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There is an article in Sunday Sun saying there will be a TV special in March about the case with some new evidence.

Not much in the article except to say that his family and the colleague quoted in the article seem to think it was someone very close to him due to the obscurity of his office location.

Seems he was looking at computer (with someone looking at same computer over his shoulder) when first stabbed (in shoulder) then multiple times chest.

Colleague says that couldn't be a student that point I can't see a Prof could easily say to a student come and look at this etc.

There was an artistic image of a bald man glasses looking at a man in bondage on the computer and I believe printed out at around the time he was murdered - they are not sure if DB's work.





dotr said:
Bumping for David Buller The killer must have been very careful indeed if no dna or evidence was left behind in the office before the cleaning lady arrived.imo.
bbm.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/01/17/art_teachers_unsolved_murder_still_haunts_family.html

"Buller, a well-liked senior lecturer of visual arts who had taught at U of T for 15 years, was killed on Jan. 18, 2001. His murder shocked the campus and the city in its brazenness.

On that Thursday afternoon, Buller was in his office, working at his computer on an art project, when he was stabbed seven times with a knife. A cleaning lady found his body just before 7 a.m. the next morning.

Police said the attacker surprised Buller; his chair had tipped over with the computer cord wrapped around it. The plug was torn from the wall. But investigators found no DNA evidence, no murder weapon and no witnesses who heard the attack, despite it taking place in the middle of a busy weekday.

In the year following Buller’s death, police interviewed 230 people associated with his personal and professional life and RCMP computer experts examined his computers for clues. The individuals suggested as Buller’s possible killer included a disgruntled student, a jilted lover and a homeless man who had wandered up Spadina Ave. from the Scott Mission. But no evidence was found to back up any of those theories — or the one that suggested Buller, who was gay, led a risky lifestyle that may have instigated the attack.

Ken Taylor, a homicide detective involved in the case, told the Star in 2002 that Buller’s murder was one of the most difficult he had ever worked, one that caused him sleepless nights and to obsessively review clues."
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And this in the Star:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/01/17/art_teachers_unsolved_murder_still_haunts_family.html


IMO the colleague quoted in Sun article his theory that it was a case of professional jealousy around advancement. That would surely be a VERY narrow list of suspects and LE would have had their names very early on. I cannot see the point of articles and TV show in that case unless to rattle the suspect or suspects. It is a possible but unlikely theory but of course they probably know something else not state in article perhaps.

This is potentially interesting: from Star: "The small, cramped room on the second floor of the Connaught Building on Spadina Cres. is no longer there. It was torn down in the months after Buller’s murder to create studio space for aspiring visual arts students".
 
Chorley8 said:
And this in the Star:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/01/17/art_teachers_unsolved_murder_still_haunts_family.html


IMO the colleague quoted in Sun article his theory that it was a case of professional jealousy around advancement. That would surely be a VERY narrow list of suspects and LE would have had their names very early on. I cannot see the point of articles and TV show in that case unless to rattle the suspect or suspects. It is a possible but unlikely theory but of course they probably know something else not state in article perhaps.

This is potentially interesting: from Star: "The small, cramped room on the second floor of the Connaught Building on Spadina Cres. is no longer there. It was torn down in the months after Buller’s murder to create studio space for aspiring visual arts students".
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Thanks for posting, this could be promising.


"TORONTO - A TV show’s investigation into the 2001 slaying of a University of Toronto professor has yielded new clues in the hunt for his killer.

The family of David Buller told the Toronto Sun new evidence has been presented to Toronto Police homicide detectives by a Halifax-based production planning to air a special on Buller’s murder in March."
bbm.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/18/family-hopes-new-evidence-will-solve-cold-case-murder
 
"Darlene Tucker still missing after 30 years
Her friend Jan Stonehouse disappeared six months later"


http://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/4327337-darlene-tucker-still-missing-after-30-years/

"it has been 30 long years since Oakville resident Darlene Tucker went missing at the age of 16.

Despite the passing of time, her family continues to hold out hope that Darlene is alive.

Tucker fled her Lakeshore Road West home on Valentine’s Day 1983, following an argument with her mother.

She never returned.

Her mom, Barbara, is desperately hoping her daughter will read this story and contact her family.

