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Cholette didn’t have any other details about the woman
caller except that she will soon be interviewed.
However, she said Kingston Crime Stoppers and the OPP have
been answering a steady wave of calls from tipsters since
Monday night, when police made their plea for help.
“The calls have not been swamping us, but they’re steady,”
she said.
Yesterday, the OPP also released surveillance video clips
and still images of four people walking near the La Salle
Causeway between 1 and 2 a.m. Oct. 22.
Police hope the four people will come forward
because they may have information that could help place
Grozelle before his death.
At 1:10 a.m., the video, shot
by a surveillance camera at the top of a limestone building
at Fort Frontenac, shows four people walking toward downtown
past the fort.
At 1:52 a.m., another video clip appears to show the same
people standing in the same place apparently talking to one
another and then walking back toward the bridge and RMC.
“It could be [the same people], but anybody walking there
between that 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. period is who we’re trying to
find,” Cholette said.
The images are dark and grainy and it’s difficult to pick
out the four people in the video, but they’re clearly
walking toward town around 1:10 a.m. and away from town at
1:52 a.m.
Cholette said at least a
half-dozen OPP investigators were busy yesterday following
up the leads they’ve received since police made their public
plea yesterday.
She said investigators have had the video since beginning
their probe last year, but have held on to it because they
only recently exhausted all other avenues of tracking down
the people on it.
“The reason it’s being released now is we’ve tried other
means to identify these people through interviews and that
kind of stuff,” she said. “We haven’t been able to, so
that’s why it’s being released now.”
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As well as the Crime Stoppers caller and the four
pedestrians who walked along the causeway, police are
looking for a man who visited the Kingston Centre Canadian
Tire store on Oct. 29.
According to police, he took down a missing person poster
depicting Grozelle, then spoke to an employee at the store’s
information counter and gave her the poster.
The man is described as
white, about six feet tall, of medium build, clean shaven,
with dark wavy hair that slightly covers the top of his
ears, about 30 to 40 years old. He was wearing jeans and a
Columbia jacket with black sleeves and a green or blue
torso.
Grozelle, a top student and basketball player at RMC,
disappeared from his dorm room while writing a school
assignment the night of Oct. 22-23.
His body was found floating in the Inner Harbour near the
military college Nov. 13, 22 days later.
After a first autopsy, authorities said Grozelle’s death was
consistent with drowning.
Not satisfied with the investigation, the Grozelle family
pressed for a fuller one. The young cadet’s body was exhumed
last November and a second autopsy performed.
The family hired its own forensic pathologist to
independently view the second autopsy.
Tests that would look for damage such as deep bruising
weren’t conducted the first time because pathologists
weren’t looking for four play, as military investigators had
already ruled Grozelle’s death a suicide, said Dr. Jim
Cairns, Ontario’s deputy coroner.
Cairns said the investigation is expected to wrap up by the
end of March.
At that time, the Ontario Coroner’s Office will examine the
findings of the second autopsy and come to a conclusion as
to what killed the former officer-cadet, Cairns said.
The coroner will also release
the results of the investigation to the public, he said.
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