RCMP reviewing cold-case homicides for signs of serial killer

[Patience]

The RCMP in Manitoba are embarking on the huge task of reviewing all unsolved homicides involving women in the province, searching for common threads to determine whether a serial killer might be responsible for some of them.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/07/31/mb-serial-killer-review-manitoba.html#socialcomments

[SeriouslySearching]

I wish our LE would follow their lead. Coming together to compare notes and to find connections is something all LE should be doing when there are so many unsolved cases. Here, one city or county do not have a clue what is going on in the next city or county over. They don't begin to communicate unless something comes up which clicks in an officer's mind as a rule.

[greatwhitenorth]

I wish our LE would follow their lead. Coming together to compare notes and to find connections is something all LE should be doing when there are so many unsolved cases. Here, one city or county do not have a clue what is going on in the next city or county over. They don't begin to communicate unless something comes up which clicks in an officer's mind as a rule.

I do agree with your statement, BUT Canada has something called the Young Offernders Act. That is a perfect example of making things turn from bad to worse.

ps. Yes I am Canadian...lol

IMO.

[Patience]

Here is another article,

WINNIPEG -- RCMP in Manitoba have launched an investigation to re-examine unsolved homicides where the victims were women.
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/08/02/10339571-sun.html

[kikid]

Certainly we live in a time where all of these cases should be entered into some national database! Then certain similarities should be easy to find... I would think.

[MeoW333]

Does this include the numerous Canadian Native women who have been murdered over the years? There's literally been over 500 women missing or murdered in the past 20 years, i hope they get to the bottom of it!
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-26708.html

[Kimster]

Certainly we live in a time where all of these cases should be entered into some national database! Then certain similarities should be easy to find... I would think.

This is the second time I've thought it would be good for us to have a forum for possible serial killers...Where we can collectively gather information and share ideas and cases. This time I'll submit my suggestion to Admin !!!!

(This stemmed from the many missing people in the Orlando area, though I'm aware that other areas such as this one are also targets for this idea).

[Patience]

Is there a serial killer stalking women in Manitoba?

Bernadette Smith thinks so.

Her sister, Claudette Osborne, vanished a year ago after walking out of a Winnipeg hotel.

The sex-trade worker had never gone three days without talking to family members. Her disappearance left behind four children; the youngest was just two weeks old.

"I believe it's true that there's somebody out there preying on those women, that they believe, because of their lifestyle, that nobody cares and that they won't be missed," Smith said. "But it's not true."

The RCMP said there's no currently no evidence to support the theory that a serial killer is responsible for the dozens of missing and murdered women in Manitoba — but they've now opened the door to the possibility.

The force has announced it will be reviewing unsolved homicides where the victim was a woman. At least one of the cases stretches back to the 1960s.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Manitoba+RCMP+probe+opens+door+serial+killer+theor y/1859639/story.html

[Patience]

I wish our LE would follow their lead. Coming together to compare notes and to find connections is something all LE should be doing when there are so many unsolved cases. Here, one city or county do not have a clue what is going on in the next city or county over. They don't begin to communicate unless something comes up which clicks in an officer's mind as a rule.

SS, I completely agree. There should be a database in the U.S. just like here in Canada, but the compliance rate for LE to enter data is something to be looked into. I think LE across Canada needs more funding so that LE in every Province can afford to have a mandatory complaince rate which would mean that all serious crimes would HAVE to be intered in the database. Then they could efficienty compare cold cases, unsolved homicides and other serious crimes and then have a better chance of solving them.
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/html/codis1.htm
How do you feel about CODIS. I am not familiar but I will read up on it. Do all police deptartments have to enter their crimes into Codis? What is the criteria?

Here is Canada, we have the Violent Crimes Linkage Analysis System.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/tops-opst/viclas-salvac-eng.htm

Introduction

In the mid-1980s, following several complex, multi-jurisdictional serial homicide investigations (the Clifford Olson case being the most notable), it became apparent to Canadian law enforcement officials that a system was required to identify and track serial violent crime/criminals. The Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) Advisory Committee, comprised of the major police services across the country, agreed on the need for a central repository to capture, collate and compare violent crimes.
Major Crimes File (MCF)

