Georges Turcotte, 27, was last seen at his Saint-Hyacinthe home on September 25, 1971, in the company of his wife, Pauline Dupuis Bonenfant. Pauline’s body was found on October 6, 1971, in a wooded area near Sainte-Rosalie; an autopsy determined she had been strangled and estimated her death at about three days before discovery. Georges vanished after that last sighting and was never located.

Police reportedly had the couple under discreet surveillance before their disappearances and treated Pauline’s killing as a homicide. Investigators searched waterways with divers and mounted additional searches in 1972 based on fresh leads, but Georges was not found. Reports from the period raised the possibility Georges had ties to the local criminal underworld and that he, too, might have been murdered, but his fate remains unresolved.

Did anyone in the Saint-Hyacinthe area know Georges or Pauline, or have information about their movements in late September 1971?