Joe Giacalone and I teamed up to explore the 1975 murder of Sharron Prior. It has haunted Point-St.-Charles ever since. We read the website that was made for Sharron and all the newspaper articles. Below are our observations and first reactions. What happened? Sharron (16) disappeared on March 29, 1975 after leaving from her home […]
Canada
Tamara Chipman: Highway of Tears disappearance
On the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Tamara Chipman, one of many women to go missing along B.C.’s “Highway of Tears, Canada,” police are pleading for help from the public. Tamara Chipman, 22, was last seen on Sept. 21, 2005, five kilometres east of Prince Rupert. She was hitchhiking to Terrace along Highway 16 — on […]
Highway of Tears Revisited
It is called: the Highway of Tears. Why? Because at least 18 women, many of them native, have disappeared from or have been found murdered along B.C. highways over the past 40 years. And there is still no progress in these cases. In “Cold Case Re-Investigations For All!” you can read about the fears that […]
New developments Quang Lu
Toronto homicide detectives believe a north Scarborough home is where a reputed gangster was killed before his body was encased in a cement-filled barrel and dumped in Lake Ontario. Police showed up with a search warrant late Monday at 12 Shallowford Ct. to look for evidence in the case of Quang Lu, 47. They are working […]
Update Quang Lu
Police believed millionaire loan shark Quang Lu was murdered shortly after he disappeared in October 2007. The discovery of a body in a barrel last week on Sunday proved the prediction by police specializing in Asian organized crime was correct. Homicide detectives said Tuesday the well-preserved body of Quang Lu known on the streets as […]
Update Toronto’s Quang Lu
Police have identified the body found encrusted in cement, inside a barrel that was pulled from Lake Ontario, as that of Quang Lu. The 47-year-old man went missing from Markham in October 2007 after returning from a trip to China. Police told 680News Lu was known to them and had ties to Asian organized crime. The barrel […]
Michael Leo Resk
On December 9, 1955, around 2am in the morning, police received a call from a taxi driver. He had seen a delivery van parked on Acadia Street, at the corner with Roome, in an unusual way. Police found the body of Michael Leo Resk inside the Chevrolet delivery truck. This is the oldest case on HRP’s Unsolved Major Crimes […]
Halifax Unsolved Crimes
The Halifax Regional Police has a website with links dedicated to their unsolved crimes and they are asking for your help. You see the names of the victims involved, incident date, and file number (or incident number). Click on any of the names and a small file pops up with dates, facts and pictures. Please […]
Update Toronto’s grisly discoveries
Human remains found in two separate locations in cottage country almost a two-hour drive apart – belong to the same man, the OPP said Monday. Post-mortem conducted on the remains found north of Barrie and near Huntsville Saturday revealed they belonged to the same person, a still unknown male victim, police said. “We have confirmed, […]
Toronto’s grisly discoveries
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating grisly finds of human remains in three locations this weekend: near Barrie, Huntsville and in Toronto harbour. In the first case, human remains were found by a resident on a street that is under development in Oro-Medonte Township, northeast of Barrie. “This area where the body was located is in a subdivision […]