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●A cyclist taking an early-morning ride through High Park on Colborne Lodge Rd. on Saturday, December 3rd, 1988, found the bloodied body of 28-year-old Richard Thomas Moore in some bushes near a footpath not far from Grenadier Restaurant. The murdered man, a drifter who worked for a temp agency as a labourer, had been stabbed and beaten, apparently during a robbery. A police search of the area yielded Moore's wallet and what was later determined to be the murder weapon, a Solingen hunting knife with a 4.5 in. blade and black leather handle.
It was later learned that Moore had been drinking at the Edgewater Hotel on Roncesvalles St. at Queen St. W. until 10:40 Friday night. Moore lived nearby, so the question became what he was doing at the scene of his mugging/murder, 1.5 km to the west-northwest in the middle of High Park. No further information.
●Six gunshots rang out at the Connections 2 nightclub at Dufferin St. and Finch Ave. W. in north Toronto at 1:45 a.m. on Wednesday, December 29th, 1999, leaving Godfrey Dunbar, 27, and Richard Brown, 30, dead. The club was packed with 800 party-goers enjoying a hip hop and reggae festival when someone opened fire. There followed a mad rush of attendees to the exits.
Dunbar's friends carried him to a car and tried to get him to hospital, but were stopped by police who summoned an ambulance. Brown's body was found inside the nightclub.
Police believed Dunbar was the intended target and Brown was an innocent victim. Police were not impressed by the lack of cooperation of witnesses to the shooting, including Dunbar's friends. One of those uncooperative witnesses, Kirk Sweeney, was himself shot to death in December, 2003 in a nightclub called the G-Spot.
●On Tuesday, October 2nd, 1990, 23-year-old Mabel Wong was last seen by her family as she left their Bexley Cres. home at 10 p.m. On October 12th, Wong's Toyota Tercel was found abandoned in a parking lot at 1550 Jane St., roughly 1.5 km north of her home.
Although no trace of Wong was ever found, police felt foul play was involved, as Wong was a responsible young woman not given to rash, unpredictable conduct. In the weeks before her disappearance, she had complained to a co-worker at a Bathurst St. restaurant supply store that she was being followed.
●On Tuesday, August 9th, 1977, 80-year-old James Cummings was murdered during a break-in, presumably at his home, somewhere in Toronto. Other than a tiny blurb in a year-end round-up of murders, in which it was denoted that his murder remained unsolved, there isn't a shred more information on this forgotten victim's case. Shame.
●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.
●At 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, November 2nd, 1947, 13-year-old Arlene Anderson waited on the porch of her home at 99 Marchmount Rd. for her father to come home from a union meeting. Just moments after her mother last looked out the door and asked her if she was okay, Anderson, who was mute and had cerebral palsy, disappeared.
On Wednesday, November 5th, 250 volunteers, many of them friends and acquaintances of the Andersons, undertook an unsuccessful search of High Park.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, November 6th, a woman picking dandelions discovered the body of Anderson lying in a patch of weeds behind a factory on Bartlett Ave. just north of Geary Ave., about a kilometre southwest of her house. Anderson had been hit once on the right side of the head and then strangled with her blue woollen underwear by someone who was, the coroner declared, "very powerful". The coroner also concluded she hadn't been dead longer than 12 hours, and the lot where she was found was a well-used shortcut between Bartlett and Bristol Aves., so it was very unlikely her body had lain there since Sunday. Several people who came forward and reported having crossed the lot on Wednesday were adamant Anderson's body had not been there then.
A woman who knew Arlene said she saw a man leading the crippled girl by the hand south on Shaw St. toward Dupont St. at about 6:10 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, moments after the girl's mother last saw her. The woman described the suspect as 35-40 years of age, of medium height, with fair hair greying at the sides, and wearing a beige windbreaker and dark pants.
Police believed Anderson was kept unharmed at a house somewhere nearby for four days before being brought to the industrial lot, murdered, then sexually molested. In their investigation, Toronto police rounded up and questioned all 915 of the city's known sex offenders.
It was later learned that Moore had been drinking at the Edgewater Hotel on Roncesvalles St. at Queen St. W. until 10:40 Friday night. Moore lived nearby, so the question became what he was doing at the scene of his mugging/murder, 1.5 km to the west-northwest in the middle of High Park. No further information.
●Six gunshots rang out at the Connections 2 nightclub at Dufferin St. and Finch Ave. W. in north Toronto at 1:45 a.m. on Wednesday, December 29th, 1999, leaving Godfrey Dunbar, 27, and Richard Brown, 30, dead. The club was packed with 800 party-goers enjoying a hip hop and reggae festival when someone opened fire. There followed a mad rush of attendees to the exits.
Dunbar's friends carried him to a car and tried to get him to hospital, but were stopped by police who summoned an ambulance. Brown's body was found inside the nightclub.
Police believed Dunbar was the intended target and Brown was an innocent victim. Police were not impressed by the lack of cooperation of witnesses to the shooting, including Dunbar's friends. One of those uncooperative witnesses, Kirk Sweeney, was himself shot to death in December, 2003 in a nightclub called the G-Spot.
●On Tuesday, October 2nd, 1990, 23-year-old Mabel Wong was last seen by her family as she left their Bexley Cres. home at 10 p.m. On October 12th, Wong's Toyota Tercel was found abandoned in a parking lot at 1550 Jane St., roughly 1.5 km north of her home.
Although no trace of Wong was ever found, police felt foul play was involved, as Wong was a responsible young woman not given to rash, unpredictable conduct. In the weeks before her disappearance, she had complained to a co-worker at a Bathurst St. restaurant supply store that she was being followed.
●On Tuesday, August 9th, 1977, 80-year-old James Cummings was murdered during a break-in, presumably at his home, somewhere in Toronto. Other than a tiny blurb in a year-end round-up of murders, in which it was denoted that his murder remained unsolved, there isn't a shred more information on this forgotten victim's case. Shame.
●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.
●At 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, November 2nd, 1947, 13-year-old Arlene Anderson waited on the porch of her home at 99 Marchmount Rd. for her father to come home from a union meeting. Just moments after her mother last looked out the door and asked her if she was okay, Anderson, who was mute and had cerebral palsy, disappeared.
On Wednesday, November 5th, 250 volunteers, many of them friends and acquaintances of the Andersons, undertook an unsuccessful search of High Park.
Shortly after noon on Thursday, November 6th, a woman picking dandelions discovered the body of Anderson lying in a patch of weeds behind a factory on Bartlett Ave. just north of Geary Ave., about a kilometre southwest of her house. Anderson had been hit once on the right side of the head and then strangled with her blue woollen underwear by someone who was, the coroner declared, "very powerful". The coroner also concluded she hadn't been dead longer than 12 hours, and the lot where she was found was a well-used shortcut between Bartlett and Bristol Aves., so it was very unlikely her body had lain there since Sunday. Several people who came forward and reported having crossed the lot on Wednesday were adamant Anderson's body had not been there then.
A woman who knew Arlene said she saw a man leading the crippled girl by the hand south on Shaw St. toward Dupont St. at about 6:10 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, moments after the girl's mother last saw her. The woman described the suspect as 35-40 years of age, of medium height, with fair hair greying at the sides, and wearing a beige windbreaker and dark pants.
Police believed Anderson was kept unharmed at a house somewhere nearby for four days before being brought to the industrial lot, murdered, then sexually molested. In their investigation, Toronto police rounded up and questioned all 915 of the city's known sex offenders.