[4] Among the most compelling pieces of evidence in the case was a leather jacket covered in Duguay's blood and over two dozen white feline hairs, marking the world’s first use of non-human DNA in a criminal trial.
[1] On 7 October 1994, a car was found abandoned on Highway 169, near Tyne Valley in rural Prince Edward Island, with missing licence plates and apparent blood spatter on the windshield and throughout the vehicle’s interior.
[5][1] On 6 May 1995, Duguay's battered and partially decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave in a wooded area of North Enmore.
[1] Near the body, RCMP found a plastic bag containing a leather jacket covered in Duguay's blood and two strands of white feline hairs.
[4][1] RCMP investigators recalled that during a previous interview with her estranged common-law spouse (and father to three of her children),[5] Douglas Leo Beamish (born 1957) from Prince County,[6] that he had a white cat named Snowball.