CANADA Valerie Anastacia Drew, 13, Kingston, Ontario, gagged and hit on head w.large rock, 27 Sept. 1970

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Cold cases: The search for justice never stops
On Sept. 27, 1970, Valerie Anastacia Drew was found dead in a wooded area that is now the present-day Compton Street apartment complexes. She’d been reported missing a day prior when a searcher found her at about 10:30 p.m., gagged by her own clothes and hit over the head with a large rock.

Drew was last seen alive two days earlier, when she left her Wiley Street home. She walked north with two teenage male friends, who then hitchhiked to Peterborough. Her family reported her missing the next day.


Former chief of Kingston Police Bill Hackett assisted Earl McCullough, who was the first lead investigator on the case. While Hackett retired in July 1995, he said this past Wednesday that the case has stuck with him.

“It was a terrible case,” Hackett admitted. “I still think that the perpetrator is still in that area. She was a smart young girl. Intelligent and well liked, and there’s been a lot of officers who put a lot of time into her case.

“I think the day will come that perhaps it will be solved.”

Hackett said the case has affected so many officers that he thinks any one of them would “go the extra mile” immediately should they receive any information.

“I’d love to see something come out of the woodwork for little Valerie Drew,” Hackett said. “I think it’s solvable. Just because of all the information that has been gathered, put together and investigated so far, it leads one to believe that it should be solved.”

 

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Valerie DREW - In Memoriam - Kingston, ON - Your Life Moments

VALERIE DREW JULY 28, 1957 - SEPT. 25, 1970 40 years today, our sister was sadly taken from us. Valerie's smile still remains in our memory and will be forever missed. Gone, But Never Forgotten. -Forever Loved and Missed By All, Drew Family xoxo

 

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From bootleggers to brawls: Hackett recalls his policing days

 

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From bootleggers to brawls: Hackett recalls his policing days

Thanks, that was a very interesting article, what a wonderful cop! rbbm.

Bill Hackett with his numerous newspaper clippings, badges, notes and old police hats on Friday, May 3. (Steph Crosier/The Whig-Standard) Steph Crosier / Steph Crosier/Kingston Whig-Standard

"Hackett lived for criminal investigations, and there were plenty. He said that he and his partner would get a “fresh supply,” often working on about 10 cases at a time. A case that has stuck with Hackett over the years is that of the gruesome, cold-case murder of 13-year-old Valerie Anastacia Drew.

Drew was found dead, gagged and beaten, on Sept. 27, 1970. Found by a volunteer searcher in a wooded area that today is where the Compton Street apartment complexes are located, she’d been reported missing the day before when she didn’t return to her Wiley Street home. Hackett was part of a team that investigated the girl’s murder.

“Valerie didn’t deserve what she got. I hope some officer will get a clue and follow it up. Sometimes it’s not easy. Some people don’t want to talk to you, some have a reason not to talk to you, and some just don’t like you for whatever reason.

“(The case) is solvable, I believe. … People sometimes hold back. Not because they’re trying to cover up anything, but because they don’t want to get involved. I’m sure that somebody knows who did this. … I think somebody knows and I think that same person has spoken to someone else, because these people don’t keep quiet.”

Anyone with information about this case can reach out to Kingston Police at 613-544-4660 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

One significant case Hackett found himself investigating wasn’t assigned at all. He stumbled upon it on his way home from work on a Sunday in June 1961.

“(Edward Rouleau) was working on a construction site at Park and Regent streets. He was a known sex offender. Whenever you saw him, you knew something was going on or he was up to something because he wouldn’t be in a residential area for any other reason but something that wasn’t right. … He was a bad cat.

“So I watched him for a while, but then headed home (on Helen Street, one block away) to call my partner, Howard Sears, and to meet him. He said he’d be right down. So I kept watching Eddy Rouleau and eventually I see him walking down the street holding the hand of a little girl — by the way, she’s written me two or three letters and came to visit.

“When Howard came, he went looking, as did I. I went looking into the basement windows of the building under construction and I see him with the little girl. He’s got her clothes off, lying on a piece of plywood. So I jumped in the window and told him to let her go. She started to cry and he ran for the window, and I ran after him, of course. I got a hold of him around the neck and I would have choked him, but he and I started to struggle and he got a hold of my grip and got out. The little girl ran away, but she’s the important witness. Luckily, Howard caught her outside and took her to the car he’d driven to the scene."

 

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Cold Case Files | Kingston Police

www.kingstonpolice.ca

'' Valerie Drew was last seen on the afternoon of Friday, September 25th, 1970. She was in the company of two males and walking through Marker’s Acres (now the area of Compton Street) toward Highway 401.

Valerie was reported missing later that evening when it was discovered that she was no longer in the company of the two males. Her body was discovered during a ground search conducted by members of the public in what was then a wooded area North of Weller Avenue on Sunday, September 27th, 1970.

Forensic evidence was gathered at the scene and from Valerie’s body at autopsy, which remains in the custody of the Kingston Police for continued testing along with technological advancements.

Her death is the city’s oldest unsolved homicide and has been actively investigated for 54 years. She is also the youngest victim of all Kingston’s cold cases.

Anyone with information regarding the murder of Valerie Drew on September 25th, 1970, is strongly encouraged to contact the Major Crime Unit of the Kingston Police by phone at 613-549-4660 or by email at [email protected].''

New cold case web page launched by Kingston Police

Kingston Police have launched a new page on their website highlighting nine cold case investigations.

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Jan 23 2024 rbbm
'The nine homicide victims highlighted on the new website are Valerie Anastacia Drew, Judith Ann Zicari, Eleanor McGeachie, Thomas M. Gencarelli, Gordon Andrew Cameron, Jeffery Thomas Leveque, Christine Ann Ziomkiewich, Viva Bernice Mack, and Marion A. Joyce.'

 

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Her murder was a hired hit.
I know everything what happened to Miss Drew, Her murder was not just a murder, she was Raped in her Home by a KPH Staff member, her rapers name is Billy a staff member of a family of killers that seek pleasure from children's torture. I have brought this to the police and they are all hiding her murder. The KPH staff members hired the Priest son to kill 12 year old, Miss Drew. The church was used as a stomping ground for murders. They were schooled at a young age all about manipulation murder psychiatry, psychology.
What happened to Miss Drew, I was Kidnapped from the CAS house for special Children and lead down a path, Miss Drew boyfriened lead me down a path a wagon trail. Her boyfriend left me standing to wait for the killer, which is the Priest Son of the Church on Portsmouth at that time. The boyfriend told Him they want him killed too. The killer looked at me and said nobody said about killing a KID. I was spared, the boyfriend said do you mind if I stay here I did love her, He went down the hill and came up and the boyfriend said to the killer I had one last time with her. The killer said you sick she was dead when I left her, he then said we are going to need lots of DNA. The boyfriend took my Coat and pulled my hairout. I was left there to die. I was 8 years old. The police found me and took me back.
I was 5 years old illegally place in rockwood insane institution, I seen rape, murder torture, I was raped by the same man that raped Miss Drew, the other man that took his turn, I asked god please help me and I felt no pain. The city of Kingston is responsible for her murder, the 12 year old, the mentally handycapped lady found dead beside me. She was raped, had her brain fried then put back in bed and found dead the next day. They Came to a determination it was unknown. She was murdered, raped and tortured, Just like all us kids were. I am the boy playing with the dress that felt like a curtain. The nurses are part of the torture of us kids, 2 of the kids are found dead in Mcburny park the others behind KPH.