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●The nude body of 14-year-old Kelly Mombourquette was found on Monday, October 19th, 1987 in the parking lot of a business on Yorkland Blvd. in the northeast corner of Toronto. The troubled girl, who had run away Oct. 3rd from a group home on Warrendale Ct., had been bludgeoned and her throat slit. A drug user and sometime prostitute, Kelly had lived on the street or with friends since running away from the group home. Since there was little blood at the scene where the body was found, police concluded she had been murdered elsewhere and dumped at the site on Yorkland Blvd.
Police received hundreds of tips in the case, and on October 29th they arrested and charged three men in connection with Mombourquette’s murder. But at the suspects’ preliminary hearing in January, 1988, a judge threw out the charges citing the flimsiness of the evidence, including the unreliability of a 16-year-old witness. No further newspaper reports on this case, including whether additional arrests eventuated.
●Accountant Frank Annetta, 36, was shot to death inside his office at his firm House of Accounting, which was located on St. Clair Ave. W., on May 4th, 1979. An employee found Annetta’s body slumped over his desk. No further information.
●On Saturday, November 14th, 1987, 26-year-old Kevin Benoit was stabbed to death on Silverthorn Ave. in Toronto’s west end. He had been involved in an altercation with unknown parties at Papa Nick’s Pizza on Silverthorn. When police answered the call about a fight at the pizza parlour the combatants had already left, but shortly thereafter a call came in about a body lying on the street nearby.
●The unclothed body of 20-year-old prostitute Susan Siegel was discovered at 7:30 on the morning of Monday, December 17th, 1984 alongside railroad tracks near the Ontario Public Stockyards on Ethel Ave. in an industrial area of west Toronto. She had been strangled. Since the victim’s clothes were absent from the scene, police concluded she had been killed elsewhere and dumped at the desolate Ethel Ave. site.
●On Tuesday, March 20th, 1962, the body of 52-year-old widow Nora Ranford was found in a rooming house on Winchester St. in the northeast sector of downtown Toronto. The victim lay under a blood-saturated bed on the second floor. She had been strangled and hit on the head. Ranford had been dead six days, but an open window kept the stench of decomposition from alarming other residents until she was finally found by her landlady. Following up hundreds of leads, police later learned Ranford had been seen drinking in a hotel on Queen St. E. with an unidentified couple the night she died.
Police received hundreds of tips in the case, and on October 29th they arrested and charged three men in connection with Mombourquette’s murder. But at the suspects’ preliminary hearing in January, 1988, a judge threw out the charges citing the flimsiness of the evidence, including the unreliability of a 16-year-old witness. No further newspaper reports on this case, including whether additional arrests eventuated.
●Accountant Frank Annetta, 36, was shot to death inside his office at his firm House of Accounting, which was located on St. Clair Ave. W., on May 4th, 1979. An employee found Annetta’s body slumped over his desk. No further information.
●On Saturday, November 14th, 1987, 26-year-old Kevin Benoit was stabbed to death on Silverthorn Ave. in Toronto’s west end. He had been involved in an altercation with unknown parties at Papa Nick’s Pizza on Silverthorn. When police answered the call about a fight at the pizza parlour the combatants had already left, but shortly thereafter a call came in about a body lying on the street nearby.
●The unclothed body of 20-year-old prostitute Susan Siegel was discovered at 7:30 on the morning of Monday, December 17th, 1984 alongside railroad tracks near the Ontario Public Stockyards on Ethel Ave. in an industrial area of west Toronto. She had been strangled. Since the victim’s clothes were absent from the scene, police concluded she had been killed elsewhere and dumped at the desolate Ethel Ave. site.
●On Tuesday, March 20th, 1962, the body of 52-year-old widow Nora Ranford was found in a rooming house on Winchester St. in the northeast sector of downtown Toronto. The victim lay under a blood-saturated bed on the second floor. She had been strangled and hit on the head. Ranford had been dead six days, but an open window kept the stench of decomposition from alarming other residents until she was finally found by her landlady. Following up hundreds of leads, police later learned Ranford had been seen drinking in a hotel on Queen St. E. with an unidentified couple the night she died.