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[dotr]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...in-effort-to-get-leads-in-unsolved-cases.html

Smyth said police are hoping to use “the power of social media and how it tends to mushroom and go all over the place” to generate tips in the cases.

“Essentially, they’re very solvable cases,” he said. “We’re looking for that piece of information that we firmly believe is out there.”

New information will be posted to the Facebook page about every second day over the next few weeks, Smyth said.
Barrie Police Chief Kimberley Greenwood described the approach as a pilot project and said its success would determine if it would be used in other cases.

 

[dotr]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?339420-Cindy-Halliday-17-Barrie-Ontario-Easter-Monday-20-April-1992&p=13410305#post13410305
[h=2]Cindy Halliday, 17, Barrie, Ontario, Easter Monday, 20 April 1992[/h]

 

[dotr]

Thread started.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?340789-Grant-Ayerst-21-and-Norman-Whalley-36-Toronto-11-Sept-1991&p=13441091#post13441091

[h=2]Grant Ayerst, 21 and Norman Whalley, 36, Toronto, 11 Sept.1991[/h] http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/reward-offe...case-1.3459111
Reward offered for information in 26-year-old cold case



June 14, 2017 A reward is being offered for information that could help police in the investigation of two men who disappeared more than 20 years ago.
The province announced on Wednesday a $50,000 reward in the case of Grant Ayerst and Norman Whalley.
The two men were last seen together on Sept. 11, 1991 leaving a Toronto-area hotel. The pair was known to travel to Barrie.

 

[dotr]

On this day, June 26, in 1995, Holly Painter went missing and is presumed murdered. Surprised not see an update in the news for this case.
Holly was working at the Save the Rouge Valley System, and was looking forward to buying a pair of climbing shoes on the day she was last known to be getting a drive from a male and a female "friend".
Holly's bank card was used in New York, but Holly has still not been located.

[h=2]Holly Anne PAINTER, 18, Toronto, 26 June 1995, missing/murdered[/h] http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...1995-missing-murdered&p=13459790#post13459790

 

[dotr]

Very cold case in Brampton, concerning a housewife formally of Orangeville, Ont.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?346239-Mary-Pillsworth-30-Brampton-Ontario-12-January-1946&p=13554698#post13554698
[h=2]Mary Pillsworth, 30, Brampton, Ontario.12 January 1946[/h]

 

[DueSouth]

http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/38844

Hi all,

Here is a case that is short on details. Anyone care to comment or find further info?

 

[dotr]

http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/38844

Hi all,

Here is a case that is short on details. Anyone care to comment or find further info?

Hi Darkblue!
Started a thread.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?347506-You-Soon-Ju-58-TO-left-w-church-group-for-overseas-trip-Dec-2016&p=13582498#post13582498
[h=2]You Soon Ju,58,TO, left w.church group for overseas trip, Dec.2016[/h]

 

[DueSouth]

Hi Darkblue!
Started a thread.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?347506-You-Soon-Ju-58-TO-left-w-church-group-for-overseas-trip-Dec-2016&p=13582498#post13582498
[h=2]You Soon Ju,58,TO, left w.church group for overseas trip, Dec.2016[/h]

Hi dotr!

Thanks for that. I always wonder why police provide so little context when putting out missing persons bulletins.

 

[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/02/22/19411786.html
Three crime-scene DNA samples have been linked to the man accused of killing and sexually assaulting a retired hairdresser 28 years ago in Petrolia, Ont.

The evidence came from OPP identification officer Darren Soucie, the only witness to testify during the jury trial Wednesday.

The 44-year-old accused is charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of Velma Thomson in October, 1983, but cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was 15 years old at the time of the slaying.

Samples from Thomson’s pubic hair, along with semen and hairs found on her slipper, were compared to DNA from a blood sample taken after the man was arrested in June 2008.

UPDATE
Sept 6 2017
http://www.theobserver.ca/2017/09/0...t-verdict-upheld-in-murder-of-petrolia-senior

Ontario’s top court has upheld an adult sentence levelled against an Owen Sound man who murdered a Petrolia senior when he was a teen.

Christopher Ellacott, 49, was sentenced as an adult in 2013 under the Youth Criminal Justice Act to the maximum sentence of life with no chance of parole for seven years after a six-week trial.

Ellacott was 15 when he brutally murdered and raped Velma Thomson, 70, a small, frail senior citizen who was found dead in her home that had once been her hair styling salon, in October 1983.

Thomson was Ellacott’s neighbour. She was found stabbed several times in the heart, partially nude and in a pool of blood. Her jugular vein had been cut and there was evidence of a sexual assault.

The crime was unsolved for almost three decades and for years, the only evidence police had to follow was a thumbprint found at the gruesome murder scene.

That was matched to Ellacott, who was married with two children and working as a chiropodist in the Owen Sound area at the time of his 2008 arrest. Ellacott’s fingerprints were taken by Toronto police following a college graduation celebration that year, when he was arrested for dancing on a car.

 

[kat913]

UPDATE
Sept 6 2017
http://www.theobserver.ca/2017/09/0...t-verdict-upheld-in-murder-of-petrolia-senior

Wow!! To be that violent at 15 and then nothing again? Does not seem possible...does it? Hoping this may lead to more discovery...just seems so brutal to be his only crime!

 

[dotr]

The Pokemon motif is popular with young Asians. It is possible that this suspect might have been illegally in the country, and that's why he did not show up in any database, although that is just a possibility.

It could be a cultural code of silence that is protecting him, but I am surprised that someone is not tempted by the thought of all that cash in the reward. It could be fear of the individual, but the man is really a coward, and someone a couple of tough police officers could intimidate with just a withering gaze, IMHO.

I hope a tipster would keep the above in mind and make that call.

Started a thread for the murdered young woman, Lin Tao.
LE have the perp's DNA, they just need a name!
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...9-Toronto-10-Feb-2002&p=13619757#post13619757
[h=2]Lin Tao, 19, Toronto, 10 Feb. 2002[/h]

 

[dotr]

A new appeal today for info. concerning this double murder cold case. DNA found, but no matches in the data base so far..
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?349138-Therese-Melanson-and-Florence-Harrison-32-Toronto-January-1997&p=13620283#post13620283
[h=2]Therese Melanson and Florence Harrison, 32, Toronto, January 1997[/h]

 

[dotr]

Regarding Toronto's cold cases.
Oct 13 2017
http://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/10/13/searching-justice-torontos-unsolved-murders/

[h=1]Searching for justice: Toronto's unsolved murders[/h]

Detective Sergeant Stacy Gallant heads up Toronto’s Cold Case Unit – attempting to solve the unsolvable with only three dedicated full time detectives on the team.

“Would I like to have more investigative detectives in cold cases? Sure. But what I’d really like is to have three or four more investigative teams in the homicide office,” Gallant explains.

He says the Toronto Police Service has only six teams of eight homicide detectives – they get assigned a new case on a rotating basis. So while they can collect evidence, knock on doors and interview witnesses at full tilt, they have to switch gears rather quickly.

“They are getting another murder four, five, sometimes three weeks later,” says Gallant. That means shifting priorities to the new case – even if the other one is unsolved.

“Sometimes these cases take a year, two years before we can arrest someone. For a case not to be solved within 6 to 8 months, that’s not abnormal in this day and age,” Gallant explains. “That’s to get to a point where we have all our investigative files complete, that we can successfully arrest someone and get them before the court and hopefully convict them for murder.”

While technology has improved the police’s chances of catching the right suspect, it has also slowed them down.

“We have DNA testing that is so sensitive that you may pick up multiple individuals on a victim or a pop can or whatever it is, that you have to account for. You have high definition video surveillance from almost every business in the area with hundreds of hours that you have to look at, that has to be reviewed,” Gallant explains. “You have cellphone records – that’s a huge investigative resource for us that can put certain people in specific areas at a time or a phone in a certain area, but all those things – the banking records, the cell phone records – those take time.”

 

[dotr]

Case #4: The murder of Delia Adriano

On September 26th, 1982, 25-year-old Delia Adriano was kidnapped and murdered in Oakville, just west of Toronto. Her fiance had just dropped her off at her parents' house when she was abducted. Her decomposed body was found 6 weeks later, 30 km from home.

