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Cairns said
investigators asked for more time to pursue other leads,
including forensic tests that were never performed.
He refused to
elaborate on the investigation.
“We have an
awful lot more than we had, but certain things still need to
be covered,” Cairns said.
“We do not have all the answers that we need to have at this
particular stage. To release it publicly would raise more
questions than it would answer.”
Grozelle, a third-year cadet, disappeared from his dorm room
on Oct. 22, 2003.
The 21-year-old was last seen working at his computer around
1 a.m. by his girlfriend, Melissa Haggart.
When she woke up hours later, he was gone, she said.
Despite
weeks of searching by military and police divers, Grozelle’s
body wasn’t recovered for 22 days, when it was churned up by
the windswept waters of the Inner Harbour. An initial autopsy
listed the cause of death as inconclusive, but found it was
consistent with drowning.
Unhappy
with the answer he was getting from
investigators, Grozelle’s father, Ron Grozelle, pushed |
for an
independent probe of his son’s death.
The coroner’s office called in the OPP and in November ordered
Grozelle’s body exhumed from his hometown of Ridgetown, near
Chatham, for a second autopsy. The autopsy results haven’t
been made public.
In February, 15 months after Grozelle’s body was found, the
OPP asked for help identifying four people caught on videotape
walking across the La Salle Causeway early on the morning of
Grozelle’s disappearance.
Police also said they wanted to speak with a man who removed a
missing poster of Grozelle at the Kingston Centre Canadian
Tire store a week after the cadet went missing, and a woman
who called Crime Stoppers with a tip about three people at a
doughnut shop the morning of Grozelle’s disappearance.
The woman who called Crime Stoppers has since contacted police
and Cairns said the OPP received a good response to its other
requests.
The coroner’s office planned to meet with police again when
the OPP investigation is finished, which expected to take
about a month. Cairns said he hoped investigators would be
able to pinpoint exactly how Grozelle died and expected the
results would be made public.
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