CANADA Canada - Toronto Crimes Discussion

[dotr]

Rbbm.
An arrest has been made in the Barbara Brodkin murder, see above post, more details are forthcoming.

●At 8 a.m. on Friday, March 19th, 1993, the body of 41-year-old Barbara Brodkin was discovered by her 6-year-old son after he awoke; the boy called 911. The woman had been stabbed in the heart in the Balliol St. apartment where she resided with her son. She had been murdered sometime during the night as her child slept nearby. Brodkin was known to be a marijuana dealer, and police speculated the motive for her murder was robbery since a small cosmetics case belonging to the victim, containing drugs and money, was missing.

●On Thursday, September 1st, 1983, 23-year-old Toronto prostitute Claire Samson was seen in front of the Essex Hotel on Jarvis St. getting into a large, beige car driven by a balding older man. Samson was never seen alive again, and her body was found the following day in a wooded area off Oro Sideroad 20/21 near Highway 93, just north of Barrie, Ontario. She had been shot in the head with a small-calibre gun. In 1987 and 1989, this murder case was publicized by Crimestoppers, and a reward was offered, apparently to no avail.

●Anthony Carnovale, 30, was killed by shotgun blasts that hit his heart and lungs on Friday, January 11th, 1980, as he sat on a couch watching TV in his girlfriend’s apartment on Keele St. near Lawrence Ave. W. The two 12-gauge shotgun blasts that tore through the window of the apartment around 11 p.m. also wounded Carnovale’s girlfriend, Cathleen Pereira, in the shoulder and neck, but she survived. The gun was later determined to have been fired from no farther than 10 feet away. Neighbours saw a silver or grey Cadillac with a black vinyl roof fleeing the scene moments after the shooting.
At the time of his death, Carnovale was on parole and facing trial on drug trafficking charges. Police believe the killing was gangland retribution for something illicit in which the victim was involved. This crime was still confirmed unsolved in 1984.

●The body of Maladevi Latchman (age unknown) was found in the Humber River behind the Old Mill banquet hall on Tuesday, November 15th, 1994. An autopsy showed she had been brutally beaten, and it appeared her body had been thrown from a bridge over the river. No further information.
ETA news clip circa Nov. 1994
Brandon Sun, November 16, 1994, p. 5 | NewspaperArchive®

●At midnight on Tuesday, March 25th, 1969, 23-year-old Yvonne Dorion was walking home on Ferrier Ave., near Danforth and Pape Aves., just steps from the rooming house where she lived, when a tall man wearing a long coat jumped from the shadows of an adjacent parking lot and stabbed her in the back between the shoulder blades. Dorion survived the attack but was left partially paralyzed. An hour-and-a-half before the stabbing of Dorion, an elderly woman was attacked and robbed of her purse on the same street. She was physically unhurt. Dorion’s stabbing and recovery was a cause célèbre in the Toronto media for several months, but her assailant was never caught.

 

[dotr]

Cold case cracked: Arrest in 1993 murder of Toronto single mom
October 22, 2018
UPDATE. RBBM.
"Toronto police announced Monday that Charles Mustard, a 63-year-old Toronto resident, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. His next court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.

Charles Mustard is shown in this 2018 photo.


Police released this photo of 41-year-old Barbara Brodkin, who was stabbed to death in 1993. (Toronto Police Service handout)

"Det.-Sgt. Stacy Gallant told reporters that police are not seeking any other suspects. He said Mustard and Brodkin “did know each other” and “were not strangers,” but did not elaborate on the nature of their relationship.

Gallant said new forensic testing of DNA evidence seized from Brodkin’s apartment in 1993 was crucial in identifying Mustard as a suspect. He said Mustard has had “prior contact with the police.”

At the time of Brodkin’s death, she was 41 years old and Mustard was 37.

Police appealed for anyone who knew Brodkin and Mustard in 1993 to contact investigators if they had not already been in touch. Gallant said police are particularly looking to hear from people known to them only as Dirk and Linda.


“They are persons that we believe were acquainted to both Mr. Mustard and Barbara Brodkin back in 1993 or around that timeframe,” he said."

 

[CrimeSolver]

Thanks for posting the updates on the Brodkin cold case, dotr. I just popped in here to do so myself.

 

[dotr]

Nov 7 2018

 

[dotr]

Fresh initiative in cold case, a button might be a huge clue.
Nov 7 2018
CANADA - Veronica Lynn Kaye, 18, Toronto, 7 Nov 1980 *unique button found*

 

[dotr]

Ws thread
Toronto LE search for men posed as construction workers during violent home invasion,27 Sept 2018

 

[dotr]

Ws thread..
Trio of sexual assaults near York University, Toronto, Oct-Dec 2018
rbbm.
Man wanted after 5 sex assaults, robbery near York University - CityNews Toronto
Dec 21, 2018

A map shows the approximate locations of five alleged sexual assaults and a robbery near York University between Oct. 24 and Dec. 20, 2018. CITYNEWS

"Toronto police say they are looking for a suspect in connection with five alleged sexual assaults and a robbery near York University, including two on Thursday night within 15 minutes of each other.

