CANADA Canada - Unsolved murders of young people in London, Ont, 1960s-70s
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Try to get a copy of Murder City. The author has a great deal to say about that disturbing case, and who the killer was. He felt it had a huge impact (not in a good way) on how the London cases were handled....basically with 'kid gloves', instead of with all the investigative tools and manpower available.
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Although offhand, he resembles Collins, there is a much stronger resemblance to David Bodemer, who may be only 23 in the photo.Jackie English:
15-year-old Jackie English was abducted on her way home from her waitressing job at the Metropolitan on October 4, 1969. The restaurant was located in the Treasure Island Mall. She went outside to wait for the bus. According to a witness Jackie got into a car instead of getting on the bus. It was the last time Jackie was seen alive.
Five days later, in a rural area about 45 minutes from where Jackie was last seen, her body was discovered in a creek. She was nude. There were signs of sexual assault—two semen samples actually. One internally, the other on her underwear. Her clothes were found strewn along the highway a few days later.
Her cause of death was blunt force trauma most likely from a crowbar or hammer.
Jackie English age 15
Jackie kept a detailed diary that may hold clues. She wrote part of the diary in code. But tucked away in the pages was a picture of an unknown man. Below is that picture...
Mystery Man
LINK:
The Forest City Killer - The Murder Squad
Does anyone think there is a resemblance between the Mystery Man and John Norman Collins? Although Collins was in a Michigan jail as of the end of July 1969, he did have a few close companions who were not. Did Jakie's killer know her through Collins? Or could the photo have been placed with her to implicate him?
John Norman Collins,
Michigan Murderer
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MI - MI - JOHN NORMAN COLLINS Co-Ed Murders 1967-69, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
One Ontario woman’s quest to find — and shame — her kid sister’s killers
One Ontario woman’s quest to find — and shame — her kid sister’s killers
By Peter Edwards
Sept. 12, 2021
Full article at link..
Toronto Star ePaper
One Ontario woman’s quest to find — and shame — her kid sister’s killers
By Peter Edwards
Sept. 12, 2021
Full article at link..
Toronto Star ePaper
Lengthy, various London crimes referenced.
Feb 20 2022
By Peter Edwards
At least three London, Ont., serial killers were caught after 9-year-old Frankie Jensen’s murder. Was he killed by a fourth
''Two months after he vanished, canoeists found his body face-down in the Thames River near Thorndale, just to the northeast.''
when Frankie failed to show up for class, hundreds of local residents joined the search for him in the bitter cold, with police and members of the military.
''Frankie was clad only in an undershirt and shirt.
His pants were found near the body.
A tissue was stuffed in his mouth.''
''Some locals instantly thought of 16-year-old Jacqueline (Jackie) Dunleavy, who had vanished exactly a month before Frankie, after leaving her part-time job at a London variety store.
Her partially clad body was found within hours of her disappearance. It had been posed by her killer, with school books placed around her.
Jackie, the daughter of a London police officer, had been strangled with her own scarf; a wad of facial tissue also shoved down her throat.''
''Western University criminologist Michael Arntfield said in an interview that he doesn’t think the same person killed Frankie and Dunleavy, even though they both had tissue in their throats.''
"Arntfield agrees with Alsop that Frankie Jensen was abducted and killed by the neighbour who had dodged the detective.
Arntfield writes that a white sedan was reported idling along Frankie’s route to school around 8:30 am the day he disappeared — just before a spot where kids took a shortcut through a wooded area.
He notes too that Scott Leishman was last seen getting into a white sedan.
According to Arntfield, the neighbour died several years ago. He added: “We know very little about his background.”
Feb 20 2022
By Peter Edwards
At least three London, Ont., serial killers were caught after 9-year-old Frankie Jensen’s murder. Was he killed by a fourth
''Two months after he vanished, canoeists found his body face-down in the Thames River near Thorndale, just to the northeast.''
when Frankie failed to show up for class, hundreds of local residents joined the search for him in the bitter cold, with police and members of the military.
''Frankie was clad only in an undershirt and shirt.
His pants were found near the body.
A tissue was stuffed in his mouth.''
''Some locals instantly thought of 16-year-old Jacqueline (Jackie) Dunleavy, who had vanished exactly a month before Frankie, after leaving her part-time job at a London variety store.
Her partially clad body was found within hours of her disappearance. It had been posed by her killer, with school books placed around her.
Jackie, the daughter of a London police officer, had been strangled with her own scarf; a wad of facial tissue also shoved down her throat.''
''Western University criminologist Michael Arntfield said in an interview that he doesn’t think the same person killed Frankie and Dunleavy, even though they both had tissue in their throats.''
"Arntfield agrees with Alsop that Frankie Jensen was abducted and killed by the neighbour who had dodged the detective.
Arntfield writes that a white sedan was reported idling along Frankie’s route to school around 8:30 am the day he disappeared — just before a spot where kids took a shortcut through a wooded area.
He notes too that Scott Leishman was last seen getting into a white sedan.
