CANADA Canada - Mary Hammond, Brantford ON, 8 Sept 1983

[Not In My Backyard]

Suspected human skull found in North end of Brantford. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5885918
Mary did go missing in the north end. But there are a lot more missing people from the area too. Plus older burial grounds. Still gives me a bit of hope she can be laid to rest properly.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Brantford police to update 1983 missing woman case

Brantford police have scheduled a news conference Wednesday morning to provide an update in their investigation of the 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond.

www.theobserver.ca

 

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Brantford police to update 1983 missing woman case

Brantford police have scheduled a news conference Wednesday morning to provide an update in their investigation of the 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond.

www.theobserver.ca

Thank you for the fresh link, looking forward to tomorrow's update on the case.. rbbm.


''Brantford police have scheduled a news conference Wednesday morning to provide an update in their investigation of the 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond.

Police said representatives of Hammond’s family will attend.
In September 2020, police released photos of four men believed to have knowledge of Hammond’s disappearance in Brantford on Sept. 8, 1983. Police were seeking to identify the men.
On the morning she disappeared, Hammond was scheduled to work the morning shift at the former Buns Master Bakery, where she had worked for about one year. She walked north on Park Road North, now Wayne Gretzky Parkway, and passed the Massey-Ferguson factory and cut across the field towards the rear of the bakery. At about 4 a.m., a co-worker called Hammond’s husband asking why she had not arrived at work.
Hammond’s footprints were followed to the property line at the rear of the bakery and to a point where she cut across a field. The footprints then disappeared.''

 

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rbbm.

Mary Hammond

www.brantfordpolice.ca

''Investigators would like to speak with the unidentified persons regarding any information they may be able to provide related to the disappearance of Mary Hammond. The unidentified persons are believed to have ties to the Hungarian / Ukrainian / Bosnian / Polish community in and around the time of Hammond’s disappearance.''

Unidentified Person #1:​

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Mary Hammond

www.brantfordpolice.ca

Unidentified Person #2:​

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Mary Hammond

www.brantfordpolice.ca

Unidentified Person #3:​

 

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Mary Hammond

www.brantfordpolice.ca

Unidentified Person #4:

 

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Wow!
June 8 2022

https://www.nugget.ca/news/canada/brantford-police-to-update-1983-missing-woman-case

''Police are expected to announce the cold case disappearance of Hammond has been solved, thanks to DNA and have identified the man they believe responsible as a deceased former city resident who was an employee at Ford Motor Company in Oakville at the time of his death.

Police said representatives of Hammond’s family will attend.''

 

[dotr]

Police use DNA to identify Mary Hammond's suspected abductor and killer

BRANTFORD – Brantford police say the 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond has been solved thanks to DNA evidence and the man responsible is a deceased former city res…

www.simcoereformer.ca

At a news conference Wednesday, police said they believe Stephen Mudko, formerly of Memorial Drive, abducted and killed Hammond while she was walking to work at the former Buns Master Bakery on Morton Avenue from her Elgin Street townhouse at 3:30 a.m., on Sept. 8, 1983. Her route took her north on Park Road North, now Wayne Gretzky Parkway, past the Massey-Ferguson factory and across a field toward the rear of the bakery.



Mudko died at age 63 at Oakville Trafalgar Hospital in June 2010. According to his obituary, he had been an employee at the Ford Motor Co. in Oakville. He is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Brantford.

Hammond’s body has never been found.

“If he were alive today and able to stand trial, he (Mudko) would face the following charges – abduction and murder- first-degree,” police said.

Police said the identification of Mudko stems from DNA evidence collected during a search of Mudko’s Memorial Drive home in September 1983, just days after Hammond’s disappearance. The evidence has remained in police custody ever since.

“Through this historical evidence seized and with advancements in mitochondrial DNA analysis, investigators were able to forensically link Mary Hammond to a man (Mudko) believed to be responsible for her abduction and murder,” police said. “Mitochondrial DNA analysis is an investigative tool that is relatively new to policing.

“Through additional investigation, research and interviews, utilizing this tool can lead to the identification of persons of interest in historical cases such as this.”

