MONTREAL – The family and friends of Julie Surprenant marked a sad anniversary on Sunday.
Fifteen years ago the 16-year-old Terrebonne girl disappeared without a trace.
She was last seen at a bus stop only a few metres from her home.
That’s where dozens gathered on Sunday to unveil a monument in her name.
The monument depicts a bowler hat, the kind Julie often liked to wear.
Her father, Michel Surprenant said he wants the monument to remind parents to keep their children safe.
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“Today our children are there, but tomorrow they can just vanish, so the present moment is very important.”
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In June 2006, Surprenant’s neighbour, Richard Bouillon, confessed to a nurse on his deathbed that he murdered the teen, stuffed her body in a sports bag and dumped her in the Mille-Iles river.
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The nurse only came forward with the information five years later and when police divers combed through the Mille-Iles river, they came up empty handed.
In 2012, a coroner’s inquest re-opened her case and eventually concluded that Richard Bouillon likely did rape and kill the teenager.
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