Ghosts of 2185 Montcalm

Lisette Cloutier, seen in her ghostly form, departed her physical body at 2185 Montcalm when she and her friend Carole Blais were strangled in their sleep

Robert Hamilton

    Next time you stroll the route spanning the verdant snootiness of Lafontaine Park and the ramshackle retail of Ontario St., listen closely for the ghosts of two young single mothers strangled in their sleep 34 years ago.
   Lisette Cloutier, 24, surely knew that Robert Hamilton, 22, her boyfriend of two years had previously spent four years at the Pinel Institute for the Criminally Insane for reasons unknown.
   She likely had an idea of his wicked ways, as she had helped him escape from a police car in Hull one year earlier when he was wanted for questioning in connection to a burglary there.
  When Cloutier broke up with Hamilton, she had some extra space in her apartment and invited her friend from the Gaspe, Carole Blais, 26, to stay with her.
  Hamilton waited until the two fell asleep, entered and strangled both with a cord while they slept in the apartment with their three young children at 2185 Montcalm on the morning of March 1, 1979.
   The three children came across the dead naked bodies of their mothers in the morning.
    Hamilton was charged with murder, it's not clear to Coolopolis what his final legal fate was.
   The three children who slept in that apartment during the horrible tragedy would be in their late 30s now.
   It's unknown whether Hamilton is living as a free man today.