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Police arrest man over string of brutal 1990s child sex assaults in Brampton, Oakville and Kitchener

In the mid-1990s, police used DNA to link a trio of assaults in Kitchener, Brampton and Oakville parks to the same suspect — dubbed the “Woodland Rapist” in media coverage

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''Police have arrested and charged a man they believe is responsible for brutally attacking three children and who has eluded capture for more than 30 years, the Star has learned.
In the mid-1990s, police used DNA to link a trio of assaults in Kitchener, Brampton and Oakville parks to the same suspect — a man who was dubbed the “Woodland Rapist” in media coverage of the attacks and subsequent manhunt.''

CANADA - Canada - The Woodland Rapist of Southern Ontario, 1992-1995 *Arrest*

More baggy eyes for consideration. http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/122438--oshawa-teacher-facing-child-*advertiser censored*-charges-after-allegedly-posing-as-girl-on-facebook

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Apr 18, 2024
Josh Mankiewicz reports Friday, April 19 at 9/8c on NBC.
''The separate murders of Susan Tice, 45, and Erin Gilmour, 22, in Toronto in 1983 had police stumped for decades, but in 2010 they learned through DNA evidence that the crimes were committed by the same men.''

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/entert...m-tv-blog/article287823860.html#storylink=cpy

 

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• MANDEL: Cop killer seeks parole and a return to Jamaica
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''MANDEL: Cop killer seeks parole and a return to Jamaica​

Clinton Junior Gayle hopes that, after serving 30 years for the murder of Toronto Police Const. Todd Baylis and the attempted murder of his partner, Const. Michael Leone, he will finally see freedom''
Aug 02, 2024

Clinton Gayle is pictured in this 1995 photo. Photo by Files /Toronto Sun
''Here he goes again.''

 

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During her brief separation from Fremlin in 1992, Munro also shared with Skinner her own suspicion regarding one of the most high-profile cases in Canadian history.

For reasons that remain unclear, she suspected that her husband might have raped and murdered Lynne Harper. In June 1959, the 12-year-old girl’s body was discovered in a woodlot northeast of Clinton, Ont., the town where Fremlin’s parents lived and where he and Munro eventually settled. Steven Truscott, a classmate of Harper’s, was wrongfully convicted and Harper’s murder case remains unsolved.

Munro’s reasons for suspecting his involvement aren’t known to Skinner, but she believes they might relate to her mother’s insight into his character.

Skinner conducted her own investigation into the possibility. She contacted Truscott’s legal team and tried to determine Fremlin’s location in 1959. At the time, Fremlin’s parents lived in the Clinton residence that he and Munro would later inhabit. He was 34 at the time. Despite her efforts, Skinner’s inquiries reached an impasse, and when she later asked her mother about it again, Munro said she no longer believed it.

Munro said that Fremlin, was, in fact, in Alaska when Harper was killed, and that, as proof, she had seen letters he had written to his parents.


Nevertheless, the fact that her mother stuck by a man who sexually abused her — while also suspecting, even for a passing moment, that he might be capable of rape and murder — remains a source of pain and bewilderment for Skinner.

She wrote in a text message: “I thought she would have stayed with him no matter what he had done to me and others.”

Before Alice Munro’s husband sexually abused his stepdaughter, he targeted another 9-year-old girl. ‘It was a textbook case of grooming’

Jane Morrey says family friend Gerald Fremlin exploited her just a few years before he sexually assaulted his stepdaughter Andrea.

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Literary icon Alice Munro's husband accused by ANOTHER young victim

The reputation of Canada's Nobel Prize-winning author has taken a battering since it emerged that she stood by Gerald Fremlin, the man who abused her own daughter from the age of nine

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[FONT=&quot]●At midnight on Thursday, December 22nd, 1988, Nick Gournis, 50, was found by two passersby at Galactic Amusements Arcade, an establishment he owned at 1058 Kingston Rd. He had been beaten about the head with a baseball bat, which was found at the scene. He died in hospital hours later. Police found that the arcade had been robbed by Gournis’s killer, and that the crime had occurred between 10 p.m. and the time he was found. He was last seen alive at 9:15.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Gournis, a father of two girls, lived on Raquel Ct. in west Toronto.[/FONT]
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CANADA - Canada- Nick Gournis, 50, arcade owner, 2 robbers beat him to death with a baseball bat, Xmas Eve, Toronto (East York), 24 Dec 88, *DNA*

Sep 11, '24 https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/cold-case-unit-hopes-to-soon-solve-the-1988-murder-of-an-east-york-arcade-owner-1.7034007 ''After more than 30 years, Toronto police say they are now close to solving the murder of an East York arcade owner who was brutally beaten to death with a baseball...

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Toronto man's body identified 40+ years after his escape from jail.

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CANADA Post in thread 'Canada - Markham, Ont, WhtMale 1084UMON, 20-40, female clothes, Jul'80'

Nov 1, 2024

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Toronto man identified in cold case spanning more than 40 years

In 2007, the remains were exhumed by cold case investigators in an attempt to conduct a facial reconstruction and obtain DNA.

toronto.citynews.ca

''Victim had criminal history and escaped from prison in 1980​

Investigators were able to determine that Pennell had spent time in numerous correctional institutions for various crimes.

YRP said on June 30, 1979, while on parole, Pennell was arrested and charged with armed robbery and attempted murder, leading to his incarceration in Kingston, Ont.''

''While in prison, it’s alleged Pennell told officers that there were at least two other people involved in the attempted robbery...

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