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Amber Lynn McFarland. Is there anything here about her case???
 
CrimeSolver said:
●The decomposed body of 45-year-old Phyllis Farquhar was discovered on Friday, November 23rd, 1979 under an old mattress behind her apartment on Edgewood Ave. She had been stabbed. The apartment superintendent notified police when he hadn’t seen Farquhar since early October and she hadn’t paid her rent.
Ironically, Farquhar had been a witness in a stabbing-murder court case back in 1964.

●Cindy Halliday, 17, disappeared on Monday, April 20th, 1992 after she attempted to hitchhike from Barrie, Ontario (100 km north of Toronto) to her mother’s home in Waverley, 30 km north of Barrie. Halliday, a habitual runaway, had spent April 19th at a dance in Penetanguishene, then hitchhiked south to Barrie to visit her jailed boyfriend, and then headed north for home. The last sighting of Halliday was of her trying to thumb a ride in front of the Hasty Market on Hwy 27 in Midhurst between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. on the 20th. Four witnesses who later came forward said they saw her get into a light-coloured older model Chrysler LeBaron or Dodge Diplomat driven by a single male.
A man walking his dog found her skull on Sunday, June 21st in a forest off Horseshoe Valley Rd. about 2 km east of Hwy 27. The rest of her remains were found by police 500 metres to the east of where her skull was located. An autopsy revealed Halliday had been stabbed, but, due to decomposition, it could not be determined if she had been sexually assaulted. Further tests conducted almost two years after her body was found showed Halliday may have been alive for up to a month after she disappeared. Similarities between Halliday’s murder and that of university student Lynda Shaw two years earlier near Woodstock led police to believe the two might have been committed by the same person. At one time, notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was a suspect.
Link: www.opp.ca/Intranetdev/groups/public/documents/investigative/opp_001222.pdf

●On Sunday, December 4th, 1983, art teacher Thomas Cahill was stabbed to death in his home on Berkeley St. Charles Furlong, a tenant in Cahill’s house, had heard Cahill talking to someone downstairs, and then, at 4:45 a.m., he heard Cahill call his name. When Furlong came downstairs, he found the front door open and Cahill lying in a pool of his own blood. Police believed Cahill was stabbed by a departing visitor. He had spent Saturday night at the Parkside Tavern on Yonge St.
Comments: I wonder if this case is related to the murder of Graham Pearce (see previous post)? Both Pearce and Cahill were apparently gay men stabbed in their homes in the post-midnight hours, both had spent their last nights at the Parkside Tavern, and both were killed in 1983.

●At 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, November 17th, 1985, the body of Lorelei Brose, 19, was found with a bullet to the head in a room in the Inglewood Arms hotel on Jarvis St. She was found fully clothed and had not been robbed. Police were alerted after hotel employees received complaints of a woman’s screams. Brose was a prostitute who frequented the Jarvis-Gerrard Sts. area. Many of Brose’s fellow prostitutes raised the theory that Brose had been slain by a contract killer hired to settle a personal dispute. Brose was known to rip off her clients.

●Marie Woods, a 31-year-old single mother of a six-year-old daughter, vanished on September 21st, 1981. Her Subaru station wagon was found abandoned on Oct. 5th at the Scarborough Town Centre. Police found no clues to her disappearance in her home or car. Although there was no specific evidence immediately to suggest she had been abducted, Woods had a normal life, a well-paying job, and the responsibility of her daughter, suggesting she wouldn’t have left of her own volition.
Then, five years later, in November, 1986, remains later identified as Woods were found in Newmarket, about 50 km north of where her car was abandoned. Police had a strong suspect in the early ‘90s, Peter Stark, who had once dated Woods and was convicted of the 1990 murder of a teenage girl, but there was apparently never enough evidence to lay charges. At least, I could find no reference to an arrest in this case.
As a tragic postscript, Woods’s daughter Jennifer died of cancer at age 14 in September, 1989.
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I have read about possible connections between Lynda Shaw and Cindy Halliday before and recently found out this article stating that Lynda Shaw's murder had been solved:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060210/wfive_murder_060211/20060211?hub=WFive

I'm not sure if the same perpetrator has ever been linked to Cindy.
 
Shaw's case remained unsolved for a very long time, and Paul Bernardo was strongly suspected for many years. The guy identified as her killer by DNA killed himself in a phone booth in '04 as the cops were closing in, as it states in the article. Unless he's forensically linked to other murders, we'll never know whom else, if anyone, he murdered.
I don't know either if the police have gone public suspecting this MacDonald character in Halliday's killing.
 
