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She was interred at Pleasantview Memorial Gardens, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. While French assisted Homolka with directions, Bernardo attacked her from behind and forced her into the car at knife point. The kidnapping was seen by several eyewitnesses.
She was held in captivity for three days, during which Bernardo and Homolka videotaped themselves torturing and subjecting the 15-year-old to sexual humiliation and degradation while forcing her to drink large amounts of alcohol.
They murdered her on 19 April 1992. Her naked body was found in a ditch along Number.
1 Sideroad in north Burlington on 30 April 1992. French"s school community also gave the name to the Green Ribbon of Hope Campaign, a national campaign continued to this day by Child Find Canada, governments, organizations and individuals to raise funds and awareness for missing children.
The Green Ribbon Trail in Saint Catharines was named in her honour.
A monument to French"s memory stands at the beginning of the trail. The ribbon also gave its name to the Green Ribbon Task Force, the police group tasked with finding Leslie Mahaffy and French"s killers, though they later found themselves embroiled in controversy over the role of media in police investigations. French is remembered for declining cooperation with her abductors in the later period of her abduction: "Some things are worth dying for".
