CANADA Canada - Sonia Varaschin, 42, Orangeville, 29 Aug 2010 - #2

[2soccermom]

I think I should have worded my comment earlier to read that I reported the pic and the tags as of possible interest to LE in Sonia's case, rather than the people who have posted/circulated the image per se. Drat. Sorry.

 

[Deleted member 102539]

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/gang-inv...t-particularly-bright-criminologist-1.1065200

http://globalnews.ca/news/1266569/edmonton-man-charged-with-murders-conspiring-to-commit-others/

An Edmonton man is facing first and second degree murder charges, as well as conspiracy to commit two others.

Edmonton Police and RCMP laid the charges against 31-year-old Joshua Petrin at a Regina corrections facility, where he is awaiting trial in the murder of a Saskatoon woman.

The second degree charges stem from the death of 23-year-old Mitchell Chambers nearly six years ago.
........................

RCMP won’t comment on the motive behind the 2012 murder, or the conspiracy to commit murder charges that are also facing Petrin.

Police say he allegedly has ties to the White Boy Posse Street gang.

I read the above and thought of Sonia and her visitor (if not female) from Alberta. Perhaps there is a connection to the young people in the house near to Sonia's or to her visitor or .......? :dunno:

 

[Wondergirl]

Who killed this beautiful, vibrant woman? We need to go back to the basics, and sleuth this outside the box.

 

[Wondergirl]

1. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders in locations where Splatalot has filmed?

2. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders in the time frame leading up to and just after the Labour Day weekend, since 2010? Before 2010?

3. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders of hospital staff, in Canada? In the U.S.?

4. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders in Ontario/Canada, with multiple crime scenes, body in one location, murder location in another?

 

[Wondergirl]

Possible link to 3 & 4 above - 44 Year Old Nurse - Cindy James

OMG

You have to read this one. Wow

On June 8, 1989, a 44-year old Canadian nurse named Cindy James was found dead in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. She had been drugged and strangled, with her hands and feet tied behind her back. She was found in the yard of an abandoned home a mile and a half from a small shopping mall where her car was parked. She had been missing since May 25th, when her car was discovered in the parking lot. There was blood on the driver’s side door and items from her wallet were found under the car.There was blood on the driver’s side door and items from her wallet were found under the car.

When her body was discovered at the abandoned house, it looked like Cindy James had been brutally murdered. A black nylon stocking was tied tightly around her neck and the autopsy revealed that Cindy died from an overdose of morphine and other drugs. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, however, believed her death to be an accident or a suicide.

Much, much more horrifying details at link. Could Cindy's killer be a psychiatrist? A psychiatrist who knew exactly how to drive her crazy and make it look like she was doing it to herself.

http://www.allthingscrimeblog.com/2014/01/08/who-killed-nurse-cindy-james/

 

[dotr]

1. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders in locations where Splatalot has filmed?

2. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders in the time frame leading up to and just after the Labour Day weekend, since 2010? Before 2010?

3. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders of hospital staff, in Canada? In the U.S.?

4. Have there been any other unsolved heinous murders in Ontario/Canada, with multiple crime scenes, body in one location, murder location in another?

From some personal experience with the tv production in question, all involved worked very long hard hours with many attendant inspectors and families, no time, energy, or inclination for ghastly murder. imho.

As for the very chilling torment and death of Cindy James, cannot help but feel a jealous/ competitive female was behind it, fwiw..imo.

 

[Wondergirl]

From some personal experience with the tv production in question, all involved worked very long hard hours with many attendant inspectors and families, no time, energy, or inclination for ghastly murder. imho.

As for the very chilling torment and death of Cindy James, cannot help but feel a jealous/ competitive female was behind it, fwiw..imo.

Dotr, I do appreciate your perspective here, but am inclined to say, that saying nobody on the production of Splatalot has time, energy or inclination for murder, is the same as saying nobody does.

While it is a slim chance that someone involved in the roaming production of the show Splatalot, that was filming in the Orangeville area at the time of Sonia's murder, has anything to do with it, the fact is the production moved on, and so too could her murderer with it.

Exploring other unsolved murders in locations where Splatalot has filmed, is as good an angle as any, if you think the perp may have NOT been local, or a local who joined the crew and moved with them.

JMO

 

[dotr]

Dotr, I do appreciate your perspective here, but am inclined to say, that saying nobody on the production of Splatalot has time, energy or inclination for murder, is the same as saying nobody does.

While it is a slim chance that someone involved in the roaming production of the show Splatalot, that was filming in the Orangeville area at the time of Sonia's murder, has anything to do with it, the fact is the production moved on, and so too could her murderer with it.

