Police are offering a $50,000 reward for clues that lead to an arrest in the homicide.
Susan Assin was one of 11 siblings, and lived with family on Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation in Ontario. She vanished from Kenora, Ontario on June 13, 1974 while visiting the city. On June 17, 1974, Susan’s body was found north of Highway 17 off Jones Road, and family members say she was stoned to death or killed with a screwdriver. When she was found she was wearing only socks. The Ontario Provincial Susan Assin’s eldest sister remembers Susan going to town to visit friends.
“She would come home for a day or two and then take off again,” said Joyce Assin, who lives in Whitefish Bay, Ontario.
The girls lived with their parents on Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation in Ontario, but Joyce says Susan found friends and fun in the city.
“Her life was in Kenora,” she said.
Joyce believes her sister was running there to use alcohol and drugs, and she says Susan was violent, but even so, she can’t understand why someone would kill her.
Susan’s body was dressed only in socks when she was found.
Joyce believes the person who killed her sister used a screwdriver to do it, or she was stoned to death with rocks.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) can’t confirm her suspicions: More than 40 years later, Susan’s case has not been solved.
“They never found out, they still can’t find out,” Joyce said.
No clues have lead to an arrest, despite the OPP’s reward of $50,000 for them. Joyce wonders if the person who killed Susan is free, taking the lives of other women.
Joyce would like to see a federal inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous girls and women.
There is one officer who investigated Susan’s case that Joyce says did great work.
His name was Jack, but she can’t remember many details.
Joyce can remember few details about any aspect of the investigation; she was so young when Susan disappeared.
She did tell the CBC that it’s been a long time since anyone has investigated, and her sister would be 61 if she were still alive in 2015.
“They [the OPP] probably just let it go,” she said about the case.
Although officers from the OPP no longer communicate with any of Susan’s family members, a spokesperson told the CBC that police never close an unsolved homicide, and the file is considered active until resolved.
The OPP never close an unsolved homicide, and the file is considered active until it’s resolved.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Susan Assin, you’re asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122, 1-705-329-6111, the Kenora OPP at 1-807-548-5534, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
Source:
CBC – Missing & Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls
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