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26 July 1973 - Barbara Joan Statt, 17, last seen hitchhiking in Vancouver, BC
29 July 1973 - Statt's body found on the side of a mountain in Northern Vancouver, BC
Statt had been sexually assaulted and bludgeoned with rocks.
Friends reported that before her death, Statt told them she'd met a new male friend, a "creepy man that lives in a car".
Statt's murder was investigated as one of several homicides in interior British Columbia, on Highway 5 in 1973. Three other victims also were young female hitchhikers murdered by a man Staff Sgt Fred Bodnaruk of the North Vancouver RCMP described as a "murdering psychopath that would hit and run". In addition to Barbara Statt, at least two of the victims had been sexually assaulted.
6 April 1973 -- Gail Weys, 19, decomposed body found in a ditch near Clearwater
26 May 1973 -- Unidentified female, nude hacked body found inside the west boundary of Jasper National Park
6 November 1973 -- Pamela Lorraine Darlington, 19, found face down in shallow water on the edge of the Thompson River in Darlington.
The women were of similar height and build; two had auburn hair. The unidentified woman's spine had been cut near the waist, and her body placed in plastic trash bags.
Mounties look for Sadist
The Montreal Gazette
28 June 1974
29 July 1973 - Statt's body found on the side of a mountain in Northern Vancouver, BC
Statt had been sexually assaulted and bludgeoned with rocks.
Friends reported that before her death, Statt told them she'd met a new male friend, a "creepy man that lives in a car".
Statt's murder was investigated as one of several homicides in interior British Columbia, on Highway 5 in 1973. Three other victims also were young female hitchhikers murdered by a man Staff Sgt Fred Bodnaruk of the North Vancouver RCMP described as a "murdering psychopath that would hit and run". In addition to Barbara Statt, at least two of the victims had been sexually assaulted.
6 April 1973 -- Gail Weys, 19, decomposed body found in a ditch near Clearwater
26 May 1973 -- Unidentified female, nude hacked body found inside the west boundary of Jasper National Park
6 November 1973 -- Pamela Lorraine Darlington, 19, found face down in shallow water on the edge of the Thompson River in Darlington.
The women were of similar height and build; two had auburn hair. The unidentified woman's spine had been cut near the waist, and her body placed in plastic trash bags.
Mounties look for Sadist
The Montreal Gazette
28 June 1974