Lorenzo Chartier was an owner-driver in Magog, Québec 124 km (78 miles) east of Montréal. He was 33 years old and engaged to be married. Lorenzo and his brother Gerald both drove for Legion Taxi, driving on opposite shifts. Lorenzo worked from 11 a.m. until one o'clock in the morning while Gerald covered the day shift. On Monday, November 6, 1972, Lorenzo and Gerald met for lunch at the taxi office. A call came in at 1:30 p.m., just as they finished eating. Police later determined that it came from a phone booth. Normally Gerald would have taken the call but Lorenzo said he would take it himself because he was "going that way anyway." This was the last time anyone saw Lorenzo alive. At first nobody was concerned at his disappearance. He owned his own cab and worked off and on. Friends thought he might have gone to visit his mother or other family members who lived out of town. As a result Lorenzo's disappearance wasn't reported to police until Tuesday. Then on Tuesday evening Magog police received word that Lorenzo's abandoned taxi was parked on a country road in a wooded area near Orford, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Magog. Earlier on Tuesday the police got even more disturbing news. Lorenzo's taxi was seen at about 1:30 p.m., loitering across the street from the credit union at Eastman, 8 miles (13 km) west of Magog. The man at the wheel was not Lorenzo. Police theorized that the man hijacked Lorenzo's taxi to use as a getaway car in robbing the credit union. However the credit union was busy with customers at the time and this may have caused the robber to change his mind. The man man was wearing a mask and hood which attracted the attention of passersby. Despite his disguise they described him as having dark hair cut long enough to cover part of his ears but too short to reach his collar. He was 5 foot 10 to 6 feet tall (1.75 to 1.8 metres) and weighed 180 to 200 pounds (80 to 90 kg). He also wore a dark blue ski jacket.

Lorenzo Chartier. (Source: Sûreté du Québec, Cold Cases.) On Wednesday afternoon, November 8, the mystery surrounding Lorenzo's disappearance vanished when his body was found in a wooded area about five miles (8 km) from Eastman and about ten miles (16 km) from where his car was abandoned. Lorenzo's body was taken to Montréal for an autopsy which revealed that he had been shot once in the stomach, twice in the face and twice in the back. Police published the suspect's description in hopes of getting leads from the public. "The only thing we are certain of is that the fellow who was seen in the dead man's car Tuesday night near the Eastman Caisse Populaire is the killer," said Sûreté du Québec detective Jean-Claude Simard. Fifty years later the case remains unsolved. An appeal for information is still posted on the Sûreté du Québec Cold Cases web site.