''Vancouver cold case files: The Christmas Day murder
“It is a dreadful commentary on a type of city as ours that such a crime could occur,” Vancouver police said of the murder in 1959.''
by Eve Lazarus Dec 20 2021
Unsolved Christmas Day 1959 murder of Vancouver, BC woman - Vancouver Is Awesome
''Lila Anderson, 38, was murdered on December 25, 1959, her naked body dumped in a ravine at Knight Street and 45th Avenue.
Two little boys were out walking their dog the next day when they found her naked body with a black skirt wrapped around her head. She had been abducted from a bus stop, dragged into a car, beaten with a tire iron and her head was then smashed against a rock.
Lila’s body was found about a kilometre from the Pauls' house, the couple and their young daughter murdered 18 months earlier, and who I wrote about in V.I.A. earlier this year.''
''Lila told her sister and a neighbour that she had made plans for Christmas dinner but she didn’t say who with. No one saw her after she left home on Christmas Day. An autopsy determined that Lila had eaten about an hour before she was murdered.''
''Lila had two children both of whom she adopted out. Ross Dewar was born in 1947 and believes he has an older half-sister in Ontario. Ross recently connected with a half-brother from his father’s side after adding his DNA to the Ancestry.com genealogy databank.
If you have any information about Lila Anderson’s murder, please contact Vancouver Police at 604-717-3321 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
“It is a dreadful commentary on a type of city as ours that such a crime could occur,” Vancouver police said of the murder in 1959.''
by Eve Lazarus Dec 20 2021
Unsolved Christmas Day 1959 murder of Vancouver, BC woman - Vancouver Is Awesome
''Lila Anderson, 38, was murdered on December 25, 1959, her naked body dumped in a ravine at Knight Street and 45th Avenue.
Two little boys were out walking their dog the next day when they found her naked body with a black skirt wrapped around her head. She had been abducted from a bus stop, dragged into a car, beaten with a tire iron and her head was then smashed against a rock.
Lila’s body was found about a kilometre from the Pauls' house, the couple and their young daughter murdered 18 months earlier, and who I wrote about in V.I.A. earlier this year.''
''Lila told her sister and a neighbour that she had made plans for Christmas dinner but she didn’t say who with. No one saw her after she left home on Christmas Day. An autopsy determined that Lila had eaten about an hour before she was murdered.''
''Lila had two children both of whom she adopted out. Ross Dewar was born in 1947 and believes he has an older half-sister in Ontario. Ross recently connected with a half-brother from his father’s side after adding his DNA to the Ancestry.com genealogy databank.
If you have any information about Lila Anderson’s murder, please contact Vancouver Police at 604-717-3321 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
- For more information listen to the Cold Case Canada podcast: The Christmas Day Murder of Lila Anderson''