CANADA Canada - Eric Jones, 18, & Richard Hovey, 17, Toronto, Ont, 1967

[CrimeSolver]

Yeah, thanks for posting the update, Kat. Those busts are absolutely atrocious; I'm surprised anyone was identified because of them.

 

[OkieGranny]

From March 2009:

http://www.citynews.ca/2009/03/09/s...ble-as-1967-murder-victim-finally-identified/

One of the province’s longest standing murder investigations opened a new chapter Monday, when OPP officers announced the identity of a young male who’s alleged to have been murdered in 1967 and whose remains were found near Coboconk, Ontario in December of that year.

Police are crediting information received this February, which allowed the Centre of Forensic Sciences to determine the victim as Eric Jones of Noelville, Ontario...

Jones’ murder is also linked to the killing of Richard “Dickie” Hovey. In May of 1968 the 17-year-old’s skeletal remains were found along the hedgerow of a farmer’s field near Schomberg, Ontario. Hovey was also found unclothed with his hands bound by shoelaces. He was last seen by witnesses getting into a Chevrolet Corvair with a muscular black male on Yorkville Avenue in June of 1967.

From October 2011:

http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/ne...l-killer-linked-unsolved-ontario-murders-4712

A third case, involving a young white male discovered dead in Markham, Ontario, in 1980, has yet to be solved...

Similarities in the way the men were killed have led police to believe the murders are connected. They think convicted serial killer James Henry Greenridge, currently behind bars in BC, may be responsible. Greenridge, who is eligible for parole in 2014 and has an extensive rap sheet, including victims in Ontario, was living in Toronto in 1967, when Jones and Hovey were murdered. He later spent time in prison but was free in 1980, when the unidentified victim was killed.

 

[dotr]

From March 2009:

http://www.citynews.ca/2009/03/09/s...ble-as-1967-murder-victim-finally-identified/



From October 2011:

http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/ne...l-killer-linked-unsolved-ontario-murders-4712

By coincidence, just posted on this thread about a transgendered? person found in the Markham area wearing red shoes and who is yet to be identified.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-unidentified-remains&p=12449627#post12449627
transgender in unidentified remains

 

[dotr]

From Roselvr's link in that thread..

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...in-unidentified-remains&p=8949233#post8949233

 

[Roselvr]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/ont_cold_case_murders

that is the actual link I found. It was on the yahoo canada headlines.

Here is an even more detailed link from the Globe & Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061219.wcoldcase1219/BNStory/Front/home

THIS one below shows a picture of the real Richard Hovey in the mid 1960's:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/162960

Will try to get back here, I found a page that has photos and info for anyone new to the thread like me
Richard (Dickie) Hovey, Unidentified Murder Victim,1968,Toronto ( Yorkville), Your Help Needed

The Man in the Red High Heels: Unidentified skeletal remains is mentioned in a book Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases By Robert J. Hoshowsky; they go into more details about LE thinking the person was hit by a car, I guess thrown 75ft into the woods. When they reopened the case they realized that the clothing never was on the remains

"We hope it looks pretty close to this and that someone comes forward," said Detective-Constable Clarke, who unveiled a drawing to the media of what police believe the victim looked in life: a slender, effeminate-looking young man with dark hair about 4 inches long, wearing red and pink, pointy toed, high heeled shoes, white frilly socks, form fitting blue Brittania jeans (women's size 30/29), and an open-collard, red, short-sleeved blouse.

"It's my belief that he was transgender, possibly in the sex trade down in the Toronto area which … was a bit of a haven, in the 70's for gays," said Clark, who also speculated that the young man may have come to Toronto years ago to live his life as part of the city's large gay, lesbian and transgendered community. "In my opinion, I think he was picked up in the city, taken to [Markham], endeavors occurred and then he was killed and left there," repeated the Detective-Constable, calling the wooded area "a dumping ground."

They are looking at James Henry Greenridge in prison in British Columbia

 

[tarabull]

Recent podcast titled "The Trail Went Cold – Episode 34 – Dickie Hovey and Eric Jones"

Ultra interesting -- geographically speaking.

FWIW, Canada's recently discovered SK Bruce McArthur would have been a teenager...such an impressionable age :moo: :cow:

 

[dotr]

Just noting that accused serial killer Bruce McArthur had a connection ( at least fairly recently) with Coboconk, Ont.
http://nationalpost.com/feature/bruce-mcarthur-small-town-sock-salesman-to-accused-serial-killer

He knew because he'd seen him less than a year earlier, in May 2017, at an anniversary party for McArthur's sister and her husband at the Legion in Coboconk, Ont.

rbbm.

 

[tarabull]

Just jumping of your post dotr, as also BM grew up & went to school in Fenlon Falls with Coboconk being just shy of 20kms up the road....FWIW

https://goo.gl/maps/vj7SvwiNG8x

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
ONTARIO COLD CASE: Mystery remains after bound skeletal remains of teens discovered more than 50 years ago
by Mary Riley Jul 27, 2018
"Police continue to wait for a break in two cases that began more than 50 years ago after the two young men disappeared from downtown Toronto.

Their skeletons were found in remote areas of Ontario, one near Coboconk and one near Schomberg."
"Because both victims were found naked with their hands tied, police strongly suspected they had been murdered.

OPP said that at the time the teenagers disappeared, a sexual predator was “on the radar,” operating in the area of downtown Toronto known as the Gay Village.

They believed there was a direct link between the two dead victims and two solved cases involving serious attacks on young men during the same period.

The victims in the solved cases frequented the Church and Wellesley area. In those cases, police said the victims were picked up in downtown Toronto and taken to rural areas, where they were attacked.

The similarities between the cases led police to believe the victims who died may also have met their attacker in downtown Toronto."
"At the news conference OPP held at the time, investigators said Hovey was a musician who played the Yorkville clubs before he disappeared.

He was 17 when he died."
"Police said he was last seen getting into a car with a muscular, black man on Yorkville Avenue in June, 1967"

"The Centre of Forensic Sciences confirmed the remains were those of Eric Jones of Noelville, southeast of Sudbury. He was 18 at the time of his death.

Eric’s parents did not live to learn of their son’s fate after he disappeared in 1967. But, his 10 siblings had a measure of closure as police officially identified him.

During the March 2009 news conference Insp. Dave Quigley, the case manager, said the 18-year-old left his Noelville home in the spring of 1967 and moved to Howard Street in Toronto to live with an aunt. He was last seen in April of that year. Police said that while Hovey and Jones did not know each other, Hovey disappeared about five blocks from where Jones lived in Toronto."

"The investigations into what happened to Hovey and Jones remain open, with a $50,000 reward posted for information leading to an arrest in each case. Police are appealing to the public for help in tracing the activities of both men during their time in Toronto."

 

[Richard]

At below link, view:

Photo of Facial reconstruction of then unknown male found in 1968 in Ontario, Canada.

Police identified the remains found in 1968 north of Toronto as those of Richard Hovey of New Brunswick.

LINK:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/body-found-in-68-identified-as-new-brunswick-youth-1.615309