When Trina Costantini-Powell began brainstorming what to feature in the 1970s room during her Ottawa high school's centennial, she thought of Nixon, Trudeau and the Vietnam War.

But when she and other Glebe Collegiate Institute graduates gathered amid all the trophies and yearbooks in the school's archive, they came upon something else behind a curtain: a framed pastel portrait of a hopeful-looking young woman who never made it to her own graduation.

That person, Costantini-Powell informed the group, was Kim Rabot.

That prompted some to ask: "W ell, who is Kim Rabot?"

Rabot's family says she wanted to study to become a doctor. (Mathieu Deroy/CBC)

Fifty years ago this month, Rabot, only 17, was the first victim in a shocking and scarring series of events CBC is revisiting in an ong

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