Tracy Kundinger Murder
Person of Interest: Raymond Wallace
January 13, 1978 - Toronto Star
2nd Thornhill woman accosted
A woman was accosted at knifepoint last night in an area that has seen one unsolved murder and numerous rapes and indecent assaults.
It was the second such incident in a week.
York Regional police said a 20-year-old woman was waiting for a bus on Don Mills Rd. just north of Steeles Ave. when she was approached by a man with a knife who told her to accompany him.
Police said the armed man led the woman to a townhouse construction site and as they were about to enter the woman began to struggle and escaped.
About a week ago, a 19-year-old woman was grabbed by a man who produced a knife. The assault occurred in almost exactly the same spot.
Tracy Kundinger, 18, of Thornhill, was found murdered in the same area August 21, 1975.
The Grade 13 student was strangled. Her body was found in a field near the German Mills public school. Her killer has never been found.
Police say there have been a number of other rapes and attacks on women in the same area of Thornhill and in Metro just south of Steeles Ave. over the past 18 months but there have been no arrests.
All of the names were known by the family, including one who the family suspects is responsible. All the names were published in the articles as stated. Two of the names were widely known suspects. Kloc's whereabouts at the time of Tracy's murder, are unknown as I stated, unless you wish to check court records, but he is believed to be a suspect by some who knew Tracy. Another wasn't even known by York Regional police because of jurisdictional issues at the time but is currently being investigated. Other friends of the family believe an entire other person that knew Tracy was involved and have been in contact with the police.
Just to repost this for Woodland. Read it slowly if you like. How about providing something instead of *****ing or just please go away if you aren't going to.
Interesting info. dotr, good to see you again.
I think (it has been so long) I wrote a capsule of this case in the Toronto Murders thread. I wonder if there is DNA in the Kundinger case. I'm sure police have already looked at Argo cheerleader Jenny Isford's killer, William Brett Henson. The MOs in the two crimes are strikingly similar: Girl is downtown late in the evening engaging in an athletic activity. Girl takes transit home to North Toronto. Girl is attacked, raped, strangled soon after disembarking bus.
It's also possible, but a stretch, that Sharmini Anandavel's killer also murdered Kundinger. There's a strong suspect in the Anadavel case, but there has not been enough evidence to charge him. I can't recall his name, but he has a facial deformity due to a disease.
DURHAM -- Stanley Tippett, jailed as a dangerous offender after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a child in Courtice nearly eight years ago, remains a danger to the public, according to a recently-released Parole Board decision.
Mr. Tippett, now 39, failed to engage in sex offender treatment as he awaited the outcome of an appeal of his conviction and sentence and continued to maintain his innocence, the ruling says.
“You remain an untreated sex offender,” the decision reads
The board also reviewed Mr. Tippett’s previous convictions for criminal harassment of women, and the fact he was considered a person of interest in the disappearance and death of a 15-year-old Toronto girl, Sharmini Anandavel, in 1999.
.His first known brush with the law dates back to the mysterious disappearance and murder of Toronto teen Sharmini Anandavel in June 1999
On that summer Saturday 12 years ago, the 15-year-old told her parents she was heading to a summer job arranged by Tippett.
She never returned.
Bumping sketch of suspect,Tracy Kundinger Murder - Composite sketch of suspect
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For years after Tracy Kundinger was murdered, her sisters, Lee-Ann, Sharon and Jeannine, felt a persistent and lasting terror that the killer would come for them next.
The “bogeyman” invaded their dreams and haunted their minds, causing the hairs on the back of their necks to stand at attention every time the doorbell rang while at home alone.
“No one was ever caught," said Jeannine. "People always say ‘I never thought it would happen to me.' Well it happened to us and if it happened once, why wouldn’t it happen again?”
It’s an understandable concern, considering other important circumstances of the murder, one that left many wondering why would anyone want to kill this beautiful, peace-loving teenager who was adored by all who knew her?
Thanks for the fresh article!