Court hears Winnipeg girl was alive when she was left to freeze to death
WINNIPEG — A pathologist says a Winnipeg teenager was alive when she was tied up and left in a shed where she froze to death.
He also told court that his autopsy uncovered no signs that 13-year-old Candace Derksen had been sexually assaulted.
Her body was found in January 1985 — about six weeks after she disappeared on her way home from school.
Dr. Peter Markesteyn was Manitoba’s chief medical examiner at the time and confirmed that hypothermia was the cause of death.