For almost nine years Colleen MacVicar has been waiting for her phone to ring.
"Every day we think about who killed Kathleen," she said Monday from her Glace Bay, N.S., home. "We are wondering all the time."
The phone rang yesterday but it was not the police.
"We were told by family that there was something going on in Trenton," she said. "Needless to say we are monitoring it."
In June 2001 the 19-year-old, visiting her aunt and uncle at CFB Trenton, was found stabbed and sexually violated in a wooded section of the base.
The case has never been solved.
"Devastating," said Colleen of Monday's developments that perhaps could provide a lead.
"I felt sick to my stomach. We have always felt it was somebody on the base who had done this and had always hoped it would one day be solved."
Perhaps the arrest of CFB Trenton's commanding officer Monday, she said, is a step toward that.
OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino said Monday that every aspect of connections between the suspect in custody and the slain Kathleen will be explored.
Calling the allegations against Col. Russ Williams "disturbing," Fantino said the OPP, Belleville Police and military investigators will work to get to the bottom of this.
"We are anxious to hear what those results will be," said Colleen.
"What happened today is like reliving the death all over again and we will help police in any way we can."
