Shownotes Transcript
Episode 269: On April 12, 1991, a group of teens attended a woodland party near Oromocto, New Brunswick, involving alcohol and drugs, including LSD. Pamela Gail Bischoff, 14, and William Wayne Dale (Billy) Stillman, 17, left the gathering together, marking the last sighting of Pamela Bischoff alive. Stillman returned home later, wet from the thighs down, cold, shaking, and sporting a cut above his eye with mud and grass on his pants.
Six days later, Pamela’s body was discovered in the Oromocto River, a short distance from the party site. The time of death correlated to the evening she had left with Billy Stillman. Eyewitnesses confirmed seeing a male accompanying Pamela near the discovery site, and Stillman was seen departing the area, his pants muddied. An autopsy showed that Pamela’s death resulted from head wounds, and there was evidence of sexual assault, which included semen inside her body.
Billy Stillman was arrested, released, arrested again and eventually charged and convicted in Pamela’s murder. Stillman’s appeals were based on alleged inappropriate conduct by the RCMP officers collecting important DNA evidence. This resulted in the case being heard and decided in Canada’s highest court in 1997, and a new trial was ordered.
Sources:
1995 CanLII 5579 (NB CA) | R. v. Stillman | CanLII)
R. v. Stillman (W.W.D.) (1997), 192 N.B.R.(2d) 298 (TD | vLex Justis)
1997 CanLII 384 (SCC) | R. v. Stillman | CanLII)
Pamela Gail Bischoff – Life Through My Eyes)
Pamela Gail Bischoff 1976-1991 - Ancestry®)
The Constitution Act, 1982, Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11 | Federal Statutes)
The Vancouver Sun 21 Mar 1997, page 7 - Newspapers.com)
The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal 22 Sep 1992, page 3 - Newspapers.com)
YouTube — What Happened To 14-Year-Old Pamela Bischoff? | Dark Waters Of Crime | Real Crime)
ARCHIVED - Kingsclear Investigation Report | Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP)
ROBERT FREDERICK BISCHOFF: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam)
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