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''Police have arrested and charged a man they believe is responsible for brutally attacking three children and who has eluded capture for more than 30 years, the Star has learned.
In the mid-1990s, police used DNA to link a trio of assaults in Kitchener, Brampton and Oakville parks to the same suspect — a man who was dubbed the “Woodland Rapist” in media coverage of the attacks and subsequent manhunt.''

 
  • MANDEL: Cop killer seeks parole and a return to Jamaica
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''MANDEL: Cop killer seeks parole and a return to Jamaica​

Clinton Junior Gayle hopes that, after serving 30 years for the murder of Toronto Police Const. Todd Baylis and the attempted murder of his partner, Const. Michael Leone, he will finally see freedom''
Aug 02, 2024
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Clinton Gayle is pictured in this 1995 photo. Photo by Files /Toronto Sun
''Here he goes again.''
 
During her brief separation from Fremlin in 1992, Munro also shared with Skinner her own suspicion regarding one of the most high-profile cases in Canadian history.

For reasons that remain unclear, she suspected that her husband might have raped and murdered Lynne Harper. In June 1959, the 12-year-old girl’s body was discovered in a woodlot northeast of Clinton, Ont., the town where Fremlin’s parents lived and where he and Munro eventually settled. Steven Truscott, a classmate of Harper’s, was wrongfully convicted and Harper’s murder case remains unsolved.

Munro’s reasons for suspecting his involvement aren’t known to Skinner, but she believes they might relate to her mother’s insight into his character.

Skinner conducted her own investigation into the possibility. She contacted Truscott’s legal team and tried to determine Fremlin’s location in 1959. At the time, Fremlin’s parents lived in the Clinton residence that he and Munro would later inhabit. He was 34 at the time. Despite her efforts, Skinner’s inquiries reached an impasse, and when she later asked her mother about it again, Munro said she no longer believed it.

Munro said that Fremlin, was, in fact, in Alaska when Harper was killed, and that, as proof, she had seen letters he had written to his parents.


Nevertheless, the fact that her mother stuck by a man who sexually abused her — while also suspecting, even for a passing moment, that he might be capable of rape and murder — remains a source of pain and bewilderment for Skinner.

She wrote in a text message: “I thought she would have stayed with him no matter what he had done to me and others.”


 
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[FONT=&quot]●At midnight on Thursday, December 22nd, 1988, Nick Gournis, 50, was found by two passersby at Galactic Amusements Arcade, an establishment he owned at 1058 Kingston Rd. He had been beaten about the head with a baseball bat, which was found at the scene. He died in hospital hours later. Police found that the arcade had been robbed by Gournis’s killer, and that the crime had occurred between 10 p.m. and the time he was found. He was last seen alive at 9:15.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Gournis, a father of two girls, lived on Raquel Ct. in west Toronto.[/FONT]
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Toronto man's body identified 40+ years after his escape from jail.
 
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'Five individuals being sought by police in the GTA have been added to a list of Canada’s most wanted fugitives.
On Wednesday morning, the BOLO (Be on the lookout) Program in partnership with the Sûreté du Québec released the names of their top 25 most sought-after fugitives during a news conference in Montreal. '
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Maxime Langlois, director of the Bolo Program, displays an advent calendar containing the Top 25 of Canada's Most Wanted fugitives during a press conference in Montreal, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
 
During her brief separation from Fremlin in 1992, Munro also shared with Skinner her own suspicion regarding one of the most high-profile cases in Canadian history.

For reasons that remain unclear, she suspected that her husband might have raped and murdered Lynne Harper. In June 1959, the 12-year-old girl’s body was discovered in a woodlot northeast of Clinton, Ont., the town where Fremlin’s parents lived and where he and Munro eventually settled. Steven Truscott, a classmate of Harper’s, was wrongfully convicted and Harper’s murder case remains unsolved.

Munro’s reasons for suspecting his involvement aren’t known to Skinner, but she believes they might relate to her mother’s insight into his character.

