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According to AP News, the Canadian police stated on Thursday that they had finally identified the perpetrator, who had murdered a 9-year-old girl, in 1984.

Back then, another man was convicted and sentenced for the murder. The case was extensively reported at the time, affirming that the man had been wrongly convicted. As per the Toronto police, the actual murderer has now been identified with the help of DNA testing as Kelvin Hoover, who can no longer be convicted since he died five years ago in 2015. They had found his DNA evidence in the girl’s underwear.

Kelvin was 28 years old at the time of the murder and knew the family of the deceased Christine Jessop which did not prompt the police to consider him a suspect. Nine year old Christine was last seen on October 3, 1984, in Queensville, Ontario, north of Toronto. Her body was found three months later. Evidence proved that she had been sexually assaulted and then stabbed to death.

Guy Paul Morin, a neighbor of the deceased Jessop, was wrongly convicted for her murder in 1992 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, in 1995, based on DNA technology, it was discovered that he was innocent. He had spent almost 18 months in jail but was released after he was proven innocent. He was given a public apology by the authorities and was paid more than 1 million US dollars in compensation.