CANADA Canada- Patricia Lupton, 12, lured by promise of babysitting job, strangled, Toronto 9 March 1959

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March 2 2021
HUNTER: March mayhem unmasked in Toronto cold cases | Toronto Sun

The unsolved 1959 murder of Patricia Lupton, 12, is one of the oldest in Toronto. Photo by HANDOUT /TORONTO POLICE SERVICE
''The March 9, 1959 murder of 12-year-old school girl Patricia Lupton is the oldest and probably best known. Lupton was lured to her death with the promise of a babysitting job.''

 

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Toronto’s Oldest Cold Case Has Remained A Mystery For Over 60 Years

''Patricia Lupton is the oldest Toronto Police Service cold case. Patricia was only 12 when she was discovered in medical distress on the side of the road on Monday, March 9, 1959.

''Lupton was pronounced dead on the scene and was last seen alive en route to Kennedy Park Plaza sometime after 5:30 p.m.

Almost 60 years later, no one knows what happened to her.

Patricia Lupton is the oldest prosecutable Cold Case Homicide that we have. Toronto Police Services

Investigators believe she was last seen alive leaving her home on her way to Kennedy Park Plaza hours before her body was found.

Upon arrival, TPS pronounced 12-year-old Lupton dead at the scene of the crime, despite "life-saving efforts by emergency personnel."

There have been no updates on her case since 1959, leaving the police department in the dark over what happened to the young girl.

There are no known suspects in Patricia Lupton's case and her killer has never been identified.

While TPS has unsolved murders dating as far back as 1921, they do not have file briefs for anything earlier than the Lupton case.

In fact, as of last month, there were 612 cold case murders in the TPS database.''

 

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Nov 22 2021
CityNews
''This week on Tracking a Killer: The Cold Case Files, CityNews reporters Fil Martino and Madison Fitzpatrick take a look at the oldest case Toronto police have on file.

Patricia Lupton was just 12 years old when police found her off the roadway on McCowan Road, south of Ellesmere in the Scarborough area of Toronto on March 9, 1959. She was suffering from injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Over 60 years later, no one has been arrested in connection with her death.

Detective Steve Smith with the Toronto police Cold Case Unit said Patricia received a call at her home about a babysitting job from a man who identified himself as Johnson.

“She was invited to come down to the local store and meet him,” Detective Smith said. “He was going to take her to babysit his kids, and then he was going to bring her back to the store that night.”

But when she didn’t come home, her family called police.

Detective Smith says with no strong leads, the investigation went cold. “There was no one that was able to definitely say that they were a witness in this case, and that they could say, ‘Yes, I saw young Patricia with this male’.”

Police say a case like the Patricia Lupton case will be difficult to solve after 60 years, but they also say they never fully close a case, not even one as old as this.''

 

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Bumping this thread up. This March 9th will mark 66 years since Patricia Lupton was murdered.

 

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May 11 2024

CRIME HUNTER: Five ice cold Toronto murders from bloody 1959

The last hours of Elizabeth Boyington's life were spent in a boozy haze drifting through watering holes in the Bloor St.-Avenue Rd area.

torontosun.com

''Most shocking for Toronto the Good was the March 9, 1959 sex slaying of 12-year-old Patricia Lupton, who was lured by a bogus babysitter ad at an A&P store in the east end. It was a tough year for the Homicide Unit.''

Patricia Lupton. Murdered in 1959. Still unsolved.
''In a time when most murders in the big city were slam dunks – wife murders hubby, hubby murders wife, barroom arguments et al – five homicides went unsolved that year. And they remain so today.''