Insp. Domenic Sinopoli of the sex crimes unit warned women to remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings, adding the suspect has become increasingly violent since the first reported assaults in October."

 

[Snively]

Peter Worthington suggested Olsen might be responsible for Debbie Silverman's murder..
This is an article from 2012, must have missed it at the time. Wonder what the " evidence" might be?

The Interlake Spectator
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"50 of his 71 years were spent in prison — Olson is judged to have averaged up to five thefts or robberies a day, a sexual assault every day, a murder a month.

He literally raced across the continent stealing and scamming and maybe killing.

There’s evidence he might have been involved in the unsolved Toronto murder of Debbie Silverman in 1978.

Even in death, Olson is worth studying by criminologists, psychiatrists, even journalists.

The more we know about serial killers, the better protection we have from them".


From CrimeSolver's post #40

"At about 5 a.m. on Saturday, August 12th, 1978, 21-year-old Debbie Silverman was abducted in the hallway of her apartment building at 4854 Bathurst St. near Finch Ave. W. She had just come home from a night out with friends and was entering her apartment building when the abductor struck. Some of her belongings were found strewn in the hallway.
Silverman’s body was found on November 12th, 1978 in a shallow grave near Sunderland, Ontario, about 80 km northeast of Toronto.
There is a $50,000 reward in this case:
http://www.opp.ca/Intranetdev/groups/public/documents/investigative/opp_000964.pdf
Durham Region Police Service"

Olson informed various people on his knowledge of Silverman's murder. He notified then Premier William Davis of Ontario by letter, Robert Rae, MPP of the N.D.P. Party of Ontario by letter dated May 9th, 1983 and David Peterson M.P.P. Liberal Leader of Ontario by letter dated May 4th, 1983. ON August 9th, 1982 Olson swore an affidavit with photos taken at the murder farm grave along with photos of Silverman being buried. In the following years up to 1988 a number of police officers interviewed Olson in Kingston Penitentiary on the Silverman case. On January 9th, 1987 in a letter to the Honourable Ian Scott, Attorney General of Ontario, Olson requested immunity from prosecution for the murder of Silverman. Olson says he was present and can name the killer and give photos. On December 9th, 1987 two detectives interviewed Olson regarding the letter he sent to Ian Scott and informed him there would be no deal. Olson now refuses to talk to any of them.

In 1988 Olson requested access to personal information under the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act 1987. Olson accessed four seperate departmens obtaining all the information held on him. Access was also granted to alld epartments with regards to all information held on Deborah Silverman. Olson will not identify the killer of Deborah Silverman because there is no deal which will benefit him.

 

[Snively]

Re: Debbie Silverman and Alison Thomas

Police think one man murdered two women

Toronto Star - Monday March 30, 1992

Two Victims: Deborah Silverman, and Alison Thomas both vanished one month apart in 1978. Silverman’s body was found three months later.

Two young Metro women who vanished about a month apart 14 years ago are cases that police believe may have been the work of a serial killer.

Deborah Silverman and Alison Thomas had both been in the Yonge St.-Eglinton Ave. area on the nights they vanished in late summer, 1978.

Silverman, a 21-year-old receptionist, had been out with friends at a disco on Eglinton Ave. before driving home alone later that night on Aug. 12.

Police said she was attacked just as she was walking into the back door of her apartment building on Bathurst St., near Finch Ave., around 3 a.m.

Investigators believe she struggled with her killer, who ripped off her clothes, leaving behind her panties and her purse just inside the door of the building.

Three months later, her body was discovered in a shallow grave in the Sunderland area, north of Whitby.

Her hands were tied behind her back. She had been shot to death.

She may have been followed home a man who frequented the same bar, one detective said.

Just over a month later, 26-year-old Alison Thomas went to a dinner party at a home in the Yonge and Eglinton area.

She left by herself late that night on Sept. 29 telling friends she was going to walk to a taxi stand on Yonge St. and take a cab home.

It was the last time anyone ever saw, or heard from her again.

 

[dotr]

Re: Debbie Silverman and Alison Thomas

Police think one man murdered two women

Toronto Star - Monday March 30, 1992

Two Victims: Deborah Silverman, and Alison Thomas both vanished one month apart in 1978. Silverman’s body was found three months later.

Two young Metro women who vanished about a month apart 14 years ago are cases that police believe may have been the work of a serial killer.

Deborah Silverman and Alison Thomas had both been in the Yonge St.-Eglinton Ave. area on the nights they vanished in late summer, 1978.

Silverman, a 21-year-old receptionist, had been out with friends at a disco on Eglinton Ave. before driving home alone later that night on Aug. 12.

Police said she was attacked just as she was walking into the back door of her apartment building on Bathurst St., near Finch Ave., around 3 a.m.

