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Brad Hunter May 11, 2024 rbbm.
torontosun.com
''The last hours of Elizabeth Boyington’s life were spent in a boozy haze drifting through watering holes in the Bloor St. W.-Avenue Rd area of Toronto''.
''What happened on her final day on this earth – June 26, 1959 – would make the “gadabout” Homicide #0071959. For a berg that only had 12-15 slayings a year during the 1950s, 1959 was an anomaly of horror.''
''According to news reports from the time, Boyington was a heavy boozer and days before her demise, her family desperately tried to get her into a dry out facility. Her Glen Rd. landlady told reporters she refused.''
''Instead, residents found Boyington’s body around 10:30 a.m. on a Saturday in High Park. There was no identification and her throat had been slit from ear to ear. A fedora and hammer were located nearby.''
An autopsy revealed she had been stabbed five times with a very sharp knife. Boyington’s larynx, windpipe and jugular vein had been slashed.
STILL UNSOLVED: Murder victim Elizabeth Boyington.
''Cops suspected the troubled woman met her killer at one of the many watering holes she frequented''
''Around 9 p.m. on that warm summer Friday night at the twilight of the ’50s, Boyington was last seen alive at a bar on Bloor St. She was refused admittance after being barred from the joint weeks earlier for drunkenness.''
CRIME HUNTER: Five ice cold Toronto murders from bloody 1959
The last hours of Elizabeth Boyington's life were spent in a boozy haze drifting through watering holes in the Bloor St.-Avenue Rd area.
''What happened on her final day on this earth – June 26, 1959 – would make the “gadabout” Homicide #0071959. For a berg that only had 12-15 slayings a year during the 1950s, 1959 was an anomaly of horror.''
''According to news reports from the time, Boyington was a heavy boozer and days before her demise, her family desperately tried to get her into a dry out facility. Her Glen Rd. landlady told reporters she refused.''
''Instead, residents found Boyington’s body around 10:30 a.m. on a Saturday in High Park. There was no identification and her throat had been slit from ear to ear. A fedora and hammer were located nearby.''
An autopsy revealed she had been stabbed five times with a very sharp knife. Boyington’s larynx, windpipe and jugular vein had been slashed.
''Cops suspected the troubled woman met her killer at one of the many watering holes she frequented''
''Around 9 p.m. on that warm summer Friday night at the twilight of the ’50s, Boyington was last seen alive at a bar on Bloor St. She was refused admittance after being barred from the joint weeks earlier for drunkenness.''
