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Manhunt in Huron County
Ontario Provincial Police swarm a rural Huron County township
seeking Jesse
IMESON, 22, right, wanted in a Windsor killing.
By Kate DUBINSKI and April
KEMICK, Sun Media, Sun., July 22,
Const. Charlie
RAE of the Huron Ontario Provincial Police stands
watch over the perimeter of a cordoned area just south of Crediton,
where police continued their hunt last night for a suspect in
the slaying of a Windsor man. (Susan
BRADNAM,
Sun
Media)
Police officers and dogs combed a rural area of Huron County
yesterday as they searched for an "armed and dangerous" suspect
in a Windsor homicide.
Dozens of Ontario Provincial Police officers and dogs scoured
a five-kilometre-wide stretch of land in Stephen Township --
from Ausable Line to Parr Line north of Mount Carmel Drive --
in search of Jesse Norman
IMESON, 22.
IMESON is wanted by police in connection with the slaying of
Carlos RIVERA, 26, of Lasalle.
The search for
IMESON -- which earlier had police scouring Grand
Bend, after investigators found the slain man's car there --
began when
RIVERA's
Friends reported him missing to Windsor police
on Wednesday.
He was last seen at 6 a.m. that day.
Investigators tracing
RIVERA's movements went to the Tap, a gay
strip club in Windsor where he tended bar.
RIVERA didn't show
up for his Wednesday night shift, which wasn't like him, Friends
said.
RIVERA was last seen in his silver two-door Honda Civic, which
was being driven by
IMESON, police said.
Police went to
IMESON's
Erie
Street apartment in Windsor Thursday
night and found
RIVERA's "decomposing" body, said Windsor police
Staff
Sgt.
William
DONNELLY.
Police then found
RIVERA's car in Grand Bend early Friday.
There, investigators obtained video of
IMESON and another man
at Gables, a Main Street bar.
The surveillance images were taken sometime between Wednesday
and Friday, police said.
Police fear the man in the video with
IMESON might be in danger,
and searched the town for clues to their whereabouts.
"We've been doing door-to-door searches, going to businesses
and asking them if they recognize anyone," Lambton Ontario Provincial
Police
Const.
Todd
MONAGHAN said yesterday.
"We're hoping the public knows something, or perhaps Mr.
IMESON
can put an end to this and come speak to us."
The man with
IMESON has collar-length hair and was wearing a
dark ball cap and white shirt, police said.
IMESON is six-foot-one, 200 pounds with short, almost shaved
brown hair, brown eyes and numerous tattoos on his arms.
Windsor police said
IMESON is known to police.
Last night, an Ontario Provincial Police helicopter joined the
manhunt for
IMESON in Huron County.
As night fell, marked and unmarked cruisers -- along with armed
officers -- lined a perimeter in Stephen Township that framed
corn fields, wooded areas and the Ausable River.
Passing motorists were warned not to pick up hitchhikers, and
area homeowners were told to keep vehicles and homes locked.
"I've got my doors locked and I'm staying inside, because you
just don't know," said one woman, who didn't want her name used.
Wayne GLANVILLE, whose property borders the search area, said
it's rare to see such a police presence in the quiet countryside.
"It makes me a little nervous," he said of the suspect on the
loose.
The Stephen Township area is full of nooks and crannies where
a suspect could hide, said Huron Ontario Provincial Police Const. Jeff
WALRAVEN.
"There's so many different avenues -- trees, bushes, holes,"
he said.
But scouring for suspects is "something the Ontario Provincial
Police excels at," he added.
WALRAVEN wouldn't comment as to how long police would remain
on the perimeter.
RIVERA was a "nice guy" who always had a smile for everyone,
said one Tap employee who didn't want to be named.
"It's really scary. I'm hoping the police can find who did this."
An autopsy on
RIVERA was slated for yesterday in London. No results
have been released.
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IMESON o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-07-31 published
United in their grief
Strength in numbers: More than 1,000 attend the funeral of slain
couple Hélène and Bill
REGIER.