Investigators believe she struggled with her killer, who ripped off her clothes, leaving behind her panties and her purse just inside the door of the building.

Three months later, her body was discovered in a shallow grave in the Sunderland area, north of Whitby.

Her hands were tied behind her back. She had been shot to death.

She may have been followed home a man who frequented the same bar, one detective said.

Just over a month later, 26-year-old Alison Thomas went to a dinner party at a home in the Yonge and Eglinton area.

She left by herself late that night on Sept. 29 telling friends she was going to walk to a taxi stand on Yonge St. and take a cab home.

It was the last time anyone ever saw, or heard from her again.

Thanks for the article, started thread for Deborah Silverman..
CANADA - Deborah Silverman, 21, Toronto, bound & shot,12 August 1978

CANADA - Canada - Alison Mary Thomas, 26, Toronto, Ont, 27 Sept 1978

 

[dotr]

This veteran Toronto homicide cop retires next week. He’s still working cases hard | The Star
"Feb 25 2019
By Rosie DiManno
"Gary Giroux has been a Toronto cop his entire adult life, cutting his teeth on murder and mayhem.

Hired just two weeks out of high school, on the force for nearly four decades, 22 years spent as a homicide dick."
Winding down now with formal retirement on Thursday, already deferred from the end of 2018 because, well, there were still promises to keep and cases to be solved"

"Oliver Martin and Dylan Ellis were killed in June of 2008 as they sat in a Range Rover at Richmond St. and Walnut Ave. after watching a basketball game at a friend’s home when a gunman approached and opened fire. No suspect was ever identified. That one continues to hurt, Giroux deeply moved by public pleas the victims’ families made for information leading to an arrest."

Ws thread..
CANADA - Oliver Martin, 25, Dylan Ellis, 26, Murdered In Toronto, 13 June 2008

 

[dotr]

The Marion McDowell case is a very intriguing indeed dotr.

What stands out for me is - were there any similar cases after MD was kidnapped? And it's rather amazing her body was never found, considering the urban sprawl since 1953. Unless her body went unnoticed when digging occurred.

Started thread..
CANADA - Marion Joan McDowell,17,Toronto (Scarborough) 6 December 1953

 

[Snively]

Alice Nesbitt was kidnapped in 1955.

 

[Snively]

In 1954 there was a known strangler committing attacks around the Toronto area.

Following are some other attacks and murders around that time period in the Toronto area.

Judy Carter, 8, February 25, 1955

Two little boys told police they had sat and read comic books until 6 pm after school with Julia "Judy" Carter, near Winchester public school in Toronto. She left the house and was last seen heading east on Winchester St. toward Parliament St. on her way to her Metcalfe St. home two blocks away. Police believe she may have been abducted while waiting for traffic at Parliament St.

Her body was found April 9, 1955 at a picturesque picnic spot along the banks of a tributary of the Rouge river in Markham. Her underclothing was on her body, which was unmarked except for where her white woolen scarf had been tied in a granny knot, strangling the little girl. She was dead before she was thrown in the water.

An inmate of Collins Bay penitentiary apparently told a guard in late March that Judy's body would be found 18 miles north of Toronto.

There was a report from a farmer in the area of tire tracks in the mud where a truck had been stuck.

Linda Limpkin, 13, January 18, 1956

At about 7:45 p.m. the deceased, left a dancing school at 40 Wellesley Street East, and at approximately 8:30 p.m. she boarded a Jane Street bus at Jane and Bloor Streets and shortly afterwards left it at Jane and Annette Streets. At approximately 8:45 p.m. a young girl was seen talking to the driver of a Royal Mail truck at Jane St. and St. John's Road. At approximately 11:05 p.m. on January 18, 1956, the body of the deceased was found on Commissioner St. Her wool skirt and underslip were pulled up around her waist. One shoe was missing. She had been strangled with her own silk scarf which was knotted around her neck. She had been sexually assaulted.


Robert George Fitton was employed by the Bacon Cartage Company Limited as a Royal Mail truck driver and his route on the day in question covered the area in which the deceased was last seen alive. Fitton lured her in his truck at the Bacon Cartage garage at 104 Berkeley Street at 10:57 p.m., although his usual time was between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. Fitton was found guilty of the murder of Linda Limpkin and hanged.

Unknown Female, 11, December 27, 1956

A man offered to drive the girl home as she waited for a bus at Kingston Rd. and Kildonan Dr. Police said the man drove the girl east on Kingston Rd. but turned south along Chine Dr. to the bus. When the girl said she wanted to get out he pointed to the glove compartment and said "Remember what happened to Judy Carter about three years ago - I have a knife." He then proceeded to assault her along a section of the Scarboro Bluffs. After the attack he drove her back to Kingston Rd. and pushed her out.

Police said the man was of average height with an overgrown red brush cut. They said his top teeth were missing according to the girl's description. The man was dressed in a black leather windbreaker and driving a late model blue car.

