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True crime history: Unsolved murder of Vancouver teen girl - Vancouver Is Awesome
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Louise Wise (left) and the Wise house in East Vancouver in 2015.The Province, July 17, 1971 (left)
By: Eve Lazarus
July 15 2021
''Vancouver cold case files: Policeman's teen daughter found fatally stabbed in family home
The 1971 'Renfrew Murder' remains unsolved. The knife was left inside the 17-year-old's chest. 25 years later, it had vanished from the evidence room''
''A grade 11 student at Windermere Secondary, Louise was the oldest of four children and lived in the Renfrew area of East Vancouver. Her father, Jack Wise was a constable with the Vancouver Police Department.''
''In the summer of 1971, Louise was hired as a "flower girl" and became one of the ubiquitous teens stationed with flower carts outside liquor stores and hospitals.''
Louise had convinced her parents to let her stay at home by herself while they took the younger children on a family holiday to Birch Bay, in Washington state.
Louise phoned her friend Gail on the day that she died. She told Gail that her family was away on holiday and asked if she would come over. When Gail arrived, she was surprised when Louise asked her about her boyfriend Al and confided in Gail that there was a man who had been bothering her at her flower-selling job. He had insisted on walking her home the previous evening she told Gail, and that he made her uncomfortable because he behaved aggressively toward her. He was older, probably in his mid-twenties, and had told Louise that he was from Hamilton, Ontario.''
''A neighbour of the Wises, who had been holidaying at Birch Bay with the Wise family, returned to Vancouver early and promised that he would check in on Louise.
When he couldn’t reach her by phone, he went to the house on Thursday around 11 a.m.
He found Louise dead in the living-dining room. She had been raped and stabbed. The knife was still in her chest.''
In 1996, the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit launched with a mandate to reinvestigate cold cases. That year the province had about 700 unsolved murders on its books, and DNA was successfully used to solve some of them. But when detectives took another look at Louise’s file, they found that the murder knife was missing from the evidence room and any chance of retrieving the killer’s DNA was lost.''
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Louise Wise (left) and the Wise house in East Vancouver in 2015.The Province, July 17, 1971 (left)
By: Eve Lazarus
July 15 2021
''Vancouver cold case files: Policeman's teen daughter found fatally stabbed in family home
The 1971 'Renfrew Murder' remains unsolved. The knife was left inside the 17-year-old's chest. 25 years later, it had vanished from the evidence room''
''A grade 11 student at Windermere Secondary, Louise was the oldest of four children and lived in the Renfrew area of East Vancouver. Her father, Jack Wise was a constable with the Vancouver Police Department.''
''In the summer of 1971, Louise was hired as a "flower girl" and became one of the ubiquitous teens stationed with flower carts outside liquor stores and hospitals.''
Louise had convinced her parents to let her stay at home by herself while they took the younger children on a family holiday to Birch Bay, in Washington state.
Louise phoned her friend Gail on the day that she died. She told Gail that her family was away on holiday and asked if she would come over. When Gail arrived, she was surprised when Louise asked her about her boyfriend Al and confided in Gail that there was a man who had been bothering her at her flower-selling job. He had insisted on walking her home the previous evening she told Gail, and that he made her uncomfortable because he behaved aggressively toward her. He was older, probably in his mid-twenties, and had told Louise that he was from Hamilton, Ontario.''
''A neighbour of the Wises, who had been holidaying at Birch Bay with the Wise family, returned to Vancouver early and promised that he would check in on Louise.
When he couldn’t reach her by phone, he went to the house on Thursday around 11 a.m.
He found Louise dead in the living-dining room. She had been raped and stabbed. The knife was still in her chest.''
In 1996, the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit launched with a mandate to reinvestigate cold cases. That year the province had about 700 unsolved murders on its books, and DNA was successfully used to solve some of them. But when detectives took another look at Louise’s file, they found that the murder knife was missing from the evidence room and any chance of retrieving the killer’s DNA was lost.''
