The new documentary series fatal road trip Will it solve the murders of two friends killed while traveling through Quebec just days before the Montreal Olympics opened 47 years ago?
It’s “queen of true crime” Victoria Charlton and criminologist Mélina Beaulieu who will investigate this sad affair. The three hour-long crime documentary and thriller-type episodes of Fatal Road Trip will land on the Vrai platform in 2024.
Produced by Pixcom in association with Quebecor Content, Road trip fatal focuses on the lives of Jocelyne Beaudoin, 20, and Renée Lessard, 23. The two victims wanted athletes from all over the world in the summer of 1976, as Quebec was preparing for it welcome, be sure to travel by bus and then through Belle Province on the escape. They left loved ones in early July with the idea of returning on the 17th of the same month, just in time for the opening ceremony of the Montreal Olympics. But we never saw her again.
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Melina Beaulieu
A first tandem study
Victoria Charlton and Mélina Beaulieu, great friends, will conduct their first investigation together. They will follow the same route as Jocelyne Beaudoin and Renée Lessard before their disappearance is reported. Equipped with a backpack like the two young women, they will follow the same path. They’ll settle into the same campgrounds and motels, at least the ones that are still in operation nearly half a century later.
They will try to get information by knocking on the doors of local residents who live near the places visited by the victims, with the aim of finding clues that could prove crucial and allow solving the two murders .
Members of the surviving families of Jocelyne Beaudoin and Renée Lessard, as well as actors involved in the investigation, will also testify in the documentary series.
Filming will be directed by director Félix Trépanier this summer.