Leaside School Teacher, March 11, 1955

Balliol Street, Toronto. A 24 year old Leaside school teacher was attacked by a man who threatened to kill her outside her home when she struggled with him after the attacker followed her home from a bus. The woman managed to break away from her attacker and run into the house. He followed and got part way in the door. The attacker was arrested at his home shortly after the incident.

John Trenton, 24 was charged and sentenced to 18 months in reformatory in March, 1955.

Kenny Bell, 6, March 2, 1956

The 6 year old boy was last seen leaving Queen Alexandra school on his way home. Kenny was a playmate of Judy Carter who was abducted and killed the previous year. He had blue eyes and was last seen wearing a navy blue cap, brown jacket, blue jeans and black rubber boots.

Sharron Necheff, 10, June 30, 1955

The 10 year old girl had recently moved to Power St. with her parents from East York, and at first it was thought she might have gone to play with friends in the district where she formerly lived. But her mother and father were told by her friends that she hadn't been seen. Sharron was 4'4", 52 lbs., slim build, blonde hair with bangs, fair complexion, blue eyes, good teeth, regular nose, thin face. She was wearing a blue dress trimmed with pink, a yellow sweater, blue socks and blue white sandals.

During inquiries, police were told that a girl wearing clothing like Sharron, was seen on Sackville St. between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Nancy Musgrove, 17, December 19, 1955

The victim had been at a restaurant at Dundas St. and St. Johns Rd. when she sat beside William Luther Nixon, 18, of Quebec Ave. The began talking about the strangler who had committed attacks recently around Toronto, including the night before. Nixon offered to walk her home, and when the victim began feeling sick they stopped in a laneway off of Dundas St.. Nixon then removed her scarf and began choking her until she passed out. She awoke to Nixon slapping her and telling her she can't tell anyone what happened. At that point she realized her clothes had been stripped off.

William Luther Nixon, 18 of 399 Quebec Ave. was arrested the same night and sentenced to 12 months.

Evelyn Price, 16, January 13, 1960

A 16 year old girl told detectives she was dragged into a car, blindfolded, gagged and kept prisoner for eight hours before engine trouble enabled her escape. She had been abducted on Grant St. at 6:25 pm.

She said she ran across ice covered fields near Brampton where provincial police found her wandering on a highway north of Toronto at 2am. Two youths with ducktail haircuts, pulled her into the car while a third drove. She was not molested and said one of the youths was called "Ed" or "Red" and that the car had noisy mufflers.

Judy Carter, murdered in 1955, was last seen within 4 km of the site where the body of Linda Lampkin was found in 1956 at Commissioner St. just west of Saulter St. S. This was the general area of Robert George Fitton’s mail route.

 

[Snively]

Other attempted abductions in the Toronto area in the early to mid 50's.

 

[dotr]

Other attempted abductions in the Toronto area in the early to mid 50's.

Thanks for the information, had not realized how many creeps were targeting kids back in the 50's!
Reminded me to post this recent public safety warning issued by LE..
March 22 2019
Peel police issue public safety warning about convicted sex offender
"Peel police are alerting the public about a convicted sex offender who is moving into a Brampton neighbourhood.

Police say Madilyn Harks (formerly Matthew Harks), age 36, will be living in the Main and Queen streets area.

Harks has been convicted three times of sexually assaulting girls under the age of eight."


Repeat child molester told she must reside in halfway house following release

 

[rambull]

●On Tuesday, December 10th, 1991, 43-year-old Norman Washington Ennis, a Beck taxi driver, was shot twice in the back of the head as he drove fares west on Eglinton Ave. W. a couple of blocks west of Caledonia Rd. He was found slumped on the ground outside his taxi in front of Westside Mall at 2460 Eglinton Ave. W. An investigation revealed that a fellow cabbie saw Ennis pick up two men and a woman at around 3 a.m. at the Spectrum nightclub near Greenwood and Danforth Aves., east of downtown Toronto. Less than half an hour later, across town, Ennis was near death, bullets having torn through his jaw and temple. Although he was revived twice by medical personnel, he died in hospital six hours later.
It is uncertain if the three persons seen getting into Ennis's car at the nightclub were the culprits, or if they were dropped off somewhere along the route and Ennis was killed by someone he picked up next. When police arrived on the scene at 3:30 a.m., Ennis's meter was still running and only a $10 tab had accrued.