Exploring other unsolved murders in locations where Splatalot has filmed, is as good an angle as any, if you think the perp may have NOT been local, or a local who joined the crew and moved with them.

JMO

Fair enough, my knowledge of the production is minimal and it is a huge company, so certainly anything is possible. Cannot find a link to indicate production was filming in the area at time of SV's murder.

http://dufferin.biz/2014/04/dufferin-filmed-splatalot-wins-at-2014-canadian-screen-awards/

"Television producers marblemedia took home a 2014 Canadian Screen Award in the category of Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series for their show Splatalot which was shot in Amaranth.


About Splatalot:

Splatalot is an outdoor, physical game show geared to the tween audience. Envision a medieval fortress with a sludge-filled moat and more face-planting, gut-busting, splat-tacular spills than you could ever imagine, and you have Splatalot! The TV show goes hand-in-hand with online games and the Highlight Shaker where fans mix up their favourite splats from the show. The series currently airs on YTV and TÉLÉTOON (French) in Canada, on the BBC in the UK, on ABC in Australia, and on Nickelodeon in the U.S.

About marblemedia:

marblemedia develops, produces and distributes engaging multiplatform entertainment experiences for audiences around the world. Honoured by Playback with the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award and named Transmedia Producer of the Year (2011) by Playback, marble has won a Canadian Screen Award, two Gemini Awards, been nominated for an Emmy® Award and was identified as a Next Generation Content Producer (2009) by The Hollywood Reporter. The company owns a 50-acre production ranch and operates a Toronto-based studio, home to 50 staff. With nearly 200 hours of programming distributed in more than 200 territories"

 

[Wondergirl]

Fair enough, my knowledge of the production is minimal and it is a huge company, so certainly anything is possible. Cannot find a link to indicate production was filming in the area at time of SV's murder.

http://dufferin.biz/2014/04/dufferin-filmed-splatalot-wins-at-2014-canadian-screen-awards/

"Television producers marblemedia took home a 2014 Canadian Screen Award in the category of Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series for their show Splatalot which was shot in Amaranth.


About Splatalot:

Splatalot is an outdoor, physical game show geared to the tween audience. Envision a medieval fortress with a sludge-filled moat and more face-planting, gut-busting, splat-tacular spills than you could ever imagine, and you have Splatalot! The TV show goes hand-in-hand with online games and the Highlight Shaker where fans mix up their favourite splats from the show. The series currently airs on YTV and TÉLÉTOON (French) in Canada, on the BBC in the UK, on ABC in Australia, and on Nickelodeon in the U.S.

About marblemedia:

marblemedia develops, produces and distributes engaging multiplatform entertainment experiences for audiences around the world. Honoured by Playback with the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award and named Transmedia Producer of the Year (2011) by Playback, marble has won a Canadian Screen Award, two Gemini Awards, been nominated for an Emmy® Award and was identified as a Next Generation Content Producer (2009) by The Hollywood Reporter. The company owns a 50-acre production ranch and operates a Toronto-based studio, home to 50 staff. With nearly 200 hours of programming distributed in more than 200 territories"

Someone I know was invited to go to the filming in/near Orangeville at the time of the murder.

This is why I always kept on about it, because it was an unusual occurrance, just like Sonia's murder.

Also, does anyone know if there were Labour Day Carnivals or fairs in Orangeville that long weekend?

 

[Sillybilly]

Also, does anyone know if there were Labour Day Carnivals or fairs in Orangeville that long weekend?

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The Orangeville Fall Fair is held every Labour Day weekend, starting on Friday and ending Sunday (which would have been Sept 3, 4, 5 in 2010, so not the weekend Sonia was murdered). I've often wondered if there was someone who came into O'Ville early to prepare for a display or activity at the fair.

Jumping off that thought ... Sonia had just visited her parents in Bolton earlier in the day, then got home and called her Mom to ask her to bake a cake for company arriving from Jasper on Wednesday (Sept 1). Wish we knew if that visitor in fact arrived as scheduled and if they've been ruled out by LE.

 

[2soccermom]

good Q, and I'm with you on that wish, SB --
again, we're stuck with so much of the unknown.

