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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''