Dianne Aubert, a 23-year-old transgender woman, was killed in a brutal attack inside the Quebec City apartment she shared with Maryline Grenier. In the early hours of February 16, 1982, another tenant in the building heard what sounded like moaning and contacted police. Officers were summoned at approximately 1:21 a.m. and entered the apartment, where they encountered a scene of extraordinary violence. The residence was in disarray, and Aubert was found naked in her bed.
She had been stabbed 121 times, with the wounds concentrated in her back. :chatgpt-content-reference
Grenier, who was 41, was also found in a bed, partially dressed in night clothes and suffering from more than 30 stab wounds, many of them to her back. She was still alive and was rushed to a hospital, where she underwent surgery and survived. Investigators believed the assailants had used several weapons during the attack; police reported finding five kitchen knives near the victims that were believed to have been involved. :chatgpt-content-reference
The condition of the apartment raised questions about whether robbery had played a role. Police determined that valuable property, including jewelry and furs, was missing. Investigators could not establish whether theft had been the original reason for the attack or whether the killers had taken the property afterward. Police spokesman Claude Lemire said at the time that authorities remained uncertain about the motive. The extreme number of stab wounds later led some memorial and cold-case accounts to regard the killing as possible transphobic violence, although the contemporaneous police investigation did not publicly establish that as the motive. :chatgpt-content-reference
Investigators focused on two unidentified men. Police described both as long-haired, approximately 25 years old, about five feet ten inches tall and weighing roughly 150 pounds. Authorities believed the men were acquainted with Aubert and Grenier, although investigators did not know how long the victims had known them. Police said they had usable descriptions of the pair and began searching Quebec City for them in the days after the killing. :chatgpt-content-reference
Despite the surviving victim, the descriptions of the two men and the physical evidence left in the apartment, no publicly available record located identifies either man as having been arrested or charged in Aubert's killing or in the attack on Grenier. Later accounts continue to describe the suspects as unidentified and the case as unsolved. There is likewise no documented trial or conviction connected to Aubert's death in the available online record. More than four decades after the attack, the identities of the two men sought by police and the precise motive behind the violence remain unresolved. :chatgpt-content-reference
