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[FONT=&quot]●At about 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 17th, 1988, residents of houses backing onto a laneway between Crawford and Massey Sts. heard screaming and emerged from their houses to see a young man engulfed in flames jump out of his car and roll on the ground. Residents rushed to the man’s aid and extinguished the fire with blankets. The man, 19-year-old Eric Alonsozana, was rushed to hospital with third-degree burns covering 90% of his body. He died of his injuries the following Saturday, but not before telling police what happened. He said he had been waiting outside the rear of the Queen St. Mental Health Centre at 1001 Queen St. W. for his mother, an employee there, to finish her shift so he could drive her home. He related that a stocky black man forced his way into the car and held him at gunpoint, ordering him to drive two blocks to the laneway between Mercer and Crawford Sts. There, the assailant doused Alonsozana with an incendiary fluid and set him alight.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Police were troubled by two oddities in the case. When they examined the crime scene, they found all doors to Alonsozana’s car except for the driver’s door locked. Also, the container of flammable liquid was found under the driver’s seat.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further articles on the case were found, so its disposition is unknown. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●The bullet-riddled body of Ghassan Abuneaj, 23, was found next to a creekbed off Doane Rd. in East Gwillimbury, a village 50 km north of Toronto, on New Year’s Day, 1984.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Abuneaj, an Israeli Arab, had an extensive criminal record in Canada and the U.S., and had no known legitimate occupation. Most recently, he had taken up residence in Stone Mountain, Ga. with his wife and young son. His brother-in-law, who lived in Toronto, said Abuneaj came to Toronto on December 8th, 1983 with the hope of raising enough money to open a restaurant. The brother-in-law stated that Abuneaj left his home several days later and was not seen alive again.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No additional information about this case was uncovered.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]●Three passersby who found John Johnston face-down on the sidewalk outside the Elm Grove club on Queen St. W. on Thursday, June 21st, 1962 took him to hospital, but the 54-year-old civil servant was pronounced dead upon arrival. He died of a fractured skull. Police concluded he had been mugged, because he had left home with $100 and the cash was missing when he arrived at the hospital.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further information. Only one article on this murder was found.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●On Thursday, December 27th, 1973, James Brondell Stephens, 28, was found smothered to death by his wife in their apartment on Kingston Rd. north of Queen St. E. in east Toronto. The apartment had been ransacked, the telephone cord yanked out, and two liquor bottles and glasses were found next to Stephens’s body. Stephens’s hands were tied behind his back.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Stephens, a recent immigrant from Detroit, was out on bail from a heroin-related charge, and police suspected the killing was connected to drug activity. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●Two scout leaders from Scout Camp Manitou stumbled upon the burned and mutilated body of 40-year-old Ronald MacNeil near Twiss and Derry Rds in a rural area 40 km west of Toronto on Monday, April 20th, 1987. MacNeil, known to police as a cocaine dealer, had been viciously stabbed and shot before being burned. Link to more information.[/FONT]
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http://www.thestar.com/news/article/922969--slain-art-teacher-s-family-still-searching-for-answers
This in today. I really hope this case is solved.

It has been 10 years since David Buller was stabbed to death in his office at the University of Toronto.

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.

Yet every year on the anniversary of his death, his family and close friends come back to the spot to remember Buller and reflect on his life as an artist and teacher.

His mother brings a bouquet of flowers, usually lilies. His friends place pieces of his artwork nearby. Then they sit in a circle to recall fond memories of Buller and share the anger that lingers after his death.

Buller’s murder remains unsolved.

“I’m still angry 10 years later that somebody did this horrible thing to David and walked away,” says Karyn Sandlos, Buller’s niece. “I hope they know that they ended one life and deeply wounded many others.”

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.
...more to this long article.
 
Yes, I saw the article, too. Thanks for posting.

Another murder happened at U of T around the same time, and I'm not sure the case has been closed. I can't recall the precise details, but it involved a medical examiner, or something like that, who was murdered by a colleague. The victim was white; the perp was black and went on the run. I don't remember hearing about the killer having been caught. The Star's post-2000 search capabilities are quite useless, so I can't conjure up more info. The slaying happened in the late'90s or early-'00s.
 
Yes! I recall that murder and at one time tried to sleuth it out to post here, probably for the same reasons as you. I will try to find it again..
 
