CANADA Canada - Sonia Varaschin, 42, Orangeville, 29 Aug 2010 - #2

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Mar 07, 2012 - 2:49 PM
Varaschin murder, Loder attack, human remains discovered
Author of serial killer book discusses these and more

Having spent three years researching and writing about Canadian murderers, author Lee Mellor has more insight than most people into the world of violence.
While Dufferin and area has several unsolved violent crimes on its books in the past couple years, Mellor is convinced it’s merely a string of isolated events.

“Serial killers are so rare, it’s not a conclusion we should lead to,” he said, referring to 2010 murder of Orangeville’s Sonia Varaschin, the near-fatal attack on Mono resident Shelley Loder that same year, as well as several discoveries of human remains — Van Sanh Tieu inside a burned down Alton building and Kera Freeland in a Caledon ditch, both last March, as well as skeletal remains found near Caledon Village just a couple weeks ago.

Turning specifically to Varaschin’s murder, the Brighton-area author feels her killer’s original intent may not have been murder. Rather, he suspects the perpetrator had a “disorganized mindset” and “lost control” of the situation.
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more: http://www.orangeville.com/news/local/article/1312160--varaschin-murder-loder-attack-human-remains-discovered
(interesting article - posting it also on SL's, KF's and Audrey's threads)
 
I too believe that the perp did not go to Sonia's home with the intent to kill her. For some reason, I have always felt that way. I also believe that he kew her quite well, and was very familiar with her home. The fact that he was able to locate where she kept her car keys is one small reason. He just was not that much in a rush from the time he entered her home, and when he left with her wrapped in her quilt and bedsheet.

DW
 
One other thing that bothers me. LE said that they found a bloody bootprint, they would not say at which scene this bootprint was found. Her home was very bloody by all accounts. So why would there not be a series of bloody bootprints?
When a person is invited into a home, especially if wearing boots, would they not take them off?
Just a thought.

DW
 
When new homes are being built and they reach the stage where they are still empty, but possibly needing some last minute touches, i.e. carpenters, painters, plumbers, electricians, etc., are these trades people given keys and once the home is completely finished, do the locks get changed and/or are these trades people required to turn the key back in.

SV's home was fairly new. Was she the original owner?

I can't remember, did the boots have a steel toe; were they a safety boot?

When I try to visualize the scene in SV's home, I think of no forced entry, and the perp heading to the bedroom and SV sleeping. I only think this due to her being wrapped in the quilt.

IMO only
 
By all accounts, even without LE saying so, it is generally believed that she was murdered in her bedroom. These townhouses were not spanking new, as near as I can tell, as Sonia had lived there for about three years. Correct me if I am wrong.

DW
 
There is at present, a similar townhouse for sale in the same complex. It is an opposite plan to SV's. I won't put the link up as they are trying to sell it. Virtual tour provided.
Noted main bedroom to the left at the top of the stairs. Neighbours main bedroom window very close, side by side. Yet, SV's next door neighbour heard nothing that night.

DW.
 
dreamwatcher said:
There is at present, a similar townhouse for sale in the same complex. It is an opposite plan to SV's. I won't put the link up as they are trying to sell it. Virtual tour provided.
Noted main bedroom to the left at the top of the stairs. Neighbours main bedroom window very close, side by side. Yet, SV's next door neighbour heard nothing that night.

DW.
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I know, and she had the windows open. JMO
 
http://www.orangeville.com/news/loc...schin-s-neighbours-want-to-keep-passersby-out

By Chris Halliday
Mar 21, 2012 - 1:57 PM

"Varaschin’s neighbours want to keep passersby out

Orangeville council will help fund the construction of a security fence in murdered Orangeville nurse Sonia Varaschin’s former neighbourhood, but $3,000 is all it is prepared to ante up.
Last spring, Varaschin’s former condominium association asked the town to help cover the costs of installing a fence inside the Spring Street complex, citing many of the elderly persons, women, children and families living there have grown wary for their safety since the 42-year-old’s murder in August of 2010.
Although it is privately owned, the east side of the complex’s property line — just three townhouses, a children’s playground and visitors parking lot away from Varaschin’s former home — is located next to marshland owned by the town, near its Water Pollution Control Plant (WCPC).
The condo association’s concerns stem from the fact a number of people regularly use the municipal-owned lands as a shortcut to enter the complex or access nearby streets.
“If you look at the tracks through the (town) land, you can actually see pedestrians are always coming in through there,” said property manager Donna Starkey. “Obviously, everyone knows about the murder that was there and no one even saw it, so that was a concern, the free access and being able to get away.”
 
