(From left) Sister Nikki, dad Ron, and mom Minnie hold a picture of Joe Grozelle in their family kitchen in Muirkirk, a community in Chatham-Kent, Ont. The RMC cadet's disappearance and death remain a mystery after 20 years.
An OPP investigation is underway into the disappearance and death of Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle in 2003. The investigator assigned to the case says he's come across some things of interest he wants to explore further.Sister Nikki, dad Ron, and mom Minnie hold a picture of Joe Grozelle in their family kitchen in Muirkirk, a community in Chatham-Kent, Ont. The RMC cadet's disappearance and death remain a mystery 20 years later.
Joe Grozelle's mom looks down at the cross they were given from his military funeral. Minnie is standing beside boxes of Joe's belongings, some containing things like the clothes his body was found in three weeks after he disappeared. Oct. 22 marks 20 years from when the third year military cadet vanished from his dorm room in the middle of the night — turning up dead in a river 22 days later. The last known person to see Grozelle alive was his girlfriend, Melissa Haggart, who says she fell asleep in his room while they were studying. And when she later awoke he was gone.
Nikki Grozelle says there are some "very simple" questions her family should have answers to by now — but don't. "They're opening cases all the way back to Karla Homolka … where if the cause of death is undetermined, it seems those cases kind of putter-out," said Nikki. "They don't get the same investigation if you had a cause of death."
"I think if it wasn't for the play, I don't know if the chief coroner would have reopened the case. It was very interesting because at one night of production, all of the OPP investigators came and watched … we hadn't seen them in years, but they came to the play." "Depending on what I'm seeking, we ask for the coroner's authority to obtain documentation and whatnot. There may be other things that I'm going to obtain … but for the most part, at this stage of the game, it's been documentation that I've obtained through the coroner's office."
"I've found some things that are interesting to me that I'll be looking at further. I'm not going to share at this point. There are things I haven't shared with the family as well, and I think it's best not to at this point. There are some questions I need to ask and just to further look into some things that are of interest to me."
Boxes piled in the Grozelle family home in Muirkirk, Ont. They contain Joe's belongings from his dorm and some, marked 'OPP', have clothing and items found on him when his body was discovered in the Cataraqui River in the fall of 2003. "I'm not so sure I'd entertain a third autopsy unless somebody could convince us that would glean some sort of meaningful information."
Since his death, each year the Grozelles travel to Kingston to replace a family-made memorial for Joe, which includes pictures of him and contact information should someone know something about the case. The memorial is close to where Joe's body was discovered on the edge of the Catarqui River. "I need to have that closure in order to be able to move on. We'll just keep going as long as it takes."
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