Tuesday, September 28, 1999
By ROXANNE BEAUBIEN, London (Ontario) Free Press Crime Reporter
The list of cases being reviewed by Project Angel, a joint effort by
OPP and London police examining unsolved murders in the London region:
- 1956 -- Susan Cadieux, 5, of London, was playing with friends when a man who appeared to be going to visit St. Mary's school stopped to talk to her on Jan. 6. She vanished a few minutes later. After a search, her body was found the next morning on the CP Rail tracks near William Street. She had been sexually assaulted.
- 1959 -- Real Tessier, 33, was last seen alive March 31 at the Empire
Hotel in St. Thomas. He was found shot dead beside a vehicle outside the city less than an hour later .
- 1963 -- Margaret Sheeler, 20, left her London home in December 1963. Her partially clothed body was found nearly a month later in a field beside Kipps Lane. Killed by head injuries, she showed signs of being sexually assaulted.
- 1964 -- Victoria Mayo, 32, was found dead of multiple stab wounds on Aug. 6 in her basement apartment on London's Sydenham Street. Entry to the apartment had been forced.
- 1967 -- Glenda Tedball, 16, was last seen walking into a bush on
Halloween day near her RR 4, Thedford, home. She has never been found but police have charged Edward Gratton, 66, with first-degree murder in her case.
- 1968 -- Jacqueline Dunleavy, 16, of Byron, was a Grade 10 student at Westminster secondary school when she was killed in January. She was strangled with either her scarf or a belt and struck on the head. Her partially clothed body was found in the driveway of what was then Katherine Harley school, near the London Hunt and Country Club. There is evidence she was sexually assaulted.
- 1968 -- Frankie Jensen, 9, of London, disappeared on his way to
Westdale public school on Feb. 9. His body was found two months later in the Thames River near Thorndale. He had a fractured skull and was partially clothed. It is unclear if he was sexually assaulted.
- 1968 -- Scott Leishman, 16, of RR 1, Thorndale, was missing for three months before his body was found in Port Burwell harbour on May 15. There were no signs of violence but some of his clothing was disturbed. It is unclear if he was sexually assaulted.
- 1968 -- Helga Beer, 31, of London, was found in the rear seat of her
car in a parking lot off Carling Street near Dundas Street. She had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted. She was last seen alive leaving a friend's downtown apartment Aug. 6 with an unknown man.
- 1968 -- Lynda White, 19, of Burlington, was a student at the
University of Western Ontario who disappeared after writing a French exam on Nov. 13. Her remains were found five years later in a shallow grave near St. Williams in Norfolk County. Police were unable to determine the cause of death.
- 1969 -- Jane Wooley, 62, of London, was found partially clothed Feb. 3 in her apartment on York Street three days after she was killed. She had been brutally beaten. She was last seen leaving the London House on Dundas Street where she was a chambermaid. There was no evidence of sexual assault.
- 1969 -- Patricia Anne Bovin, 22, of London, was found stabbed and
strangled April 24 on the second floor of the King Street apartment where she lived with her two young sons.
- 1969 -- Robert Bruce Stapylton, 11, of London, disappeared from his Piccadilly Street home June 7. His body was found in a woodlot in London Township, six kilometres from his home. Police could not determine the cause of death and there was no evidence of sexual assault.
- 1969 -- Jacqueline English, 15, of London, was last seen getting into a car Oct. 4 at the cafeteria of a store at a shopping plaza on Wellington Road, near the London Ice House. Her nude body was found five days later in Big Otter Creek near Tillsonburg. She had been sexually assaulted and killed by a blow to the head.
- 1970 -- Soraya O'Connell, 15, of London, vanished after telling
friends she was hitchhiking from a camp at the Fanshawe Youth Centre in northeast London on Aug. 14. Her body was found four years later in an old dump south of Stratford. Little clothing was recovered but it is unknown if she was sexually assaulted.
- 1970 -- Edith Authier, 57, of Merlin in Kent County, was found
stabbed, beaten and sexually assaulted in her home Sept. 5.
- 1972 -- Priscilla Merle, 21, of London, was last seen getting into a
car outside her sister's home in London on March 4. Her left arm was found two weeks later in Kettle Creek, north of Port Stanley. Her upper torso was found beside a Kettle Creek marina a month later. For the next several months, police continued to recover pieces of her body in the area.
- 1975 -- Irene Francis Gibbons, 66, of Strathroy, was found dead in the bedroom of the bungalow where she lived alone. She was strangled but not sexually assaulted and no valuables were stolen.
- 1978 -- Irene MacDonald, 36, of London, was last seen in September. She was reported missing five months later and has never been found.
- 198 * -- Donna Jean Awcock, 17, of London, was last seen leaving a convenience store near her Cheyenne Avenue housing complex. Her strangled, partly clad body was found about 15 metres down an embankment overlooking Fanshawe Dam. She had been sexually assaulted...
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