From an older link...
http://catch21.ca/printArticle/773570

"By Peter Edwards

ORANGEVILLE — Whoever murdered nurse Sonia Varaschin wasn’t a stranger, police say.

He likely knew well her downtown neighbourhood where she was attack on the night of Aug.29-30."



"A friend, co-worker or spouse will hold the key to solving this crime.

Pritchard stressed that he didn’t think Varaschin was the victim of a total stranger.

“I don’t believe that it was a random event,” Pritchard said.

He also said there was no sign of forced entry in her brick townhome, which backs onto a ravine.

Pritchard also dismissed the suggestion that Varaschin allowed her killer into her home.

“You’re assuming that the door was locked,” Pritchard said".
 
roseofsharon said:
When new homes are being built and they reach the stage where they are still empty, but possibly needing some last minute touches, i.e. carpenters, painters, plumbers, electricians, etc., are these trades people given keys and once the home is completely finished, do the locks get changed and/or are these trades people required to turn the key back in.

SV's home was fairly new. Was she the original owner?

I can't remember, did the boots have a steel toe; were they a safety boot?

When I try to visualize the scene in SV's home, I think of no forced entry, and the perp heading to the bedroom and SV sleeping. I only think this due to her being wrapped in the quilt.

IMO only
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http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/09/08/15288401.html
"Pritchard also offered new information about the night of the slaying, explaining there were no signs of forced entry at the home but investigators also don't believe Varaschin opened the door for her killer.

He refused to elaborate on whether that meant the killer had his own key or that the door was unlocked"
 
dotr said:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/09/08/15288401.html
"Pritchard also offered new information about the night of the slaying, explaining there were no signs of forced entry at the home but investigators also don't believe Varaschin opened the door for her killer.

He refused to elaborate on whether that meant the killer had his own key or that the door was unlocked"
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Hmmm...this has me thinking. What if it was a guest staying at a nearly unit and the person entered the wrong unit (drunk, high, etc) and the layout was similar, frightened Sonia, the person attacked her, raped her and felt like he needed to get rid of her body. He took her car, drove to a place he knew was isolated (he's from the area) and drove the car back to get to his crash pad, maybe even at the same unit complex again. JMO
 
Matou, One thing though, he left the car behind Greenhawks, a Tack shop for Horse Supplies, not at her residence.

DW
 
New! Two pages.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ount-in-idyllic-corner-of-gta/article2409614/

"The likelihood that undetected remains are out there is something Lori Leckie thinks about a lot.

“How many more are out there?” she wonders. The marketer who is in her forties moved to Caledon from Brampton six years ago because she was “tired of the congestion and wanted some peace and serenity.”

She says she doesn’t go on her five-kilometre trail walks any more. Instead she goes to the gym.

“It was getting to be a morbid pastime for me,” she says. “I’d be wondering, ‘Is there going to be a body in a ditch up there?’”

Ms. Leckie stresses that she is not paranoid. It’s just what comes from having ice-skated on the pond at Palgrave on Highway 50 where police found the body of Raquel Junio after she was abducted from her Brampton home in 2011. Her estranged husband has been charged.

Even closer to home, the ditch on Heart Lake Road where last spring a pedestrian spotted the body of 20-year-old escort Kera Freeland, is just a five-minute walk from Ms. Leckie’s front door.

