Just shortly after his death, the Montreal Gazette received a phone call from a male individual who claimed to be affiliated with a terrorist group known as the Red Army Liberation Front.
On the contrary, a representative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service suggested that the call may have simply been an attempt to throw-off the investigation, as this was the first that authorities had ever heard of such a group.
At the time of his death, Shoofey had reportedly been involved in a dispute with Cotroni crime family kingpin Frank Cotroni over the interests of Montreal boxer Dave Hilton Sr.[133][134] There is widespread speculation that Desjardins' assassin had been a member of the local Hells Angels chapter in Quebec, or possibly a member of the Rock Machine.
On the morning of his death, Desjardins had been scheduled to meet with Quebec chapter president, Maurice Boucher to discuss business matters.
Unbeknownst to the mafia, Cecil Kirby had been working as an informant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the time when the Commisso 'ndrina contracted him to kill Paul Volpe.
While being hidden from the public eye within the Toronto RCMP Building, Cecil Kirby visited Rocco Remo of the Commisso 'ndrina to tell him that he had killed Volpe.
Alan would be acquitted by the Ontario Superior Court in July 2014 due to lack of evidence and no new leads have surfaced in Beverly's death.
[332] It has been suggested that Janine's murder may have been connected to street gang activity in the area—specifically, a notorious Indigenous-based organized crime group known as the Native Syndicate.
One possible suspect investigated in the Calgary murders was a pimp and convicted sex offender named Barry Thomas Niedermier from Lethbridge.
On 12 December 2023, Réal Courtemanche, an inmate at federal medium-security prison La Macaza Institution, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the Desjardins case.
[406] In September 2022, using DNA and genetic genealogy, the victim was identified as Jewell Parchman Langford, aged 48 at the time of her death, from Tennessee.
Rodney Nichols, an acquaintance of Langford's in Montreal, now 81 and resident in Florida, was charged with her murder and an extradition request was pending as of July 2023.
[409] In May 2023, DNA samples and genetic genealogy identified Prior's killer as Franklin Romine, a West Virginia man who died in 1982.
[414] On 12 October 2022, the Sûreté du Québec announced the arrest of Marc-André Grenon (47) on the charge of first-degree murder in the Potvin case.
[420] On 15 December 2023, Dean Penney was arrested in Deer Lake, Newfoundland, and charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance of his wife.
DNA evidence found on all four bodies connected the murders to Gary Allen Srery, a serial killer and repeat sexual offender who died in prison in Idaho in 2011 while serving a life sentence for rape.