Skinner conducted her own investigation into the possibility. She contacted Truscott’s legal team and tried to determine Fremlin’s location in 1959. At the time, Fremlin’s parents lived in the Clinton residence that he and Munro would later inhabit. He was 34 at the time. Despite her efforts, Skinner’s inquiries reached an impasse, and when she later asked her mother about it again, Munro said she no longer believed it.

Munro said that Fremlin, was, in fact, in Alaska when Harper was killed, and that, as proof, she had seen letters he had written to his parents.


Nevertheless, the fact that her mother stuck by a man who sexually abused her — while also suspecting, even for a passing moment, that he might be capable of rape and murder — remains a source of pain and bewilderment for Skinner.

She wrote in a text message: “I thought she would have stayed with him no matter what he had done to me and others.”



This is a terribly sad story. As an English lit major who specialized in Canadian literature, I can confirm that Alice Munro had only a positive reputation, even a wholesome one, among her readers. Her stories' evocation of small-town Ontario, particularly, and its secrets and its dynamics was so compelling. No one knew she had the capacity to make these sorts of ruthlessly self-interested, even cruel, decisions at the expense of her child.

I suppose finding out she did this only makes her works truer to reality. People are people, with all that means for good and for ill.
 
Good article, will try and find any associated threads for the referenced victims.
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Brad Hunter Nov 12, 2022 rbbm.
''Det. Sgt. Steve Smith — head of the Toronto Police Cold Case Unit — told The Toronto Sun that there are around 30 unsolved sex worker murders in the city. Most are from the 1980s and 1990s.

“We have DNA in virtually every one of these murders, but none of the suspects are linked through the system,” Smith said.''
And with the exception of the three sex worker slayings in close proximity to each other in the Breakwall area along the lakeshore, none of the murders are linked.''

One thing that DNA testing has made clear is that, although these are many serial killers who had operated undetected, there are also people who have committed terrible crimes and gone on to lead normal lives. Sex workers, too often seen as disposable even worthless people and too often deeply vulnerable, can too plausibly be the sort of people that seemingly normal people might think they can get away with killing.

And then come the DNA analyses to disrupt their post-crime idylls.
 
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●A young couple taking a stroll through the northeast section of High Park found the body of Elizabeth Kirby Boyington, 45, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 27th, 1959. The couple ran 200 metres north to Bloor St. W., where they found a pharmacist who called police. Boyington had been stabbed five times in the throat and neck with a long, sharp knife as she lay on her back in grass 10 ft. from a well-used dirt walking trail. One stab thrust had pierced her larynx, another her esophagus, and a third her jugular vein, while the other two wounds were non-fatal. It was speculated the killer sat on her chest and held her still with his left hand while stabbing with his right. It is not known if she was sexually assaulted, though her clothes were in disarray and part of her underclothes missing.
Dozens of police officers spent that steamy summer Saturday scouring the ravine where Boyington's body lay, adjacent to Parkside Dr. across from Ridout St., but neither the murder weapon nor much else of use was recovered. Detective work traced Boyington's last known movements to 9 p.m. Friday night, when she was refused admittance to a hotel at Avenue Rd. and Bloor St., five kilometers east of where she was murdered. Whether she met her killer there at that time or elsewhere later in the night is not known.
The case remained unsolved in January, 1960.
 

Toronto Police lie to me, after Lizzie Tomlinson inquiry
From: Diggingfortruth3 | Mar 28, 2011 | 19 views

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In 2001 the Toronto Police were investigating the childhood sexual abuse committed again me by David Norris. The Toronto police were aware that this started when we lived on River Street, Toronto. They were aware of the attempt on my life at Rattle Snake Point in 1972. They were aware that he tried to stab me in 1978. They knew that my brother went missing in 1984.

They were also aware that I said he killed a girl at lake Simcoe and buried her nearby. There is no way they did not know this. I remember during my interview with them there was a picture of Lake Simcoe on the wall in the interview room. I went up, pointed at it and said, "that's were she was killed." I also recall telling them in this interview that I believe this girl was strangled as no sound came up from the beach and he had no blood on him.

