Crime Beat: The story of Christine Jessop and Guy Paul Morin: one murder, two tragedies | S1 E11 

This case has been solved. The DNA sample found on Jessop’s underwear was identified on Oct. 9 as belonging to Calvin Hoover. He was known to the family and died by suicide in 2015.

Neighbor: *introvert who likes music and honey* Canada: BURN HIM

Guy Paul Morin did sue & won a $4.25 million settlement in 2010

This case hung over my childhood like a dark specter. I was slightly older than Christine and grew up in a similar rural community not far from Queensville. I remember being terrified that some person was out there snatching kids in a town that I knew, not some big city far away. My mother was Guy Paul's alibi witness. He was a regular customer at her grocery store and she served him on practically a daily basis. Like usual, she served him on the day Christine went missing at a time that would have made it impossible for him to have committed the crime. Although she served hundreds of people a week, Guy Paul stood out because he was polite, friendly and very gentle natured. My mother contacted the York Regional Police to share her interaction with Guy Paul on that day. She was never formally interviewed nor deposed by the Crown or Defense attorney. She called multiple times and thoroughly expected to be subpoenaed. There was NEVER any follow up from either the police or the attorneys. I remember my mother being so frustrated and absolutely sick about his conviction. To know that someone is innocent and nobody was listening was a terrible burden to carry. My mother died in 2004 and up until a few years before her death, she still talked about the horrible miscarriage for both the Jessop and Morin families. About the only bright spot in this whole debacle is that there is DNA. Hopefully they can get some sort of hit through GED match and finally bring justice to Christine. It's the least these keystone cops can do.

I'm so confused, so the only reason why they thought he did it was just because ppl thought he was weird? For what? Being a loner?

After watching several Crime Beat episodes one can honestly say that JUSTICE is a joke in Canada. Killers are given merely seven years for the crime and are allowed one day parole , an innocent person can just be picked up by cops and labeled a murderer without any evidence to back up the crime and a jury can find that innocent man guilty. A really scary place to live in.

"He's a weird-type guy. He plays clarinet and does beekeeping." How boring must the people be in this town to think that is weird??

This program is so well done. Thank you.

There are so many children that have been raped and murdered and there is never justice for them! Anyone sexually attracted to children needs to be separated from society indefinitely. There is no known way to cure a humans sexual desires. The risk of physically & mentally fracturing the child for life is to great of a risk to take lightly. I myself have never had help and struggle everyday, it's exhausting!! I just set auto control and put on my happy face & take it day by day. I pray for change & for no more children to have their innocence stolen from them, it truly is a life sentence that survivors deal with while the rapists get away with it.

That "weird" guy is my type of guy.Such a great guy actually.

He doesn't sound odd to me. Maybe he enjoyed playing the clarinet and maybe the bees was a hobby, and he keeps to himself - sounds like a wonderful neighbor. 2020, the laws acts about the same.

"He was a weird guy. He played clarinet." Oh...

This just goes prove you can’t believe ANY jailhouse snitch because they WILL say whatever they have to in order to get out even putting a innocent man behind bars when they wouldn’t even do their own time. I don’t think they should EVER take a word of a jailhouse rat with ANY case for any reason because their word isn’t trustworthy.

The neighbor: plays clarinet and keeps bees. Police: He must be the killer. Arrest him.

The snow during the funeral just made it seem worse to have to lay her to rest..but then they said the plot was next to their house. I don’t know how parents live through that kind of heartbreak. Rip christine

Sounds like a witch hunt, because he was different he was ram roded. I pray they find this murder, for this poor girl.

Beekeeping and playing the clarinet?? What's so wierd about that??!!

How can you be a 'quiet little girl' and 'very vivacious' in the same breath?

And what a very nice man to forgive. Instead of being strange, he and his parent’s are lovely.

..... and in the meantime, the killer was living in freedom, while innocent man jailed. It’s a tragedy!

The case is finally SOLVED and the murderer can’t be caught.

The cop who said Morin made the Red Rum comment, was he prosecuted for perjury? What about the jail house snitch was he prosecuted for perjury? They should have thrown the book at them, Paul Morin just seems like a really lovely guy, and he is way more forgiving than I would be.

Calvin Hoover, a family friend. He attended the wake, the funeral and helped during the search. Familial DNA connected the murder to him. He was never prosecuted. He committed suicide in 2015.

