I have
finally completed another collection of five murders. It will be one of the last. To the best of my knowledge these cases are unsolved, but if anyone knows otherwise, please advise.
[FONT="]●29-year-old Antonio Garito, of Margueretta St., died of head wounds after a fight with several men on Saturday, June 28th, 1986. The fight, which was witnessed by two women, occurred in a laneway behind Noble St. Afterwards, Garito was driven to and dumped in a parkette on St. Clarens Ave., north of Bloor St. by a person believed to be named Pat.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Garito stumbled south towards his home. When he arrived home, he complained to his family of shortness of breath and then lost consciousness. He was taken to hospital where he died.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No further information.[/FONT]
[FONT="]●On Friday, March 26th, 1976, the body of 54-year-old Raymond Pius Harte was found in the basement of the run-down house on Ontario St. where Harte had been squatting. He had been dead for about 10 days.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is believed Harte, an alcoholic vagrant, was clubbed to death by drinking buddies after he was given money to buy booze and returned empty-handed. [/FONT]
[FONT="]No further details or updates were found.[/FONT]
[FONT="]●At midnight on Thursday, December 22nd, 1988, Nick Gournis, 50, was found by two passersby at Galactic Amusements Arcade, an establishment he owned at 1058 Kingston Rd. He had been beaten about the head with a baseball bat, which was found at the scene. He died in hospital hours later. Police found that the arcade had been robbed by Gournis’s killer, and that the crime had occurred between 10 p.m. and the time he was found. He was last seen alive at 9:15.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gournis, a father of two girls, lived on Raquel Ct. in west Toronto.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No further pertinent information.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Crime scene, 1058 Kingston Rd:[/FONT]
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[FONT="]●Ernest Earl Keith, 55, was found beaten to death with a whiskey bottle outside his room on the second floor of the Winchester Hotel at 531 Parliament St. early on the morning of Tuesday, July 20th, 1976. He had died of multiple skull fractures.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Keith, a brewery worker, had resided at the hotel for five years.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No additional information was found regarding the disposition of this case.[/FONT]
[FONT="]●Kevin Lionel McBride, 47, was found stabbed to death in his apartment at Sheppard Ave. E. and Markham Rd. on Monday, May 17th, 1982. He had been dead for a couple of days.[/FONT]
[FONT="]McBride’s car and credit card had been stolen. Police believed his killer was invited into McBride’s apartment on Saturday night after answering McBride's ad for a roommate.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The victim’s credit card was used in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, and police were able to create a composite sketch (below) based on witness descriptions. He was described as white, 6’2”, in his mid-20s to early-30s, with wavy dark brown hair swept back from his forehead. He was in the company of another man.[/FONT]
[FONT="]On September 22nd, McBride’s car was found in Rochester, Minnesota. [/FONT]
[FONT="]McBride was an interior decorator and antique dealer who had moved to Canada from Australia 17 years earlier.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No further information.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Composite of suspect:[/FONT]
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