York Region police spent four years supposedly investigating the murder of Yvonne Leroux. They also said they were going to help me find the remains of the girl killed at Lake Simcoe. York Region police during this time went from stating that the weapon I gave them in Yvonne's case was consistent with her wounds and what I said was 'probable.' Four years later they apparently can't say one way or the other whether he killed Yvonne. I thought they were dragging the investigation as they had been negligent from the start in investigating this and now the suspect was dead. I started looking for similarities between the murder of Yvonne and other people. I thought that during the four years they had had it they should have been doing this. They did not. I did find similarities in the murder of Veronica Kaye.

The police publicly slandered me at this time. At the time of this public slander I had found the area that I believe this girl is buried. York Region police were offering to come out with me and a ground radar machine to scan the area.

Several months later I was reading about the case of 6 year old Lizzi Tomlinson murdered in 1980. I also read that the police thought it was connected to an attempt murder of a waitress the year before in 1979. She was stabbed multiple times.

The description of the suspect is a male with a beard. 5'7 to 5'10'' 160 to 185 lbs. Long brown hair and blue eyes. Well muscled and tanned. Someone who smoked players lights, someone who wore a silver watch, and was familiar with the area but not seen around the area before four days before Lizzi's abduction.

This is the exact description of David Norris. I grew up half a block from were Lizzi was abducted from. I had played in Stink's park.

After Lizzi's murder David did shave his beard. He had always had a beard before that. He also let his hair get grey. I do have pictures of this and sent them to Toronto.

Before anyone jumps on me saying that I say David did this, I am not. I was not there. I will say that it is inexcusable that given the circumstances that he was not at any time looked at in regards to her murder. That is inexcusable.

It is over this that I had the argument with York Region and accused them of negligence. It was then they stoped me from finishing digging for the remains of the girl from Lake Simcoe and they did lie in court and falsely arrest me.

I did bring David Norris name to the attention of the Toronto police. It is certainly worth looking into. They said they would call me back.

When they did call me back the first thing the cop said to me was that I did not tell them about the murder (meaning the girl from Lake Simcoe) This seemed to be the purpose of his call. They wanted to let me know that I had not told them that David had killed someone. This is not true. I certainly told them. There is no way they did not know.

So I wonder why they lied. Is it because they had all this information then and did nothing with it. Is it because they found a more probable suspect than the poor guy they charged. This man who sat in the court room wanting crayons and bubble gum and stating that the cops were lying. When they finally have someone who more fit's the profile they find that they had him and let him slip away,,, slip away when they told him to surrender or be arrested. They also knew his past history of suicide attempts. They should have just gone and get him.

Are the Toronto police starting to set it up as it's my fault they did not look at this then. Trying to defer the blame, make excuses. What did they find to make them want to look for excuses. I do believe they had a serial killer and they let him slip
I’m really sorry about your life experiences, which you’ve shared with us. Thinking of you, and praying you find answers, someone to listen/advocate for you.
 
UPDATE. April 7, 2025 rbbm
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''A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a dangerous offender who had been living in the Toronto area.

The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad says Simon William Gares is wanted for a breach of his statutory release.

Gares is serving an eight-month and 17-day sentence for breach of a long-term supervision order.

Nearly two weeks before the Canada-wide warrant was issued, Toronto police had warned the public of Gares release from prison, stating that he was a “dangerous offender.”

“The Toronto Police Service is notifying the public about this offender because of his demonstrated risk to the community, including children,” the news release issued at the time said.''

''Witnesses present at the time of the attack said Gares, released from the Toronto South Detention Centre just months before, attacked the boy as he exited a bakery near Bloor Street and Runnymede Road with his mother and older brother.
He punched the boy “full force” in the face, knocking him to the ground, court documents state. He then kicked the child in the head “with all his might,” according to the testimony of those present, causing him to lose consciousness.
Neither the victim nor his mother were known to Gares.''
 

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