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/04/05/9012506-sun.html
The Connellys' 22-year-old son, John, an achieving third-year pharmacy student at U of T, former co-captain of the hockey team at Ottawa's private Ashbury College, winner of the school's highest award for athletics and academics, was found broken and face up on the parking lot outside his 10-storey apartment building on Toronto's Walmer Rd. on Dec. 9, 2001.

He was wearing gloves and a toque, and his jacket was zipped to the neck. But he never wore gloves, and he never zipped up his jacket, say his parents and his friends. And the toque was not a hat, but a head cover from his set of golf clubs -- not something he would ever wear.

This, of course, did not add up. His parents believe he was knocked unconscious in his apartment early that morning -- there was a large bruise on his forehead that experts say could not have possibly resulted from the fall -- and that he was then dressed and dumped off the roof.

They have a name of someone who they suspect is one of the killers, and a scenario.

But those suspicions cannot be printed here, not without charges. Upon hearing the Connellys lay it out, however, it is a suspicion that merits investigation, especially since there was no real investigation from the onset.

There was, in fact, not even an autopsy beyond a visual scan of the body. And, oddly, the bruise on their son's forehead that the Connellys witnessed when they visited the Toronto morgue the next day had somehow been scraped raw to appear more like a laceration than a bruise -- the proof being in the ID picture in the coroner's file that was taken after the Connellys had left the morgue.

"Did someone try to make it look like a injury from a fall, rather than the result of an assault?" asks Dr. Connelly.
 
Thanks, but that's not the one. The victim and perp were middle-aged (the former white, the latter black) and worked as coroners or medical examiners on-campus, which is where the crime took place. Something along those lines. Maybe I'm confusing U of T with somewhere else in its vicinity. I believe the murderer, although he was quickly identified, has yet to be caught, but I could be mistaken.
I would search the Star archives, but as I said, the post-2000 search utility is virtually unusable. The murder might very well have happened in the late-'90s though.
 
Sorry, I know it is not that one, but came across it whilst looking for the other case and thought I should put it here for posterity..
The "coroner" case has been absent thus far..
 
CrimeSolver said:
Thanks, but that's not the one. The victim and perp were middle-aged (the former white, the latter black) and worked as coroners or medical examiners on-campus, which is where the crime took place. Something along those lines. Maybe I'm confusing U of T with somewhere else in its vicinity. I believe the murderer, although he was quickly identified, has yet to be caught, but I could be mistaken.
I would search the Star archives, but as I said, the post-2000 search utility is virtually unusable. The murder might very well have happened in the late-'90s though.
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Hi CrimeSolver,

Here are some links about the puzzling case to which I think you are referring:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/1998/04/17/fire980417b.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/1999/07/23/body2299.html

http://ionelectric.tripod.com/_disc11/00000075.htm
 
That's the one, nevinm. I don't remember having heard about the murderer's body being found, but I must have forgotten. Thanks for clearing up the mystery. A motive for the crime will evidently never be learned.
 
dotr said:
Thankyou for finding this! I knew this was a strange case, but reading about it now,it seems that many questions are unanswered.Could this man have committed any other crimes?!
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My guess is he was more than likely responsible for the arson that burned down his church.
 
This recent murder brought to mind David Buller, another gay employee at U of T,whose case remains unsolved.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/03/05/17509301.html

University accountant murdered

By Chris Doucette, QMI Agency




TORONTO -- The city's latest murder victim was a 49-year-old accountant.

Allan Lanteigne was found slain in his west-end home Thursday but police said it's believed he was killed a day earlier.

"We really don't know at this point what happened," Det.-Sgt. Dan Nielsen said Saturday.

What is known, he said, is that Lanteigne was last seen alive as he left his job at the University of Toronto around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
 
dotr said:
This recent murder brought to mind David Buller, another gay employee at U of T,whose case remains unsolved.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/03/05/17509301.html

University accountant murdered

By Chris Doucette, QMI Agency




TORONTO -- The city's latest murder victim was a 49-year-old accountant.

Allan Lanteigne was found slain in his west-end home Thursday but police said it's believed he was killed a day earlier.

"We really don't know at this point what happened," Det.-Sgt. Dan Nielsen said Saturday.

What is known, he said, is that Lanteigne was last seen alive as he left his job at the University of Toronto around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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Hmm, thanks for posting. I hadn't heard about this latest murder. I vaguely remember the Buller murder. I doubt they're related given the ten-year time disparity.
So far it's a (relatively speaking) bad year for murders here. 14 in just over two months, and the winter months are the usually the slowest period of the year.

