GUILTY - Canada - Monica Jack, 12, Murdered, Nicola Lake, B.C., May 1978; *Arrest*

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Monica Jack was last seen riding her bike on May 6, 1978 near Nicola Lake, B.C. Her body was found on June 1995 north of Merritt. She was 12.

http://www.vancouversun.com/Vanishing+Point+Monica+Jack+headed+home+never+arrived/2345239/story.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/vanished/Gallery+youngest+Highway+Tears+victim/2347742/story.html
 
The youngest victim, 12-year-old Monica Jack, disappeared while riding her bicycle along Highway 5 from Merritt to her Nicola Lake home.

She had gone shopping that day, on May 6, 1978, with her 14-year-old cousin Debbie John, then left her and cycled home.

Monica's mother, Madeline Lanaro, drove by her daughter and offered to give her a lift for the last little stretch, but Monica said no.

"She didn't want to ride in the car. She wanted to ride her bike," Lanaro said quietly, wiping away tears, during a recent interview in her Spences Bridge home.

Monica never made it home.

Searchers found Monica's bike thrown down a bank off the highway, not far from her house.

For 18 long years, the family was left with intense grief and no answers about Monica's whereabouts.

Finally, in June 1995, forestry workers found skeletal human remains in a ravine off a logging road on Swakum Mountain, about 20 km from where Monica's bike had been located. Dental records and DNA testing confirmed that Monica had been found.

Police said in 1996 that they had a suspect, but not enough evidence to lay charges.

http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=2334742
 
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...rrested_in_1970s_murders_of_two_bc_girls.html

He described Handlen as someone who travelled extensively through B.C. and Alberta at the time and released a photo of the man from that era, asking the public to come forward with tips if it jogs any memories.

He said the suspect previously lived in the Lower Mainland and has a criminal record.

“He was brought into the investigation as a suspect or person of interest... early on,” Lymburner said. “It has taken this long for us to gather the evidence needed in order to satisfy the courts to bring him forward on charges today.”
 
does anybody know when Garry Taylor Handlen's court date is on this case? I think it starts this week, but can't find any info...
 
Trial begins for man accused of cold-case murder of 12-year-old Monica Jack | CBC News
Oct 22 2018
Trial begins for man accused of cold-case murder of 12-year-old Monica Jack

"Prosecutors claim an Ontario man on trial for killing a 12-year-old girl in Merritt, B.C. 40 years ago admitted to the crime after police targeted him in a so-called "Mr. Big" undercover sting.

The details emerged on the opening day of Garry Taylor Handlen's first degree murder trial in B.C. Supreme Court.

In his address to the jury, Crown counsel Mark Sheardown said Handlen told a police officer who he believed was actually a crime boss that he killed Monica Jack in May 1978.

"Mr Handlen told (the officer) that he grabbed her, took her in his camper, went up the hill, had sex with her — in Mr. Handlen's words — and killed her by strangling her," Sheardown said.

"Thus, Mr. Handlen confessed to the abduction, rape and murder of Monica Jack."
 
Jan 8 2019
Garry Handlen confessed to killing 12-year-old Monica Jack because he didn’t want to lose job: Lawyer
"VANCOUVER — Fear of losing a job that offered multiple perks and a promising future with a well-connected crime group led a man to falsely confess to murdering a 12-year-old girl in British Columbia in 1978, a defence lawyer said Monday in closing arguments.

Patrick Angly told B.C. Supreme Court that Garry Handlen also didn’t want to bring any “heat” on members of the close-knit organization that supported him through his common-law wife’s cancer treatment and accepted him as family.

Handlen’s alleged confession came after an undercover officer posing as the head of the fictitious group told him police had a DNA sample linking him to the crime but it could disappear if he provided enough details to pin the blame on a former employee who was dying."
 
Ocam's razor is fine, but sometimes there are convoluted trails, lies within lies. I wonder how many cases on WS are this twisted, not as straight forward as we imagine? Will we ever know the truth, about anything?
 
Ocam's razor is fine, but sometimes there are convoluted trails, lies within lies. I wonder how many cases on WS are this twisted, not as straight forward as we imagine? Will we ever know the truth, about anything?

No, I firmly believe we won’t.
I don’t believe in OR, either. Jmo
 
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Sept 11 2022
''VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man found guilty in the death of a young girl in 1978 has lost an appeal of his first-degree murder conviction.

GRAPHIC WARNING: The following details may be disturbing for some readers.

A unanimous ruling by the B.C. court of appeal rejects Garry Handlen’s argument that his confession of abducting, sexually assaulting and strangling 12-year-old Monica Jack was based on media reports and should not have been admitted at trial.

Handlen was found guilty in 2019 and sentenced to an automatic life sentence of 25 years without parole for the gruesome murder of the girl, who disappeared in Merritt, B.C., while riding her bike home to nearby Quilchena.

At his sentencing hearing in B.C. Supreme Court, Justice Austin Cullen called Handlen a sexual predator who preyed on the vulnerable and weak to commit barbaric crimes.''


''In sentencing him, Cullen called Handlen “among the worst of offenders” and said his actions were certain to bring an innocent child terror and pain before her life was savagely ended.

However, the judge excluded Handlen’s confession during a so-called Mr. Big police operation in November 2014 that he also killed another young girl three years earlier.''
 

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