Following research into the FBI’s automated case linkage system, known as the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), the Canadian police community was presented with the Major Crimes File (MCF) as Canada’s first attempt at automated case linkage. Data relative to homicides was to be captured on “fill-in-the-blank” questionnaires by investigators in the field and then forwarded to regional analysts who would input the data. Subsequent analysis would then be based upon a query of key words and phrases, or combinations thereof.
By 1990, the MCF had approximately 800 cases on the database; however, no “hits” (linkages) had occurred and the system had acquired a less than enviable reputation as an investigative aid. Concurrent with the lack-lustre performance of the MCF, Inspector Ron MacKay, Officer-in-charge of the Violent Crime Analysis Branch at RCMP Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, returned from training at the FBI’s Behavioural Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia.
Insp. MacKay had spent 10 months at the Academy to acquire the training and skills necessary to become Canada’s first qualified Criminal Investigative Analyst, or “Psychological Profiler”, as it is more commonly known. Upon his return, he recognized the advantage of having an automated case linkage system that utilized some of the same behavioural principles that were applied in psychological profiling to identify and track serial violent crime/criminals.

[Patience]

ViCLAS Centres

Currently there is a ViCLAS centre in every province in Canada except for Prince Edward Island, which is served by Nova Scotia. Seven sites are maintained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and one each maintained by the Ontario Provincial Police and the Sûreté du Québec for a total of nine centres. British Columbia handles cases from the Yukon, and Alberta handles cases from Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. The largest centre is run by the Ontario Provincial Police in Orillia. These sites perform the data entry, conduct quality reviews and await further processing and/or analysis.
The Numbers

Since the implementation of ViCLAS across the country, the database continues to swell with cases. As of April 2007, there were approximately 300,000 cases on the system and over 3,200 linkages have been made thus far.
When linkages are made between cases they are put into a “Series.” These “Series” can contain any number of linkages, depending on how many cases an offender was involved in. There are currently over 88,000 series now on ViCLAS. These numbers confirm that there are a large number of serial offenders committing crimes against people on a regular basis in Canada. Linkages are expected to increase dramatically as compliance rates (compliance rates are based on the actual number of cases being put on the system, as compared to the currently much larger number of cases that qualify as ViCLAS reportable cases) increase and many provinces make reporting mandatory, as it now is in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.


ViCLAS in Other Countries

Since the inception of ViCLAS, a number of countries have adopted ViCLAS and are using it as their violent crime linkage analysis system. In recent years, countries interested in obtaining ViCLAS must submit a very detailed business case explaining how they plan on using it.
Upon approval by the Officer in Charge of ViCLAS, the country must sign a Licencing Agreement and pay an associated annual fee based on the number of ViCLAS users which starts at $15,000 CDN.
Presently, the following countries use ViCLAS: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Many have translated the ViCLAS questionnaire into their own language.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/tops-opst/viclas-salvac-eng.htm

[Patience]

Does this include the numerous Canadian Native women who have been murdered over the years? There's literally been over 500 women missing or murdered in the past 20 years, i hope they get to the bottom of it!
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-26708.html


Good question Meow, B.C. (Picton sp?), www.missingpeople.net (http://www.missingpeople.net) and all the missing women and girls along the Highway of Tears in B.C. www.highwayoftears.ca (http://www.highwayoftears.ca) Alberta (Edmonton Serial Killer) which has a Missing Women's Task Force - www.ProjectKare.ca (http://www.ProjectKare.ca), and now Saskatchewan. What is going on???????

[Patience]

Updates on the Highway of Tears website.

Latest NEWS April 19, 2009 - See News (http://www.highwayoftears.ca/news-3.htm)!

Twitter by Private PI Ray Michalko re Highway of Tears (http://twitter.com/highwayoftears)


Inquiry demands getting louder (http://www.highwayoftears.ca/news-3.htm#nquiry_demands_getting_louder_)

Erickson new Highway of Tears co-ordinator (http://www.highwayoftears.ca/news-3.htm#Erickson_new_Highway_of_Tears_co-ordinator_)

Open letter calls for public inquiry into missing and murdered women (http://www.highwayoftears.ca/news-3.htm#Open_letter_calls_for_public_inquiry_into_mi ssing_and_murdered_women_)


http://www.highwayoftears.ca/

[Patience]

http://missingwomen.blogspot.com/

Sunday, July 26

CUE Center NATIONAL ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE FOR MISSING PERSONS


NATIONAL ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE FOR MISSING PERSONS - Coming March 2010

Who Should attended? Families of the missing, advocates, law officers, coroners, forensic specialist, search personnel (all types), non profit missing person organizations, government agencies, private investigations and more.

