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www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/coldcases.php
This happened not too far from where I live, and I visited the crime scene a couple of years ago. The area hasn't changed all that much, but the empty lot where the bodies were found is now the parking lot of a business.
The person responsible could well be a trucker or a traveling salesman, because both the crime scene and Windsor, the city where gun was found a couple of months later, are close to the world's busiest freeway. The gun was both stolen in Windsor (a city 360 kilometres (224 miles) west of the crime scene) and located there by police, which indicates the killer might have lived there at the time.
Map(times/locations approximated):
1. Donna arrives at her friend Wendy's apartment on Falstaff (?) Rd.
2. About 8 pm, girls arrive at Yorkdale shopping mall. Stay for a couple of hours before leaving.
3. Girls arrive at Sit 'n' Eat Restaurant at about 10:30, drink cokes. Aside: Why they couldn't find cokes elsewhere is not known. Since they were taking transit, it is rather out of their way to go to this joint for soft drinks.
4. Girls' bodies found here early the following morning (details below).
Aerial image, enlarged from above:
1. Location of greasy spoon where girls were last seen. They must have met their killer either in the restaurant or somewhere along Keele St. There would be no reason for them to have travelled east on Wilson Ave., since it was in the opposite direction of both of their homes. He/she may have offered them a ride or kidnapped them at gunpoint, then either taken them to lot and killed them, or stopped there when they resisted. It seems highly unlikely that the killer was on foot.
2. The bodies were found here at 7:30 am by a high school student (his route is seen in blue, and the school where he was heading is in the upper-centre of image). The bodies were along a fence that abutted a row of backyards. Houses are about 50-100 ft from site of murders. Neighbours report having heard gunshots around midnight, but, although it's a safe lower-middle class neighbourhood, nobody bothered to look outside or call police. I have no idea if there is any DNA in this case, but the police website states the bodies were clothed.
Edit: I tried to add the images, but it didn't work. Anyone know why?
On Friday, April 27, 1973, at about 7:30 a.m., 18 year old Tony ISCARO, a student at Downsview Collegiate, was on his way to a basketball game at his school, and taking a short cut through a vacant lot. As he walked north on the east side of the lot he discovered the fully clothed bodies of two females lying together in a pool of blood. ISCARO went to a nearby factory at 949 Wilson Avenue and called police, who attended at the scene a short time later and an investigation into the deaths was commenced.
The two victims were identified as 17 year old Donna STEARNE and 17 year old Wendy Ann TEDFORD.
Autopsies revealed that both girls had been shot in the head. The shells recovered indicated a .38 calibre weapon had been used.
Investigations reveal that on Thursday April 26, the two close friends arranged to go out shopping. Donna left home about 7:00 p.m. and arrived at Wendy's apartment about 7:30 p.m. The two left shortly after.
They travelled by public transit to the Yorkdale Mall where they spent a couple of hours. They left the mall and travelled by bus to the area of Keele Street north of Wilson Avenue. They were last seen in the "Sit n' Eat" Restaurant at about 10:45 p.m., ordering cokes. They did not stay long, and no-one saw them leave shortly after 11:00 p.m.
The crime scene is only a short distance away from the restaurant.
After the bodies of the two girls were discovered, the residential area east of the lot was canvassed and several residents reported hearing loud bangs about midnight on Thursday.
Despite the short amount of time from the last sighting to the believed time of death, all enquiries by police failed to resolve the matter. Several months later, in an unrelated investigation, Ontario Provincial Police Officers in the Windsor, Ontario area, recovered a .38 Colt revolver, 6 shot, with a 6" barrel.
The revolver was routinely submitted by the O.P.P for examination at the Firearms Section of the Centre of Forensic Sciences. The Colt was examined and positively identified as being the weapon that fired the bullets which killed both girls.
It was determined that the Colt revolver had been stolen from a home in the Windsor area during a break and enter several months prior to the homicide of the girls. Extensive enquiries in the Windsor area failed to reveal any information concerning the homicide.
This happened not too far from where I live, and I visited the crime scene a couple of years ago. The area hasn't changed all that much, but the empty lot where the bodies were found is now the parking lot of a business.
The person responsible could well be a trucker or a traveling salesman, because both the crime scene and Windsor, the city where gun was found a couple of months later, are close to the world's busiest freeway. The gun was both stolen in Windsor (a city 360 kilometres (224 miles) west of the crime scene) and located there by police, which indicates the killer might have lived there at the time.
Map(times/locations approximated):
1. Donna arrives at her friend Wendy's apartment on Falstaff (?) Rd.
2. About 8 pm, girls arrive at Yorkdale shopping mall. Stay for a couple of hours before leaving.
3. Girls arrive at Sit 'n' Eat Restaurant at about 10:30, drink cokes. Aside: Why they couldn't find cokes elsewhere is not known. Since they were taking transit, it is rather out of their way to go to this joint for soft drinks.
4. Girls' bodies found here early the following morning (details below).
Aerial image, enlarged from above:
1. Location of greasy spoon where girls were last seen. They must have met their killer either in the restaurant or somewhere along Keele St. There would be no reason for them to have travelled east on Wilson Ave., since it was in the opposite direction of both of their homes. He/she may have offered them a ride or kidnapped them at gunpoint, then either taken them to lot and killed them, or stopped there when they resisted. It seems highly unlikely that the killer was on foot.
2. The bodies were found here at 7:30 am by a high school student (his route is seen in blue, and the school where he was heading is in the upper-centre of image). The bodies were along a fence that abutted a row of backyards. Houses are about 50-100 ft from site of murders. Neighbours report having heard gunshots around midnight, but, although it's a safe lower-middle class neighbourhood, nobody bothered to look outside or call police. I have no idea if there is any DNA in this case, but the police website states the bodies were clothed.
Edit: I tried to add the images, but it didn't work. Anyone know why?