CANADA Canada - Jacqueline Dunleavy, 16, London, Ont, 9 Jan 1968

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On Tuesday, January 9, 1968, Jacqueline Dunleavy was working at the Stanley Variety Store on Stanley St at Wharncliffe Rd. She finished work at 6:35pm and was last seen walking out the front of the store. At 8:10pm, three youths found Jacqueline at the Katherine Harley School (today's Matthews Hall) on Oxford St west of Sanitorium Rd. Upon arrival of the London Police Force she was pronounced dead. Our investigation found that the cause of Jacqueline's death was homicide. Although she had suffered a head injury, the cause of death was strangulation.
Jacqueline was a 16-year-old grade 10 student at Westminister Secondary School when she was murdered.

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Page 92-93, 94 Victim: Jacqueline Dunleavy, Age 16

Just as Georgia Jackson had done on a equally blustery winter night three years earlier, Jacqueline Dunleavy hung the “closed” sign on the front door of her part-time workplace just after the last customer was rung through at 6:15 p.m. By 6:30 p.m., she had her coat on and headed out into an unlit, snow-dusted street. She walked as she had countless times before to a city bus stop, just located two blocks to the south. Witnesses would later confirm that she had been seen standing at the Beaconsfield stop in anticipation of catching the last bus back to her family’s home on Griffith Street, near the London Ski Club. What exactly happened next remains unclear, but at least one passer-by would later describe seeing Jacqueline getting into a white four-door sedan, described as likely being a Chrysler. The witness recognized Jacqueline, but didn’t get a look at the driver.

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Jacqueline still hadn’t been reported officially missing when, at around 8:00 p.m., three teenaged boys fishtailed a mufflerless winter beater into the parking lot of the Oakridge Plaza on Oxford Street West, about five miles from the bus stop where Jacqueline had been standing in the cold. The panicked trio pulled in and flagged down Constable David Clark, a London Uniformed Division officer and colleague of Constable John Dunleavy – Jacqueline’s father – to alert him to what they saw while parking their car to go tobogganing at the nearby London Hunt and Country Club. Somewhat skeptical, Clark nonetheless called it in to dispatch and followed the boys back to the parking lot of then known, perhaps a sign of the times, as the Katherine Harley School for Retrainable Retarded Children – today, an upscale private school. When he arrived at the location and stepped out of his patrol car, Clark wasn’t entirely sure what he was looking at but equally knew it would forever change him. At the same time, just a few miles away to the southeast, Dennis Alsop was getting out of his own car and walking into his house on Beachwood Avenue after pulling a seventeen-hour day the London OPP detachment. He walked in the door and sat down to dinner, completely unaware that his predictions from two years prior were about to prove true. The other shoe just dropped.

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Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada’s Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984 by Michael Arntfield shows a complex and ugly side to the supposed veneer that is London, Ontario, Canada. Arntfield has researched and detailed a difficult topic, giving it exposure for further consideration and discussion, like a good book should.

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Half a century ago this coming Tuesday-R.I.P. Jacqueline.

By my understanding, Jaqueline's family did not want a lot of attention or publicity on this cold case (which we need to respect). Her father was a police officer and I'm guessing that the police force put a lot of effort into finding the culprit. I wonder if they figured out who it was, but either didn't have enough evidence to prosecute or, by the time they figured it out, the perp was deceased. I guess we'll never know.

Rest in peace Jacqueline.

Jacqueline Dunleavy, 16
Murdered 9 January 1968
London, Ontario, Canada

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Jacqueline Dunleavy, age 16
Murdered 9 January 1968

On Tuesday, January 9, 1968, Jacqueline Dunleavy was working at the Stanley Variety Store on Stanley St at Wharncliffe Rd. She finished work at 6:35pm and was last seen walking out the front of the store. At 8:10pm, three youths found Jacqueline at the Katherine Harley School (today’s Matthews Hall) on Oxford St west of Sanitorium Rd. Upon arrival of the London Police Force she was pronounced dead.

Our investigation found that the cause of Jacqueline’s death was homicide. Although she had suffered a head injury, the cause of death was strangulation.

Jacqueline was a 16-year-old grade 10 student at Westminister Secondary School when she was murdered.

On January 9th, 1968, 16-year-old Jacqueline Dunleavy finished her shift at the Stanley Variety Store located on Stanley Street at Wharncliffe Road in London, Ontario.

At approximately 6:35PM, Jacqueline locked up the store and headed into the cold, dark evening to make her way home. She walked two blocks south to her usual bus stop.

Witnesses reported seeing Jacqueline waiting at the bus stop, and at least one individual saw her enter a white four-door sedan, most likely a Chrysler.

At around 7:00PM, Jacqueline’s parents became concerned and began to search for their usually prompt daughter. Her mother called the store, London Transit Commission, and reached out to Jacqueline’s friends. With a growing sense of dread, Jacqueline’s father, Constable John Dunleavy, started driving her route home, looking for any trace of his daughter.

At approximately 8:10PM, three teenaged boys stumbled upon Jacqueline’s body while parking in the lot at the then (horrifyingly) named Katherine Harley School for Retrainable Retarded Children (today Matthew’s Hall); before their discovery, the trio had been keen to go tobogganing at the London Hunt and Country Club.

The autopsy later revealed that the left side of Jacqueline’s face and head had been severely beaten, her body had been scratched repeatedly by what appeared to be the murderer’s fingernails, there was no indication of sexual penetration, and she had been strangled with her scarf. It has been suggested that the injuries that occurred to Jacqueline’s left side may have happened while she was in the passenger seat of the vehicle that picked her up from the bus stop.

The tire-tread impressions found in the snow at the crime scene are some of the best evidence in Jacqueline’s case. The authorities brought in special lighting, took multiple photographs, and made plaster casts of the impressions. Vehicle experts determined that the prime suspect in Jacqueline’s murder drove a unique vehicle with “four completely different tires in terms of make, model, and tread depth, in addition to the worst alignment problems they had ever seen in a vehicle still operating and on the road in the wintertime.”

A tremendous amount of forensic evidence was found at the crime scene, including blood, semen, and the tire-tread impressions mentioned above; however, both this treasure trove of evidence and a police investigation that has spanned decades have yet to identify Jacqueline’s killer...

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A few forensic clues stand out in this case:

- Jacqueline was last seen at a bus stop some time between 6:35 and 7 PM. One witness thought he saw her entering a white 4 door sedan - possibly a Chrysler.

- Although she had suffered a head injury, the cause of death was strangulation.

- She was on her back in the snow, with her arms straight down along her sides and her legs closed and placed perfectly straight, "as though positioned in a casket for burial.”

- She had not been sexually penetrated, but semen was found on her winter coat that had been left strewn by her remains, and Jacqueline’s skirt had been pulled up and her blouse torn open.

- Her body was left out in the open in a relatively busy area where she could readily be found.

- Autopsy revealed a small pack of pink facial tissue was found lodged in the back of Jacqueline’s throat.

Between July 1967 and July 1969, there was a series of murders of young women and girls which took place in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area not far from Windsor, Ontario. Those murders were known as the "Coed" murders at the time and have been associated with John Norman Collins. The murder of Jacqueline Dunleavy occurred inside that time frame and many of the above factors are similar to the Coed cases.

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Bumping this thread up.

Richard said:

Bumping this thread up.

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Thanks for bumping this case.

I think of Jacqueline from time to time. I didn't live in London at the time but I live there now. The building that the variety store had been in has finally been torn down.

LE has still never said whether they had a POI.

I hope her killer lived a tortured life knowing what he did to this girl.