“We don’t want to disrupt your life, we just want to know that you’re alive and well,” Barbara recently told MissingKids.ca, which she gave permission to work with the Oakville Beaver to publish a story.

“We miss you and we love you,” said Barbara, 67, who provided comments for the story through MissingKids.ca. “We want her to know that we are still thinking of her.”

Police still have cold case file open"
 
http://www.cp24.com/news/police-off...ng-death-of-9-year-old-brampton-boy-1.1652854

" BRAMPTON, Ont. - Peel police are offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the year-old shooting death of a nine-year-old Brampton boy.

Police say Kesean Williams was in the living room of his house playing a video game with his 15-year-old brother when he was hit in the head by a bullet on the evening of Jan. 23, 2013.

He was transported to hospital, where he later died"

Read more: http://www.cp24.com/news/police-off...year-old-brampton-boy-1.1652854#ixzz2rFdwNYyD
 
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/20...g_3_years.html


bbm
"Three years have passed since police say three Toronto teenagers "fell off the face of the earth."

The teens disappeared on Aug. 14, 2006, and there hasn't been a single confirmed spotting of Jackie Li, 17, Yee Wah `Eve' Ho, 17, or Kevin Lim, 18, who are now 20 and 21 years old.

Their disappearance came five days after the murder of a friend, 17-year-old Phillip Ho Sing Sit, whose body was discovered in a forested area in York Region.

Police believe the three have important information about the slaying, but said the three teens are not suspects.

Police have searched cellphone and bank records and combed through the teens' online connections but said when they went missing "everything just stopped."

"We have absolutely no leads on this case at all," said Const. Scott Mills of Toronto Crime Stoppers.

Police have put up a metal sculpture of Ho's silhouette and have added an information sign outside the police station on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds.

"These kids liked going to the Ex," Mills said. "They'd just visited before they went missing, like normal kids ... then they vanished without a trace."

Mills is also hoping to find fresh information on the Internet. Mills created a Facebook group devoted to the missing trio that has 138 members and has been using Twitter and YouTube to alert people to their disappearance.

He's hoping for even the smallest of tips - a location, an online nickname - that could aid the police investigation.

"You may think it's nothing big, but it could make all the difference to us," said Mills.

Ho lived downtown and was reported missing when she didn't meet her friend at the Eaton Centre.

Li, Ho's boyfriend, is from Scarborough and was last seen leaving his apartment to go to work.

Lim, also from Scarborough and a friend of Li and Ho, was last seen by his grandmother when he told her he was going out to get a drink.

Mills said every fresh appeal usually prompts a few tips, but said the missing teens have been "pretty much impossible to track."

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-4157, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637)."
 
Thanks for the post, dotr.

It is really hard to believe that the media didn't give more attention to a case where three people disappear after the murder of an acquaintance.

I remember reading about this case, and there being very little background on anyone involved in the case, including the homicide victim, Mr. Sit.

After such a long time it is hard to fathom that these missing people are alive, unfortunately.
 
Here is another tragic cold case that didn't seem to garner much attention:

From the York Regional Police website:


Albert PeacockAlbert Peacock
Case #: 1991-135814
Location: Durham Road 23 and 3rd Concession, Town of Georgina
Date: Monday, December 2, 1991

Summary: The body of Albert Peacock, age 76, was located by hunters in a heavily-wooded area west of Durham Road 23 on the 3rd concession, in the Town of Georgina. Clarence Albert Peacock was a resident of Toronto's East End district. An autopsy determined that he had been strangled. At the time his body was discovered, he was clothed in a beige raincoat, pink dress shirt and beige checked polyester dress pants. He is described as a male, white, 5'8", 166 lbs., no teeth, glasses, and bald with a slight fringe of white hair. The deceased was an active member of the Second Mile Club of Toronto, a senior's social club, and frequented their premises located at 192 Carlton Street, Toronto. He also frequented a bar known as Noah's Arc Tavern at 277 Danforth Avenue, Toronto. The deceased was last seen alive on November 25, 1991. On this date, he was taken to Toronto East General Hospital, by ambulance from Noah's Arc Tavern. At 9:30 p.m., Mr. Peacock was seen walking out of the hospital and was never seen alive again.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the York Regional Police Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau at 1-866-876-5423 x 7865, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, leave an anonymous tip online at www.1800222tips.com or text a tip by sending TIPYORK and a message to CRIMES (2746
 
http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/case/311
bbm
" Homicide: #47/1998
Date: November 27, 1998


Victims
Ronald HEDLAND
50/M

Ronald Hedland, a blue's musician was beaten to death.
Details of Investigation
The following are the circumstances surrounding the death of Ronald HEDLAND.