●On Friday, February 25th, 1955, 8-year-old Judy Carter spent a couple of hours after school playing with two boys from her class. They cavorted for a while in the schoolyard of Winchester Public School before the boys invited Carter over to their house on Rose Ave. to look at comic books. At 6 p.m. Judy left for home, and the last time her playmates saw Judy Carter alive, she was heading east on Winchester St. towards Parliament St., in the direction of her home on Metcalfe St., just two blocks away. She never arrived home.
An intensive search was immediately launched by police that evening, but nothing was found. In the days following, witnesses came forward saying that, on the day in question, they had seen a little girl matching Judy's description on a westbound King St. streetcar in the company of a man who was holding her hand. She had been pleading "I want to go home to my mommy". At about 7 p.m., the man and girl disembarked the streetcar at Bathurst St., crossed the street, and headed south. Two of the witnesses, a couple, stated the girl and man had boarded the streetcar at either Parliament St. or Sherbourne St. Their eyes were drawn to the girl because she appeared frightened. In fact, one of the witnesses was so alarmed by what appeared to be a kidnapping, she almost alerted the driver before being dissuaded by her husband with the admonition to "mind your own business". Seeing Judy Carter's picture in the newspaper later, the witnesses were certain it was the girl they had seen.
The description (later amended as more witnesses came forward) of the man seen with Carter was of an unshaven 60-year-old man about 6 feet in height, with a ruddy complexion, discoloured teeth, a thin face with high cheek bones, missing the pinky and ring fingers on his left hand, and clad entirely in brown, including a fedora. He spoke perfect English.
A flurry of sightings of a little girl and man who appeared to be Judy Carter and her three-fingered abductor were later reported to have taken place on Saturday, including in restaurants at Bathurst and College Sts and on O'Connor Dr., but it isn't known which of those were valid. The following weeks brought fake ransom demands, the rousting of known sex criminals, and other fruitless heartache for Judy's parents as the search for their daughter stretched on.
On Saturday, April 9th, two boys fishing along the Rouge River in a rural area northwest of Unionville found a body and ran to a nearby farm for help. The body was that of Judy Carter. She had died of strangulation, her own scarf having been knotted tightly around her neck. An autopsy by Dr. Chester McLean, however, showed she had not been sexually assaulted, at least not raped.
Police believed Judy had been killed the night she was abducted, likely by a thrill-killer, not a sexual deviate, and that her body had been dumped from a Warden Ave. bridge about 1 km north of 16th Ave., then floated a few hundred metres downstream to where it was found.
A $3000 reward was posted, and further leads and tips trickled in, including one that the killer may have been driving a 1937 or '38 dark blue Dodge or DeSoto, but everything evidently led nowhere, for Judy Carter's killer remains unidentified and unpunished to this day.

●The body of 30-year-old David Anthony Gentles was found by a road crew in a ravine off Skyway Ave, east of Pearson International Airport, on Monday, December 12th, 1988. Gentles, who lived on Echo Point in northeast Toronto, had been strangled. His frozen body was wrapped in a thick blanket, his wrists were bound, and a cord was wrapped around his neck. He had been last seen on December 9th in an apartment building near Finch and Warden Aves. The killing was believed to be drug-related. No further information.

●16-year-old Sandy Ebrahim spent the night of Monday, June 28th, 1999 out with friends celebrating her upcoming birthday. Instead she ended up dead. At 3:15 a.m., having spent the evening at a nightclub, Ebrahim and her four friends were standing around their car in the parking lot of a 24-hour Burger King at 7220 Kennedy Rd., just north of Steeles Ave. E., when a stolen black Lincoln Navigator pulled up alongside them. Several shotgun blasts were fired from the vehicle, one of which struck Ebrahim in the back, killing her. The Navigator sped out of the parking lot and onto northbound Kennedy Rd. The stolen SUV was spotted shortly thereafter by a patrolling officer, but he lost sight of it for a moment and when he finally reached it, it had been abandoned.

●On Wednesday, May 8th, 1974, 24-year-old nurse Joanne Anstett was sexually assaulted and strangled to death in her apartment in Kitchener, Ontario, a city about 75 km west of Toronto. Anstett's nude body, covered in bruises, was sprawled on her bed.
A neighbour, 18-year-old Kenneth Roberts, who lived in the apartment directly above the victim, called police at 4:45 a.m. to report a woman screaming in the building.
Roberts was arrested on June 10th and charged with first-degree murder when forensic testing of long blond hairs found near Anstett's body indicated they were consistent with Roberts's hair. Roberts was convicted on October 17th.
A crusading defence lawyer spent a year preparing an appeal by having the hairs tested using a more sophisticated method called neutron activation analysis. The new test results contradicted the earlier findings and Roberts won a new trial. On Thursday, December 22nd, 1977, Roberts was found not guilty and freed.
No one else was ever charged in the murder of Joanne Anstett.
Comment: Those blond suspect hairs, presumably still in evidence, should be DNA tested and run through the national database. The acquitted Roberts could also provide DNA to rule himself out completely.