[Patience]

http://projectkarearchives.blogspot.com/2006/10/hw-of-tears-jack-family.html

Friday, October 06, 2006

HW OF TEARS-JACK FAMILY



Unsolved Crimes

You could have the missing piece of the puzzle that will help the RCMP put someone behind bars. Here are some recent crimes that the Prince George Crime Stoppers hopes you can solve by calling our anonymous tips line, 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Missing - Jack Family


Date: 1989/01/08
RCMP File #: 1989-28607

It is the only case of its kind in Canada: the disappearance of an entire family. On August 1, 1989, Ronald Jack was seen at the First Litre Pub with a caucasion male, they left together. A relative later told police the man offered he and his wife, Doreen, jobs either at a logging camp or at a ranch. At 1:30 am, August 2, 1989, at the Bednesti Cluculz Lake area, Ronald phoned his mother. He said they would be gone for 10 days to 2 weeks. They were packing up some of their belongings and those of their two boys, nine year old Russell and four year old Ryan. It appeared the family had every intention of returning to their home on Strathcona Ave at some point. They have not been seen or heard from since. According to investigators, one of three things could have happened: foul play, the family simply went off the road and have not been discovered or they left voluntarily. However, they are placing greater emphasis on the first option.


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[Patience]

Someone offered Ronald and Doreen Jack jobs. Jobs that they would need to take care of their family. They go with this caucasion male in a bar who offers jobs and then they, the entire family are never seen again!

So who offers jobs, is male, is caucasion, and is the last to see this family alive?

[Patience]

http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/homicide2009/

[Patience]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/throwing-lifeline-to-women-on-street-52752802.html

CELLPHONES are being distributed to some Winnipeg sex-trade workers and homeless women in the hopes that being able to call 911 will keep them safe from the violence they encounter almost daily.
The program is run by Sage House, a women's drop-in centre in the North End. Individuals and businesses donated about 60 phones to the centre for the program's launch Friday.

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How to donate

CELLPHONE donations will be accepted at the following locations:
Sage House, located at 422 Dufferin Ave.
Please call 943-6379 to arrange a drop-off time.
Mount Carmel Clinic, located at 886 Main St.
Phones can be dropped off during regular office hours.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 8, 2009 A3

[Patience]

Serial killer the lesser of two grim evils

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/serial-killer-the-lesser-of-two-grim-evils-52508537.html


Which is more chilling, the notion that a serial killer is stalking Manitoba's vulnerable women or the possibility that scores of men have gotten away with murder?Forced to choose, I'd pick the serial killer. It's too monstrous to believe that dozens of our women have been killed at the hands of a pack of men, all of them secure in their belief that their victims were disposable.

[Patience]

Advocates call for Canadian investigation after FBI study links serial killings and truckers.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1875703

[Patience]

Trucker-serial killer link being scutinized

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1695795

Is a serial killer prowling Alberta's highways and truck stops?

*snip

The FBI is putting the trucking industry in the U. S. under a microscope. Since launching its Highway Serial Killings Intitiative, the bureau has arrested 10 people in connection with 30 killings, including one trucker from Tennessee who was charged with four counts of murder.

So far, the FBI has created a database of 500 victims a whose bodies have been found on or near major trucking routes cross the U. S. -- and a list of 200 potential suspects.

[Patience]

Serial Killer(s) - plural. These serial killers have not been caught. Could the murdrers the province of Alberta have links to the serial killer in Saskatchewan? Quite possible if not probable in my opinion.

EDMONTON - Police are investigating more than one serial killer in the deaths and disappearances of Edmonton-area prostitutes, a veteran RCMP officer and lead Project Kare investigator testified

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=fffdc998-9279-4819-912e-b6972e51b5fa

*snip

However, police said at the time they had not eliminated two local men who were spotted together with Quinney in the weeks before her death.
Both failed lie-detector tests, and "the polygraphist asserted that they had involvement and or knowledge of the crime," according to the affidavit

[Patience]

A private detective is casting doubt on a possible link between long-haul truck drivers and the disappearances of women along the Highway of Tears.
"Is a trucker involved? Maybe, and unfortunately until someone gets caught we're never going to know, but I just don't see it, personally," Ray Michalko said Wednesday.

