Glenda Tedball, age 16
Missing since 31 October 1967
Where is Glenda Tedball buried?
Glenda Tedball went missing on Halloween 1967 from Thedford, Ontario. She was 16 years old at the time of her disappearance, stood 5’6” tall and weighed approximately 138 lbs. A neighbour saw her leaving her residence heading towards the back of the property, possibly to take a walk; this was the last time she was seen or heard from. Those that knew her described her as shy and lonely, especially in school. She was not known to leave home frequently, and instead wrote poetry and took long walks in the woods on her family’s property.
In September of 1999, a 66 year old London man named Edward Graton, a former farmhand, was charged with the culpable murder of Glenda Tedball. He claims that Glenda died during a botched abortion carried out by Glenda’s mother. Graton stated that Glenda bled out in the basement of her family’s farmhouse as Graton held her shoulders while Glenda’s mother performed the abortion. Graton claims that he helped tie her wrists and ankles to a cot, and that he placed a gag in her mouth while she struggled. Graton told police that Glenda was buried beneath the farmhouse, an excavation failed to recover her remains. The farmhouse itself has since burned down. Edward Graton was sentenced to 2 years of community service to pay for his crimes. Glenda’s mother died in 1999.
The Toronto Star and neighbours interviewed for a story state that Glenda’s mother was a domineering alcoholic that remarried while Glenda was still young and moved the family to a farmhouse outside of town. The family hired Graton as a farmhand, and he and Glenda bonded. Graton states they engaged in intercourse at least 3 times before Glenda found out she was pregnant. Graton would not marry her, so the couple went to Glenda’s mother to procure an abortion (which was illegal in Canada at the time).
The abortion scenario is quite likely, especially at such a time when the procedure was illegal yet single motherhood was frowned upon. A lonely girl like Glenda strikes it up with a “slow” farmhand, and an accident happens. Glenda would not be the first girl to die in an illegal abortion, and she will not be the last. The real question is, where is her body?
Excavations at the farmhouse basement did not yield any remains, and it appears that the rest of the property has not been searched. 50 hectares equals around 124 acres, so there is a fair amount of earth left to be turned. Is it possible that Glenda Tedball was buried in the basement of the farmhouse and just wasn’t found? Or could her body be buried in the woods in which she loved to walk?
Glenda's Doe Network File
The Toronto Star article reposted on a Google Forum
Glenda Tedball Missing since October 31, 1967 from Thedford, Ontario Date Of Birth: 1951 Age at Time of Disappearance: 16 years old Tedball was last s
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