 

[rambull]

●On Tuesday, December 10th, 1991, 43-year-old Norman Washington Ennis, a Beck taxi driver, was shot twice in the back of the head as he drove fares west on Eglinton Ave. W. a couple of blocks west of Caledonia Rd. He was found slumped on the ground outside his taxi in front of Westside Mall at 2460 Eglinton Ave. W. An investigation revealed that a fellow cabbie saw Ennis pick up two men and a woman at around 3 a.m. at the Spectrum nightclub near Greenwood and Danforth Aves., east of downtown Toronto. Less than half an hour later, across town, Ennis was near death, bullets having torn through his jaw and temple. Although he was revived twice by medical personnel, he died in hospital six hours later.
It is uncertain if the three persons seen getting into Ennis's car at the nightclub were the culprits, or if they were dropped off somewhere along the route and Ennis was killed by someone he picked up next. When police arrived on the scene at 3:30 a.m., Ennis's meter was still running and only a $10 tab had accrued.

●On Friday, February 25th, 1955, 8-year-old Judy Carter spent a couple of hours after school playing with two boys from her class. They cavorted for a while in the schoolyard of Winchester Public School before the boys invited Carter over to their house on Rose Ave. to look at comic books. At 6 p.m. Judy left for home, and the last time her playmates saw Judy Carter alive, she was heading east on Winchester St. towards Parliament St., in the direction of her home on Metcalfe St., just two blocks away. She never arrived home.
An intensive search was immediately launched by police that evening, but nothing was found. In the days following, witnesses came forward saying that, on the day in question, they had seen a little girl matching Judy's description on a westbound King St. streetcar in the company of a man who was holding her hand. She had been pleading "I want to go home to my mommy". At about 7 p.m., the man and girl disembarked the streetcar at Bathurst St., crossed the street, and headed south. Two of the witnesses, a couple, stated the girl and man had boarded the streetcar at either Parliament St. or Sherbourne St. Their eyes were drawn to the girl because she appeared frightened. In fact, one of the witnesses was so alarmed by what appeared to be a kidnapping, she almost alerted the driver before being dissuaded by her husband with the admonition to "mind your own business". Seeing Judy Carter's picture in the newspaper later, the witnesses were certain it was the girl they had seen.
The description (later amended as more witnesses came forward) of the man seen with Carter was of an unshaven 60-year-old man about 6 feet in height, with a ruddy complexion, discoloured teeth, a thin face with high cheek bones, missing the pinky and ring fingers on his left hand, and clad entirely in brown, including a fedora. He spoke perfect English.
A flurry of sightings of a little girl and man who appeared to be Judy Carter and her three-fingered abductor were later reported to have taken place on Saturday, including in restaurants at Bathurst and College Sts and on O'Connor Dr., but it isn't known which of those were valid. The following weeks brought fake ransom demands, the rousting of known sex criminals, and other fruitless heartache for Judy's parents as the search for their daughter stretched on.
On Saturday, April 9th, two boys fishing along the Rouge River in a rural area northwest of Unionville found a body and ran to a nearby farm for help. The body was that of Judy Carter. She had died of strangulation, her own scarf having been knotted tightly around her neck. An autopsy by Dr. Chester McLean, however, showed she had not been sexually assaulted, at least not raped.
Police believed Judy had been killed the night she was abducted, likely by a thrill-killer, not a sexual deviate, and that her body had been dumped from a Warden Ave. bridge about 1 km north of 16th Ave., then floated a few hundred metres downstream to where it was found.
A $3000 reward was posted, and further leads and tips trickled in, including one that the killer may have been driving a 1937 or '38 dark blue Dodge or DeSoto, but everything evidently led nowhere, for Judy Carter's killer remains unidentified and unpunished to this day.

●The body of 30-year-old David Anthony Gentles was found by a road crew in a ravine off Skyway Ave, east of Pearson International Airport, on Monday, December 12th, 1988. Gentles, who lived on Echo Point in northeast Toronto, had been strangled. His frozen body was wrapped in a thick blanket, his wrists were bound, and a cord was wrapped around his neck. He had been last seen on December 9th in an apartment building near Finch and Warden Aves. The killing was believed to be drug-related. No further information.

●16-year-old Sandy Ebrahim spent the night of Monday, June 28th, 1999 out with friends celebrating her upcoming birthday. Instead she ended up dead. At 3:15 a.m., having spent the evening at a nightclub, Ebrahim and her four friends were standing around their car in the parking lot of a 24-hour Burger King at 7220 Kennedy Rd., just north of Steeles Ave. E., when a stolen black Lincoln Navigator pulled up alongside them. Several shotgun blasts were fired from the vehicle, one of which struck Ebrahim in the back, killing her. The Navigator sped out of the parking lot and onto northbound Kennedy Rd. The stolen SUV was spotted shortly thereafter by a patrolling officer, but he lost sight of it for a moment and when he finally reached it, it had been abandoned.

