CANADA Canada- Nora Ranford, 52, last seen drinking w uid couple @ Queen St. bar, battered & strangled @ rooming house, Toronto (Cabbagetown) 2/3/1962 *DNA*

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torontosun.com

March 9 2023
''The Tuesday, March 20, 1962, slaying of Nora Ranford is one of the city’s oldest unsolved murders.
According to cops, the 52-year-old woman spent the final night of her life drinking with an unidentified couple in a Queen St. E. watering hole. This was the last sighting of her alive.
By the time detectives found Ranford’s body in her Winchester St. rooming house in Cabbagetown, she had been dead six days. It’s believed her killers opened her window to keep the growing stench of her decomposing body on the down low.
Ranford’s lifeless body was discovered by her landlady lying under her blood-soaked bed. She had been strangled and battered about the head.''

Homicide #5/1962
Victim Nora RANFORD - Toronto Police Service
Case #: None
VICTIM

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Nora RANFORD​

Age: 52
Gender: F
Murdered on: March 20, 1962
Location: Homicide and Missing Persons Unit

Details of Investigation:​

On Tuesday, March 20, 1962, at about 3:00 p.m., police responded to a check address call on Winchester Street, near Sackville Street. The victim was discovered inside a residence, suffering from blunt trauma, and obviously deceased.

How you can Help​

If you have any information regarding this case, please contact Homicide at 416-808-7400, or at [email protected].

Crime Stoppers​

Phone anonymously at 416−222−TIPS (8477); or via the internet at www.222tips.com.
Homicide #5/1962

Case #: None
VICTIM

---

Nora RANFORD​

Age: 52
Gender: F
Murdered on: March 20, 1962
Location: Homicide and Missing Persons Unit

Details of Investigation:​

On Tuesday, March 20, 1962, at about 3:00 p.m., police responded to a check address call on Winchester Street, near Sackville Street. The victim was discovered inside a residence, suffering from blunt trauma, and obviously deceased.

How you can Help​

If you have any information regarding this case, please contact Homicide at 416-808-7400, or at [email protected].

Crime Stoppers​

Phone anonymously at 416−222−TIPS (8477); or via the internet at www.222tips.com.''