Rather than writing out a more thorough summary on this case myself, I'll refer readers to an article written on the crime's anniversary, and the police page, which includes a photo of the victim, maps, and sketches of a suspect and vehicle.

www.oakvillebeaver.com/news/article/124052
www.hrps.on.ca/data/homicide/homicide_5.asp

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/...e-her-oakville-home-she-never-made-it-inside/

[h=1]A killer among us: Delia Adriano was dropped off outside her Oakville home. She never made it inside[/h] [h=2]The murder of the 25-year-old Oakville woman remains an unsolved mystery[/h]

Delia Adriano, the 25-year-old secretary disappeared September 26, 1982 after being dropped off by her boyfriend outside her parents' home on Wildwood Drive in Oakville. On November 6, 1982, her nude body was discovered in a wooded area west of Campbellville. - The Hamilton Spectator

It's been 35 years since Delia Adriano was driven to her parents' Oakville home on Wildwood Dr. by fiancé Danny Dutra around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 26, following a soccer game and barbecue. Dutra drove away as Adriano walked to the side door. She never made it into her house.

The mystery around who killed the Toronto secretary — the second of four sisters and a member of Oakville's tight-knit Portuguese community — remains a cold case — file 67034-82. But whoever pulled her into a black abyss of evil that night probably knew his victim, say homicide investigators over the years.

The handful of witnesses helped police create a composite sketch of the suspect, who was described as male, white, five-foot-seven to five-foot-nine, medium build with brown hair feathered back to the neck.

The vehicle driven by the suspect was a dark blue, two-door subcompact 1970s Chevrolet Chevette or a similar car with Ontario license plates. Observers saw it parked in the driveway of a model home being used as a sales office near the Adriano home. It had three stripes on the side.

Campbell believes that Delia — who worked as a secretary for Wear-Check International of Toronto — was killed by someone she knew. "Witnesses' statements said it was a male and female arguing," said Campbell. "There was some familiarity between Delia and the person."

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information can contact Det. Phil Campbell at 905-465-8736 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Also, through the web at www.haltoncrimestoppers.ca or by texting "Tip 201" with your message to 274637 (crimes).

rbbm.

 

[dotr]

https://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/2954344-who-killed-delia-adriano-/

[h=1]Who killed Delia Adriano?[/h]

Composite sketch of murder suspect. Description: White male, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9, medium build with brown hair, feathered back to the neck. - Ron Kuzyk, Beaver photographer

Description of suspect vehicle: Dark coloured Chevrolet Chevette (or similar type vehicle) two-door, automatic transmission with three stripes along the side of the vehicle. The car had Ontario licence plates. - Ron Kuzyk, Beaver photographer

 

[bubbbab]

Was my Uncle

●Between 6:05 and 6:30 on the evening of Friday, December 7th, 1956, mail truck driver Weldon Boyd, 41, was shot four times in the back as he sat in his truck parked in a vacant lot at the rear of the Lake Shore Honey Packers plant at 12 Carlaw Ave. According to a blood trail investigators retraced in the light of the next day, Boyd's killer then, for unknown reasons, drove the mail truck, with Boyd's body inside, north on Carlaw to Queen St. E., two blocks east on Queen, and half a block south on Pape Ave. There, sometime between 6:55 and 7:30 p.m., according to residents of the area, the killer abandoned the truck and disappeared into the night after grabbing $7,500 in cash packed into 15 mailbags. Boyd's body was found slumped on the floor of the truck's cab by an off-duty policeman shortly after midnight.
Police believed the killer was familiar with post office routine, and may have been someone known to the victim. They also believed the killer had an accomplice who drove him and the money away from the scene. The empty mailbags, one covered in blood, were discovered at 8 p.m., just an hour after the murder, by a passing motorist on Westlake Rd., just east of Kingston Rd., 15 km northeast of the murder scene.

 

[dotr]

Fresh initiative to find the killer, LE have his DNA.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?360936-Gracelyn-GREENIDGE-41-Toronto-29-July-1997&p=13841892#post13841892
[h=2]Gracelyn GREENIDGE, 41, Toronto, 29 July 1997[/h]

 

[Errrr]

I'm surprised someone in a halfway house is allowed to drive. Who drove him way out there?
Back when this happened, I reported a sketchy tenant of mine to the police. I don't know why I thought he was linked other than that he abandoned his apartment that very weekend. I have never seen someone do that. My building is less than two minute walk to Alan Craig macdonalds halfway house.

