Glenda Tedball
Missing since October 31, 1967 from Thedford, Ontario, Canada.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: 1951
Age at Time of Disappearance: 16 years old
Circumstances of Disappearance
Tedball was last seen when she left her residence heading for the back of the property and was seen by a neighbour. She has not been seen or heard from since. She lived with her mother and her companion and with her siblings near the village of Thedford north-west of London. She went to the local high school and has been described as very shy.
In September 1999, police charged Edward Graton, a 66-year-old London man, with culpable murder in this case. Since the arrest, investigators have had the foundations of the old farmhouse where Glenda Tedball lived, dug up. The house itself burned to the ground several years ago. Glenda has never been found.
Edward Gratton confessed to police that Glenda Tedball's death was caused by a home abortion carried out by her mother. She bled to death in the basement of her remote country home as Gratton held her down by the shoulders and her mother performed an abortion with a coat hanger.
Gratton helped tie Glenda's wrists and ankles to a cot in the basement and when she struggled as she bled, he held her down, putting a gag in her mouth.
Although Gratton told police the teenager was buried under the farmhouse, a recent excavation failed to turn up her remains.
In 2000, Gratton began two years of a community sentence to pay for his crime. Glenda's mother Norma Poore died in 1999.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Ontario Provincial Police
519-686-2552
Source Information:
Ontario Provincial Police
The Doe Network: Case File 553DFON
LINK:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/553dfon.html
Missing since October 31, 1967 from Thedford, Ontario, Canada.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: 1951
Age at Time of Disappearance: 16 years old
Circumstances of Disappearance
Tedball was last seen when she left her residence heading for the back of the property and was seen by a neighbour. She has not been seen or heard from since. She lived with her mother and her companion and with her siblings near the village of Thedford north-west of London. She went to the local high school and has been described as very shy.
In September 1999, police charged Edward Graton, a 66-year-old London man, with culpable murder in this case. Since the arrest, investigators have had the foundations of the old farmhouse where Glenda Tedball lived, dug up. The house itself burned to the ground several years ago. Glenda has never been found.
Edward Gratton confessed to police that Glenda Tedball's death was caused by a home abortion carried out by her mother. She bled to death in the basement of her remote country home as Gratton held her down by the shoulders and her mother performed an abortion with a coat hanger.
Gratton helped tie Glenda's wrists and ankles to a cot in the basement and when she struggled as she bled, he held her down, putting a gag in her mouth.
Although Gratton told police the teenager was buried under the farmhouse, a recent excavation failed to turn up her remains.
In 2000, Gratton began two years of a community sentence to pay for his crime. Glenda's mother Norma Poore died in 1999.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Ontario Provincial Police
519-686-2552
Source Information:
Ontario Provincial Police
The Doe Network: Case File 553DFON
LINK:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/553dfon.html