Episode 25 coming at you this week. The terrible disappearance and murder of Shirley Duguay, mother of 5, in the very small province of Prince Edward, the only suspect seem to have not a lot of physically tie him to her murder... only circumstantial. Until an act he did almost every day, a very unassuming act of petting his own cat, would lead to his downfall. The first ever case where the DNA of an animal is used as concrete evidence to convict a killer We talking cats, so made sense to add the amazing @truecrimebnb to today's episode! REFERENCES Shirley Duguay Murder by Doug Beamish in PEI | Snowball - FFF (forensicfilesfiles.com) R. v. Beamish (D.L.), (1996) 144 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 326 (PEITD) - Case Law - VLEX 681409929 Cat Hair Finds Way Into Courtroom in Canadian Murder Trial - The New York Times (nytimes.com) P.E.I. man who killed wife in 1994 granted a 12-hour escorted absence from prison | CBC News Murder of Shirley Duguay - Wikipedia Murder of Shirley Duguay | Murder Shirley Duguay (liquisearch.com) 1999 CanLII 4537 (PE SCAD) | R. v. Beamish | CanLII Douglas Beamish | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers IEEE Xplore Full-Text PDF: 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines - Sam Stall - Google Books Careers in Forensic Science - Adam Woog - Google Books What's the difference between 1st-degree murder, 2nd-degree murder and manslaughter? | CBC News