Robert Hessel

1930 - 1993  (63 years)

• Name	Robert Hessel
  Born	1930
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	murder, crime, story
  Misfortune	Jul 1993
  	murdered
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-169111
  Died	Jul 1993	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I169111	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Charge in nine-year-old killing - Kitchener (CP) - Waterloo regional police say they have solved a nine-year-old murder case in which a 62 year old man was killed and his body parts dumped in a Kitchener swamp. William Brown, 30, faces a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of Robert Hessel, who disappeared on July 16, 1993. Five years later, on Dec 4, 1998, children found Hessel's skeletal remains in a conservation area. Brown was arrested Tuesday. Oxford Review 4 Apr 2002 ______________ The body was found on River Road near Manchester in Kitchener. It was a very dry time period and the children found the body, first the skull then the police found the rest. ________________________________ December 1998: The skeletal remains of Robert Hessel, 62, of Kitchener were found by children in a swampy section of Stanley Park Conservation Area off River Road in Kitchener. A weeklong search by police recovered 40 bones, including a skull and a jaw with teeth. Dental records identified Hessel who went missing five years earlier in July 1993. William Brown was charged with his murder, but was eventually set free in a Kitchener courtroom after Jesse Lord, a key witness, recanted a statement he gave police about a jailhouse confession. Grisly discoveries in the region. (2013). TheRecord.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/2622991-grisly-discoveries-in-the-region/

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - Jul 1993 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth