Canada - Richard Robert Mantha: kidnap, drug & assault several women, Chestermere, Alta., 2021–2023

Thank you! August 2021 to November 2022. That a long time.
Does that mean that he rented the shed from August 2021 until March 2023?

"For the first alleged victim, Mantha is accused of sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement and administering a noxious thing.​
With the second alleged victim, he is accused of kidnapping/confinement, administering a noxious thing, sexual assault with a weapon, and threats of causing death or bodily harm.​
The charges that allegedly stem from interactions with the third victim come from a much wider time range of August 2021 to November 2022. With that victim, Mantha is accused of sexual assault, unlawful confinement, threats of cause death or bodily harm and pointing a firearm."​

Global News
Various stories have reported that he rented the building on the rural property for one to two years. I'm not sure which is correct. If it was one year, then he would have had to move the third victim from another location.
 
Various stories have reported that he rented the building on the rural property for one to two years. I'm not sure which is correct. If it was one year, then he would have had to move the third victim from another location.
Here we have yet another version of the story. Take your pick, I guess.

Lock and her husband, Paul, have been renting one of their industrial shop spaces to a man for more than two years.

 
An advocate for sex workers on the 19 Avenue S.E. stroll in Forest Lawn said there has been a pattern.

“This has been a pattern, especially the last year and a half, that the girls that are involved in sex work and working in the sex trade have been going missing,” she said.

“So this is nothing new. This is why I wasn’t surprised.”

Taylor, a former sex worker, said she’s been abandoned in the countryside without a way to get home.

“The worst thing that has happened to me on stroll, when I used to be a working girl which was two years ago, someone left me in the middle of nowhere with no clothes on,” Taylor said.

“I found a ride. A nice guy to give me a ride home. This was in the middle of nowhere in the area of Chestermere.”



The timing of this assaults and the disappearances seems to coincide with Mantha's move to the rented property east of Chestermere. Did a "nice guy" report this incident to police? Finding a naked woman on a country road is not a normal occurrence. Wasn't one of Jeffrey Farmer's victims found outdoors, drugged and naked?
 
Police -- unknown if RCMP or Calgary Police Service -- visited Muriel and Paul Lock on their rural property last year. This story reported that the investigation has been going on for months.


One of the victims was held for more than a year, until November 2022.

Interestingly, a woman from out of province was reported missing in news reports last summer and believed to be in Chestermere. She was subsequently found "safe" last fall, with no further explanation.
 
Distance from where women were abducted to where they were held and assaulted.

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It will be interesting to see where Richard Mantha's trail leads across Canada. We know some of the places he's been in Alberta, but where did he come from and where did he go? Is there a trail of missing and murdered women in his wake? It's the early days of this investigation, which I believe will be long and extensive.

He spoke French during his court appearance today. Perhaps he'll request a trial in French.

 
Apr 11, 2023 #GlobalNews #Calgary #crime
''A Calgary man named Richard Robert Mantha, 59, is facing a long list of charges related to the sexual assault, drugging, and kidnapping of multiple sex workers. Heather Yourex-West explains how the charges result from an investigation at a rural Chestermere, Alberta property, the eerie parallels to the case of serial killer Robert “Willy” Pickton, and the continued calls for laws to better protect the rights of sex workers.''
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''Richard Mantha faces 16 charges involving three women, who police allege were targeted and victimized by the 59-year-old resident of Rocky View County.

According to a lawsuit filed in the Court of King's Bench, Mantha worked as a truck driver for a Calgary company.

He's faced charges before, from Whitecourt, Alta., a town northwest of Edmonton, and Sherwood Park, Alta., just east of Edmonton — to Calgary and Strathmore, Alta.''
rbbm.
 
Why are three victims between Dec 2021 and Mar 2023 alive? If he is a murderer, why would he let them live? Is it because they were drugged so he believed they could not identify him or the property?

Do you have a link to the "black dress ... plain sight ... nobody noticed ... He kept one woman for more than a year ... nobody noticed." I haven't seen that anywhere. I've heard three victims between Dec 2021 and Mar 2023.
It is really strange. How did the women get away? I didn't see that in the article I read. Was he trying to find a mate to keep and he felt the last one was the "one", with that being the reason he kept her so long? I'm glad they've arrested this perp and I believe there are probably many more victims.
 
Distance from where women were abducted to where they were held and assaulted.

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Just east of "the stroll" on 19 Avenue S.E. is the site of the massive Hub Oil explosion in 1999.


Just east of that is Elliston Park. The park itself has been in the news, as well as the area nearby. South of the park is the East Calgary Landfill.




The area is not so much different from where Robert Pickton found his victims in Vancouver.
 
It is really strange. How did the women get away? I didn't see that in the article I read. Was he trying to find a mate to keep and he felt the last one was the "one", with that being the reason he kept her so long? I'm glad they've arrested this perp and I believe there are probably many more victims.
One victim was allegedly held captive for about 18 months. During that time, her captor would have had to sleep, shop for food, go to work, etc. He might not have released her. She might have escaped when he let his guard down or left for the day.

Why? He is the only one who knows. Men in other places have held women captive over long periods of time for torture and abuse. Other victims of other abusers have escaped. Unfortunately, this situation is not unique.
 
Why is this property being released back to the owners so quickly? Recalling that in the Pickton case, forensic anthropologists sifted through 373,000 cubic yards of soil in a years-long search that cost $70M.


A few days is nothing in comparison. Was it a matter of finding evidence potentially related to the three cases only, then moving on?