On Friday, November 27th, 1998, uniformed police officers from No. 55 Division were called to the rear of 84 Willow Avenue in The City of Toronto regarding an assault.

Upon arrival the officers located the deceased on a step at the rear exit of 84 Willow Avenue.

Toronto Ambulance personnel arrived and found the deceased to be Vital Signs Absent.

The deceased was transported by ambulance to hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Detectives from No. 55 Division Detective Office attended the scene and took over the investigation.

Detectives from the Forensic Identification Unit attended and started their initial examination of the scene.

The deceased was identified as Ronald HEDLAND, a long standing resident of 84 Willow Avenue Apartment.

The initial investigation was conducted by No. 55 Division Detective Office, the death of the deceased was considered “ suspicious “.

Later that same day a post mortem examination was performed on the deceased.

The cause of death was determined to be a SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE COMPLICATED BY BLUNT FORCE HEAD INJURIES.

It was at this point that Detectives of the Homicide Squad took over the investigation.

The investigation into the murder of Ronald HEDLAND is continuing".



Suspects
UNKNOWN
 
Excellent video..

The Unsolved Murder of Ron Hedland on Vimeo




http://www.bluesforpeace.com/unsung-heroes/ron-hedland.htm

"Danny Marks - guitarist, radio host, BLUZ.FM Ronnie Hedland wasn't a big guy but he sure had a big presence, booming his voice out of that barrel chested physique, he'd call your name loud and warm. Ron had a real "lived in" voice. 100% Human. Our history began when I first walked into the Bermuda Tavern on Yonge Street to check out the gig situation. The most striking sight on that stage, (even more than the go go girls), was Ronnie at the Wurlitzer, soloing with one hand, drumming with the other hand and both feet, and all the time singing like Ray Charles. All the while, smoking tons of Export A.

Ronnie was a machine, all limbs akimbo, a one man show within the trio. It's also true he had a great sense of humour, and he was a very personable host for the guys who where there to see the girls. The secret however was the musicianship, and we all knew that."
 
Chorley8 said:
There is an article in Sunday Sun saying there will be a TV special in March about the case with some new evidence.

Not much in the article except to say that his family and the colleague quoted in the article seem to think it was someone very close to him due to the obscurity of his office location.

Seems he was looking at computer (with someone looking at same computer over his shoulder) when first stabbed (in shoulder) then multiple times chest.

Colleague says that couldn't be a student that point I can't see a Prof could easily say to a student come and look at this etc.

There was an artistic image of a bald man glasses looking at a man in bondage on the computer and I believe printed out at around the time he was murdered - they are not sure if DB's work.
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The show featuring the story about David B. is on tonight!

http://www.ocean.ca/production/tocatachakiller.html

"Premiering on OWN Canada - March 1st at 8PM EST

Police Officer Mike Arntfield leads a squad of tech-savvy civilians as they work to solve horrific cold cases. Each one-hour episode introduces a different crime, as Arntfield – a working cop and university professor with a PhD – and his team use fresh eyes and advanced tools in their quest to solve these longstanding mysteries and bring closure to the victims’ families.

Arntfield guides the six-member squad as they take to the field, seeking new leads and exploiting modern technology. Capitalizing on the potential of 21st-century technology to unearth new information, Arntfield also relies on squad members to use their own skill sets - which run the gamut from medical biophysics to forensic anthropology to private investigating – and ways of thinking to move each case forward.

To Catch a Killer takes viewers along on its mission, as the team interviews family members and witnesses, dissects evidence (old and new), visits long-forgotten crime scenes, and re-enacts potential scenarios … as the cold-case clock ticks"



Video clip.
http://www.ocean.ca/production/TCAKvideo.html
 
dotr said:
The show featuring the story about David B. is on tonight!

http://www.ocean.ca/production/tocatachakiller.html

"Premiering on OWN Canada - March 1st at 8PM EST

Police Officer Mike Arntfield leads a squad of tech-savvy civilians as they work to solve horrific cold cases. Each one-hour episode introduces a different crime, as Arntfield – a working cop and university professor with a PhD – and his team use fresh eyes and advanced tools in their quest to solve these longstanding mysteries and bring closure to the victims’ families.

