Kathleen McLaughlin - York Regional Police
To her family, she was simply Kathleen McLaughlin, a 33-year-old mother of three.
Kathleen's body was found by surveyors in a cornfield near Warden Avenue, south of Highway 7, in Markham on July 31, 1979. An autopsy later determined that she had died as a result of blunt-force trauma.
She was last seen alive more than one month earlier, on June 27 in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood, where she worked as a prostitute. Police believe she may have got into a vehicle in a hotel parking lot near Sherbourne and Carlton Streets in the dark of night.
That vehicle, possibly brown or cream coloured, was never identified.''
Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast: Upcoming Episode on Kathleen McLaughlinA bad trick is always just around the corner when a sex worker is walking the streets.That’s what York Region cops think happened to Kathleen McLaughlin, 33, and a mother of three.She was a small-town girl from Port Perry who got addicted to heroin when she was young and fell into a disparate lifestyle on the downtown strip. She used a number of aliases such as Katherine Lyle, Katherine Moore and Katherine Descoteaux.Her corpse was discovered by construction workers in a cornfield near Warden Ave., just south of Hwy. 7, in Markham on July 31, 1979.McLaughlin died of blunt force trauma. She had not been seen for a month, the last time was June 27, 1979, around Cabbagetown where she plied her trade.
