For 21 years Tim Dumais has searched for those responsible for the death of his seven-month-old daughter.
Tiny Kimberly Dumais was the youngest of three generations killed in an arson fire in Prince Rupert – and Tim hasn’t stopped looking.
“You’re pretty well living your life looking over your shoulder,” Dumais told The Province  on the 21st anniversary of the fire that claimed Kimberly, her mother Pauline Rochon, aunt Sherri Rochon and grandmother Helga Rochon.
“You’re thinking, “˜Was it directed at me? Was it directed at my family? Was it vagrants just trying to keep warm?’”
Dumais lives to this day in Rupert, with one ear open for any word of who might have killed his four loved ones.
“I still live in the same town, hoping that someday someone will give a whisper,” he said sadly. “It’s been so long. If I had found out who did it 15 years ago, I would have murdered them.”
Dumais said he’s moved past that murderous rage now, and just wants justice for the four women whose lives were taken.
“Now, I just want justice for them. They lost three generations of their family – what can you say about that?”
Police are renewing a call for evidence to solve the fatal fire Feb. 5, 1990, at the Brooks Bank Building that housed businesses on the main floor and apartments above.
“I’m really impressed with the RCMP’s dealings with this – they fill me in,” said Dumais.
“You move on, but it’s really hard when it pops up again.
“I want whoever is responsible to know what they did – Pauline was a beautiful woman. They were hard-working women.”
Dumais recently lost his job, and is pinning his hopes for the future on a grain-elevator job he recently applied for, and the fact that the RCMP’s push may solve this oh-so-long-ago crime that changed his life forever.
“I just want whoever did this to see the photos, then they can see what they did.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit at 1-877-543-4822 or anonymously at Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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