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Still unsolved, still devastating families: A look at B.C.'s many missing and murdered persons cases
Seamstress's killing a 65-year-old mystery
One of the earliest cases is 15-year-old Anneta Margaret (Molly) Clive Justice, a young seamstress who rode the bus from Victoria to Saanich on a snowy January night in 1943, carrying three parcels — a wool sweater, socks and shoes. She was attacked while walking home along a railway track and suffered “abominable” injuries, according to newspaper reports at the time.
In 1996, the province ordered an investigation into a long-rumoured coverup in the case: that the main suspect, a teenage boy, avoided being charged because he was allegedly related to the man who was attorney general in 1943. That theory was debunked and the case remains unsolved eight decades later.
Seamstress's killing a 65-year-old mystery
One of the earliest cases is 15-year-old Anneta Margaret (Molly) Clive Justice, a young seamstress who rode the bus from Victoria to Saanich on a snowy January night in 1943, carrying three parcels — a wool sweater, socks and shoes. She was attacked while walking home along a railway track and suffered “abominable” injuries, according to newspaper reports at the time.
In 1996, the province ordered an investigation into a long-rumoured coverup in the case: that the main suspect, a teenage boy, avoided being charged because he was allegedly related to the man who was attorney general in 1943. That theory was debunked and the case remains unsolved eight decades later.
