to choose from in those territories, and

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