According to Arntfield, the neighbour died several years ago. He added: “We know very little about his background.”
Frankie Jensen, age 9, Murdered in September 1969.
LINK:
At least three London, Ont., serial killers were caught after 9-year-old Frankie Jensen’s murder. Was he killed by a fourth?
Ex-cop criminologist's new book calls London `Canada's serial killer capital' of the 1960s, `70s and '80s | London Free Press
Snippets of lengthy article.
March 27 2022 by Peter Edwards.
It was ‘most brutal of any murder case I’ve ever worked on.’ Was Priscilla Merle’s killer known from the start? | The Star
''Alarm bells didn’t go off when Priscilla Merle went missing.
The 21-year-old from London, Ont., had been out at a punk-rock bar on the night of Saturday, March 4, 1972, in the old Clarendon Hotel, near the corner of London’s King and Talbot streets.''
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''She wasn’t ready to let the night end and had plans to go to a bush party outside the nearby community of Exeter.
Things got nasty when she spoke with someone on the phone from the Hill Street home.
“There was an altercation,” Tatum said. “She was yelling into the phone.”
She then caught a ride with her boyfriend’s brother in his wood-panelled station wagon — it was the last time she was seen alive.''
....
''It was notable that the body parts were found in Kettle Creek, where the body of nine-year-old murder victim Frankie Jensen was discovered four years earlier.
The limb was sent to the Centre for Forensic Sciences in Toronto and a fingerprint test matched for Merle, who had been fingerprinted after an arrest for theft when she was a teenager.
A couple of days after the discovery of the arm, a search party found a burlap bag with flesh, hair and a woman’s shoe. It was on the edge of Kettle Creek, close to where the arm was found.
On April 13, 1972, a couple who were launching their boat near the mouth of Kettle Creek in Port Stanley found Priscilla’s upper torso, floating in the water, four miles from where the arm had been found.
Another boater found the lower half of Priscilla’s torso on May 11, 1972, half a mile further away.
The torso had been cut just below the navel.
The case was, in the words of OPP Chief Insp. James McBride, “the most brutal of any murder case I’ve ever worked on.”
The OPP sent in divers and dragged the waters but failed to find the missing head, legs or arm or any clothing.
“Where is the rest of her?” Tatum asks.''
.....
''Police did 200 interviews and when they came to Priscilla’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother, alarm bells went off.
Tatum said she heard he thought he was in love with Priscilla.''
...
''While she was growing up, Tatum said she also heard lots about 17-year-old Donna Jean Awcock, who was murdered in London on Oct. 13, 1983.
Awcock was related by marriage to Tatum.
Awcock’s body was found near the Fanshawe Dam in London.''
March 27 2022 by Peter Edwards.
It was ‘most brutal of any murder case I’ve ever worked on.’ Was Priscilla Merle’s killer known from the start? | The Star
''Alarm bells didn’t go off when Priscilla Merle went missing.
The 21-year-old from London, Ont., had been out at a punk-rock bar on the night of Saturday, March 4, 1972, in the old Clarendon Hotel, near the corner of London’s King and Talbot streets.''
...
''She wasn’t ready to let the night end and had plans to go to a bush party outside the nearby community of Exeter.
Things got nasty when she spoke with someone on the phone from the Hill Street home.
“There was an altercation,” Tatum said. “She was yelling into the phone.”
She then caught a ride with her boyfriend’s brother in his wood-panelled station wagon — it was the last time she was seen alive.''
....
''It was notable that the body parts were found in Kettle Creek, where the body of nine-year-old murder victim Frankie Jensen was discovered four years earlier.
The limb was sent to the Centre for Forensic Sciences in Toronto and a fingerprint test matched for Merle, who had been fingerprinted after an arrest for theft when she was a teenager.
A couple of days after the discovery of the arm, a search party found a burlap bag with flesh, hair and a woman’s shoe. It was on the edge of Kettle Creek, close to where the arm was found.
On April 13, 1972, a couple who were launching their boat near the mouth of Kettle Creek in Port Stanley found Priscilla’s upper torso, floating in the water, four miles from where the arm had been found.
Another boater found the lower half of Priscilla’s torso on May 11, 1972, half a mile further away.
The torso had been cut just below the navel.
The case was, in the words of OPP Chief Insp. James McBride, “the most brutal of any murder case I’ve ever worked on.”
The OPP sent in divers and dragged the waters but failed to find the missing head, legs or arm or any clothing.
“Where is the rest of her?” Tatum asks.''
.....
''Police did 200 interviews and when they came to Priscilla’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother, alarm bells went off.
Tatum said she heard he thought he was in love with Priscilla.''
...
''While she was growing up, Tatum said she also heard lots about 17-year-old Donna Jean Awcock, who was murdered in London on Oct. 13, 1983.
Awcock was related by marriage to Tatum.
Awcock’s body was found near the Fanshawe Dam in London.''
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Does the mystery man have six fingers on his right hand??
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Came to say that the mystery man reminds me of Collins!