Did they ever get a parents and brothers dna? What about the friend that she was supposed to go visit family members or neighbors? This case was botched!!!

I can’t stand not one single one of my neighbours so I guess I’ll be the number suspect if I don’t go to their funeral if their death was not due to natural or accidental cause

I feel it's so sad that many years later no one caught Christine's killer. How is that justice? To this day, I can feel her mother's sadness and disappointment. My heart sank for that poor woman.

Did they ever find who killed Christine? Did her family find Justice? This is just heartbreaking! I hope that she gets justice!

Crime Beat has done a great job of producing this. I am a fan of crime documentary and this was informative without overly repeating. I have followed this story since the beginning and now I fully understand the miscarriage of justice. I would like to hear how DNA captured the killer. Professional and detailed. Well done.

It struck me when the mother said "finally, somebody has paid for Christine" and then corrected it to "the guilty one". I totally get that the parents were absolutely distraught about the loss of their little girl and wanted closure but it was so obvious from all the "evidence" that it could not have been him. Can you find closure if the person that actually did it is still roaming free?

For some reason when they were saying the criminal profile I just pictured them saying, "He is probably white his first name is probably Guy middle name Paul last name is probably Morin, he's probably between the ages 19-27 *coughs* 24,and lives in the town *coughs* next door of the victims house, we have no clue who he is-- but he probably keeps bees--- *coughs* and plays the clarinet, that's all thank u" I dont know why but that thought made me laugh, like they were so dead set on getting the poor guy. (Edited because my auto correct is not working)

I have no idea how police could be proud of themselves or to represent the law knowing the wrong person has been convicted

disgusting behaviour on the part of hte police and public!

"Weird guy...in fact, he played clarinet." Idk that made me chuckle. He seems perfectly fine to me and I hate that this happened to him.

i’m sitting right off queensville sideroad right now, and i can’t believe out of all the videos on youtube, i had to stumble on a murder in my small town while i’m trying to sleep. 🙂

Jailhouse informants needs to be scrapped they should never be used in any testimony in court how can you trust a criminal that is just looking to get some time off their sentence to tell the truth! I can't honestly believe why any Court would allow it

When you develop such a close relationship with the victims family police lose their ability to be unbiased and fact driven. Their drive to get justice for their friends becomes overwhelming. There needs to be a separation of feeling and facts within the justice system.

Whoever did it, I bet she isn't his only victim.

I would have people like Guy Paul Morin as a neighbour any day.

I don’t know how this ends because I am only few minutes in but lawyers shouldn’t be allowed to make up circumstances and illnesses just to get someone off the hook whether they are guilty or not!!!

An apology finally.!!! But not from the Jessops . If they had looked for the real killer back then ???This kind of thing happens more than we know

It's so sad to what happened in this sad story. No one caught and the person the family thought was the killer was innocent all along. Where is the justice for Christine Jessop. Her mother needs the peace in knowing her killer is there to serve his time or their time. I wasn't even born then. Watching this made me be a scared person to have to grow up with a killer or killers on the loose. I hope that one day they will find them and bring long awaited justice to this family.

And the killer killed again because he got away the first time

Polygraph results are inadmissible in many jurisdictions even if both parties are in agreement... but some snitch in prison can provide admissible testimony. That is ridiculous and not conducive to a fair trial.

It's amazing to see the change he went trough while in Prison... From the shy weird loner to the puplic speaker.

cant believe the prosecutor at 29:44 believes the truth is Morin killed her but DNA proved otherwise

I think Guys a polite, gentle man. He lost so many years and never became bitter. He was so strong and composed. It must have been difficult for his family and Christines poor loved ones.

The smug prosecutor all happy. Like it’s all about winning, not about guilt or innocence.

The mistake the Jessop's made was to trust the police, the experts and other authorities. As it turned out, the killer was known to the family.

was anyone else annoyed at how long the pauses in paul's lawyer's words were.

Oh just apparently lives next door let’s just say he did it makes me so mad !

I'm so thankful he was so forgiving of the family. They had their hearts ripped out and I'm sure having someone to direct the anger and pain at helped a little, even it was the wrong someone.

So he had hobbies and kept to himself. A lot of us weirdos would be in trouble.