There are a number of unsolved murders of gay men from the '70s and early '80s. I wonder if police have looked at James Henry Greenidge for at least some of those. He was imprisoned for murder in '81, and has been there ever since, but he could have committed some of those from the mid and late-'70s (can't remember the names of the victims at the moment, but they're all posted throughout this thread).
 
A rundown of an unsolved murder from that time in the Yorkville area.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/163304
Murdered, police believe, by a sexual predator who was stalking attractive boyish men in Toronto's Gay Village (though not yet known as such) in 1967. It was "The Summer of Love'' that year, with restless youth on the move across Canada, thousands taking a bead on the bright lights of the big city, as did Hovey.
 
dotr said:
A rundown of an unsolved murder from that time in the Yorkville area.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/163304
Murdered, police believe, by a sexual predator who was stalking attractive boyish men in Toronto's Gay Village (though not yet known as such) in 1967. It was "The Summer of Love'' that year, with restless youth on the move across Canada, thousands taking a bead on the bright lights of the big city, as did Hovey.
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Yes, I believe Greenidge almost certainly killed Hovey, and probably Eric Jones (skull found near Coboconk) as well. Hovey was last seen getting into a convertible driven by a muscular young black man (Greenidge owned such a car). They drove north on Avenue Rd. from Yorkville Ave.
W5 and the terrific crime reporter Sue Sgambati did a fascinating hour-long story on the two murdered young men, whose remains went unidentified for 40 years.
Here's a link to the show. Parts two and three can be accessed on the right side of the screen: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20090210/wfive_hovey_090214

The other gay men murdered in the mid and late-'70s were middle-aged if I recall correctly, so perhaps it's a stretch to consider Greenidge in those cases.
 
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=dd2a09f0-e113-44ba-b95e-55b522cf02d9&k=5302
I wonder if there are any other crimes- especially in the Yorkville area, that this perp Greenidge, may have committed.I hope he has not been let out on parole again,it seems his victims have been both male and female...

http://www.thestar.com/article/178237
But here is the flip side of James Henry: Behind bars he's been a model prisoner.

He's never incurred any institutional charges, never tested positive for drugs, completed the Intensive Sexual Offender Program, has always co-operated with staff, taken computer courses and even, apparently, studied piano.

He lives in a minimum-security cottage at Mountain Institution, southwest of Chilliwack, and spends his time tutoring other inmates.

Recently, he's been granted escorted temporary absence passes for the purpose of attending psychological counselling off-premises.

And he's brilliant. IQ tests conducted in prison put Henry in the genius range, in the top one percentile of the general population.

But, as a killer, thuggish and stupid.

Sixty-nine years old now, a pensioner, Henry wants out.

In April of 2008, he will get his next chance.

Unless another young murder victim yowls from the grave.
 
I haven't heard or read an update on whether he has been released on parole. I don't think so, because it would have made the news.

In the same article from which you quoted the passages about his good behaviour behind bars, there's this from the reporter, DiManno: "But for an instant, there had been pure rage in his eyes, a look that chilled."

It's possible he is no longer a danger at his age, that he has mellowed, but I believe I remember from the W5 report that he was not cooperating with the police inquiries into the Hovey/Jones killings. Why would he, when he has everything to lose and nothing to gain?

I also found this paragraph from the article interesting:
"Briefly a male prostitute himself at 16, Henry vented his impulsive spleen at others in the sex trade industry, viewing them as less than human, even as he turned to them for sexual gratification. In 1998, a prison psychiatric assessment diagnosed Henry with narcissistic personality disorder, exhibiting many features of psychopathy and a high risk for violent/sexual recidivism."

Number one, a psychiatrist assessed him as being a psychopath. But the first sentence above could provide a link to his being the one who murdered the gay men killed in the mid-'70s (assuming he was out of jail at the times of those crimes). Let's say these men were trolling downtown for sex and picked up prostitute Greenidge. Whatever rage or self-hatred propelled him to kill his known victims also came into play with these men, whom he viewed as weak or disgusting, or whatever.

Anyway, what kind of "justice" system is this that a man who has been convicted of two vicious murders and attempted murder and rape (on the 13-year-old boy) even has a chance of ever seeing daylight again? He's sitting comfortably in his little minimum-security cottage in B.C. waiting to be let loose.
 
