CANADA Canada - Sharmini Anandavel, 15, remains located by Don River ravine, Toronto, 12 Jun 1999

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Courtesy of CBC
CBC podcast examines a grisly murder in a unique cultural context

Who killed Sharmini? A suspect is in prison — but not for teen's death
In the latest season of the CBC investigative podcast Uncover, host Michelle Shephard revisits the unsolved homicide of a Toronto teen two decades after she first covered the case as a cub crime reporter at the Toronto Star.

• Listen and subscribe to Uncover: Sharmini at CBC.ca/uncover or on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.

September 10, 2019
"Sharmini Anandavel wanted to buy shoes to match the mauve dress she was going to wear to her Grade 9 graduation.

The 15-year-old was just weeks away from leaving behind junior high when she last left her north Toronto apartment building in June 1999, telling her family she was headed to a new job.

Four months later, her skeletal remains were found in a shallow grave in a wooded ravine, right next to the Don River.

Twenty years after her death, no one has been charged.

But police had a prime suspect from the very night she went missing: A 23-year-old neighbour who lived one floor down from the Anandavels.

Police interrogated him, searched his car and apartment, put him under round-the-clock surveillance and interviewed those who knew him.

He is behind bars today — but not for Sharmini's death."
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"Sharmini thought she was going to work undercover for an anti-drug police operation. They had found a blank job application in her bedroom for something called the Metro Search Unit, an outfit that police later described as "completely bogus."

The application had a typo and was strangely worded. It only asked for the applicant's name, birthdate, address and age; there were no spots to jot down an employment history, references or a social insurance number."

"I came onto this case fresh off of leaving the Christine Jessop reinvestigation. So all the sore points that we kind of got stuck with from Christine Jessop and Guy Paul Morin were still very fresh," said Crone. "Quite frequently, when we started the investigation, you know, we'd asked the team ... 'Is there any other explanation? Are there any other suspects? Should we be looking at an alternative theory? Should we be thinking of something else?' And the responses I get were like blank looks going, 'What, are you stupid?' … It was kind of overwhelmingly all roads lead back to Stan."

Crone also said his team knew that in order to charge Tippett, the evidence had to be compelling — and that just wasn’t there."

 

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Sept 27 2018
‘Untreated sexual offender’ Stanley Tippett denied parole
The person some suspect is responsible for SA's murder..
"Inmates have thrown snowballs and food at Tippett.

Stanley Tippett is escorted into Superior Court in Peterborough on Aug. 29, 2009. Postmedia files
"Institutional staff have noted that Tippett involves himself in other inmates affairs “and can be manipulative of others, targeting lower functioning inmates.” He also often has trouble with his cell mates, according to the decision.

The board said Tippett needs to move eventually to a minimum security facility and a more open environment “before being considered for a more expanded form of release.”

 

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ETA This is the other case referenced in the news article..
CANADA - Canada- Lien Pham "May-Ling, the China Barbie Doll'',39, strangled, Toronto (Etobicoke) 13 Oct. 2003

Oct 5 2021
HUNTER: Two Toronto cold case killings of teen girl, sex worker 'very solvable' | Canoe.Com

Sharmini Anandavel, 15, vanished in June 1999. Her body was found months later.

''The clock is ticking on monsters, mobsters and other buffoons who would so easily snuff out a person’s life.

Tech and time are catching up to these killers.''

''But there are two cold case murders on the list that detectives are certain they can solve — and maybe someday soon.

“The two for October that stick out to me are Lien Pham and Sharmini Anandavel, both are absolutely solvable,” Det.-Sgt. Stephen Smith, of the cold case squad, told the Toronto Sun.''

''The 1999 unsolved murder of Sharmini Anandavel continues to rock the city.

The child of Sri Lankan immigrants, Sharmini was just 15 years old when she was last seen alive around 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 12, 1999 as she set off for what she thought was a job.''

''The individual who arranged that job was Stanley Tippett, who until two weeks before Sharmini vanished lived in the same Don Mills building as the teenager.''

''Tippett has always denied involvement in the murder.''

 

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It is interesting that one of the original suspects liked to imitate a cop.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/sharmini