On the evening of September 3, 1996, eight-year-old Cathryn Johnson and her mother, Jane Johnson, were found dead in their Turner Valley, Alberta, home after firefighters extinguished a deliberately set blaze. Investigators determined both victims had been killed before the fire was started; Jane, who was pregnant, had been stabbed. Authorities have not publicly disclosed Cathryn’s specific cause of death.

RCMP concluded the fire was intended to destroy evidence and believed the murders were not random. Jane and Cathryn did not always sleep at the Turner Valley residence, and police said whoever carried out the killings likely knew the family’s routines well enough to predict they would be home that night as Cathryn prepared to start Grade 3 the next day. Friends and family were questioned; Cathryn’s father, Sam Johnson, volunteered for a polygraph, and Jane’s partner, Henry Reichert, denied involvement and provided DNA samples but was not charged.

Over the years investigators repeatedly interviewed suspects, analyzed physical evidence and followed hundreds of tips. In 2011 RCMP named a person of interest believed to be living in Parksville, British Columbia, but no arrest has been announced. Does anyone who knew Jane or Cathryn have information that could help resolve this case?