CANADA Alexander "Sandy" Romeo LeBlanc, 29,Toronto, 20 Sep 1978

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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/02/gay-village-stalked-by-a-serial-killera-second-time.html
Sept. 20, 1978: Perhaps one of the most high-profile deaths was of club owner Alexander “Sandy” Romeo LeBlanc, 29. He was found at 7:20 p.m., stabbed more than 100 times from head to foot. “As police walked around the body, the carpet squished from the sound of absorbed blood, and bloody footprints led to an open window,” Robin Hardy wrote in 1979. Despite attempts to resuscitate him, LeBlanc was pronounced dead in his apartment on St. Joseph St.
 
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Seek leads in brutal slaying of gay club owner

TORONTO — Police say they have no leads yet in the brutal slaying of Sandy LeBlanc, manager and part owner of Studio 11, a gay disco on Carlton Street.

In an interview with TBP, homocide Sergeant Julian Fantino asked that the message go out to the gay community that the police are ” extremely concerned ‘ ‘ about the murder, and are eager for “assistance from anyone in the gay community who can help. We especially want to talk to anyone who knew LeBlanc’s movements in the early hours of Wednesday, September 20.” LeBlanc was last seen at 3:15 Wednesday morning, presumably after leaving a party held at Studio 1 1 to celebrate its second anniversary.

Fantino emphasized that the police would treat any information given to them with the strictest confidence, and that names need never be made public. He agreed, however, that such individuals might be required to testify, and in that case would have to be public.
LeBlanc was the second gay man to have been murdered in a week, but gay spokespersons do not feel that the murders are related. An arrest has been made in the murder of Gerald Douglas White, which occurred only days before the LeBlanc killing. There have also been three arrests on charges of second degree murder in the death of Colin Nicholson, killed August 27 in a building next to the one in which LeBlanc lived .
https://nicollinvestigations.wordpress.com/page/3/
 
April 4 2018
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/toronto-gay-village-killings
Sept. 20, 1978 — police were called to yet another grisly scene: the killing of Alexander (Sandy) LeBlanc, the manager of the Studio II discotheque at Church and Carlton streets and a well-known member of Toronto’s gay community.

David Penny, a former constable with Toronto Police's 52 Division, was one of the first officers to arrive. It was his first homicide case.

"I can picture the scene right now," says Penny. "That one was particularly brutal."

LeBlanc, 29, was stabbed more than 100 times from head to foot. [/QUOTE
LeBlanc’s friends hadn’t heard from him. Worried for his safety, they kicked in the door at his St. Joseph Street apartment. They found LeBlanc’s blood-spattered body on the floor.
“As police walked around the body, the carpet squished from the sound of absorbed blood and bloody footprints led to an open window,” journalist Robin Hardy wrote in the Body Politic in 1979.
It’s a scene Penny will never forget. "There was a heck of a lot of blood,” he says. “He must have fought for his life."
Despite all the evidence — semen on the bed and blood everywhere, as Penny recalls — there were limitations to what the police could investigate.
"We had limited suspects without DNA," says Penny. "Whoever did it, it was really, really violent."
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Oct 24 2021
''Whoever killed nightclub manager, Alexander (Sandy) Romeo LeBlanc, clearly wanted to hurt him as deeply as possible.

LeBlanc, 29, was stabbed more than 100 times and severely beaten before his body was found by friends on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1978, in his apartment at 16 St. Joseph Court (now Street). His home was near Studio II, a disco he ran in the Gay Village.''

2018
Are the unknown victims of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur hidden among these 22 cold cases? | National Post

Lengthy, lots of detail..
Are the unknown victims of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur hidden among these 22 cold cases? | National Post
August 31, 2018
by Victor Ferreira, Monika Warzecha
''There is currently no evidence connecting the cold cases to McArthur. For that reason — and to protect the privacy of the victims’ families — police won’t identify the files they’ve reopened.

