Her partially clad and badly decomposed body was found Aug. 16, 2000, in an abandoned property near Drouillard Road and Trenton Street, three weeks after she was reported missing.
“There was insufficient evidence upon which we could secure a conviction,” Nikota said Tuesday.
He was forced to tell a judge in October 2003 that there was “no reasonable prospect” of pinning Charette’s murder on MacDonald.
An undercover Windsor police “sting team” trailed MacDonald and obtained samples of his DNA, said Nikota.
Despite the involvement of U.S. crime labs conducting sophisticated DNA tests not yet available in Canada, the results were inconclusive.
DNA SAMPLE
The DNA sample collected by Windsor police fit perfectly to the suspect in Toronto’s Campbell murder case.
MacDonald, who is known to several Canadian police agencies, has been labelled a “person of interest” in the unsolved killings of three prostitutes in Toronto and a homicide on Prince Edward Island.
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