Yvonne Leroux

DNA: ID

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Episode 138 Yvonne Leroux

Detectives in the York Regional Police, located in Ontario, Canada, had a perplexing scene on their hands in late November 1972. A teenage girl was found dead in the middle of a quiet roadway, bludgeoned to death. It appeared she may have been raped as well. The victim, 16 year old Yvonne Leroux, was well known to police because of her recent history as the victim in a drug-pushing biker gang’s threats to her safety. But all investigative avenues in pursuit of this information led nowhere. Detectives over the years revived the case, but got nowhere until they obtained a male DNA profile from Yvonne’s autopsy samples in 2001. Finally, in 2021, the investigation turned to IGG, the oldest cold case taken up by Canada’s only in-house law enforcement genealogy team. They quickly named the man who had killed Yvonne. Her family was relieved to know who had taken Yvonne from them, although many questions remain unanswered.

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0:40.3	The The
0:57.0	The It was 1972.
1:24.5	An elderly man I'm calling James lived in a home on a residential property in Aurora
1:29.6	in King Township, 10 miles north of Toronto, Canada. The house was one of a number of large
1:35.5	rural estates that were spread out throughout the hilly and wooded area. At 8.50 in the morning,
1:41.2	on Thursday, November 30th, James left his home to go to work. His home was on
1:46.2	Keel Street. His drive required him to get to Jane Street. So he proceeded out his driveway and took a left
1:52.6	on a gravel road called Green Lane, labeled as 16th Side Road on maps. 16th side road ran east-west
2:00.6	and connected Jane Street and Keel Street in the
2:03.1	quiet area. If you're local, this area is very near the King Valley Golf Club, which did not
2:08.8	exist in 1972. James turned onto 16th side road and as he approached Jane Street, abruptly
2:15.6	braked and stopped. Something was lying in the middle of the
2:18.1	road. A young woman lay face down and unmoving on frozen 16th side road. James got out of his car, and I
2:26.1	imagined somewhat gingerly approached the woman. She was nude from the waist down. She lay in a pool of
2:31.8	blood surrounding her head, and her head was covered in blood and looked
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