Canadian authorities say they have every reason to believe a former rugby player strangled his girlfriend in Montreal and dumped her tied-up body in the Nation River in eastern Ontario in 1975.
According to documents filed in a Florida court, defendant Rodney Nichols allegedly killed Jewell Parchman Langford after he realized she had lied to him about her age.
At the time of her death, the Tennessee native was 48 and Montreal-based Nichols was 32.
For decades, she was known only by the moniker “Nation River Lady” as authorities struggled to identify her.
Canadian authorities are now calling on the U.S. government to extradite Nichols, hoping the
