Tracy Kundinger murder
Person of Interest: John Ferguson
Cleared at preliminary hearing
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Person of Interest: John Ferguson
Cleared at preliminary hearing
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Tracy Kundinger murder
Person of Interest: John Ferguson
Cleared at preliminary hearing
Can you let me know if the "Composite Sketch" attachment worked, please? I got a message about being limited to 5 attachments per post, but it came up in a separate window when I clicked on the attachment link.
Fresh initiative to find Dennis Melvin Howe.In a video appeal released Wednesday, Det.- Sgt. Stacy Gallant said police are still searching for Dennis Melvyn Howe, who is wanted for the murder of Sharin’ Morningstar Keenan.
The young girl disappeared from a park on Brunswick Avenue on Jan. 23, 1983
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ronto-23-January-1983&p=13289527#post13289527
Rbbm.●The decomposed body of 45-year-old Phyllis Farquhar was discovered on Friday, November 23rd, 1979 under an old mattress behind her apartment on Edgewood Ave. She had been stabbed. The apartment superintendent notified police when he hadnt seen Farquhar since early October and she hadnt paid her rent.
Ironically, Farquhar had been a witness in a stabbing-murder court case back in 1964.
●Cindy Halliday, 17, disappeared on Monday, April 20th, 1992 after she attempted to hitchhike from Barrie, Ontario (100 km north of Toronto) to her mothers home in Waverley, 30 km north of Barrie. Halliday, a habitual runaway, had spent April 19th at a dance in Penetanguishene, then hitchhiked south to Barrie to visit her jailed boyfriend, and then headed north for home. The last sighting of Halliday was of her trying to thumb a ride in front of the Hasty Market on Hwy 27 in Midhurst between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. on the 20th. Four witnesses who later came forward said they saw her get into a light-coloured older model Chrysler LeBaron or Dodge Diplomat driven by a single male.
A man walking his dog found her skull on Sunday, June 21st in a forest off Horseshoe Valley Rd. about 2 km east of Hwy 27. The rest of her remains were found by police 500 metres to the east of where her skull was located. An autopsy revealed Halliday had been stabbed, but, due to decomposition, it could not be determined if she had been sexually assaulted. Further tests conducted almost two years after her body was found showed Halliday may have been alive for up to a month after she disappeared. Similarities between Hallidays murder and that of university student Lynda Shaw two years earlier near Woodstock led police to believe the two might have been committed by the same person. At one time, notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was a suspect.
Link: www.opp.ca/Intranetdev/groups/public/documents/investigative/opp_001222.pdf
●On Sunday, December 4th, 1983, art teacher Thomas Cahill was stabbed to death in his home on Berkeley St. Charles Furlong, a tenant in Cahills house, had heard Cahill talking to someone downstairs, and then, at 4:45 a.m., he heard Cahill call his name. When Furlong came downstairs, he found the front door open and Cahill lying in a pool of his own blood. Police believed Cahill was stabbed by a departing visitor. He had spent Saturday night at the Parkside Tavern on Yonge St.
Comments: I wonder if this case is related to the murder of Graham Pearce (see previous post)? Both Pearce and Cahill were apparently gay men stabbed in their homes in the post-midnight hours, both had spent their last nights at the Parkside Tavern, and both were killed in 1983.
●At 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, November 17th, 1985, the body of Lorelei Brose, 19, was found with a bullet to the head in a room in the Inglewood Arms hotel on Jarvis St. She was found fully clothed and had not been robbed. Police were alerted after hotel employees received complaints of a womans screams. Brose was a prostitute who frequented the Jarvis-Gerrard Sts. area. Many of Broses fellow prostitutes raised the theory that Brose had been slain by a contract killer hired to settle a personal dispute. Brose was known to rip off her clients.
●Marie Woods, a 31-year-old single mother of a six-year-old daughter, vanished on September 21st, 1981. Her Subaru station wagon was found abandoned on Oct. 5th at the Scarborough Town Centre. Police found no clues to her disappearance in her home or car. Although there was no specific evidence immediately to suggest she had been abducted, Woods had a normal life, a well-paying job, and the responsibility of her daughter, suggesting she wouldnt have left of her own volition.
Then, five years later, in November, 1986, remains later identified as Woods were found in Newmarket, about 50 km north of where her car was abandoned. Police had a strong suspect in the early 90s, Peter Stark, who had once dated Woods and was convicted of the 1990 murder of a teenage girl, but there was apparently never enough evidence to lay charges. At least, I could find no reference to an arrest in this case.
As a tragic postscript, Woodss daughter Jennifer died of cancer at age 14 in September, 1989.
[h=1]Cold case: The 25th anniversary of Cindy Laura Halliday's disappearance[/h]
April 17, 2017
On the 25th anniversary of her disappearance, a renewed appeal is underway in the cold case of Cindy Laura Halliday.
The OPP say Halliday frequently hitchhiked between her home in Waverley to Elmvale, Midland and Barrie.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for her murder.
Murder victim Cindy Laura Halliday can be seen in this photo provided by the OPP.
On Monday, April 21, 2003, at around 10.35 p.m., a man entered the Daisy Mart Variety Store at 1174 Morningside Avenue. He approached the lone female clerk who was behind the counter and pointed a silver handgun at her, demanding cash.
Mohamad Nakib-Arbaji, a 53-year-old self-employed taxi driver, tried to stop the robbery by grabbing the suspect. During the struggle, he was shot and collapsed on the floor.
This guy was a hero, imo, but he paid for it with his life, very tragic, he left five children behind.
[url]http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?336368-Mohamad-Nakib-Arbaji-53-Toronto-21-April-2003&p=13332958#post13332958
[/URL][h=2]Mohamad Nakib-Arbaji, 53,Toronto, 21 April 2003[/h] http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/37678
Police in Ontario turning to Facebook in an effort to get leads in cold cases
Ontario Provincial Police and local police say four people believed to be victims of foul play in or near Barrie, Ont., will be profiled in episodic videos posted to a dedicated page on Facebook called Simcoe County Case Files.
Police have also wrapped a cube van with case information to direct viewers to the Facebook page and encourage tips. The van will be strategically parked in various locations throughout the Greater Simcoe County area.
Seventeen-year-old Cindy Halliday of Waverley, Ont., was last seen hitchhiking near Midhurst, Ont., on April 20, 1992. She had been visiting a friend in Barrie, and her remains were discovered in a wooded area of Springwater Township on June 17, 1992.
Two British Columbia residents -- 21-year-old Grant Ayerst and 36-year-old Norman Whalley -- were last seen leaving a Toronto hotel on Sept. 11, 1991. They are considered missing, but investigators say foul play in the Barrie area is suspected in their cases.
And 40-year-old April Dobson was sitting on a porch at a friend's home in Barrie when she was shot to death on Oct. 14, 2005.
OPP Supt. Jim Smyth urged people to look at the Facebook page and share the videos on other social media platforms in an effort to reach as many people with potential information as possible.