By John MINER,
Sun
Media,
Tues.,
July 31, 2007
More than 1,000 people attend the funeral and burial services
yesterday of Bill and Hélène
REGIER at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Church. The couple was found slain in their Mount Carmel home
last Monday. Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for 22-year-old
Jesse Norman
IMESON of Windsor, in connection with the deaths.
(Derek RUTTAN,
Sun
Media)
Mount Carmel -- With prayers, hymns and tears, Hélène and Bill
REGIER were laid to rest yesterday within sight of their Huron
County farmstead, where they were found slain a week ago.
More than 1,000 mourners gathered for the funeral, many arriving
90 minutes early.
The crowd filled Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church and
its yard, some standing for more than two hours when the seats
filled up.
Two Ontario Provincial Police officers in dress uniform flanked
the church entrance, saluting as the two caskets were carried
by grand_sons and nephews into the service that was also attended
by Bishop Ronald
FABBRO of the London Catholic diocese.
The REGIERs had been active church members in Mount Carmel, north
of London.
Bill REGIER was an active member of the Knights of Columbus and
a huge advocate of restoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.
Hélène served with the Catholic Women's League for more than
50 years and was a past London diocesan president.
Despite the brutal killing of their loved ones, the
REGIER family
spoke of forgiveness and hope yesterday, remembering the deep
faith, love of life and generosity of the couple, in their early
70s.
"They have taught all of us throughout the years about strength,
faith, family values and most importantly forgiveness. That is
what we must remember now," said granddaughter Nikki
DENOMY in
a tribute as the service began.
DENOMY said her grandparents faced their own tragedy when a fire
32 years ago destroyed the family home and killed a grandmother.
"Grandma and grandpa (Bill and Hélène
REGIER,) with six children,
surrounded themselves with God, kept on praying and continued
farming. Soon enough they had rebuilt their family home and were
a closer family than ever before," said
DENOMY.
"Our family will once again bind together, carrying on all the
values that the most beautiful couple in the world taught us."
Together as a family we will watch the wheat grow, the corn harvest,
listen to the birds sing, watch the sun rise and sun set, because
difficult times don't last forever," she said.
Grandson Nathan
REGIER thanked the community for its support
in tragic times.
While it might be hard to find a silver lining in the dark cloud
of the horrible event,
REGIER said there was one.
"Grandpa and grandma were practically inseparable since the day
they met. You would never think of one without the other close
in mind. If one were to have passed before the other, the other
one would not have been the same," he said.
Both grandchildren said it was difficult to be in a sour mood
around their grandparents.
REGIER described stopping in at his grandparents on the way home
from work, catching up on the farm news from his grandfather
while his grandmother would be in constant motion, making sure
he had two days' worth of food in his stomach.
"When she finally realized she had cooked enough for six people,
I wasn't allowed to go home without three days worth of leftovers,"
he said.
DENOMY said that Helene's grandchildren all knew grandma had
a drawer filled with little gifts.
"If you ever mentioned you liked something in the house, you
pretty much knew you were taking it home. It never failed: She
would say, 'you like it, you want it, you have it.' "
She said the sun just seemed to shine a little brighter around
her grandparents.
"Let's not be sad or angry that they are gone, but just thankful
that we are blessed to have them here in the first place," she
said.
Rev. Ray LAWHEAD, the parish priest at Mount Carmel, said the
REGIERs' death had rocked the community, family and Friends.
"It was not nice news," he said.
LAWHEAD referred to the killing as a "horrendous act" and "evil."
"What do you do, how do we respond? As Jesus would say, and I
am sure Bill and Hélène would say, there is only one response
to evil like this and that is love."
Bill and Hélène were buried in the cemetery next to the church.
Jesse Norman
IMESON, 22, wanted in the slayings of the
REGIERs
and a Windsor bartender days earlier, remains on the lam, despite
intensive police efforts to find him.
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