CANADA Canada - Tania Murrell, 6, Edmonton, 20 Jan 1983

[dotr]

I'm sure it's been posted before but here it is again,

http://byronchristopher.org/2012/10/10/511/

That was a very good and interesting article!
So, now I would love to know where poi lives/d in Ontario and if any cases here might connect to him.

 

[airplanelamp]

I just realized today is the 30th anniversary of Little Tania's disappearance.

The article posted above ^^ is very informative and IMO a likely scenario. I agree with the PP that I'd love to know the name of the PIO and where in Ontario he is living. Sounds like he also named is own child Tania? Which is so odd.

 

[dotr]

Bumping for Tania and wondering if the suspect in this case may be responsible for any similar crimes in Ontario or even Quebec?

 

[Noirdame79]

Tania's face is one of my earliest memories. I used to stare at the Missing Children posters in public areas. Because she disappeared in Northern Alberta, where I was born, I have often thought about her. So sad that her parents passed away without knowing what happened to their daughter, and that her brother has never fully recovered from her abduction and the aftermath. I admire her sister for continuing to believe that there will be answers.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/01/25/brother-of-missing-edmonton-girl-tania-murrell-passes-away

The brother of missing city girl Tania Murrell has died - less than a week after being featured in an Edmonton Sun article about the 32-year-old cold case.

John Murrell, 37, was found dead early Sunday in his room at a halfway house apartment he shared with other parolees near 119 Avenue and 101 Street, said his heartbroken aunt, Vera Stortz...

John’s cause of death was not known Sunday. His only surviving sister, Elysia, whose mom and dad have both died in the past 10 years, said from her Ontario home Sunday, “I’m in shock. I have buried my family.”

The Edmonton Sun article from last week:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/01/...turned-his-life-around-misses-his-best-friend

As a five-year-old, John Murrell lost his best friend and big sister, Tania, when she was abducted while walking home from an Edmonton school.

As a cocaine-addicted criminal in B.C. in his 20s and early 30s, he lost his dad and then his mom, both of whom passed away due to health-related problems. But just last month, John -- now clean at age 37 -- decided to return to the city where his childhood nightmare began 32 years ago.

"I had to get away from the trouble in B.C.," said John, working full-time and optimistic about his latest fresh start.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2015/02/08/22226911.html

Elysia, born almost two years after Tania's disappearance, hopes that one day there will be closure in the 32-year-old cold case...

“Sometimes it was hard growing up as my mom kept me on a tight leash,” said the 30-year-old Niagara Falls woman. “I was like her miracle baby and she was very protective”...

While she grieves the death of her brother, Elysia does not grieve the death of her sister. Like her parents, Elysia is convinced Tania is still alive. “I honestly think she's still out there.”

 

[musicaljoke]

The articles state that she was last seen when she went home for lunch at about 11:00-11:10. Is there anyone here who can comment on the time that the school dismissed for lunch? This seems exceptionally early and is not the time that the students are dismissed to go home for lunch today.

http://johnbarnett.epsb.ca/for-parents/supply-lists/294-supply-lists-2014-2015

 

[kdgdid]

I do not remember that Tania's leaving was early. As far as I remember Tania went out a different door then she usually did. There

The articles state that she was last seen when she went home for lunch at about 11:00-11:10. Is there anyone here who can comment on the time that the school dismissed for lunch? This seems exceptionally early and is not the time that the students are dismissed to go home for lunch today.

http://johnbarnett.epsb.ca/for-parents/supply-lists/294-supply-lists-2014-2015

 

[musicaljoke]

I do not remember that Tania's leaving was early. As far as I remember Tania went out a different door then she usually did. There

Yes, there is some discussion about the exit door.

"It was later determined that Tania didn’t wait for [her brother] John’s class to finish. Police believe she left alone out the east doors about 11:10 a.m. Tania’s best friend, Brandy-Jo Ewashko, told the Saturday Sun that Tania left from the north doors and was walking alone with money to a nearby 7-Eleven store."

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/01/...ell-still-hopes-she-comes-home-30-years-later

 

[dotr]

http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2015/02/08/vanished-without-a-trace

"Police did question a family friend at the time of Tania's disappearance. The man, who moved to Ontario two months after the girl vanished, was never eliminated as a suspect.

Elysia is haunted by the possibility the man played a role in his sister's disapparance.

For now, she keeps in regular contact with detectives with the Edmonton Police Service.

Det. Bryce Clarke, of the police service's historical homicide division, said the case of the missing girl remains an acitve investigation.


rbbm
“As far as we're concerned, as a police service, until it's solved and we have somebody under arrest that we can conclusively say that this person did it, then the file is always open,” he said.

“We are more than willing to look into any new information that people may have,” he added. “We'll gladly welcome any new information.”

 

[musicaljoke]

One thing we know for sure is that she wasn't buried anywhere, nor dropped in any lakes in Canada east of the Rockies, in January 1983. I can understand why the family was so confident that she is still alive.

 

[Noirdame79]

Sad that her brother John has also passed, it looks like he worked really hard to get clean. Poor Elysia, losing her parents and brother and her sister still missing.

 

[Patience]

There appears to be at least two men who appeared to suspicious. One being the apparent main suspect who was never arrested and the man who was charged for extortion at some later date after claiming he could help them? These are two seperate individuals correct? But both moved to Ontario?

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[Patience]

One thing we know for sure is that she wasn't buried anywhere, nor dropped in any lakes in Canada east of the Rockies, in January 1983. I can understand why the family was so confident that she is still alive.

How is it that we know for sure that Tania isn't buried somewhere?

 

[Patience]

TANIA MURRELL
Aunt of missing six-year-old Tania Murrell still hopes she comes home, 30 years later


http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/01/18/aunt-of-missing-six-year-old-tania-murrell-still-hopes-she-comes-home-30-years-later
The sunny morning that Tania Murrell did not make it home for a macaroni and cheese lunch 30 years ago has lingered like a dark cloud for her aunt Vera Stortz.
She was babysitting on Thursday, Jan. 20, 1983 when six-year-old Tania vanished on a 2 1/2-block walk from school.
&#8220;I have no feeling that she is gone yet, because I don&#8217;t know what has happened to her,&#8221; said Vera.
The day started off &#8220;typical as any other day.&#8221;
Her common-law husband, Gary Rothermal, dropped her off at the Murrell&#8217;s 10426 145 St. home about 7:30 a.m.

BABYSITTING TANIA
​

Vera, with her nine-month-old baby Dustin bundled up, settled in as the Murrell family started their day. She had been babysitting Tania and her brother, John, for about three years.
&#8220;Tania and John were both eating cereal. The TV was on,&#8221; recalls Vera.
Jack Murrell was heading out to his job with a home builder while mom, Vivian, was having a lively conversation with Tania.
&#8220;Tania thought what she was wearing was too tight. I remember Vivian saying. &#8216;Oh wear whatever you want&#8217;. Tania settled on her black Harley-Davidson T-Shirt and green corduroy pants.&#8221;
Vera remembers that Tania said she couldn&#8217;t find her knapsack. &#8220;In the end, Vivian put her school stuff into a plastic Safeway bag and taped it up.&#8221;

 

[Patience]

TANIA MURRELL
30 years later, tips in Edmonton case of missing 6-year-old Tania Murrell becoming very rare

Time has taken its toll on the Tania Murrell case, widely considered to be the biggest abduction mystery in Edmonton history.
After 30 years, tips in the case of the six-year-old girl who vanished while walking two blocks home from school are extremely rare.
In the past year, the Edmonton city police historical homicide division has received just one tip, said Det. Howie Antoniuk. That has given him time to finish transferring thousands of files and documents from the massive case onto a disc.
For Antoniuk, a 36-year veteran with the Edmonton Police Service who has been handling the Tania file for the past six years, that is frustrating.
&#8220;I would love nothing better than to solve this case before I retire. It has been so long,&#8221; says Antoniuk, who believes Tania is dead.
&#8220;My gut feeling is she is not alive. I believe she was murdered and her body disposed of shortly after she disappeared, probably in a dumpster.&#8221;

