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Niagara Regional Police have identified and charged a suspect in connection to the death of Jessica St. Jules, a Hamilton woman who was found dead in a rural Niagara ditch last month. He is being held in custody pending a bail hearing at the Robert S.K. Welch Courthouse in St. Catharines.
The 20-year-old was charged on Tuesday, weeks after Jessica St. Jules was found in Lincoln
Niagara regional police have charged a 20-year-old man in connection to the death of Jessica St. Jules, a Hamilton woman who was found dead in Niagara last month.
On Tuesday, police charged the Hamilton man with second-degree murder. He is being held in custody pending a bail hearing Wednesday in St. Catharines, Ont.
St. Jules’s body was found in a ditch on the west side of Nineteenth Street in the town of Lincoln on June 8. She was 27. Police said she is survived by her daughter, mother and siblings.
An online obituary said she was “kind-hearted, loving and caring.”
St. Jules was last seen entering a Dodge Grand Caravan on Barton Street in Hamilton at around 4:20 a.m., hours before she was found around 40 kilometres away, police said.
Last month, authorities released an image of the vehicle and the driver and encouraged them to turn themselves into police custody.
St. Jules’s death is the Niagara Region’s seventh homicide of the year.
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