Canada- Lila Anderson, 38, Abducted @ bus stop, Raped, beaten w tire iron, Vancouver, 25 Dec. 1959

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''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

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Previous Next 2 / 2 A Dec. 1959 Province newspaper with the murder of Lila Anderson of Vancouver as a cover
''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''

 

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S1 E7: The Christmas Day Murder of Lila Anderson | Eve Lazarus
S1 E7: The Christmas Day Murder of Lila Anderson
by Eve Lazarus on September 25, 2020''
''Lila Anderson, 38 was murdered on Christmas Day 1959. She had been beaten with a tire iron and her head smashed against a rock after she was taken from a bus stop. Her naked body was dumped in a ravine at Knight street and 45th Avenue and discovered by two young boys the following day.''

Province, December 28, 1959
Lila worked as a cashier at the Safeway store at Broadway and Main. She was a Sergeant Cook in the Royal Canadian Air Force and she lived in a house that she had designed herself and rented out rooms on East 15th Avenue in Mount Pleasant.

Knight Street and 45th Avenue where Lila Anderson was murdered on Christmas day. Province December 28, 1959
She also had two children that she had adopted out. Her daughter was born around 1944, and her son Ross was born in 1947. Ross thinks his half-sister may live in Ontario. He would also like to find any half-brothers and sisters from his biological father who may have stayed in British Columbia. He has not been able to find out his father’s name.

Map showing the proximity of Lila Anderson’s murder to that of the Pauls house. Vancouver Sun, December 28, 1959
Lila’s story is part of Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders

The coat that Lila Anderson was wearing on the night of her murder.