Do you feel that case will ever “officially” be solved? What will it take to crack the case in the authorities eyes?
~Ken MacQueen, Maclean’s magazine (question to Melanie Hack)

I guess the police would need to be interested in solving the case. And at this point I don’t know that they are.
I wonder if they could look at DNA evidence on the cigarette butts found in her carport or from saliva on the licked envelopes that contained the threatening letters or the foreign hairs found on her body, etc. Or have the authorities destroyed all that evidence?
They were told to keep the case/file open because of the undetermined findings at the inquest. But I found out police closed the file and labeled it as suicide. So is there any evidence left for analysis?
After-death chemistry was not yet an area of study at the time of the [1990] inquest but I’d like to know if there is someone now who can interpret the written results of the samples (taken from her dead body) showing the relationship of free morphine to total morphine in her blood and her liver. –This would tell us how long it was before death occurred and whether or not she could have even taken morphine in pill form!

Coming soon… “What would you like to tell me?”
~Ken MacQueen, Maclean’s magazine

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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