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Bodemer did not kill Georgia Jackson. Look at the evidence, time line, the botched investigation, come on people the truth is still out there.
Bodemer did not kill Georgia Jackson. Look at the evidence, time line, the botched investigation, come on people the truth is still out there. And why were the OPP still investigating it years later.
Jacqueline Dunleavy, age 16
Murdered 9 January 1968
Jackie has her own thread here on Websleuths:
CANADA - Canada - Jacqueline Dunleavy, 16, London, Ont, 9 Jan 1968
https://www.londonpolice.ca/en/about/Unsolved-Murders.aspx On Tuesday, January 9, 1968, Jacqueline Dunleavy was working at the Stanley Variety Store on Stanley St at Wharncliffe Rd. She finished work at 6:35pm and was last seen walking out the front of the store. At 8:10pm, three youths...
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In light of re-reading Forest City Killer- I wanted to post a side by side for DB and the photo of the mystery guy found in JE's diary, as this connection has been noted by various folks in this forum.
It is time to get these solved. What efforts have been done with law enforcement to see resolution for these grieving families?
It is time to get these solved. What efforts have been done with law enforcement to see resolution for these grieving families?
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The Unsolved Homicide Of Ivan Leroy Wheeler
Date of Birth: May 26, 1951
Date of Murder: February 18, 1977
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Details About Ivan’s Murder: Ivan was found dead in his cab in the early morning of February 18, 1977. He was in the parking lot of a London Racquet Club (Cheapside Street). He had been shot in the back of the head with a small calibre pistol.
Ivan was last seen alive about 9:45pm on February 17 in Thamesville, approximately 50 miles away from London, where he had dropped a fare off. Members leaving the racquet club about 11:30pm noticed his cab parked in the parking lot but assumed the driver was sleeping and so they did not investigate. Eventually a police officer checked the car, at about 5:20am, and found Ivan’s body. Since the bullet wound was concealed by his parka hood and there was almost no blood, they had initially believed that he had died of a seizure. The bullet wound was discovered during the autopsy.
Ivan’s wallet, coin changer and brief case were found inside the cab untouched. Law enforcement had theorized that he started the meter shortly after turning off of highway 401.
Ivan’s parents lost both of their children within a space of five months. In September of 1976, their 22-year-old daughter died in a car accident. Following his sister’s death, Ivan had come to London from Belgrave to share an apartment with his bereaved brother-in-law.
London Police Service
601 Dundas Street
London, ON
N6B 1X1
Telephone: 519-661-5670
Fax: 519-661-5999
Date of Birth: May 26, 1951
Date of Murder: February 18, 1977
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Details About Ivan’s Murder: Ivan was found dead in his cab in the early morning of February 18, 1977. He was in the parking lot of a London Racquet Club (Cheapside Street). He had been shot in the back of the head with a small calibre pistol.
Ivan was last seen alive about 9:45pm on February 17 in Thamesville, approximately 50 miles away from London, where he had dropped a fare off. Members leaving the racquet club about 11:30pm noticed his cab parked in the parking lot but assumed the driver was sleeping and so they did not investigate. Eventually a police officer checked the car, at about 5:20am, and found Ivan’s body. Since the bullet wound was concealed by his parka hood and there was almost no blood, they had initially believed that he had died of a seizure. The bullet wound was discovered during the autopsy.
Ivan’s wallet, coin changer and brief case were found inside the cab untouched. Law enforcement had theorized that he started the meter shortly after turning off of highway 401.
Ivan’s parents lost both of their children within a space of five months. In September of 1976, their 22-year-old daughter died in a car accident. Following his sister’s death, Ivan had come to London from Belgrave to share an apartment with his bereaved brother-in-law.
London Police Service
601 Dundas Street
London, ON
N6B 1X1
Telephone: 519-661-5670
Fax: 519-661-5999
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CANADA - Canada- Ivan Wheeler, 27, driver for U-Need-A-Cab taxi #457, shot in back of head inside the car, London, Ontario, 18 February, 1977
https://www.londonpolice.ca/en/about/Unsolved-Murders.aspx#Ivan-Wheeler-27-years-old-Died-February-18-1977 ''Ivan Wheeler - 27 years old - Died February 18, 1977 On Friday, February 18, 1977 at about 5:15am a police officer with the London Police Service was on patrol in the area of Cheapside St...
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00:00 - Cold Case #01-04: David Buller The team investigates the murder of University of Toronto art professor David Buller44:01 - Cold Case #69-52: Jacqueline EnglishFollowing the death of a retired police detective, his son finds a treasure trove of information on the case he was obsessed with solving. Can the team unravel the cryptic clues he left behind and find her killer?
Frankie Jensen, nine, disappeared on his way to school around 8 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 9, 1968.
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At least three London, Ont., serial killers were caught after 9-year-old Frankie Jensen’s murder. Was he killed by a fourth?
Even in the time before DNA and sophisticated criminal profiling, investigators suspected the London, Ont., of the 1960s and ’70s was home to serial killers. They were right.