Emanuel Jaques was born in October 1964, the son of impoverished
Portuguese immigrants from the
Azores, and worked daily as a
shoeshine boy on the then-seedy
Yonge Street Strip in
downtown Toronto. On July 28, 1977, 12-year-old Jaques was lured into an apartment above the Charlie's Angels
massage parlour at 245 Yonge Street with the promise of $35 for help moving photographic equipment, when he was then restrained and repeatedly
sexually assaulted over a period of twelve hours before being
strangled and drowned in a kitchen sink. Several days after Jaques' disappearance, well-known Toronto gay activist
George Hislop received a late-night call from Saul David Betesh (27), a
sex worker who confessed to the murder, and told Hislop that Jaques' body had been hidden under a pile of wood on the roof of the building at which he had been abducted. Hislop arranged for Betesh to hire a
lawyer, contacted
Metropolitan Toronto Police and then persuaded Betesh to turn himself in. On a tipoff from Betesh, three other men—Robert Wayne Kribs (41), Joseph Woods (26), and Werner Gruener (28)—were arrested on the
Super Continental train to Vancouver as it passed through
Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The three were employed as security doormen at Charlie's Angels. The four were charged with Jaques' murder. According to evidence introduced at trial, Betesh held the boy in the kitchen sink until he drowned while Kribs restrained Jaques' legs. In 1978, Kribs pleaded guilty to
first-degree murder and a jury found Betesh guilty of the same charge, while Woods was convicted of
second-degree murder, and Gruener, who had held open the door of the body-rub parlour to allow Betesh to bring the boy in, was acquitted. ==Aftermath==