Again, for me, the timeline is the issue. His mom called him and he was staying in that night. Some think she called around midnight which would be too late for someone coming to buy something and the fire was by 6 am.
CANADA Canada- Eli Wood, 25, student@ Sir Wilfred Laurier Univ., missing after fire (poss. arson)@ home, Kitchener, Ont.,19 Oct., 2025, *Foul play suspected*
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Let me clarify something regarding your statement "didn't make it home". Last known whereabout LE told us was phone call with his mother saying they (he and Princess) were staying in for a spa day and the dog's towel was in the dryer. We since saw in the video I posted, the dryer is in the studio apart. I took it that the call was made in the apt. not during a walk home, i.e. that he was in the apt that night.
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A question is whether the desire to destroy digital evidence was the motive and whether the fire was a planned way to take care of that?
I agree that he might have met someone voluntarily and more likely someone known to him arrived at his apartment, but IMO, this known-to-him-person had been stewing about something and maybe knew EW would be leaving the province soon, and it was time to take care of business. Or once confronted, things spiralled. And choosing the arson made sense to this perp to cover their tracks.
If this happened, this POI would have dumped EW somewhere fairly close or familiar as is common behaviour in cases.
The question about wide open spaces near 25 Major St. Two include Woodside Historic Park and Springwood Park which
Law enforcement (LE) could have searched only if one of the following applied:
• Search warrant issued by a judge
• Exigent circumstances (e.g., threat to life, destruction of evidence)
• Consent from the property manager or controlling authority
As another sleuth suggested, there are a lot of industries with dumpsters, etc. that would be easy to drop someone by as well. Private properties.
And further up the highway (assuming the perp used a vehicle), is the area along the river where a group did plan to do a search before the snow became an issue.
Law enforcement (LE) could have searched only if one of the following applied:
• Search warrant issued by a judge
• Exigent circumstances (e.g., threat to life, destruction of evidence)
• Consent from the property manager or controlling authority
As another sleuth suggested, there are a lot of industries with dumpsters, etc. that would be easy to drop someone by as well. Private properties.
And further up the highway (assuming the perp used a vehicle), is the area along the river where a group did plan to do a search before the snow became an issue.
@dotr with your experience in this type of crime, would a perp drive a body farther out of town? It isn't that far to be out of town.
I'm leaning to a) perp with no vehicle body was left close b) perp with vehicle also left close due to chaotic feelings and the decision to return to start a fire.
I'm leaning to a) perp with no vehicle body was left close b) perp with vehicle also left close due to chaotic feelings and the decision to return to start a fire.
Another great question posed earlier. If you study other cases and have insight from other cases, please share your thoughts.
• Did the perpetrator dispose of their own clothing, gloves, or other items used during the crime? If so, where might they have put them — trash bins, dumpsters, abandoned properties, river, or taken them away in a vehicle? (Also could be snow covered now.)
Disclaimer:
This is speculative analysis based on public reporting; not intended as fact.
• Did the perpetrator dispose of their own clothing, gloves, or other items used during the crime? If so, where might they have put them — trash bins, dumpsters, abandoned properties, river, or taken them away in a vehicle? (Also could be snow covered now.)
Disclaimer:
This is speculative analysis based on public reporting; not intended as fact.
Regarding the previous post where I said the goFundMe was set at $1,800, This poster from EW's FB page says $4,000 is needed as a minimum amount. Wow.
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I did read that, but I have not yet seen that the phone was as the home during the call. It probably was, and he was probably home, but since I do not know that for sure, I leave the possibility open. Unless maybe I missed a post where LE said the phone records showed him at home during the call? Was that ever a definite, that the call was from his home?
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I have a thought on this. Maybe not a decision to return, but an arson setup to set a fire after the person left.
Say someone came home with, or even knocked on Eli's door and was invited in. To start a fire, that person could have set a cigarette balanced on a plate sitting on papers. When the cigarette burned down to fall off the plate, the fire happens. Same if you place a tea candle on paper towels (just wax candle sitting on the towels). There are dozens of ways to slow motion arson.
So a perp would not necessarily have to come back to set a fire. But then it would definitely be premeditated. As a possibility.
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From my point of view, i would need to know more to have an opinion on that. If they needed to dispose of their clothes, they could be anywhere. Was it a trash day the next day? My thought always goes to various trash cans and dumpsters, but depending on what happened, they may not have needed to dispose of much (or even anything).
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