Lise Choquette – April 22, 1975
Less than three weeks after Sharon Prior is found the body of Lise Choquette (30 years of age, 5’1″, 141 lbs) is discovered by Alexandre Aube, an employee with Corrival in Laval. Aube was working construction on the then new 440 autoroute when he found her naked body near the construction site of the Viaduc Vimont at approximately 11:00 am on Tuesday, April 22, 1975. Choquette was found lying in the mud approximately 275 feet behind Quebec Ciment, a company at 101 Chemin Haut-St. Francois, in Laval.
The investigators on the scene were M. Lafond and Andre Lebrun of the Laval police, assisted by Sgt Det Fred Funaro and SD Jean Guy Sauve. Choquette was beaten and strangled, and found only with a tie around her neck ( grey tie with a black circles made by “Caporicci”). The tie was “very tight” around her neck. There was a small amount of blood around her nose. Her clothing was found about 200 feet away from the body. She had no identification or jewelry, though police know that Choquette wore a ring. The body had not been disposed at the location for a very long time.
Choquette lived at 2247 rue Lariviere, about a block away from the headquarters of the Surete du Quebec on rue Parthenais.
Choquette’s residence was about a 10 minute drive from where Denise Bazinet lived, at 4252 rue Brebeuf. Bazinet’s residence is a 10 minute walk from where Lison Blais lived and died, at 4685 avenue Christophe Colomb.
Medicale Legale
The body was identified by Choquette’s mother, Emelide Choquette who lived at 6668 44e in Montreal. The case was lead by Sergent Detective Alfred Funaro of the Laval Police. The chief coroner was Maurice C Laniel, assistent by Andre Brosseau (pathologiste).
In a sworn statement to Andre Gauthier, a Surete du Quebec stenographer, on November 6, 1975 (on behalf of the coroner’s office), Funaro declared that he had interrogated several persons, but without results, and that the investigation was ongoing. Choquette suffered a “violent death”, but the police needed to continue their work, and report back in future.
For the moment the case was une “Enquete sine die”, a “postponed investigation”.
Autopsy
The actual autopsy report determines the cause of death more specifically: “strangulation and connected contusions” about her head. So Choquette was strangled and beaten about the head. There were no signs of alcohol in her system.
The autopsy was performed by Andre Brosseau at the demande of Roch Heroux at the Parthenais medical laboratory. There was no evidence of sperm in the vagina area.
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i am just curious with that last sentence you wrote there.
“There was no evidence of sperm in the vagina area.”
Does that mean that there was evidence of sperm somewhere else on her body? I feel like that is a strange fact to have otherwise.
Either way is very disturbing and sad.
Correct. That’s the wording of the autopsy report, but you are quite right that there cold have been sperm at any number of places around the crime scene: this is not uncommon.