Along with Hovey, Jones, and the still-unidentified cross-dresser found in Markham in 1980, all of whom I believe were murdered by Greenidge, the following are cases in which he should be considered, assuming he was out of jail and in the Toronto area at the time:

●Harold Walkley, 51, a one-time high school teacher and part-time lecturer at the University of Toronto, was stabbed five times in the back and chest at his home on Borden St. on February 18th, 1975. No further information, but case remained unsolved in 1978 when last newspaper citation occurred.
●On February 11th, 1976, James Douglas Taylor, 41, was murdered with a baseball bat in a robbery at his home on Elmhurst Ave. Four-and-a-half years later, Taylor’s brother Claire was also beaten to death, this time with a hammer. While Claire’s killer was quickly arrested, James’s has never been identified. His murder was one of a spate of murders of gay men in the mid-to late-‘70s, which raised fears in the homosexual community.
●On Wednesday, September 20th, 1978, Alex Leblanc, 29, a manager at a disco club, was found murdered in his St. Joseph St. apartment. No further information is available, including on the cause of death, but the deceased’s murder was one of a rash of murders of homosexuals in Toronto in the late-‘70s and early-‘80s, some cases of which have been covered in earlier posts of this thread.
●Tuesday, January 25th, 1977: The nude body of 24-year-old Brian Latocki is found tied to a bed in his Erskine Ave. apartment. The victim, a financial analyst with the Toronto Dominion bank, had been strangled, beaten, and stabbed several times in the chest and back. Latocki was last seen on the evening of Friday the 21st as he left a gay bar on Yonge St. with a man who purportedly offered him a ride home. That man was described as of East or West Indian origin, in his mid-twenties, with thin features, a medium-brown complexion, and an Afro.
Police at the time believed the killer was a sadist who enjoyed torturing and killing homosexuals. He may have been responsible for the deaths of several other gay men around the same time.
●James Stewart Kennedy, 49, was found strangled and beaten to death in his apartment on Jarvis St. on Monday, September 20th, 1976. Kennedy worked at the Department of National Revenue on Adelaide St., and his body was found when he failed to show up for work as usual. A towel had been knotted tightly around his neck and his face had been badly battered. The victim, a bachelor, had last been seen Saturday night. No further information.
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I wonder if, and how many unsolved crimes can be attributed to this fellow Dawson Davidson?As the son of a prominent lawyer, I imagine he might know a few tricks...
Toronto serial rapist arrested
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/02/17/12914831-qmi.html
By ROB LAMBERTI, QMI Agency
Dawson Davidson, pictured here in 1986, has been arrested in Vancouver and charged with assault and sexual assault on two women. Davidson was sentenced to eight years in prison for being the Annex Rapist in Toronto in the mid-1980s. (QMI Agency files)

TORONTO - The Annex Rapist, who terrorized Toronto women during the mid-1980s, is in custody in Vancouver.

Dawson Davidson, 45, is charged with assault and sexual assault of two women.

Davidson was described as a carpenter working on the set of the TV show Smallville. He was charged with an assault last July and another that allegedly occurred between November 2008 and March 2009, according to news reports.



In 1986, Davidson got an eight-year sentence after confessing to a spree of sex crimes the previous summer that saw three women attacked in Toronto and one in Vancouver. He returned to B.C., where he was convicted and jailed for one year in connection with a violent attack in 1996 on a Vancouver prostitute, whose ear was nearly cut off.

In 2000, a judge refused to have Davidson declared a dangerous offender. The year before, another judge released Davidson on bail under house arrest at his parents’ west-side home, despite the pending dangerous-offender hearing.

Davidson’s mother is prominent Vancouver lawyer Diana Davidson, who has received the Order of Canada.



Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Se...indefinitely/3696583/story.html#ixzz1G87utBmi
 
I don't know if he's the murdering type, but there was a spate of rape-murders of young women in Toronto in the summer of '82, most of which remain unsolved.
However, firstly, he would have been 16 or 17 at the time (which doesn't rule him out, but makes him less likely), and secondly, I'm sure his DNA has been run through the database and come up empty on those cases where DNA exists.
In the instance of old rapes, DNA evidence has probably long been discarded, even though Canada, unlike the U.S., doesn't have a statute of limitations for rape.
Hopefully he will be classified a Dangerous Offender and jailed indefinitely.
 
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