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Micheline Santangelo, a 20-year-old mother, was brutally murdered in 1980. The case remained unsolved for years due to a lack of technology. However, new forensic technology led to the arrest of a 63-year-old man named Roger Deshine in 2020. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Micheline's sister, Nicole, shared that Micheline was stabbed to death and that the killer was someone she may have known. The family is determined to keep the killer in prison for life. Hello, and welcome to my podcast. My name is Gabriela, and today we will discuss the case of Micheline Santangelo. I've decided to discuss this because so many of these cases go unsolved or aren't heard of, and it's important to me that this case is heard of. So to get started, Micheline was a 20-year-old mother who was murdered in early July of 1980. In a few news articles that I read, police state that her common-law husband came home from work at 6 on the 10th to find Micheline lying dead in her bed. She had taken 23 stab wounds to the chest and a few others on different parts of her body. She had also been sexually assaulted. Her daughter was found unharmed in a nearby bedroom. At the time, technology hadn't been advanced enough to continue the investigation, and OPP investigators had offered $10,000 to anyone that could offer additional information on the case. But despite their best effort to try to get information on this, the case went unsolved for a few years. And that's so crazy because all these cases were unsolved because of lack of technology, and that wouldn't happen nowadays because we have all this technology and we're able to find people based on fingerprints and DNA. But that wasn't the case here, so that's why it went unsolved. But when new forensic technology was made, additional information was found from DNA, including blood and semen. The case was reopened in 2018, and after a few years of new investigations, a 63-year-old man from North Bay was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on November 18th, 2020. Isn't it so crazy how it took that long to solve this case, or even to find suspects? And the man who was arrested, his name was Roger Deshine, and he was sentenced by Superior Court Justice Greg Ellis to life in prison with no possibility of parole for at least 15 years. That's wild, because a lot of people go to live on their lives not caught from the crimes they've committed. And this man worked at the hospital in North Bay for the whole time that this case was being solved, and he had no criminal record other than her murder. So really, if you went to go get treated at this hospital, you would have never guessed that this guy was a murderer. And that's really crazy to me. What do you think about this? All right. Welcoming Michonne's sister, Nicole. I'm going to ask you questions just about what happened. Hi, my name is Nicole. And my sister, she's been killed 20, 40 years ago. And she, the guy, he worked at the hospital in North Bay, and his son, he gave a DNA. And after, well, they catch him, and they put him in a jail. He went to the court first with my little children, my niece. And she went to talk at the court. And he went to, and that's why they have to tell, he say he killed her. I don't know why, but... So we're going to start with the questions. Do you know how Michonne died? He killed her with a knife. So he stabbed her? Yes. Okay. And how did you find out that she was killed? Like, did the police call you? My brother and my dad, they went to see her in their home. She lived in North Bay. And they told her it was her. Because my dad and my brother, they went to see her. So that's why he killed her. I don't know why he killed her, but I don't know. Okay. So, like, what was she doing before that she got killed? Like, were you with her, or did you call her? No, no. But she moved, and they, she asked me to go babysitting the kids, her child. And I told her, I said, no, I can't babysit. Because I didn't have no right, no nothing. So she wanted to go with her boyfriend on a truck, need to deliver the bread. And that's why she asked me if I wanted to go babysit her daughter. And I said, sorry Michonne, I can't do it. So that's why it happened like that. Okay. So, did she know who the killer was before? Like, did your sister have any relationship with him? Probably with two, her boyfriends. So, do you know that if he was, like, friends with her? Yeah, because it happened to 1980, and my brother, he was getting married on 1980. Probably he came to the wedding, and probably he was with clothes and slim. That's why I know her. Okay. Yeah. When did you find out she died? 1980. So, did the police call you when she died? Did they call you to say that she had passed? They called us. Well, they went to my cousin. He was thinking it was my cousin. It was not. So, what they do, that's why his son, he went to give DNA to a hospital. And that's why they found him. He was working at the hospital. He was in the lab. He went to work in there. And that's why they catch him. Okay. Yeah. When was the last time that you saw her? Did you hang out with her a day before, maybe? No. We did. My mom and me, we tried to look for her. And my mom, she had a truck. And I drove the truck, and I told my mom, I said, Mom, she's not around here. She must be somewhere. I said, far away. So, that's why she was there. We didn't know where was she. So. Okay. Where did she live at the time? She was living in Verna. She was living in Verna? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And after, when she ran away, we couldn't find her anymore. And she didn't come to sleep at her house. We didn't know where she was. So, that's why the guy, he killed her. Because she lived in a caravan with clothes, with her boyfriend. Okay. And the killer, he was brought to court in 2020, right? Yeah. How do you feel about the charges that he got put with? He want to get out in the 25th year after when he's done that. But we don't want to. Because we want to feel bad for my sister. So, we don't want him to get out of there at all. We want to live in there for the rest of his life. So, we stick between him. Yeah. So. Okay. Well, thanks for participating in the interview. You're welcome. Anytime. Thank you so much for listening to my podcast. That was Micheline St-Hamel's case. And bye! Bye!