[FONT=&quot][/FONT] [FONT=&quot]●On Tuesday, May 9th, 1989, the body of 34-year-old Ljupco Trajkovski was found by his landlord in the second-floor room he rented in a rooming house on Woodbine Ave. just south of Danforth Ave. Police were called.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]An autopsy determined Trajkovski had been shot in the head, likely on the evening of Sunday the 7th, two days before he was found. The victim, who had come to Canada from Yugoslavia 15 years earlier, was an unemployed jeweller. He had lived at the rooming house for about two years, but little was known about him. Police received a tip that drugs may have been involved in the killing.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further information. Only one article about the case was found.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●At about 12:10 a.m. on Thursday, November 18th, 1971, a woman walking away from her car in the underground parking garage of an apartment building on Royal York Rd. found Erna Marie Martens, 39, an executive with Simpsons-Sears, lying on the floor. Martens’s face was bloodied and black-and-blue, and shards of green glass were scattered around her. Examined at the hospital, where she arrived semi-comatose, Martens was found to be bleeding from the back of the head and have an injury to the neck, in addition to her facial injuries. She died several hours later.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Martens’s death was initially ruled accidental, but an inquest held in May, 1972 found she had been murdered.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Martens had spent the evening of November 17th with a friend, Barbara McCulloch, and they attended a musical together at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. McCulloch testified at the inquiry that Martens appeared “very tired”. Martens drove McCulloch to her home in Rosedale at 11:25, then headed to her apartment building on Royal York Rd., about 12 km to the west. A witness at the inquiry, Earl Chaffee, testified he arrived in the underground garage at 11:40 and noticed nothing out of place, so it follows that Martens arrived in the garage and was struck over the head with the green bottle sometime between 11:40 p.m. and 12:10 a.m. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●On Monday, February 9th, 1981, two masked gunmen broke into the home of Scott Pearson, 26, and his mother Veronica, 52, on Cheltenham Court in Brampton, just northwest of Toronto. One of the gunmen shot Scott Pearson once in the chest with a rifle, killing him, and Veronica Pearson was knocked unconscious with a blunt instrument when she confronted the intruders. She regained consciousness a short time later and found her son dead. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Police at the time announced they were confident they would make arrests, but no additional articles about the case were found.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●At 9:40 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1st, 1987, Tadayoshi Masuko, 45, was found sprawled on the floor of the lobby of his business, Masuko International Inc., at 50 Alex Ave. in Vaughan, just north of Toronto. He had been shot several times in the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The victim, whose plastics company was thriving, was described as a quiet, friendly man who was involved in community philanthropy. He left behind a wife and two young daughters.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Masuko had spent most of his last day alive in Niagara Falls on business, before arriving back at his office at 5:10. He spoke to one of his employees before retiring to his office to make several phone calls, one of which was to his wife at 6:30 p.m. It was sometime between then and 9:40, when his concerned wife found his body, that Masuko left his office and was confronted in the lobby by his killer.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The murder weapon, a Ruger .22 calibre revolver, was found several months after the crime in a vacant lot northwest of the crime scene. Further investigation found that a 1987 silver or grey Lincoln Town Car with Quebec plates had been seen in the area around the time of the murder.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Picture of victim:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Map of murder site:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●Judy McRae last saw her homeless 24-year-old brother Danny at about midday on Tuesday, July 14th, 1981. He was heading for a liquor store on Queen St. E. near Parliament St., something he did on a daily basis since his release from jail two weeks earlier. They stopped to chat for a few moments. Danny McRae was never seen alive again.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]On Sunday, August 2nd, 1981, McRae’s badly decomposed body was found in a field near Highways 400 and 93, north of Barrie, 100 km north of Toronto. He was naked and his ankles were bound with wire.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]McRae had a criminal record for assault and robbery-related crimes, and police were going on the theory his murder was drug-related. No further information on this case resulted from an archive search. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Photo of victim:[/FONT]
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CrimeSolver said:
●The near-naked body of 23-year-old prostitute Julieanne Middleton was found on Thursday, July 7th, 1994 behind the pool in Sunnyside Park at Lakeshore Blvd. W. and Parkside Dr. She drowned in the waters of Lake Ontario after being strangled, presumably by a sex-trade customer.
On Friday, October 28th, 1994, another prostitute, Virginia Coote, 33, was found strangled in Lake Ontario behind the lakeside Palais Royale nightclub, just one or two hundred metres east of where Middleton’s body has been discarded. Police looked into the possibility the same person killed Middleton and Coote, as well as two additional prostitute murder victims, Darlene MacNeill and Donna Ogilve, who were found slain in 1997 and 1998 respectively.
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An update on the bolded victims. A man, 52-year-old Peter MacDonald, has been arrested in their murders. Perhaps he will also be linked to some of the other prostitute murders of the '80s and '90s.
Link

Suspect:
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Victims:
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Thanks for the update. I hadn't heard about this yet. I assumed the cases were never closed, or at the very least re-opened a couple of years ago when the DNA match was made.
 