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20090812207567/local/news/highway-of-tears-theory-rejected.html

[Patience]

http://www.homelessnation.org/node/15947

Fifteen of the missing are adolescents and teens, aged 13 to 18, like 14-year-old Myrna Montgrand who never made it home from a party in La Loche in 1979, or 15-year-old Norman Louison who vanished walking to a house on the Cowessess First Nation in 1977, and 13-year-old Courtney Struble, last seen walking towards her residence in Estevan on July 9, 2004. That was only four days after Regina was grappling with the puzzling disappearance of Keepness. She is among the four children under aged 12 on the list of long-term missing, with the youngest three-year-old Jonathan Uriah Molina. He was last seen travelling with his mother Maria and two-year-old brother Benjamin, all of Winnipeg. Their burned-out Thunderbird was found Oct. 29, 1985, in a slough on the White Bear First Nation near Carlyle. Police believed the car had become stuck, overheated and caught fire. Personal belongings, including bags of clothing, a suitcase, and the car keys were found in the bush, about 100 yards from the vehicle nearly six months later. Then on Oct. 1, 1986, the skeletal remains of his mother and sibling were discovered nearby, but not Molina. It remains a mystery why the family was in the Carlyle area or ended up on a remote road, two kilometres off the highway.

[Patience]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/missing-persons-unit-joins-probe-into-death-of-woman-54102132.html

RCMP won't know until an autopsy is completed today whether the body of an aboriginal female found in a field in East St. Paul on Thursday is a homicide victim.
And both RCMP and Winnipeg police have confirmed the missing persons unit -- the same unit that is part of a new initiative monitoring several dozen high-risk teens to find them before they turn up dead -- is part of the investigation.

[Patience]

R.I.P. 18-year-old Hillary Angel Wilson of Winnipeg. I pray to God that the person(s) responsible for this horrible crime of murder is caught. I do believe there are serial killer(s) that need to be brought to Justice before they kill again and again and again and again.


Police have identified a young woman whose body was recently found on the outskirts of Winnipeg, and say she was murdered.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/08/23/10571641-sun.html

Anyone with information regarding Wilson's death is asked to call Manitoba Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or the RCMP tip line at 1-204-984-6447

[Patience]

WINNIPEG — Six weeks before her body was found Thursday just outside Winnipeg, 18-year-old Hillary Angel Wilson wrote a tribute on a Facebook memorial to her friend Cherisse Houle, found dead in a creek outside the city last month.

Police aren't saying whether the deaths of the two young aboriginal women are connected. In fact, they're not saying much at all about the death of Wilson, though RCMP are calling it a homicide.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Slain+Manitoba+women+linked+through+Facebook/1925017/story.html

[Patience]

Winnipeg Free PressJuly 3, 2009

The body of a girl found in a stream in the R.M. of Rosser has been identified as Cherisse Houle, 17, of Winnipeg.

*snip

Anyone with information regarding Houle's whereabouts on or after June 26 is asked to contact the Headingley RCMP Detachment at 888-0358 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/year+found+dead/1757915/story.html

[Patience]

By Chinta Puxley (CP) –

WINNIPEG — A growing chorus of voices is calling for a provincial task force into missing aboriginal women in Manitoba after another young woman's body was discovered on the outskirts of Winnipeg.
Police are treating 18-year-old Hillary Angel Wilson's death as a homicide but have said little else since her body was found last Thursday. Her death comes one month after her 17-year-old friend, Cherisse Houle, was found dead in a creek near Winnipeg.
The deaths have left friends uneasy and have many calling for a task force to examine why so many young aboriginal women are going missing or are being found murdered.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ifLajC0LS0C3V4jPb8yZKZfS3t0w

[Patience]

Both Wilson and Houle were aboriginal, a fact that has Raven Thundersky shaking her head. She is the chair of Sisters in Spirit, a campaign launched five years ago by the Native Women's Association of Canada to raise awareness about violence against aboriginal women.
"I can't remember the last time – and I mean for aboriginal women – when the last time was that we actually were able to see the face and have the name of one of the murderers responsible for taking one of our women," she said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/08/24/mb-wilson-houle-friends.html

[Patience]

WINNIPEG -- More than 250 people came out yesterday to remember slain Hillary Wilson and to call for action on finding her killer, as well as the killers of other young aboriginal women found dead on the city's outskirts in recent years.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/08/26/10611991-sun.html

[Patience]

Where is Claudette Osborne? This beautiful young woman has been missing since July 24, 2008.

