Suspected killer of Canadian woman nabbed after almost 20 years on the lam
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Rafiou Sow was captured on CCTV at Montreal’s Dorval Airport on June 28, 2007.
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He had gone to the Royal Air Maroc counter without baggage or a reservation. He paid for his one-way ticket in cash and then boarded the jet to Casablanca .
Not far from the airport, cops discovered the abandoned Jeep of Sherbrooke resident Rachelle Wrathmall , 31, who had been discovered stabbed to death the previous day.
Now, according to La Presse, Sow — now the leader of a fringe political party in his home country of Guinea — was arrested Friday night at his home in Conkary. His arrest come two days after the public prosecutor’s office announced a judicial probe targeting the now 49-year-old Sow.
Officially murder is a cold case
His arrest comes hot on the heels of a La Presse report on Wrathmall’s murder, which is considered a cold case although Quebec detectives believe Sow is the killer. He is reportedly in police custody.
Rachelle Wrathmall married Rafiou Sow in 2006, hoping to help him obtain Canadian citizenship. But according to the newspaper, Wrathmall’s friends and family were alarmed at how jealous and manipulative Sow was.
They encouraged her to kick him to the curb but she was trapped in the cycle of domestic violence.
In Guinea, courts have jurisdiction to try the most serious crimes that had been committed abroad. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, Sow could be tried for Wrathmall’s murder in Africa.
The Sûreté du Québec (Quebec Provincial Police) says it will cooperate with Guinean police if they make a request through Interpol. Wrathmall’s family has indicated they are willing to testify.
Did pathologist screw up?
Out of the starting gate, the investigation was botched. The main problem for cops was the fouled timeline after a pathologist claimed the victim had died the morning her lifeless body was discovered. Sow had fled to Casablanca the previous day and the prosecutor refused to lay charges.
Jacques Lavigne, then an investigator with the Sûreté du Québec, said: “The pathologist misled us, because she said that the death dated back to more or less 12 hours ago.
“She wouldn’t listen,” he says of Hélène Fabi, the prosecutor then in charge of the case. “We had prepared a beautiful PowerPoint presentation with the circumstantial evidence. But no. She said: ‘Your case is like a piece of Swiss cheese, it’s full of holes…'”
When a reporter from La Presse contronted Sow in Guinea, he denied ever being married to Wrathmall, an employee for the CRA and graduate of Bishop’s University, before cutting off the interview,
Friends and family are reportedly delighted that the noose is tightening on Sow, who they believed for years was untouchable.
“Once you add up all the circumstances, it’s clear it’s him. But that still won’t be enough to accuse him,” said Éric Bolduc, head of the cold case unit at the Sûreté du Québec.
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