On Friday, September 11th, 1987, Ovidiuion Dinoci was dropped off in the area of Sherbourne and Dundas Street by a coworker. The next day, Saturday, September 12th, 1987, the coworker attended 200 Sherbourne Street, Dinoci’s residence, to take him to work. He was unable to contact Dinoci over the intercom or by a subsequent telephone call.
By September 14th, 1987, Dinoci had failed to show up at work, so his employer reported him missing to Peel Regional Police.
Having been unable to contact Dinoci, on Tuesday, December 22nd, 1987, Toronto police had Dinoci’s apartment door lock drilled and officers entered the dwelling. The badly decomposed body of Ovidiuion Dinoci was located in the bathroom. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be numerous stab wounds to the body.
The subsequent homicide investigation revealed, that during the month of September 1987, Jose Carlos Massuis and Paulo Percl, both 22 years-of-age at the time of this crime, both of whom knew the deceased, developed a plan to rob him of his bank card, so that they could use it to cash a large number of government cheques they had stolen. In order for the plan to be successful, they decided to kill the victim.
Further, on the evening of September 11th, 1987, Massuis and Percl went to the deceased’s apartment, armed with a baseball bat and knife. They were invited in by the victim. Once inside, the victim was attacked, tortured and forced to provide the personal identification number for his bank card. During the attack, the victim received numerous blows to the head and body with the baseball bat and was stabbed repeatedly.
The body was concealed, the heat turned down in the apartment and a note left on the door indicating Dinoci was out of town for five weeks.
Massuis and Percl defrauded The Bank of Montreal of over $15,000.00. They then fled Canada and are believed to have traveled to South America.
Arrest warrants were obtained charging Jose Carlos Massuis and Paulo Percl with the 1st-degree murder of Ovidiuion Dinoci.
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