Jane Johnson, 36, and her young daughter Cathryn were killed inside their Turner Valley, Alberta, home on September 3, 1996. Initially treated as a fatal house fire near the golf course, investigators later determined the blaze was set after the killings in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence. Jane, who worked with children with special needs at Millarville Community School, was about five months pregnant; published accounts say an autopsy showed she had been stabbed, though authorities have at times withheld specific cause-of-death details. How Cathryn was killed has not been publicly disclosed.

Investigators concluded the attack was not a random break-in and believed the killer or killers knew Jane and Cathryn and their routines. The victims had been spending some nights at the home of a man Jane was involved with and had returned to their Turner Valley house around the start of the school year so Cathryn could leave for school from home. The RCMP developed several suspects and persons of interest over the years, including a person of interest reported in 2011 believed to be living on Vancouver Island, but said evidence remained insufficient to charge anyone. No arrest, charge, trial or conviction has resulted.

Who in Turner Valley or the surrounding area might have known Jane’s and Cathryn’s routines or seen something the night before school started?