Julie Surprenant was 16 when she vanished from Terrebonne, Quebec, on November 16, 1999. A member of her high school improv-comedy troupe who had recently moved to the area with her father, Julie spent the evening at a local youth center, caught a bus home, and was seen sitting near the driver. A friend on the same bus watched her get off at a shopping center; the driver later recalled talking with her and noticing a man waiting at her stop who did not board. Julie was last seen about 50 meters from her home.

The family’s upstairs neighbor, Richard Bouillon, a convicted sexual predator with prior rape and sexual-assault convictions, became the prime suspect and was questioned, but police initially lacked enough evidence to charge him. In 2006 Bouillon, while dying of cancer in hospital, reportedly confessed to a nurse that he had killed Julie and put her body in a sports bag which he threw into the Mille Îles River; others heard the confession. Julie’s remains have never been found, and searches of the river after the confession was reported in 2011 were unsuccessful. A 2012 coroner’s inquest concluded Julie was likely raped and killed by Bouillon, and the investigation remains open.

Did anyone who lived in Terrebonne in 1999 remember seeing Julie that evening or notice anyone carrying a sports bag near the Mille Îles River?