Three months after her disappearance, very little new information to find Jessy Duchesneau

Disappeared last November in downtown Quebec, Jessy Duchesneau is still nowhere to be found, and very few new elements allow the investigation to move forward.

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“We are completely demoralized. We’re afraid of getting a call, we’re no longer alive. It’s really unbearable,” the aunt of the deceased, Line Aspirot, told the TVA network on Sunday. “From day to day, we wait for news, then we get nothing.”

The 19-year-old young man, originally from Paspébiac in Gaspésie, was last seen shortly before 5 a.m. on November 4.

The night he disappeared, surveillance camera footage showed him leaving an underground parking lot near du Pont and Prince-Édouard streets, and walking east toward the bike path along the Saint River. -Charles.

Since then, despite field research by police officers from the Quebec City Police Service (SPVQ), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Sûreté du Québec, few new elements have advanced the investigation.

“We are always asking for help from the public,” says Pierre-Olivier Lévesque, spokesperson for the SPVQ. “Investigators are still on the case.”

For her part, Jessy’s cousin, Joany Duchesneau, recalls the drama experienced by the young man’s parents.

“Three months without any news is almost impossible. We can’t disappear like that, overnight,” she explains. “For parents it’s difficult to lose a child, without having an answer, it’s really difficult.”

On November 10, the police found Jessy Duchesneau’s cell phone in the underground parking lot where he slept. Since then, “nothing new” regarding this discovery, confirms Mr. Lévesque.

On the side of the SPVQ, “there is no thesis that stands out” due to the lack of information related to this disappearance. At this stage, the young Gaspé resident may either have been the victim of a criminal act or have suffered an accident.

In support of the Duchesneau family, the organization Murders and Unsolved Disappearances of Quebec (MDIQ) conducted research with volunteers and flew a drone over Beauport Bay at the beginning of January.

“We are now entering a slightly calmer period in terms of research,” notes the president and founder of the organization, Stéphane Luce. “Everyone is on the lookout for new information.”

Mr. Luce says he will wait until spring to then check the banks further east of the capital.

He is in direct contact with Jessy Duchesneau’s uncle and affirms that the family still travels from Gaspésie to the Saint-Roch district to put up posters there.

The Quebec-metro Search and Rescue volunteer group was also mobilized to find the young Gaspé resident. Around fifteen volunteers carried out research with the SPVQ for two days, without success.

Anyone who sees Jessy Duchesneau is invited to call 911 for immediate intervention, or 418 614-2447 to transmit information which will be treated confidentially.

Thread of events on the night of November 3 to 4, 2023

• Jessy Duchesneau arrived from Rimouski with friends from his electrician course to spend the weekend in Quebec.
• Around 1:30 a.m. at Midnight Blue, witnesses claim to have seen Jessy Duchesneau behaving disturbingly in the club’s toilets. He goes outside under the supervision of security guards.
• Around 2 a.m., he left the Midnight Blue and, around 2:15 a.m., passed near the District Saint-Joseph pub.
• Surveillance camera images show him walking near Caron and Saint-Joseph streets around 3 a.m., and near du Pont and Prince-Édouard streets 20 minutes later.
• He sleeps in an underground parking lot near rue du Pont and comes out around 4:40 a.m. He then walks east towards the cycle path along the Saint-Charles River.
• His friends informed the police and his family of his disappearance around 4 p.m.