I finally got around to writing up five new summaries, but I'm running out of cases to cover. From now on, I will no longer write about cases from the 1990s onward. Many of those can be read about at the Toronto police website.
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[FONT="][/FONT] [FONT="]●At about 10 p.m. on July 4th, 1979, 24-year-old Carri Cochrane allowed a man into her apartment on Generation Blvd., in the Hwy 401 and Meadowvale Rd. area, to discuss an ad she had placed to rent a room. After what the victim later described as a two-hour chat, the man attacked her, stabbing her twice in the throat, severing her jugular vein, then tying electrical cord around her neck and binding her hands. The neck ligature saved her life by blocking the flow of blood from the neck wounds. The assailant robbed Cochrane of $60 and three rings.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Cochrane’s roommate Gerald Kane found her at 1:15 a.m. when he arrived home from work. The victim was rushed to hospital where she went into a partial coma, but she survived.[/FONT]
[FONT="]On July 11th, police released a composite sketch of the suspect who spent two hours with the victim before viciously attacking her. Cochrane described him as in his early 20s, 5’4” to 5’6”, with light freckles on his face, a full moustache, and medium-brown shoulder-length hair with a reddish tinge.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]●At 7:55 a.m. on Friday, January 20th, 1989, 34-year-old William Dimitry Patrief was found on the north side of Bethesda Rd. east of Bayview Ave. in Richmond Hill, on the northern outskirts of Toronto. Patrief had massive head injuries. He was rushed to St. Michael’s Hospital in the city but died 36 hours later.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Patrief, single and unemployed, was last seen on the morning of Wednesday the 18th at his brother Tom’s Pickering home, where he had lived for four months. Tom believed his brother was the victim of a grudge going back to his days as the member of a biker gang when he was in his early 20s.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No further information was found.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]●Early on the frigid morning of Tuesday, December 23rd, 1969, the frozen body of Daniel Linehan, 57, was discovered under a fire escape in a laneway beside 50 Gerrard St. E. He had been beaten and left to die in the cold.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Linehan, who was single and lived in an apartment on Victoria Park Ave. with his brother, left a bar at Yonge and Gerrard Sts. at about 8:30 p.m. Monday with a man he had met there. Police believed he was offered a ride home and then accosted by that man and an accomplice, who kicked him viciously and robbed him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No additional articles were found bespeaking the disposition of this case.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Laneway at 50 Gerrard St. E., where victim was found (has likely changed dramatically in appearance since 1969):[/FONT]
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[FONT="]●Plumbing contractors found the nude body of 47-year-old David John Westwater in his fourth-floor bachelor apartment on Gloucester St. at about noon on Monday, March 1st, 1982. Westwater had been brutally beaten about the face and head, and had sustained a fractured skull. Cause of death was severe internal hemorrhaging, which led to the victim choking to death on his own blood.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Westwater, an unemployed cook who was separated from his wife, had lived in the building for six months and was known to his neighbours as Toby.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]●22-year-old Pritam Chohan left his job at Central Bakery on Cawthra Ave. early on Monday, August 1st, 1988. He told his boss he had to go “somewhere far” to take care of some business. He was never seen alive again. His burnt body was found by hikers in some brush off 8th Concession near Claremont Conservation Area north of Pickering on August 11th. Little was left of the body and Chohan could only be identified by jewelry he had been wearing. A manner of death could not be established.[/FONT]
[FONT="]After months of investigation, police had several suspects, but could not build a case because of the uncooperativeness of the East Indian community. Police believed Chohan met his killers at around midnight on Aug. 1st, having been lured into a trap. An anonymous caller phoned his family the next day to say he was dead, and the family continued to receive phone calls for months afterward.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One of the theories police worked with was that Chohan, a peaceable sort, was killed by a radical Sikh group, the Babbar Khalsa, members of which he was trying to expose in letters to the Indian consulate. Another theory was that he may have been killed by one of the men whose wives he was reported to have dated. [/FONT]
[FONT="]The case was still unsolved as of the last newspaper article found.[/FONT]
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