The cases of Ms. Freeland and Ms. Varaschin are the only two in which no arrests have been made. Ms. Leckie says that only increases her aversion to the site"
 
Map of bodies found in Caledon.
http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msa=0...860092&spn=0.177165,0.263929&t=m&source=embed





Bodies found in Caledon, Ont.

Created on Apr 19 · By Philippe · Updated yesterday


Ivan Newton Davison, 73


Last seen: undetermined Found: Dec. 26, 2011 Mr. Davison's death resulted from blunt-force traum


Poonam Litt, 27


Last seen: Feb. 5, 2009 Found: February, 2012 When she vanished, Ms. Litt's in-laws told police she had left for work with nothing more than the clothes on her back and a mobile phon



Devinder Kumar, 38


Last seen: Nov. 10, 2011 Found: Nov. 10, 2011 Mr. Kumar, a Remax real estate agent, was found with life-threatening injuries and died on the scene.


Raquel Junio, 42


Last seen: Aug. 18, 2011 Found: Aug. 20, 2011 Ms. Junio was allegedly abducted from her home and her body was discovered in a pond.


Kera Freeland, 20


Last seen: Jan. 15, 2011 Found: March 17, 2011 Ms. Freeland, from Alberta, worked briefly as an escort for Toronto-based agency Cachet Ladies before she went missing, hoping to....



Sonia Varaschin, 42


Last seen: Aug. 30, 2010 Found: Sept. 5, 2010 Ms. Varaschin, an Orangeville nurse, was murdered in her townhouse, her body put in her car and taken to a wooded area outside town.


Ariel Besley, 18


Last seen: May 10, 2008 Found: May 15, 2008 Ms. Besley's body was found in a ditch; she was killed by a gun


Jermaine Cameron, 24


Last seen: June 26, 2007 Found: June 26, 2007 Mr. Cameron, a barber, died from blunt force trauma after being beaten with a baseball bat in a drug-related incident
 
Kera was from Toronto, which makes me think that Caledon area is a dumping ground for those who have been slain.
Poor policing - quiet acreages - a perfect place.

DW
 
I was watching Dayle Hinman's show on the weekend. She's an American profiler from Florida. A case she was working on had a man murdering another man and taking his vehicle. She said the location of the vehicle will be important to finding the killer since he would live withing walking distance from where the vehicle would be found. This is due to the fact that the killer would need to return to a place of safety as soon as possible to calm down. This made me think of Sonia's case right away. Gotta be someone who is totally familiar with the area judging on where Sonia was dumped. Her car is found not that far away from where she was murdered. So to me that means he lives right near there and walked to where he had to go to feel safe. On the show the man lived withing two miles from where the car was found. I have a feeling Sonia's murderer lived even closer to where her car was found, more like within one mile.

Not sure if this link will work: a one-mile radius from where Sonia's car was found. Pretty much shows much of residential Orangeville.

http://www.freemaptools.com/radius-...9243600000002&r=1.61&lc=FFFFFF&lw=1&fc=00FF00
http://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm?clat=43.92
 
matou said:
I was watching Dayle Hinman's show on the weekend. She's an American profiler from Florida. A case she was working on had a man murdering another man and taking his vehicle. She said the location of the vehicle will be important to finding the killer since he would live withing walking distance from where the vehicle would be found. This is due to the fact that the killer would need to return to a place of safety as soon as possible to calm down. This made me think of Sonia's case right away. Gotta be someone who is totally familiar with the area judging on where Sonia was dumped. Her car is found not that far away from where she was murdered. So to me that means he lives right near there and walked to where he had to go to feel safe. On the show the man lived withing two miles from where the car was found. I have a feeling Sonia's murderer lived even closer to where her car was found, more like within one mile.

Not sure if this link will work: a one-mile radius from where Sonia's car was found. Pretty much shows much of residential Orangeville.

http://www.freemaptools.com/radius-...9243600000002&r=1.61&lc=FFFFFF&lw=1&fc=00FF00
http://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm?clat=43.92
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I agree that the perp knew the area well but I think they had their vehicle parked at the Tack Shop and originally walked to Sonia's house.
 
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