Melanie Cabay was a 19-year-old student living in Montreal when she disappeared in the early hours of June 22, 1994. She had been at a friend’s apartment on Basile-Routhier Street and left about 1:45 a.m., intending to return to her mother’s home on Bélanger Street and to catch a bus near Berri and Fleury. Investigators say she apparently never reached the stop and her movements after leaving the apartment are unknown, leaving a narrow window in which she encountered whoever was responsible.

Her body was found on July 5, 1994, concealed beneath discarded roofing shingles in a wooded area in Mascouche near Highway 640 and Montée Dumais. Police collected more than 200 tips and rewards were offered, yet no arrests have been announced and the case remains an unsolved homicide.

If anyone knew Melanie, saw her the night of June 22, 1994, or has information about movements on Basile-Routhier Street or near the Highway 640 corridor that summer, please share what you know.