CANADA Canada- Patricia Real, 46, shot 2X in head, shooter in her backyard, Etobicoke, Ont. 17 July 2000

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Patricia Real, was murdered on July 17, 2000. Photo by Supplied photo /Toronto Sun

''The July 17, 2000 murder of Patricia Real, 46, was another head-scratcher for detectives.

Real’s boyfriend picked her up from her telemarketing job, and they arrived at her Etobicoke home around 11 p.m. In the backyard, a killer was waiting.

Point blank, the triggerman fired two bullets into Real’s head then snarled: “B—-.”

Cops said it was a “deeply personal assassination.” Real had been frightened in the months prior to her murder.

“She died in my arms,” her boyfriend, Peter Seeley, said. “She was staring up at me.”

If you have any information regarding this case, please call the homicide unit at 416-808-7400, or at homicide@torontopolice.on.ca.''

 

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It was the night of July 18th, 2000 when Real and her boyfriend came back to her Etobicoke home. They didn’t know that someone had been following them on, of all things, a bicycle. Around 11pm, the couple had gone into her backyard when a stranger suddenly appeared from out of the darkness.


The unknown intruder walked up to Real, pulled out a gun and shot her twice in the head at close range. Her boyfriend struggled with the man, but he managed to get back on his bike and ride away, leaving the mother of two badly wounded. She didn’t survive the encounter.

All these years later, the tragic murder remains unsolved. Cops would later reveal that Real was the intended target of the ambush although she was an unlikely one.

Det. Sgt. Reg Pitts said Wednesday that Real had ended a long-term relationship with a man named Ronald Harper the January before her murder. Harper had been spotted on Real’s street on the day of the killing but police said they confirmed he was at Casino Rama in Orillia at the time of the crime.

They still believe he may have been involved, possibly hiring the gunman. Harper committed suicide nearly a year later.

The victim was gainfully employed, lived on her own, was never involved in any criminal activity and had been previously married. But there was one tantalizing clue – police revealed that she had been “associated with a criminal element” at some point in her past. But whether that was related to her death has never been clear.

The only real piece of evidence investigators have is the bike the killer pedaled away on. It was recovered not long after the murder and Pitts said the intitial DNA tests on the bike didn’t yield any results, but more recent examinations have provided more information.


“… a DNA profile has been developed. The DNA profile is mixture of a male and a female from at least two individuals,” Pitts explained. “Patty Real is the contributing source of the female profile. The male profile is not among those captured on the convicted offenders’ index of the national DNA databank.”


It was a black mountain Mongoose “Rockadile” two wheeler with chrome rims, a racing seat, knobby tires, front shock absorbers, straight handle bars and a missing hand grip on the left side.''