Hazel
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I didn't do anything dotr, credit goes to Salem :star2:Thankyou Salem (and Hazel) for trimming and styling this thread!
I didn't do anything dotr, credit goes to Salem :star2:Thankyou Salem (and Hazel) for trimming and styling this thread!
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/904813
Shelly Loder, oops sorry about that- I was doubting myself even as I typed the initials..
On a quiet country road just north of Orangeville, a 44-year-old woman was viciously attacked Tuesday afternoon
She was found by a family member inside a photo studio that stands next her house, an old converted school in Mono where she lives with her husband and two kids.
(I did deal with a young offender who looked very much like this composite! I'll do some digging and see if I can locate him. He was released back into the 'regular school sytem' after he'd served three years for murder one. He killed a woman at age 13 and was placed in a jail for young offenders).
Hello...this is my first post here. No Stone Unturned, would the young offender you mention, that looks like the composite sketch, be in his late thirties today? This would be very helpful to know as this sketch does look familiar to me.
Hi and welcome! I'd say late thirties to early forties at this very moment!
Hope that helped! (Sorry it took me so long to respond; I rarely check this thread!!)
Having spent three years researching and writing about Canadian murderers, author Lee Mellor has more insight than most people into the world of violence.
While Dufferin and area has several unsolved violent crimes on its books in the past couple years, Mellor is convinced it’s merely a string of isolated events.
“Serial killers are so rare, it’s not a conclusion we should lead to,” he said, referring to 2010 murder of Orangeville’s Sonia Varaschin, the near-fatal attack on Mono resident Shelley Loder that same year, as well as several discoveries of human remains — Van Sanh Tieu inside a burned down Alton building and Kera Freeland in a Caledon ditch, both last March, as well as skeletal remains found near Caledon Village just a couple weeks ago.
Turning specifically to Varaschin’s murder, the Brighton-area author feels her killer’s original intent may not have been murder. Rather, he suspects the perpetrator had a “disorganized mindset” and “lost control” of the situation.
Though he doesn’t believe Varaschin’s murder is directly related to the vicious attack on Loder about three months later, he acknowledges similarities in the cases.
more: http://www.orangeville.com/news/local/article/1312160--varaschin-murder-loder-attack-human-remains-discoveredHe added both crimes involved “very personal and hand-to-hand” violence and the attacker likely knew their victim’s habits.
“I believe both women had to be under surveillance by the person that attacked them,” Mellor said.
OPP spokesperson Const. Peter Leon said police have ruled out a possible link between the crimes.
“There is no link,” Leon said, adding police continue to investigate both incidents. “Varaschin is certainly still ongoing. They still have an investigative team in place.
“As far as the Loder case, I know they are still working on items with that as well.”
Another thing that bothers me is how LE states right away that there is no connection between the murders of SL and SV. They said there was no connection between the murders committed by Russell Williams when there was and I believe that LE also said this about Bernardos victims Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. I also remember reading that Bernardo was positively identified in a composite sketch and brought in for questioning as the Scarborough Rapist but they let him go which allowed him to continue on and commit his most horrific crimes. They never should have happened.
This is so frustrating. Im wondering, is the composite sketch in the Shelley Loder case still valid or not. I understand that its the same composite sketch used for two different assaults the SL assault and another assault on a woman in a park in Barrie. I have identified the man in the composite sketch and notified Law Enforcement and yet nothing seems to be happening. His resemblance to the SL composite sketch is uncanny and he matches the description. His behaviour also matches the weak profile they did of SVs killer.
Another thing that bothers me is how LE states right away that there is no connection between the murders of SL and SV. They said there was no connection between the murders committed by Russell Williams when there was and I believe that LE also said this about Bernardos victims Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. I also remember reading that Bernardo was positively identified in a composite sketch and brought in for questioning as the Scarborough Rapist but they let him go which allowed him to continue on and commit his most horrific crimes. They never should have happened.
I realize Im venting . but it seems like nothing is being done. :banghead:
If I'm frustrated, I can't imagine how frustrated SV's parents and SL's husband must feel.
I agree with your frustration -- we saw version of this is in Pickton case also.
True story: I was a teenager teaching sailing at Scarborough Bluffs at the tail end of PB's rape spree, and was pulled over several times (I had blonde hair) by police as I came home at night. It wasn't for some time that I became aware of what the spot checks were for.
I suspect that the "no connection" statement is for the benefit of the investigation -- though how, precisely, I'm not sure. Why the public ought to feel safer that three maniacs rather than one are running around I don't know.
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<rsbm>I had the same feeling when I saw these three sketches (SL sketch, Timmins Times and The Whig) and someone on Unsolvedcanada did too. I think there are similarities between them and as LE states, the last two sketch descriptions were given by children so we need to take that into consideration.
I was just wondering, does anyone else see similarities here?