 

[dotr]

Trying to find a thread for Simone Sandler or a place to put info. (not that there seems to be anything new,) but just in case it relates to any other crimes past and present.

http://www.examiner.com/article/cold-case-friday-simone-sandler-21


"Media reports said that Sandler was last seen with a tall, thin, dark-haired, tattooed, young man known in the area as known as “Joe.” -- the Toronto Star reported that “Joe” was in a relationship with Sandler, a relationship which broke off a week before her disappearance.


Another anonymous caller said that they had witnessed the murdered woman getting into a dark-coloured sedan with a driver described as having a mulatto complexion and dark hair.


In 2008, Toronto Police reopened their investigation into the Simone Sandler homicide as the request of her family. To this day, no leads, suspects, or motives have ever emerged.


In the days, months, and years following the murder, Toronto Police interviewed more than 100 people, travelling to Vancouver, Saskatoon and Northern Ontario to conduct interviews"

Started thread.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?361256-Simone-SANDLER-21-Toronto-30-July-1994&p=13847750#post13847750
[h=2]Simone SANDLER, 21, Toronto, 30 July 1994[/h]

 

[dotr]

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●On the night of Sunday, December 6th, 1953, 17-year-old Marion McDowell and her boyfriend, 19-year-old James Wilson, sat in Wilson's parked car under an apple tree along Danforth Rd. just north of Eglinton Ave E., in what was then called Scarboro Township, a secluded, virtually rural area on the eastern outskirts of Toronto (now a densely-populated suburb). At sometime between 9 and 9:30 p.m., the two lovers had been there for ninety minutes when a masked man armed with a gun suddenly appeared out of the darkness, slugged Wilson unconscious with the gun butt, leaving a laceration that would require 17 stitches, bundled both youths into the back seat of Wilson's car, and started driving north on Danforth Rd. Just south of Lawrence Ave. E., the assailant forced McDowell into the trunk of his own car and drove off northbound, abandoning Wilson and Wilson's car. The now half-conscious Wilson could do little more than look on helplessly. Marion McDowell was never seen again, nor was her body ever found, despite an investigation of unprecedented magnitude, scads of tips, daily media coverage, and dozens of intensive and wide-ranging police and volunteer searches.
●In the spring of 1963, someone known as "The Mad Stabber" was briefly in the news. On Thursday, May 30th, two men were stabbed in the area of Dundas St. W. and Ossington Ave. 42-year-old Leon McQuarrie was walking along Lakeview Ave. toward his home on Churchill Ave. at around 12:25 a.m., when a man ran up behind him and stabbed him between the shoulder blades. Five minutes later and less than a block away, 38-year-old Jacob Fugal was stabbed in the back in front of his home on Harrison St. Fugal was treated in hospital and released, but McQuarrie's injuries were much more serious, though ultimately not fatal, and he spent several days in hospital recovering. On Saturday, June 1st, Dennis MacGillivary was only slightly wounded when he was stabbed in the back while sitting on a park bench around midnight in MacGregor Park, on Lansdowne Ave. north of College St., a kilometre or so west of where the previous attacks had taken place. The attacker was described as about 20 years of age 5'8 - 5'10, with dark, unruly hair.

Rbbm.Rsbm.
January 25 2018
https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto...nsolved-disappearance-of-marion-mcdowell.html

One of Toronto’s oldest mysteries: The unsolved disappearance of Marion McDowell

Assaulted and kidnapped from her boyfriend’s car parked in a Scarborough lover’s lane nearly 65 years ago, this cold case is one of Toronto’s oldest.

No trace of Marion McDowell has ever been found. Now, almost 65 years later, the abduction of the young blue-eyed blond woman remains one of the oldest unsolved cold cases in Toronto’s history. Police and newspaper reports from that time depict the final known moments of Marion McDowell’s life as ones of violence and fear.

Marion Joan McDowell worked as a typist at a photo engraving firm on Mutual St., and lived with her family — father Ross, mother Florence and brother Ross Jr. — on Oak Park Ave. in East York

Marion followed the fashion trends of the day and that snowless Sunday night when she went for a drive with her boyfriend, Jimmy Wilson, she was wearing a white blouse, black wool skirt and bobby sox-style ballerina shoes and simple jewelry — a silver wrist chain with a heart on it and a ring with her initials M.M. on a left-hand finger. She wore a sweater under her blue coat and carried a purse.

About four days after Marion’s disappearance, the family was tormented by crank phone calls.

“This is the kidnapper. I’m getting ready to murder your daughter,” said one caller before breaking into maniacal laughter.