The nude, bludgeoned body of Tatiana (Tanya) Anikejew, 22, was found by her parents on Saturday, Oct. 1, 1988, in her three-storey brick walk-up apartment on Broadway Ave. The Seneca College creative advertising-broadcasting student had been dead for two or three days before her parents discovered her.
Neighbors heard screams on Sept. 28 and even came out of their apartments but all assumed someone else had called police about the disturbance. No one had, and the sex killing remains a mystery.
"It's a real shame someone didn't call police when they heard her screams," said Detective Sergeant Neil Tweedy of the homicide squad. "Because we probably would have found her killer."
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Some inconsistencies in these articles - Same paper, October 3, 1988, A6:
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A young college student was found stabbed to death in her north Toronto apartment over the weekend.
Tatiana Anikejew, 22, was nude and had several stab wounds in the chest when her parents found her body Saturday morning, Metro police said.
There were signs of violence in Anikejew's apartment but Metro police have not established a motive in her killing.
An autopsy was to be held to determine whether she was sexually assaulted.
The Seneca College graphic arts student lived alone in a three- storey brick walkup in the Eglinton Ave.-Mt. Pleasant Rd. area.
Police believe she had been dead for two or three days when her parents found her at 11.40 a.m. Saturday.
39th victim
Anikejew is Metro's 39th homicide victim this year.
Neighbors of the slain woman described her as a loner who occasionally had a few girlfriends over on a Friday or Saturday night.
"No one really knew her too well in the building," said Robert Wiggins, who lived across the hall from Anikejew. She often stopped to pet his German shepherd dog, he said.
The dog seemed to sense something was wrong in her apartment last Tuesday, Wiggins said, because it kept sniffing around the door. But no one he knew had heard anything unusual in her apartment, he said.
Anikejew's death has renewed concerns in the neighborhood about the presence of a halfway house for federal ex-convicts on Montgomery Ave., he said.
Anikejew's Broadway Ave. apartment building was about two blocks from the halfway house from which an ex-convict escaped and murdered another young woman earlier this year.
A coroner's inquest into the circumstances surrounding the slaying of Tema Conter was to begin today.
Life sentence
Conter, a 25-year-old fashion store manager, was stabbed to death in her Balliol St. apartment just a few blocks south of Montgomery House. Her murderer, Melvin Glenn Stanton, was sentenced to life in prison.
Tenants in the Broadway Ave. apartment are scared, said superintendent Yvonne Briden.
"They know it (the halfway house) is there and I think people are going to be nervous about having it around when something like this happens. Naturally they're worried about their own protection," she said.
But Briden doesn't believe ex-convicts living at the halfway house should be singled out as the only suspects in the slaying.
She said the door to Anikejew's apartment wasn't forced and the entrance to the apartment is always locked.
"We have locks, peepholes on the door. I think she let whoever killed her in."