Arntfield guides the six-member squad as they take to the field, seeking new leads and exploiting modern technology. Capitalizing on the potential of 21st-century technology to unearth new information, Arntfield also relies on squad members to use their own skill sets - which run the gamut from medical biophysics to forensic anthropology to private investigating – and ways of thinking to move each case forward.

To Catch a Killer takes viewers along on its mission, as the team interviews family members and witnesses, dissects evidence (old and new), visits long-forgotten crime scenes, and re-enacts potential scenarios … as the cold-case clock ticks"



Video clip.
http://www.ocean.ca/production/TCAKvideo.html
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Looking forward to watching this. Perhaps somewhere we can have a thread or existing thread to include the new video pertaining to each case they represent. Hoping to see some good visual aids from each case.
 
http://ownca.oprah.com/Shows/To-Catch-A-Killer/Schedule.aspx

" UPCOMING EPISODES
Sat, Mar 01, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #001 COLD CASE: Awcock
Thu, Mar 06, 2014 - 9:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #001 COLD CASE: Awcock
Fri, Mar 07, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #001 COLD CASE: Awcock
Sat, Mar 08, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #002 COLD CASE: McWilliam
Thu, Mar 13, 2014 - 9:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #002 COLD CASE: McWilliam
Fri, Mar 14, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #002 COLD CASE: McWilliam
Sat, Mar 15, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #003 COLD CASE: Buller
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 - 9:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #003 COLD CASE: Buller
Fri, Mar 21, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #003 COLD CASE: Buller
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #004 COLD CASE: English
Fri, Mar 28, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #004 COLD CASE: English
Sat, Mar 29, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #005 COLD CASE: Gurczenski
Thu, Apr 03, 2014 - 4:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #001 COLD CASE: Awcock
Thu, Apr 03, 2014 - 9:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #005 COLD CASE: Gurczenski
Fri, Apr 04, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #005 COLD CASE: Gurczenski
Sat, Apr 05, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #006 COLD CASE: Roach
Thu, Apr 10, 2014 - 4:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #002 COLD CASE: McWilliam
Fri, Apr 11, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #006 COLD CASE: Roach
Sat, Apr 12, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #007 COLD CASE: Frost
Thu, Apr 17, 2014 - 4:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #003 COLD CASE: Buller
Fri, Apr 18, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #007 COLD CASE: Frost
Sat, Apr 19, 2014 - 8:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #008 COLD CASE: White
Thu, Apr 24, 2014 - 4:00 PM ET
S1 Eps #004 COLD CASE: English
Fri, Apr 25, 2014 - 12:00 AM ET
S1 Eps #008 COLD CASE: White"
 
CrimeSolver said:
Some more capsule murder summaries. Again, if anyone knows of any of these cases having been solved, please speak up.

●Sometime around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 28th, 1987, 21-year-old receptionist Margaret McWilliam was raped and strangled to death while out for an evening jog in Warden Woods park in the Scarborough section of Toronto. Her body was found in the northeast sector of the park not far from subway tracks. Police found a clear footprint at the scene and were able to identify the type of shoes worn by the killer as rare Bata grey and white high-top sneakers with the letters AAU on the heel. They also had a composite drawn of a young man - a “witness” - wearing a red cap, who was seen leaving the park around 8 p.m. At one point police suspected the crime may have been committed by Frederick Merrill, an American fugitive featured on “America’s Most Wanted”, who was in Toronto at the time of McWilliams’s murder.

●On Tuesday, October 7th, 1975, 33-year-old data processing student Albert Chan was shot to death in the underground parking garage of his apartment building on Isabella St. in downtown Toronto. The killer stole Chan’s car and dumped it near the intersection of Carlton and Metcalfe Sts., not far from the crime scene.

