Who killed Ting Fong Chan? Over 50 years later, Winnipeg police review case that led to wrongful convictions [Video]

More than five decades after a 40-year-old chef and father of two was killed near a downtown Winnipeg construction site, the three men wrongfully convicted in his murder have been exonerated — leaving a crucial question unanswered.

Who really killed Ting Fong Chan?

“To say the trail is cold … doesn’t quite get to it,” said James Lockyer, a lawyer and the director of Innocence Canada. That group helped exonerate Allan Woodhouse, Brian Anderson and Clarence Woodhouse in Chan’s 1973 killing, and has filed a posthumous application for Russell Woodhouse’s manslaughter conviction to also be reviewed.

The more time that has passed in a case like this, the colder that trail — and “I hate to say this, but probably the less enthusiasm to reopen the investigation,” Lockyer said.

But does that make it impossible? Not quite.

In fact, the real killer has been identified in at least three other cases the organization has worked on — sometimes decades after the …