I hope no one minds --
I posted this on another site and thought I'd bring it here, since I really don't have much else to add:

were we ever given info by LE on the position of the driver's seat in Sonia's car? We know the killer drove the vehicle. Was the seat reclined to accommodate long legs, a heavier body? Sonia was petite. The driver's seat must usually have been in a somewhat close-ish position to the front. Can we tell anything about the killer's size from a possibly altered position of the seat? Or did the killer recline it all the way back on parking? Or return it to a tight position to the front? If the seat was moved all the way back or all the way front, does that suggest a calculating presence of mind, which might contest the profile some people have of the killer about drugs, irrational decision-making, etc? I keep looking to how the car was parked -- so neatly in line, and how camera capture was evaded.
I don't think we were ever given info on the position of the driver seat, were we? Does anyone remember? (I know LE's MO is to keep specific info from the public to prevent limiting scope about who the perp might be, among other reasons. So if it SEEMS like the killer might have moved the seat to a mid-position and LE might be able to guestimate weight and height, I suspect we'll not be given that info.) Sigh.

Sonia's thread is so silent. I feel like there is something that might be obvious in front of all of us that just escapes us.... I keep thinking it might hinge on the garage door and why the killer took Sonia through the front, but I know we've talked about that a lot already.

 

[Pink Panther]

Bumping for Sonia. Maybe now that her case has gone completely stone-cold, LE might consider releasing some information&#8230;Other jurisdictions have done so, to much success. Google - "cold case solved". There are many out there.

moo

 

[2soccermom]

Pink, like others, I join you in that bump.
I posted this on another site just now, and thought I'd bring it over to WS. It doesn't really offer much, but as you have noted there's so little we have already....

At this link --
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2585684/Investigators-defend-use-of-DNA-sweep-in-Jenise-Wright-case --
there's a story on voluntary DNA collection in a Washington case (Jenise Wright) that briefly mentions the DNA sweep in Sonia's investigation. I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into this, but one thing that really struck me in first perusal of the text is this statement by a University of Nebraska prof: "These are all very horrible crimes - serial murders or serial rapists." I'm taking this a bit out of context; you'll have to read the article for yourself to assess its applicability to Sonia's case. But: I know some of us wonder/worry if the FBI involvement (and now, perhaps, the wide DNA effort?) indicates that Sonia's murder is more than a stand-alone crime. I don't know. The professor does go on to say in DNA-sweep cases that "There's a lot of emotion involved, a lot of community fear. Police departments are under a lot of pressure to do something, or at least appear to be doing something." There are certainly other factors than potential serial implications that explain pressure on LE to solve Sonia's case. But, again, that one statement does resonate eerily to me. Not sure if others feel the same.

As the end of August approaches, I keep hoping to hear something encouraging from media or LE. I can only imagine how hard things are for the Varaschin family -- this month, especially. My heart goes out to them, and to all Sonia's friends and family. Let's hope LE has something in hand!

 

[No_Stone_Unturned]

POLICE RELEASE VIDEO, SAY THEY HAVE NEW INFO:

http://www.newstalk1010.com/news/2014/08/29/watch-opp-release-video-in-sonia-varaschin-murder

 

[matou]

[video=youtube;QfkVehJSotI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfkVehJSotI[/video]

Saw your link NSU and also just heard this on the news. This video was taken at a gazebo around 6 am near where her vehicle was found.

 

[matou]

&#8220;The quality of this video is grainy but investigators are hopeful that these individuals will recognize themselves or that someone will be able to identify them and come forward to the police,&#8221; the OPP said in a news release on Friday. &#8220;These individuals are potential witnesses and are not suspects in this case. Anyone who recognizes these people are requested to contact the investigators immediately.&#8221;

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/08/29/sonia_varaschin_murder_investigators_release_video.html

 

[matou]

Investigators released a surveillance video on Friday (Aug. 29) taken of a gazebo located in Alexandra Park off of Second Street and First Ave.
The video depicts two people in a gazebo prior to them walking away at about 5:58 a.m. on Aug. 30, 2010. Police would like to identify these individuals to speak with them.

http://www.orangeville.com/news-sto...tigators-release-surveillance-camera-footage/

 

[No_Stone_Unturned]

And here we are again. I now have some questions:

1. Does anyone know if this "gazebo" was ever mentioned before? By LE? By the public?

2. Is anyone familiar with this "gazebo"? Is it well hidden in order for the perp(s) to change clothing, etc?

3. Is the "gazebo" well-used for druggies, sex, whatever?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

 

[matou]

Here is the gazebo location in streetview. I don't know how to insert the actual image with new google maps: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.9205...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1ssX-Uexpr8weFN075SpJReA!2e0

It is very close to the location of the her car. The timing and the location of these guys have me wondering. One guy (the second one in the video) looks like he is carrying a dark bag. I'm hoping some of our aces will get on here to scrutinize and analyze this video soon.

 

[matou]

The second guy looks like he has something long and it sways like a blanket or long coat. Maybe not a bag as I thought. First guy, dark pants and light coloured shoes, hoodie?