So, the Post conducted an analysis of the unsolved homicides that took place during Idsinga’s original timeline and found multiple similarities between several historic cases and McArthur’s alleged modus operandi. Multiple cases analyzed by the Post involved men with links to the gay community, homeless men and immigrants.

Exactly 186 homicides between 1975 and 1997 remain unsolved, according to a complete public database of Toronto police cold cases. The Post began narrowing the list by eliminating cases involving children and women. Homicides linked to a robbery, drug trafficking, street fights or gang violence were set aside, too. Next, we removed the names of victims killed with a gun and those in which multiple suspects were sought. A police source confirmed the cases they’re analyzing do not involve any of these characteristics.

We also eliminated a few other cases that didn’t match the emerging pattern, including one in which the alleged killer called police to lead them to the body of a victim, or cases in which multiple people appear to have been killed together.

Because the only alleged murder scene to be identified was McArthur’s apartment, the names of people whose bodies were found in public spaces were discarded and the list was further reduced to 20 names.

A Toronto police source immediately narrowed that list by a further two names, leaving the Post with 18 cold cases. However, the source then suggested it would be incorrect to focus only on cases that occurred indoors. Using the same process as the 18 victims found indoors, a list of 13 murders between 1975 and 1997 where victims were found outdoors was narrowed to seven. After the list was sent to the police source, three additional names were removed. Of those remaining, two were homeless and one man was identified as a prominent figure in the gay community. The list now stood at 22 names.

The National Post combed through the online and microfilm archives of the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Toronto Sun and the Body Politic to research each of the 22 victims and found 10 had connections to the city’s gay community. The history instructor, CBC technician, school board trustee and financial analyst are among them. Altogether, 12 were stabbed, nine suffered from blunt trauma injuries and one victim was found with signs of medical trauma.''

''These are the 22 cold cases (in chronological order):

• Arthur Harold Walkley • Frederick John Fontaine • James Douglas Taylor • Kenneth Carmichael • James Stewart Kennedy • Brian Dana Latocki • Alexander Romeo Le Blanc • David James Gardhouse • Kenneth John Cameron • William Duncan Robinson • Nirmal Rawle Ramnanan • Thomas Cahill • Herbert Frederick Boone • Norbert Norman Vancaeseele • Vijayakumar Poobalasingam • William Walsh • Sidney Reid • Dennis Colby • Hermindo Jose Silva • Paul Armstrong • Gerrard Morin • Frank Lehmann''
 
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Alexander (Sandy) Romeo Leblanc
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''Seek leads in brutal slaying of gay club owner

TORONTO — Police say they have no leads yet in the brutal slaying of Sandy LeBlanc, manager and part owner of Studio 11, a gay disco on Carlton Street.

In an interview with TBP, homocide Sergeant Julian Fantino asked that the message go out to the gay community that the police are ” extremely concerned ‘ ‘ about the murder, and are eager for “assistance from anyone in the gay community who can help. We especially want to talk to anyone who knew LeBlanc’s movements in the early hours of Wednesday, September 20.” LeBlanc was last seen at 3:15 Wednesday morning, presumably after leaving a party held at Studio 1 1 to celebrate its second anniversary.

Fantino emphasized that the police would treat any information given to them with the strictest confidence, and that names need never be made public. He agreed, however, that such individuals might be required to testify, and in that case would have to be public.

LeBlanc was the second gay man to have been murdered in a week, but gay spokespersons do not feel that the murders are related. An arrest has been made in the murder of Gerald Douglas White, which occurred only days before the LeBlanc killing. There have also been three arrests on charges of second degree murder in the death of Colin Nicholson, killed August 27 in a building next to the one in which LeBlanc lived .

According to George Hislop, President of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto, the murders that are related still have not seen any arrests. There have been a series of very similar murders
in Toronto in which gay men have been tied up, brutally beaten and killed. “These recent murders are different,” said Hislop, “they appear to be unrelated and the police are arresting suspects.”

Anyone with information they feel may be of assistance to the police in the LeBlanc case should contact Sgt Julian Fantino, Homocide, at 967-2222.''

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