It’s been just over two decades since Nicolle Katherine Hands was fatally attacked in her Winnipeg apartment, and still, the family is searching for answers.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.It's been just over 20 years since Nicolle Hands was brutally attacked and stabbed in her Winnipeg apartment. And while a recent development means an arrest is no longer possible, officers are keeping the case open and still searching for answers that could bring the family some peace. Global's Marney Blunt has the story.
In the early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2003, Nicolle was brutally assaulted and stabbed in the kitchen of her apartment on Mountain Avenue, while her three young children and a babysitter slept nearby.Eleanor received a call no parent or grandparent ever wants to receive. “We all sort of got ahold of ourselves and I said, ‘do you want to see her once more before we leave?’ And they said yes, so we went in and that was the last time they saw her alive,” Eleanor recalled.Nicolle passed away in hospital a few days after the attack. That’s when the Winnipeg Police Service’s major crimes unit handed the case over to the homicide unit. Retired officer Jim Thiessen was the supervisor of the homicide unit at the time.
“We didn’t have a name, we didn’t have anything more than a description. But we still felt that based on this information, with a lot of footwork we might be able to identify who this suspect was and obviously make an arrest and see this through until court. The fact was, that didn’t happen, at least not initially.”
Thiessen said what’s lessened the burden is the fact he’s stayed in contact with Eleanor over the past two decades and become close friends with her.No closure, no justice, and the rollercoaster that comes with searching for answers over two decades has taken its emotional and mental toll on Eleanor.
Karen Wiebe, the executive director of MOVA, says a lack of answers in any case only intensifies the trauma for family members of victims of crime. “ he phoned me and said ‘well, we got him and he’s in a cell’,” Eleanor said. “And I got all excited and I had to tell the kids, we were all rejoicing.”
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