●On Wednesday, May 8th, 1974, 24-year-old nurse Joanne Anstett was sexually assaulted and strangled to death in her apartment in Kitchener, Ontario, a city about 75 km west of Toronto. Anstett's nude body, covered in bruises, was sprawled on her bed.
A neighbour, 18-year-old Kenneth Roberts, who lived in the apartment directly above the victim, called police at 4:45 a.m. to report a woman screaming in the building.
Roberts was arrested on June 10th and charged with first-degree murder when forensic testing of long blond hairs found near Anstett's body indicated they were consistent with Roberts's hair. Roberts was convicted on October 17th.
A crusading defence lawyer spent a year preparing an appeal by having the hairs tested using a more sophisticated method called neutron activation analysis. The new test results contradicted the earlier findings and Roberts won a new trial. On Thursday, December 22nd, 1977, Roberts was found not guilty and freed.
No one else was ever charged in the murder of Joanne Anstett.
Comment: Those blond suspect hairs, presumably still in evidence, should be DNA tested and run through the national database. The acquitted Roberts could also provide DNA to rule himself out completely.

Has anyone looked into Russell Maurice Johnston

●On Tuesday, December 10th, 1991, 43-year-old Norman Washington Ennis, a Beck taxi driver, was shot twice in the back of the head as he drove fares west on Eglinton Ave. W. a couple of blocks west of Caledonia Rd. He was found slumped on the ground outside his taxi in front of Westside Mall at 2460 Eglinton Ave. W. An investigation revealed that a fellow cabbie saw Ennis pick up two men and a woman at around 3 a.m. at the Spectrum nightclub near Greenwood and Danforth Aves., east of downtown Toronto. Less than half an hour later, across town, Ennis was near death, bullets having torn through his jaw and temple. Although he was revived twice by medical personnel, he died in hospital six hours later.
It is uncertain if the three persons seen getting into Ennis's car at the nightclub were the culprits, or if they were dropped off somewhere along the route and Ennis was killed by someone he picked up next. When police arrived on the scene at 3:30 a.m., Ennis's meter was still running and only a $10 tab had accrued.

●On Friday, February 25th, 1955, 8-year-old Judy Carter spent a couple of hours after school playing with two boys from her class. They cavorted for a while in the schoolyard of Winchester Public School before the boys invited Carter over to their house on Rose Ave. to look at comic books. At 6 p.m. Judy left for home, and the last time her playmates saw Judy Carter alive, she was heading east on Winchester St. towards Parliament St., in the direction of her home on Metcalfe St., just two blocks away. She never arrived home.
An intensive search was immediately launched by police that evening, but nothing was found. In the days following, witnesses came forward saying that, on the day in question, they had seen a little girl matching Judy's description on a westbound King St. streetcar in the company of a man who was holding her hand. She had been pleading "I want to go home to my mommy". At about 7 p.m., the man and girl disembarked the streetcar at Bathurst St., crossed the street, and headed south. Two of the witnesses, a couple, stated the girl and man had boarded the streetcar at either Parliament St. or Sherbourne St. Their eyes were drawn to the girl because she appeared frightened. In fact, one of the witnesses was so alarmed by what appeared to be a kidnapping, she almost alerted the driver before being dissuaded by her husband with the admonition to "mind your own business". Seeing Judy Carter's picture in the newspaper later, the witnesses were certain it was the girl they had seen.
The description (later amended as more witnesses came forward) of the man seen with Carter was of an unshaven 60-year-old man about 6 feet in height, with a ruddy complexion, discoloured teeth, a thin face with high cheek bones, missing the pinky and ring fingers on his left hand, and clad entirely in brown, including a fedora. He spoke perfect English.
A flurry of sightings of a little girl and man who appeared to be Judy Carter and her three-fingered abductor were later reported to have taken place on Saturday, including in restaurants at Bathurst and College Sts and on O'Connor Dr., but it isn't known which of those were valid. The following weeks brought fake ransom demands, the rousting of known sex criminals, and other fruitless heartache for Judy's parents as the search for their daughter stretched on.
On Saturday, April 9th, two boys fishing along the Rouge River in a rural area northwest of Unionville found a body and ran to a nearby farm for help. The body was that of Judy Carter. She had died of strangulation, her own scarf having been knotted tightly around her neck. An autopsy by Dr. Chester McLean, however, showed she had not been sexually assaulted, at least not raped.
Police believed Judy had been killed the night she was abducted, likely by a thrill-killer, not a sexual deviate, and that her body had been dumped from a Warden Ave. bridge about 1 km north of 16th Ave., then floated a few hundred metres downstream to where it was found.
A $3000 reward was posted, and further leads and tips trickled in, including one that the killer may have been driving a 1937 or '38 dark blue Dodge or DeSoto, but everything evidently led nowhere, for Judy Carter's killer remains unidentified and unpunished to this day.

●The body of 30-year-old David Anthony Gentles was found by a road crew in a ravine off Skyway Ave, east of Pearson International Airport, on Monday, December 12th, 1988. Gentles, who lived on Echo Point in northeast Toronto, had been strangled. His frozen body was wrapped in a thick blanket, his wrists were bound, and a cord was wrapped around his neck. He had been last seen on December 9th in an apartment building near Finch and Warden Aves. The killing was believed to be drug-related. No further information.