I just want to say that the fact that there was a formal and from the looks of it successful inquiry about what happened, what went wrong, who was involved and most importantly how do we prevent it from happening again as well as several of the people involved apologized without excuses for the role they played that helped this tragedy to play out in this way.

I would take DNA from the Family men members to check them off, then you could work on getting DNA from the men of ages 19-27 from the town.

First not guilty, second guilty? Is that double jeopardy????

Never let the truth get in the way of closing cases.

The bus driver should've been investigated.

Did they check the brothers DNA?

You would think that instead of pushing to convict someone because of public pressure to solve the case, the police would rather convict the RIGHT person to prevent more victims from the same perpetrator.. 🤷🏻‍♀️

If there was ever a Canadian version of Steven Avery, it's Guy Paul Morin. Two innocent men who were framed by police and were literally made out to be guilty.

Not only the wrong guy suffered, but they never searched more to actually have more evidence to find the real killer

I think the police just wanted to pin it on someone and that was Guy Paul's it is terrible that this guy was innocent and the real monster was still out their just so sad for the wee girl and her family and also Guy Paul's and his family two.

Was the DNA sample ever sent through CODUS?

Rest in peace Christine i no you will be with god up in Heaven .. Fly high with the Angel's

Um..I know many bee keepers and clarinet players. That isn't really grounds to say someone is weird... not even that long ago.

When you add evidence that ia tainted that is not being over zealous. That is being intentional pinning a murder on someone.

Anyone else binging true crime documentaries? Bc I've been doing it for days lol Any crime of this nature, especially against a child makes me feel so sad and fearful of the people I walk past and the people in my life. You never know who's out there and who will be a victim of crime. It reminds you to embrace life and love the people who are special to you because you never know what will happen next. And to celebrate the lives of those who this world has lost.

So if your weird then you must be guilty. Detectives are not always right . So do not be weird. Bad detective work very sad

This is a very sad case..😢😢

This is a mistake that alot of forces make, they find someone suspicious, they're so caught up in rapping up the case and helping the family that they even unknowingly fabricate evidence under pressure, while the real killer gets away.

this has been solved, im surprised this channel doesnt post a comment updating their viewers

What about the Double Jeopardy law?

Did they even consider anyone else... Like possibly the dad or friends of the parents? Such bullshit, ruined that guy’s name & for what? To say you have solved it?! Sickening... Maddening. Just crazy!

This has got to be the most forgiving man on Earth!

Whats worse than murder is convicting an innocent person. Disgusting

So the initial reason why Mr. Morin became a suspect is that his family kept to themselves and had no interaction with the neighbors? And how did the second jury even come to the conclusion that Mr. Morin was guilty?

Did they ever find the murderer? I know they had DNA..not sure if I missed it.

I feel Morin May be on the spectrum, which explains his odd social behavior.

Wait a minute,I thought you cannot be charged two times for same murder ?!

This is a very very good channel to watchespecially ones that show that the people that have been convicted are really innocent and they had said that all along. I have subscribed to your channel and will continue to watch your stories

The real criminals must be laughing of the detectives and justice. Public, states and public should have patient and not put pressure in order to find a guilty. Justice is matter !

My heart goes out to both families.

Love these but, REALLY SO MANY COMMERCIALS‼️ did they cut him A check ten years pain and suffering? Should have‼️

it seems to me that when parents lose their child they feel the need to destroy other people life, no matter what!

This is horrible. It reminds me of the West Memphis Three (an American case that happened in 1993) who were in prison for half their lives before being released. Same thing with the faulty forensics. It’s a shame that the police didn’t serve the victims proper justice. Also, I know if the west Memphis three case that there was prejudice, which also seems to be rampant in this case as well.

What's so weird playing a clarinet?

Damn Bee Keepers! 🙄🐝

I used to play clarinet. Poor guy

This was a very sad 😞 story . God bless the mothers heart

Christine would be 45 years old now 💞💎🌹🌷💐

Very sad.

God bless you morin and rest in peace christin .

Calvin Hoover apparently

prayers they deserve to know

did justice dept. and city must pay paul for the damage

Sloppy police work but hey nothing new

Did they never find her killer?

Some times these police officers are to quick to fixate on the wrong people. And have them suffering while the people who did the crime walk free enjoying their life.

Boy oh boy that's not right at all

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