 

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rbbm.

New DNA test helps solve 1983 cold case and identify Mary Hammond’s killer

Police are expected to announce the cold case disappearance of Mary Hammond has been solved

o.canada.com

''Investigators said the identification of Mudko stems from DNA evidence collected during a search of Mudko’s Memorial Drive home in September 1983, just days after Hammond’s disappearance. The evidence has remained in police custody ever since.

“Through this historical evidence seized and with advancements in mitochondrial DNA analysis, investigators were able to forensically link Mary Hammond to a man (Mudko) believed to be responsible for her abduction and murder,” police said. “Mitochondrial DNA analysis is an investigative tool that is relatively new to policing.

“Through additional investigation, research and interviews, utilizing this tool can lead to the identification of persons of interest in historical cases such as this.”

Police on Wednesday released a photograph of Mudko in hopes that it might lead to further information that could help locate Hammond’s body.

“Although a suspect has been identified, detectives believe that additional individuals may still have information or knowledge related to the disappearance of Mary Hammond,” police said. “This investigation is ongoing.''

''Mudko and a co-accused, according to an Aug. 10, 1979, Expositor article, were charged with rape by Hamilton-Wentworth regional police.

The article states Mudko, then 32, was living on Memorial Drive. He and his co-accused visited a Wilson Street home in Hamilton. After speaking to a woman at the home, they took her to the foot of McNab Street where she was sexually assaulted.

In November 1980, The Expositor reported charges against the co-accused were dropped. Mudko, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of forcible confinement. He was sentenced to one year in the reformatory.

Other charges faced by Mudko were related to careless driving or vehicle collisions.

As a youth, he was involved in local sports and his photograph was included in an Expositor sports column about junior football in September 1964.''

 

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Oh, I am happy to hear that this case has been solved, or at least that the accused as been identified and named. It seems as though police have always suspected that this man was involved. How sad that the case couldn't be resolved earlier. I hope there is still an opportunity to find her body.

Is this the same man who appears in the last set of photos above?

 

[dotr]

Brantford police use DNA to identify alleged killer in 39-year-old case

Mary Hammond disappeared walking to work in September 1983

www.thespec.com

''In 2020, police released pictures of four men who they said might have information about the case. Tollar said those men still have not been identified, but none are Mudko.
Police say Mudko acted alone.''

rbbm

Brantford, Ont. police charge deceased man with murder for 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond | Globalnews.ca

Brantford police say mitochondrial DNA analysis has connected a suspect with evidence seized at Memorial Drive residence on Sept. 11, 1983.

globalnews.ca

''Mudko was 36-years-of-age at the time of Hammond’s disappearance and resided in a home on Memorial Drive in Brantford.

He died on June 23, 2010.

Tollar said Mudko would be arrested and stand trial for first degree murder and abduction, if he were alive today.

The investigation is also still ongoing since the whereabouts of Mary Hammond are still unknown.

“I myself have mixed feelings about today’s announcement,” Hammond’s husband Larry told reporters.

Larry Hammond, husband of Mary Emma Hammond, speaks to reporters during a Brantford Police presser on June 8, 2022. Global News
''While we now know who is responsible for this horrific situation, it does not bring Mary back. She is still missing and lives on in us all and deserves to rest in peace.”

 

[brendaw]

Police use DNA to identify Mary Hammond's suspected abductor and killer

BRANTFORD – Brantford police say the 1983 disappearance of Mary Hammond has been solved thanks to DNA evidence and the man responsible is a deceased former city res…

www.simcoereformer.ca

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At a news conference Wednesday, police said they believe Stephen Mudko, formerly of Memorial Drive, abducted and killed Hammond while she was walking to work at the former Buns Master Bakery on Morton Avenue from her Elgin Street townhouse at 3:30 a.m., on Sept. 8, 1983. Her route took her north on Park Road North, now Wayne Gretzky Parkway, past the Massey-Ferguson factory and across a field toward the rear of the bakery.



