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TUESDAY JANUARY 03/0
THE FAMILY NEVER BELIEVED
THAT, AND NOW THE CASE HAS
BEEN RE-OPENED.
HERE IS THE CBC'S KEVIN
TIBBLES.
>> THE YEAR WAS 1969.
AND THE CITY OF TROIS-RIVIERES
HAD A PROBLEM WITH ITS POLICE
FORCE...
MANY COPS WERE SUSPECTED
OF RUNNING PROSTITUTION RINGS
FOR THE MOB.
>> THE MAFIA WHEN THEY ARRIVE
HERE, WELL, THEY MADE --
THEY BECAE FRIENS
WITH PHE POLICE.
>> FORMER CITY SOLICITOR JEAN
MATOT CHOSE THIS DETECTAVE,
20 YEAR VETERAN
LOUIS-GEORGE DUPONT,
TO INVESTIGATE.
HE WOUND UP DEAD FROM A SINGLE
GUNSHOT.
A SCRIBBLED SUICIDE NOTE WAS
FOUND.
THE CASE WAS CLOSED.
DUPONT HAD KILLED HIMSELF.
>< DHE POLICE OF
ANYS-RIVIERES DIDN'T
INQUIRY, NOTHING,
NO INQUIRY ON THE CAR,
NO INQUIRY ON THE --
ANYTHING.
IT WAS VERY FAST AFFAIR.
RACY, SAYSA CONS
DUPONT'S SON ROBERT, WHO,
HIS BROTHER, HAS
ARGUED THEIR FATHER WAS
MURERAD.
THEIR MOTHER WAS DENIED
DUPONT' POLICEPENSN
BECAUSE OF THE UICIDE
RUL.
SHE AND FOUR GENERATIONS
OF THE FAMILY HOW LIVE
IN A TINY RAMSHACKLE APARTMENT
TELLING THEIR STORY TO ANYONE
WHO WILL LEND AN EAR.
"IT'S BEEN A LIVING HELL",
SE SAYS, "I LOST MY HOUSE,
MY CHILDREN HAD TO QUIT SCHOOL
TO GO TO WORK, I LOST
MY HUSBAND, MY PENSION".
AS MUCH INFORMATION
AS POSSIBLE.
SON JACQUES SAYS THE BULLET
HALF THE SIZE AS THE WOUND
IN THE FRONT.
HE SAYS IT'S CLEAR HIS FATHER
WAS SHOT FROM BEHIND,
AND SO DOES THIS OCTOR.
>> IT IS A CLEAR CASE
OF A ***.
>> THE DUPONT FAMILY SOUGHT
OUT NEW YOJ PATHOLOGIST
DR. LOUIS RO.
HE LOOKED THEIR EVIDENCE
LAST YEAR, AND HE MAINTAINS
THE DETECTIVE DID NOT SHOOT
HIMSELF.
A SECOND PATHOLOGIST
THE FAMILY FOUND IN VANCOUVER
SAID THE SAME THING.
SO NOW THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT
HAS AGREED TO TAKE FURTHER
ACTION 25 YEARS LATER.
BUT THE DUPONT S WANT MORE
THAN JUST ANOTHER OK.
THEY WANT A FULL INQUIRY.
AND THEY WANT THE BACK
PENSION, $300,000 WORTH.
"NO, THERE'S NO JUSTICE
IN TROIS-RIVIERES", SHE SAYS,
"IF MY HUSBAND HAD BECOME
A GANGSTER, HE WOULD STILL BE
ALIVE.
AFTER A QUARTER CENTURY
OF BEING TOLD NO, T@E DUPONT S
HAVE NOW BEEN TOLD
OF THE EVIDENCE WILL BE
COMPLETED BY THE ND OF THIS
MONTH
T@AT COULD RESULT IN MADAME
DUPONT FINALLY RECEIVING
HER PENSION.
AND IT MAY ALSO RESULT
IN A FULL-BLOWN ***