I wonder whose (persons of interest) family are providing new DNA ?!


But in the 27 years since the deaths of 45-year-old Susan Tice and 22-year-old Erin Gilmour, their killer — police believe the women were killed by the same man — has walked free.

Now the Toronto Police Homicide Squad hopes to change that by re-opening the cold cases, using modern DNA testing in an attempt to link the killer to the crime scenes.

More than two dozen people have voluntarily given DNA swabs over the past several weeks, police say, including family members of “persons of interest” in the case.



Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/erin-gilmour/#ixzz16z1i3m5y
 
I very much hope an arrest is made in the Tice/Gilmour murders. I doubt they are isolated crimes. I'd be surprised if the man hadn't killed before and hasn't since.
 
I must have missed or forgotten about this older article.
http://www.globaltoronto.com/Toront...+cold+cases+victim+brother/2546282/story.html
Gilmour's brother, Sean McCowan, told Global News he called Detective Sergeant Steve Ryan of the Toronto Police Cold Case Squad after reading the papers on Tuesday.


"(Det. Sgt. Ryan) just mentioned that the Colonel is a person of interest and they're going to take a look at it," McCowan says. "You start to think about Erin's case, and could this person be somehow involved."


Col. Williams graduated with a degree in economics and political science from the University of Toronto in 1987.

Gilmour was found dead in her Yorkville apartment in December 1983.

"I'm not sure how long he was here for, but theoretically it does fit," says McCowan.
Also,
,http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10166823
And Newstalk 1010 has learned that in the past three weeks, 27 people have been subjected to consensual DNA swabs
 
One can only assume Williams was ruled out as their killer because by now, almost a year later, the DNA comparisons would have been completed.
 
Pink Panther said:
I have read about possible connections between Lynda Shaw and Cindy Halliday before and recently found out this article stating that Lynda Shaw's murder had been solved:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060210/wfive_murder_060211/20060211?hub=WFive

I'm not sure if the same perpetrator has ever been linked to Cindy.
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After rereading this last link (CTV) to an excellent article,I noticed that the case is still open,as LE believe the perp did not act alone. Now I wonder who the accomplice was (size 42 parka?) and who else might they have harmed?


"Lynda Shaw's murder was solved by science. Inspector Rosiak says he believes if this murder happened now it would have been solved within a year. But the police never gave up despite the many wrong turns and dead ends:


The anonymous letter, police now say, had no connection to MacDonald. The composite drawings look nothing like the real killer. The phantom Chrysler Newport eyewitnesses were so sure about, Macdonald never drove one.

As for the parka found at the scene?"

"It was about a size 42," says Inspector Rosiak. "We know that Alan Craig MacDonald who was considerably larger than that. So another piece of evidence that took us off in directions that in the end did not assist the investigation."

So whose coat was it? Police have always been convinced Lynda's killer had an accomplice who helped dispose of the body, an accomplice who for all these years has remained silent. The case is still open.
 
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/ar...hocking-crimes
Today's paper, Michael Ross Stratton, could be out as early as 2011
He preyed on the most vulnerable, using young girls to satisfy his sexual urges, sometimes as they slept, other times using force, threats or rewards.

To curb the sex drive that led to his “shocking” and “horrifying” crimes, convicted child molester Michael Ross Stratton should undergo chemical castration, Justice Paul Bellefontaine said in Oshawa court Tuesday.
 
leah salina sousa was born on june 7, 1977, time & place unknown.

The murder occurred on september 1, 1990 between 1:30 & 3:00 a.m. daylight saving time, according to the police.

Perhaps you talented folks could set up a chart for a couple of time factors.

Thankyou.
 
Jay98 said:
leah salina sousa was born on june 7, 1977, time & place unknown.

The murder occurred on september 1, 1990 between 1:30 & 3:00 a.m. daylight saving time, according to the police.

Perhaps you talented folks could set up a chart for a couple of time factors.

Thankyou.
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A documentary on the case is at this link, which I posted above.
 
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