Mudko died at age 63 at Oakville Trafalgar Hospital in June 2010. According to his obituary, he had been an employee at the Ford Motor Co. in Oakville. He is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Brantford.

Hammond’s body has never been found.

“If he were alive today and able to stand trial, he (Mudko) would face the following charges – abduction and murder- first-degree,” police said.

Police said the identification of Mudko stems from DNA evidence collected during a search of Mudko’s Memorial Drive home in September 1983, just days after Hammond’s disappearance. The evidence has remained in police custody ever since.

“Through this historical evidence seized and with advancements in mitochondrial DNA analysis, investigators were able to forensically link Mary Hammond to a man (Mudko) believed to be responsible for her abduction and murder,” police said. “Mitochondrial DNA analysis is an investigative tool that is relatively new to policing.

“Through additional investigation, research and interviews, utilizing this tool can lead to the identification of persons of interest in historical cases such as this.”

Thanks for sharing this on your page. Surreal experience yesterday. Thank you to everyone who keeps Mary's memory alive.

 

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Thanks for sharing this on your page. Surreal experience yesterday. Thank you to everyone who keeps Mary's memory alive.

Welcome to Ws @brendaw, thank you for chiming in!
Very pleased to see a perp named (10 years after i started this thread), hoping Mary can be found and brought back home soon.

 

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Thanks for sharing this on your page. Surreal experience yesterday. Thank you to everyone who keeps Mary's memory alive.

why wouldn’t they expect to find his DNA at his home?

 

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Dec 28 2022

Crime, Arrowdale and 40-year-old cold case made headlines in 2022

In 2022, there was a lot of crime news, Arrowdale was sold and a decades-old cold case was solved.

www.brantfordexpositor.ca

Mary Hammond; Stephen Mudko

''Vincent Ball said the top story of the year was the identification of Stephen Mudko as the abductor and killer of Mary Hammond, who disappeared on her way to work at the Buns Master Bakery on Sept. 8, 1983. Police used DNA from a strand of Hammond’s hair that was found and saved while conducting a search at Mudko’s residence in 1983.

Police at a June 8 news conference, said that, if Mudko, who died in June 2010, were alive today, he would be charged with abduction and first-degree murder.

The revelation brought partial closure to the Hammond family, who have spent the past 40 years wondering who was responsible for her disappearance.

Police are still investigating and hope the identification of Mudko as her abductor will help them find Hammond’s remains.

Anyone with information regarding Hammond’s disappearance is asked to contact a tip line to leave a voicemail for investigators at 519-756-0113, ext. 2592, or email [email protected].

Anonymous information can be provided by contacting Brant- Brantford Crime Stoppers at 519-750-8477, or 1-800-222-8477.''

Alternatively, a web tip may be submitted at: Brant-Brantford Crime Stoppers - Submit a tip to us .

 

[brendaw]

Welcome to Ws @brendaw, thank you for chiming in!
Very pleased to see a perp named (10 years after i started this thread), hoping Mary can be found and brought back home soon.

Just got back from Brantford. We will be planting a memorial tree on the 40th anniversary of my Aunt Mary's disappearance at Mohawk Park. I caught up with the police, reporter from the Expositor and the original reporter Heather Ibbotson on Friday.
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Memorial tree to mark 40th anniversary of Mary Hammond's disappearance

A memorial tree will be planted in Mohawk Park on Friday, September 8, 2023, marking the 40th anniversary of Mary Hammond’s disappearance.

www.brantfordexpositor.ca

Welcome to Ws @brendaw, thank you for chiming in!
Very pleased to see a perp named (10 years after i started this thread), hoping Mary can be found and brought back home soon.

 

[spartanx]

I read about this disappearance a while ago. I wonder how they linked those 4 individuals photographed a few months after their ablation to the case... It was mentioned that they came from the Eastern European immigrant area and they looked like undercover photographs. It's funny why they also searched Mudko's house after she was kidnapped and if he was one of the individuals photographed... I can't say personally since they are grainy and out of focus photographs and the photo they took of him looks like it was taken when I was between 40 and 50 years old...
either way
rest in peace

 

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368DFON - Mary Emma Hammond