I think you have gone beyond the call of duty by contacting media outlets. I agree with your comments thereof. Also, if anything comes through via the media, Ms. Sgambati likely will be the best hope.
She has already interacted and interviewed Linda Harris, there were plans for a future Crime Files episode, so something may hopefully still be in the works.
Thanks for the encouraging words, dxman. Yesterday, after I wrote the previous post, I was thinking I would fire off one more email to the Star. And maybe one to GTA's Most Wanted as well. One more try at these outlets from my end. If I knew Sgambati's email, I would write her as well. She always took the time to respond when I wrote to her about Crime Files episodes, which I appreciated.
1. As was alluded to by Linda in a previous message here, Wendy & Donna had hitchhiked in the days before their murders and had a bad experience. The man they were riding with did not let them out of the car, and they had to yell out the window before finally being let out. They were quite shaken up by the event, so, given this experience, hitchhiking on the day they were murdered seems even lower on the probability scale. I wonder if this event was reported to police - descriptors, someone they knew or were familiar with, etc.
Yes, yesterday I read over the post in which Linda mentioned the girls' fear of hitchhiking. With the occurrence you describe in mind, it is probably unlikely they would have taken a ride from a stranger. But who can know for sure? Only their killer(s).
2. Interrelated to this, both wallets were found on the girls by police. A bill or bills of purchase was found in a wallet, which obviously indicated where the girls were shopping on the evening of Fri Apr. 26. Police have not released information on this matter. Also, money was found in the wallet(s). Wendy had just been paid by her employer at Towers on Orfus Road - so it can reasonably be suggested that robbery was not a motive, and also they the girls had enough money for a taxi or bus - hence no need to hitchike, especially so since their prior frightening experience.
Agreed. I have never thought robbery was a motive. The notion they wouldn't have hitchhiked doesn't rule out the random stranger theory though, since the perp could have forced them into the car at gunpoint. But it's looking more and more like someone known to them.
3. Wendy was in the process of moving, to Connie Street, just to the southwest of the crime scence. A link here perhaps? Landlord? Roommate? etc.
Doubtful. They wouldn't have had time to get to Connie St. (about 2 km from the restaurant), have an argument with someone there, or whatever other motivation a person may have had to kill them, and then be deposited at the crime scene (anyway, weren't there casings at the scene to prove they were killed there), all in the short period of time between when they were last seen and when the crime is believed to have occurred at midnight. And the car seen driving off was going east, not back in the direction of Connie St. That doesn't prove much except that a person who lived at Connie St. would be more
likely to turn west in the direction of home.
4. Now most interestingly: when the autosies were done, the coroner found that the girls had burgers and fries in their stomachs. But owners of the Sit'N'Eat alleged that the girls only ordered cokes. Based on the digestion of the consumed food, the coroner estimated the time of death at around midnight - but here were have some timeline conflicts. If the girls were seen within 30-60 minutes prior to the commission of the abomination (estimated at midnight, correspondent with bangs heard by persons in houses adjacent to crime scene), where in the heck did they get/eat those burgers and fries. Logically, the Sit'N'Eat would be the place, but we have the claims of persons there of only the consumption of cokes. There seems to be something rotten here, i.e. the flashpoint of confusion, by timeline and locality, is the Sit'N'Eat - persons there, owners, patrons, visitors, witnesses thereof...Big time mystery.
Do you have any more detail concerning the coroner's report? Such as, specifically how long before their deaths was the food consumed?
It is possible they ate somewhere else along the route or at Yorkdale, though I don't think there was a food court at Yorkdale back in 1973. Otherwise, it is possible the Sit-'n'-Eat witnesses might have been mistaken about the girls having only ingested Cokes. Or, as you imply, the people who worked at Sit-'n'-Eat (who probably numbered no more than two at that time of night) had some involvement in the crime.
Whatever the case, you're right in that there seems to be some unclarity surrounding what the witnesses in the girls' last hour or two claim to have seen.