●16-year-old Sandy Ebrahim spent the night of Monday, June 28th, 1999 out with friends celebrating her upcoming birthday. Instead she ended up dead. At 3:15 a.m., having spent the evening at a nightclub, Ebrahim and her four friends were standing around their car in the parking lot of a 24-hour Burger King at 7220 Kennedy Rd., just north of Steeles Ave. E., when a stolen black Lincoln Navigator pulled up alongside them. Several shotgun blasts were fired from the vehicle, one of which struck Ebrahim in the back, killing her. The Navigator sped out of the parking lot and onto northbound Kennedy Rd. The stolen SUV was spotted shortly thereafter by a patrolling officer, but he lost sight of it for a moment and when he finally reached it, it had been abandoned.

●On Wednesday, May 8th, 1974, 24-year-old nurse Joanne Anstett was sexually assaulted and strangled to death in her apartment in Kitchener, Ontario, a city about 75 km west of Toronto. Anstett's nude body, covered in bruises, was sprawled on her bed.
A neighbour, 18-year-old Kenneth Roberts, who lived in the apartment directly above the victim, called police at 4:45 a.m. to report a woman screaming in the building.
Roberts was arrested on June 10th and charged with first-degree murder when forensic testing of long blond hairs found near Anstett's body indicated they were consistent with Roberts's hair. Roberts was convicted on October 17th.
A crusading defence lawyer spent a year preparing an appeal by having the hairs tested using a more sophisticated method called neutron activation analysis. The new test results contradicted the earlier findings and Roberts won a new trial. On Thursday, December 22nd, 1977, Roberts was found not guilty and freed.
No one else was ever charged in the murder of Joanne Anstett.
Comment: Those blond suspect hairs, presumably still in evidence, should be DNA tested and run through the national database. The acquitted Roberts could also provide DNA to rule himself out completely.

I have been listening to true crime podcasts and found a serial killer that is locked up in Penetanguishine. He committed murder in London, Ontario around the same time that Joanne Anstett was murdered. He lived in Guelph, Ontario. Just wondering if this could be a person of interest.

 

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Has anyone looked into Russell Maurice Johnston


I have been listening to true crime podcasts and found a serial killer that is locked up in Penetanguishine. He committed murder in London, Ontario around the same time that Joanne Anstett was murdered. He lived in Guelph, Ontario. Just wondering if this could be a person of interest.

Welcome to Ws ranbull!
Is this the person you are referring to?
Sexual sadist, serial killer to get escorted leave from Waypoint in Penetanguishene
PENETANGUISHENE – A serial killer known as the Bedroom Strangler will leave Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care to have a photograph taken.

 

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Toronto Police Service :: News Release #43959
"Monday, June 3, 2019
Missing Persons Unit
416-808-7411

The Toronto Police Service Missing Persons Unit (MPU) became operational on July 1, 2018. The MPU is a subsection of Homicide and ensures a consistent process and investigative response for all occurrences of persons missing in Toronto, or on the way to/from the city of Toronto. This includes both newly reported and historic cases of missing persons and unidentified human remains.

The MPU frequently highlights cases involving unsolved missing persons investigations, in this instance, four cases involving missing children that are still open:

- Richard 'Peewee' Marlow, then 9, was last seen on July 18, 1944, riding a bicycle in front of his family home in Etobicoke, then very rural. The bicycle was located later in the evening in front of the house, but he was nowhere to be seen.

He was described as white with blonde hair, blue eyes and a thin build. He was very small for his age and incredibly shy.

His case is featured on Canada's Missing website, which is the website for the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains.


- Helga Kaserer, then 13, was last seen on December 29, 1960, by her neighbour travelling on foot westbound along Harvard Avenue towards Roncesvalles Avenue.
She came to Canada from Austria in 1956.

She was described as white, 5'1½", 105 lbs., short, curly brown hair, brown eyes and she was wearing a grey and beige checked coat and a dark blue dress with polka dots.

Her case is also featured on Canada's Missing website, which is the website for the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains.


- Amber Carrie Potts, then 16, was last heard from by her mother on November 26, 1988. She had a history of running away but always maintained contact with her mother. Her belongings were left behind in the hotel she was staying at.

She was described as white, 5'6", 130 lbs., shoulder-length brown curly hair and brown eyes.

Her case is also featured on Canada's Missing website, which is the website for the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains.


- Nancy Liou, then 15, left her apartment on January 27, 1999, and was never seen again.

She was described as Asian, 5'5", 117 lbs., long black hair, brown eyes, right-handed with a scar on her upper lip (in the corner).

Her case is also featured on Canada's Missing website, which is the website for the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains."
Ws threads ..
CANADA - Canada - Richard Marlow, 9, Etobicoke, Ont, 18 Jan 1944
CANADA - Helga Kaserer, 13, Toronto, 29 December 1960, *Fresh initiative*
CANADA - Canada - Amber Potts-Jaffary, 16, Etobicoke, Ont, 26 Nov 1988
CANADA - Nancy Liou, 15, Toronto, 27 January 1999