CANADA Canada- Julian “Julie” Wolanski, 16, raped/beaten/shot in heart,Toronto (Humber River)7 August 1962

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HUNTER: Toronto cold case murder victim a 'nice, gentle girl' | Toronto Sun

Julian "Julie" Wolanski was lured to her death in 1962. The case remains unsolved. Photo by HANDOUT /TORONTO POLICE

''The dead girl lying in the roadside ditch by the Humber River in northwest Toronto wore only silk stockings.

The rest of her clothing and a straw clutch purse containing $10 were nowhere to be found. Never would be found.''

''An autopsy later revealed that the quiet teen who had been missing five days had been raped and beaten.

Her killer then destroyed her heart with a .32-calibre bullet fired at close range.

Julian “Julie” Wolanski was just 16 years old when she was found dead on Aug. 12, 1962 near what is now Woodbine but then largely rural.

And for almost six decades, her murder has gone unsolved. It is the oldest cold case in the Toronto Police’s list of unsolved slaying for August, 59 in all. It is worth noting that August has the most unsolved murders of any month in the calendar year.''

 

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HUNTER: Toronto cold case murder victim a 'nice, gentle girl' | Toronto Sun
''SUNDAY, AUG. 12, 1962: JULIAN ‘JULIE’ WOLANSKI, 16
There was nothing in Julie Wolanski’s background that would mark her as a potential homicide victim.

Investigators did learn the doomed teen told her mom she was going to meet a teacher at the Eglinton Subway station about the requirements she needed to finish Grade 9. Other girls later told cops a similar tale: They too had been contacted by a man claiming to be a teacher. Or a doctor.

And like Julie, the mystery man seemed to know a lot about their lives.

Detectives believed Julie had been haphazardly thrown out of a car before her killer or killers fled the scene. She had likely been murdered somewhere else and held captive for several days before being slain.

To her distraught parents, Michael and Jean Danek, it was unthinkable.

“She was shy with boys,” Michael told the Toronto Telegram, adding that his daughter wouldn’t even attend dances without her parents.

“She was a real good, good girl.”