●On Thursday, April 24th, 1980, Brink’s security guard Larry Roberts, 29, was gunned down with a machine gun in a well-planned robbery at Agincourt Mall, which is located at 3850 Sheppard Ave. E. in the Scarborough section of Toronto. His partner, 51-year-old Ted Montgomery, was shot and wounded. Multiple witnesses watched the incident go down as the three robbers grabbed the $178,500 the Brink’s men were transporting, dashed through a library and out the west side of the mall, jumped a fence that separated the mall from a nursing home, hopped into a car, and screeched out onto Bonis Ave. where they disappeared. A police manhunt failed to find the culprits, but police later found two cars nearby that had been stolen in Montreal and used by the robbers. The robbers were all described as white males between their late twenties and early forties. The gunman was described by witnesses as 40-45 years old, 175 pounds, with a short, stocky build, an olive complexion, a dark moustache and eyebrows, a strong jaw, a broad face. One accomplice was in his late-20s, 175 lbs, with a medium build and light to medium brown hair. The third man was described as 5’5” to 5’8”, 175 lbs, stocky, with medium to light hair. An investigation led police to believe the robbers were from Montreal, since the crime bore hallmarks of similar robberies there.

●Shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, February 10th, 1983, 42-year-old Philip Rimmington, Toronto’s deputy planning commissioner, was shot dead with a .22 handgun in the parking garage of the apartment building where he lived at 231 Balliol St., near Mt. Pleasant Rd. A nearby resident reported seeing a grey-haired man in his mid-50s fleeing the garage through a staircase at the northeast corner of the building shortly after the shooting. There were also reports that police had been called in weeks prior to the crime to investigate a stranger lurking around the parking area.
Rimmington, who was separated from his wife, with whom he had a 12-year-old daughter, was well-liked by his colleagues and was active in sports. In searching for a motive, police learned Rimmington did not have a tendency to engage in partisan political discussions or activities, so the possibility of angering someone through his work at city hall was virtually ruled out. Three guns owned by the victim were discovered missing, and for a time there was speculation he was shot with one of his own weapons.

●Maintenance man Donald Gibbons, 33, was stabbed to death with a butcher knife on July 18th, 1971 after chasing a man he believed was stealing a TV set from his apartment above a deli at Queen St. E. and Pape Ave. The killer ended up stealing a tape recorder and an amplifier belonging to Gibbons.
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rbbm
http://thechronicleherald.ca/artsli...d-cases-on-to-catch-a-killer-make-hot-viewing


"In the episode airing this Thursday, the team looks at the murder of Margaret Louise McWilliam, a 21-year-old who was sexually assaulted and killed in a Scarborough, Ont., park in 1987.

She had recently moved from a small town to the big city and her parents, Charlotte and Ivan, are haunted by her unsolved murder to this day.

Given the geography and date, the team has to rule out notorious rapists and murderers Paul Bernardo and Russell Williams, both living in the area at the time.

Future episodes will look at the unsolved deaths of a University of Toronto fine arts lecturer found murdered in his office and the 1969 murder of a woman who disappeared after working a shift at a snack bar".
 
If I understand correctly family members think the most likely suspect is the mentally ill student who for reasons that are unclear to me was allowed to pace up and down with an exacto knife in the class and was allowed to threaten multiple professors with murder without being disciplined.

BUT.... I believe David was stabbed while looking at his computer with his assailant over his shoulder? This it seems to me is unlikely to have been the mentally ill student - it was someone he trusted more than that.

2. Also the mentally ill student is unlikely to have been able to create a crime scene with no evidence.

Just to speak with more authority than I of course actually feel...it was someone else.

I would like to draw attention to the homicide at U Toronto supposedly by the Haitian employee he was never found or charged. I am too busy to go back (it is on this thread somewhere) and have to admit I am waiting to rely on some organized mind like Dotr's (LOL) or Crimesolver to help me out. But I will go back when I have a chance.

There may be a link between those two crimes. The link not apparent on the surface is.......art.

I am not sure the Haitian man was responsible for that homicide. His family was outraged at the idea. Nothing in his past fit. LE never found him and on the surface didn't seem to be trying to. (How come?) Did someone else do that murder? Did someone try to pin it on the Haitian man? Are the two cases linked? Did he really go for beers the next morning with buddies and also burn down his historical church where Marcus Garvey once preached?



Anyone know anything about the victim at U of T I think in a dept. where they prepare corpses for dissection?

Could the Haitian man who as I understand it worked there have been a third victim never found?
 
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