TANIA COULD STILL BE ALIVE​

However, Antoniuk does admit that Tania could still be alive &#8212; pointing to the case of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the California woman who resurfaced in 2009, 18 years after she was abducted as an 11-year-old girl.
One lead that still remains unanswered is a tip from a realtor who told police he saw an older woman walking with a child across 144 Street near 104 Avenue about the time Tania vanished. The realtor said the child seemed to fall and the woman was either dragging or helping the child. Antoniuk says the woman and the child from that sighting have never been found.
Antoniuk adds that because of Tania&#8217;s size, she could have been taken either by someone she knew or a stranger.
Retired city police officer Len Crawford, who was in charge of the homicide division at the time of the disappearance, says the Murrell case &#8220;is one that really bugs me.&#8221;
Crawford says he often thinks about the case, and wonders &#8220;if we missed something.&#8221;
A $40,000 reward offered to find Tania has long since expired with the funds used for other cases or returned.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/01/...g-6-year-old-tania-murrell-becoming-very-rare

 

[dotr]

The tragedy of a child being taken and never seen again and subsequent mother's death after being hit by a van, is too much for any one family to bear.
It is unbelievably unfair and heartbreaking, hoping someone will have a heart and help this family find little Tania.
imo.

 

[dotr]

TANIA MURRELL
Aunt of missing six-year-old Tania Murrell still hopes she comes home, 30 years later


http://www.edmontonsun.com/2013/01/18/aunt-of-missing-six-year-old-tania-murrell-still-hopes-she-comes-home-30-years-later
The sunny morning that Tania Murrell did not make it home for a macaroni and cheese lunch 30 years ago has lingered like a dark cloud for her aunt Vera Stortz.
She was babysitting on Thursday, Jan. 20, 1983 when six-year-old Tania vanished on a 2 1/2-block walk from school.
&#8220;I have no feeling that she is gone yet, because I don&#8217;t know what has happened to her,&#8221; said Vera.
The day started off &#8220;typical as any other day.&#8221;
Her common-law husband, Gary Rothermal, dropped her off at the Murrell&#8217;s 10426 145 St. home about 7:30 a.m.

BABYSITTING TANIA
​

Vera, with her nine-month-old baby Dustin bundled up, settled in as the Murrell family started their day. She had been babysitting Tania and her brother, John, for about three years.
&#8220;Tania and John were both eating cereal. The TV was on,&#8221; recalls Vera.
Jack Murrell was heading out to his job with a home builder while mom, Vivian, was having a lively conversation with Tania.
&#8220;Tania thought what she was wearing was too tight. I remember Vivian saying. &#8216;Oh wear whatever you want&#8217;. Tania settled on her black Harley-Davidson T-Shirt and green corduroy pants.&#8221;
Vera remembers that Tania said she couldn&#8217;t find her knapsack. &#8220;In the end, Vivian put her school stuff into a plastic Safeway bag and taped it up.&#8221;

rbbm.

Did they eventually find the backpack, wondering if any of Tania's clothing might have been missing?
If so, any chance Tania had made some kind of secret arrangement for a special outing and the clothing switch to Harley- D. t shirt, part of that plan?
speculation, imo.

 

[Patience]

I wondered about the backpack too. Could someone have used it as a ruse and told Tania they found it and to meet her to retrieve it?

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[dotr]

Oh no, just found this from January 2015, this is awful and kind of weird.imo.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/01/25/brother-of-missing-edmonton-girl-tania-murrell-passes-away

"The brother of missing city girl Tania Murrell has died - less than a week after being featured in an Edmonton Sun article about the 32-year-old cold case.

John Murrell, 37, was found dead early Sunday in his room at a halfway house apartment he shared with other parolees near 119 Avenue and 101 Street, said his heartbroken aunt, Vera Stortz.

&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said Stortz. &#8220;This is such a tragedy. We were so looking forward to getting together with John.&#8221;

John&#8217;s cause of death was not known Sunday. His only surviving sister, Elysia, whose mom and dad have both died in the past 10 years, said from her Ontario home Sunday, &#8220;I&#8217;m in shock. I have buried my family.&#8221;