Who were the victims? Any indigenous women and girls?

The potential is here for another "Pickton". We just don't know yet. Why not wait and protect potential evidence in other cases? The ground is still frozen. Spring thaw could reveal more. It's hard to search for bone fragments in frozen ground
 
Why is this property being released back to the owners so quickly? Recalling that in the Pickton case, forensic anthropologists sifted through 373,000 cubic yards of soil in a years-long search that cost $70M.


A few days is nothing in comparison. Was it a matter of finding evidence potentially related to the three cases only, then moving on?

Who were the victims? Any indigenous women and girls?

The potential is here for another "Pickton". We just don't know yet. Why not wait and protect potential evidence in other cases? The ground is still frozen. Spring thaw could reveal more. It's hard to search for bone fragments in frozen ground
Robert Pickton grew up on a pig farm, where his brother frequently held parties. Pickton befriended street workers and brought them to the parties. He murdered them, their bones were found at the pig farm.

This is quite different. Robert Mantha rented the rural quonset-sized shed roughly 2 years ago. That would be March 2021.

There are three victims, all alive, between August 2021 and November 2022 ... 3 victims in 15 months. That does suggest that he is not a first-timer with kidnapping and assaulting women.

Two victims were assaulted in April 2022. The third victim was assaulted from August 2021 to November 2022. That suggests that one victim was kept against her will throughout the time that two others were assaulted in April 2022.

Global News

Since the house and shed are so close, I wonder why the victims could not be heard at the house.

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Police were there for 5 days to collect evidence. They also did a thorough search of the property, I assume they checked for evidence of a body. They might do another search when the ground thaws.

I think the police are baffled by the idea that they have survivors, but there are so many in a short timespan so it seems obvious that he's done this before - so where are the other survivors? Are there more survivors, or are there bodies? He's 59 years old and may have lived in other provinces where French is more common, like Ontario and Quebec. Are there other victims? Does he move to another province after drugging, kidnapping and assaulting a few women ... until he thinks his luck is running out?
 
An advocate for sex workers on the 19 Avenue S.E. stroll in Forest Lawn said there has been a pattern.

“This has been a pattern, especially the last year and a half, that the girls that are involved in sex work and working in the sex trade have been going missing,” she said.

“So this is nothing new. This is why I wasn’t surprised.”

Taylor, a former sex worker, said she’s been abandoned in the countryside without a way to get home.

“The worst thing that has happened to me on stroll, when I used to be a working girl which was two years ago, someone left me in the middle of nowhere with no clothes on,” Taylor said.

“I found a ride. A nice guy to give me a ride home. This was in the middle of nowhere in the area of Chestermere.”



The timing of this assaults and the disappearances seems to coincide with Mantha's move to the rented property east of Chestermere. Did a "nice guy" report this incident to police? Finding a naked woman on a country road is not a normal occurrence. Wasn't one of Jeffrey Farmer's victims found outdoors, drugged and naked?
Spell check: Dahmer.
 
An advocate for sex workers on the 19 Avenue S.E. stroll in Forest Lawn said there has been a pattern.

“This has been a pattern, especially the last year and a half, that the girls that are involved in sex work and working in the sex trade have been going missing,” she said.

“So this is nothing new. This is why I wasn’t surprised.”

Taylor, a former sex worker, said she’s been abandoned in the countryside without a way to get home.

“The worst thing that has happened to me on stroll, when I used to be a working girl which was two years ago, someone left me in the middle of nowhere with no clothes on,” Taylor said.

“I found a ride. A nice guy to give me a ride home. This was in the middle of nowhere in the area of Chestermere.”



The timing of this assaults and the disappearances seems to coincide with Mantha's move to the rented property east of Chestermere. Did a "nice guy" report this incident to police? Finding a naked woman on a country road is not a normal occurrence. Wasn't one of Jeffrey Farmer's victims found outdoors, drugged and naked?
If it is true that Forest Lawn street workers have been disappearing off Calgary streets for the last 18 months, and this suspect has been abducting women in the last 15 months, what does that tell us about street workers? Do some get out of the business or change provinces? Are street drugs a factor in the druggings, abductions and assaults? Has this man been an active abductor of street workers for 2 years, and some of his victims didn't survive? I'm curious.

Tracy, or Tayler, the victim who was left outside Calgary with no clothes, this man who helped also her reported this incident to police, right? I'm curious, like you.
 
Police were there for 5 days to collect evidence. They also did a thorough search of the property, I assume they checked for evidence of a body. They might do another search when the ground thaws.

I think the police are baffled by the idea that they have survivors, but there are so many in a short timespan so it seems obvious that he's done this before - so where are the other survivors? Are there more survivors, or are there bodies? He's 59 years old and may have lived in other provinces where French is more common, like Ontario and Quebec. Are there other victims? Does he move to another province after drugging, kidnapping and assaulting a few women ... until he thinks his luck is running out?

Good analysis.

Also a large population of Franco-Manitobans and a historical outflow and return between those provinces.

The alignment of disappearances in the area with his crimes is certainly worth detailed investigation.

One of my colleagues worked on the Pickton case (pathologist). It was absolutely hellish. Years on and still profoundly haunted by it.
 
Not Dahmer, not cannibalism.
Not nearly escaped and police returned the victim to the murderer.
Similar in the sense that a naked woman escaped her abuser and was found on the road by a random passer-by. We don't know if anyone called the police, as they did with Dahmer's victim. This woman was not returned to the abuser by police, no.
 

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