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"Dianna Singh was a 21-year-old from Guyana, she had one daughter and was pregnant prior to being discovered murdered on Aug. 25, 1974, near a secluded and wooded King laneway off 15th Sideroad near Keele Street — 100 metres east of Seneca Campus.
In 1971 Dianna arrived in Canada with her husband and the couple's daughter, aged four at the time of Dianna's death. Three short years later, estranged from her husband, Dianna — living in a Toronto rooming house and working as a waitress at a bar called the Granite Club — went to visit her boyfriend at a Toronto Becker's convenience store he was managing at Jane Street and Woolner Avenue, on Aug. 14, 1974. This was the last time she was seen alive.
Dianna's body was discovered 11 days later, her pants and underwear found a few feet from her body by a security guard. She had been stabbed to death. Investigators were unable to glean much of anything from the clothes or the scene, other than some trampled foliage.
Neither Dianna's ex-husband nor her boyfriend were cleared by police in the initial investigation. According to York police Det. Bill Courtice and Det. Bob Athwal, two of Canada's handful of dedicated cold case investigators, there could be a multitude of reasons for this — two of which include, their alibis going unconfirmed or perhaps some inconsistencies with their statements. Some of the scant evidence offered to police includes one tidbit from her boyfriend, who said Dianna told him when they last met she informed him she'd hitchhiked to see him with a man in a “big car.”
It seems another body was found nearby and a third person went missing in very close proximity. Those include Yvonne Leroux who was found two years earlier between Jane and Keele streets, in a similar state — clothed from the waist up, naked from the waist down. Cheryl Hanson, 7, meanwhile disappeared while walking on Bloomington Sideroad while walking three months before Dianna was found on May 31, 1974. "
Here is more info on the case: Dianna Singh - York Regional Police
COLD CASE: Pregnant and murdered — Dianna Singh found in King
In 1971 Dianna arrived in Canada with her husband and the couple's daughter, aged four at the time of Dianna's death. Three short years later, estranged from her husband, Dianna — living in a Toronto rooming house and working as a waitress at a bar called the Granite Club — went to visit her boyfriend at a Toronto Becker's convenience store he was managing at Jane Street and Woolner Avenue, on Aug. 14, 1974. This was the last time she was seen alive.
Dianna's body was discovered 11 days later, her pants and underwear found a few feet from her body by a security guard. She had been stabbed to death. Investigators were unable to glean much of anything from the clothes or the scene, other than some trampled foliage.
Neither Dianna's ex-husband nor her boyfriend were cleared by police in the initial investigation. According to York police Det. Bill Courtice and Det. Bob Athwal, two of Canada's handful of dedicated cold case investigators, there could be a multitude of reasons for this — two of which include, their alibis going unconfirmed or perhaps some inconsistencies with their statements. Some of the scant evidence offered to police includes one tidbit from her boyfriend, who said Dianna told him when they last met she informed him she'd hitchhiked to see him with a man in a “big car.”
It seems another body was found nearby and a third person went missing in very close proximity. Those include Yvonne Leroux who was found two years earlier between Jane and Keele streets, in a similar state — clothed from the waist up, naked from the waist down. Cheryl Hanson, 7, meanwhile disappeared while walking on Bloomington Sideroad while walking three months before Dianna was found on May 31, 1974. "
Here is more info on the case: Dianna Singh - York Regional Police
COLD CASE: Pregnant and murdered — Dianna Singh found in King
