On the morning of March 1, 1998, police in Moncton, New Brunswick, found a double homicide at a basement apartment. Forty-eight-year-old Joan Hicks had been stabbed multiple times and her throat slashed. Her 11-year-old daughter, Nina Hicks, was found strangled and hanging in her bedroom closet. The scene was described as brutal, and the case shocked the community.

An eyewitness led authorities to arrest 35-year-old drifter Michael Wayne McGray later that same day. McGray initially confessed to Joan Hicks’s murder while denying involvement in Nina Hicks’s death, saying he had spent the day using cocaine and that an urge to kill prompted the attack. In 2001 he admitted killing Nina, saying he had withheld that confession earlier out of fear of retribution in prison. McGray was convicted of multiple murders, including Joan and Nina Hicks, and received life imprisonment.

Does anyone have further information about Joan and Nina’s lives or the apartment where they lived that could shed light on what happened?