A Winnipeg man says he finally has the news he’s been waiting almost two decades to hear — his mother’s death is now considered a homicide.
“My wife and I shed a few tears over it because, I mean … it’s nearly 20 years,” Jim Garwood told CBC in an interview last week.
The body of his mother, 87-year-old Jessie Garwood, was discovered with extensive injuries in 2004 in the basement of her Winnipeg home, where she lived alone.
Her death had originally been classified as “accidental,” but Garwood has long believed it wasn’t.
The classification was changed to “undetermined” in 2007 after he raised concerns with the medical examiner’s