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080806/wpg_osborne_080806/20080806/?hub=WinnipegHome

If you can help find Claudette Osborne, you're asked to call the Winnipeg Police Service Missing Persons Unit at (204) 986-6050 or the Police Non-Emergency line at (204) 986-6222.

[Patience]

The recent deaths of two young aboriginal women near Winnipeg may be connected, according to a close friend who is now scared for her own life.
The woman, who CBC News is not identifying because of her concerns, said she was best friends with Cherisse Houle, 17, and Hillary Angel Wilson, 18, when they got involved a few years ago with a group of men who used them for sex in exchange for food, clothes and crack cocaine.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/08/26/mb-deaths-women-connected-manitoba.html

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[kaas]

Very chilling indeed to think that there may be an organized group preying on these young woman. Let us hope that this is cracked wide open soon and that the women from the communities receive the support they need. Safehouses, community programs, etc etc.
It is heartening to see that this situation is finally receiving national attentionas well. Hopefully the integrated task force from Winnipeg, RCMP and the First Nations will be successful in solving these horrible crimes, bring the perpetrators to justice create measures to protect the vunerable women from further predation.

[Patience]

The Manitoba government, RCMP and Winnipeg Police Service formally established a task force Wednesday to review cases involving missing and murdered women in the province.
"The province is supporting police in this vital task," Attorney General Dave Chomiak said.
"These women were mothers, daughters, sisters and friends. Many are aboriginal. We share a common goal with the police, helping as they seek answers in these cases. The unit will help move these investigations to the next level."
Members of the Manitoba Integrated Task Force for Missing and Murdered Women are experienced investigators, Chomiak said, noting the unit includes three RCMP officers, two RCMP analysts and four officers from the Winnipeg Police Service.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/08/26/mb-task-force-murdered-manitoba.html

[Alta]

I am so glad to see this finally getting some attention.I think the police should also look into the cases in Manitoba & Saskatchewan being related.Tamra Keepness's case has always sat wrong with me,I have always thought someone in her immediate family isn't telling everything they know about the night she disappeared.

[Patience]

Possible Break in the Highway of Tears Cases!!!!! It is my opinion also that the homicides in B.C. , Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba could be related.


RCMP investigators descended on a two-hectare property west of Prince George on Thursday in connection with what they called a "historical homicide."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090828/national/prince_george_search

[Patience]

Friday, August 28, 2009 12:24 PM


http://bc.rcmp.ca/digitalAssets/17/17413_Nicole_HOAR_-with_backpack.jpgPrince George, B.C.- Investigators from the "E" Division Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit are continuing their search of a property located at 31645 Pinewood Road in the District of Isle Pierre, west of Prince George.
Investigators have now confirmedwhat opinion 250 reported last night, namely that they are searching for evidence on the property that will help further their investigation into the 2002 disappearance of Nicole Hoar.

http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/13847/1/police+now++confirm+search++is++for+remains++of++n icole++hoar

[Penelope]

I live in rural Manitoba and a friend of mine is very connected to the Winnipeg Police Force. He once told me that law enforcement does believe there is a serial killer in Winnipeg as well as one operating in Edmonton. He also told me that he two girls (Houle and Wilson) were part of a sex trade ring and were killed because they talked to the police and not by a serial killer. Aboriginal leaders have been demanding for years that the RCMP take the situation of missing aboriginal women in Canada seriously.

[Patience]

Missing-women task force sees links in Manitoba deaths

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The task force was announced last August after the deaths of Hillary Angel Wilson, 18, and Cherisse Houle, 17.
Wilson’s body was found in the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul, and classified as a homicide.
In July, Houle’s body was found dumped in a field. Police said it was a suspicious death.
The possibility of a serial killer had been raised at meetings between the RCMP, residents and the province’s justice minister.
Under pressure to deal with the killings and disappearance of women in Manitoba — the same kind of incidents that have happened across Western Canada — police agreed to form the task force.
Speaking this week, RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Line Karpish and Winnipeg Police Service spokeswoman Const. Jackie Chaput did not identify the number of homicides among the 84 Manitoba cases, or say how many involve missing women where foul play is suspected.
"We’re going to be pursuing certain investigations more aggressively and in a more in-depth fashion," said Chaput.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Missing+women+task+force+finds+sees+links+Manitoba +deaths/2532331/story.html