John Allore wants to know who killed his sister more than three decades ago. But he isn’t prepared to grasp at straws, particularly when proffered by a psychopathic serial killer.
Sad anniversaries: 3,400 unsolved murders in Canada
October 31, 2009 By
Four decades of agonizing uncertainty.
Forty years of wondering why.
It’s hard to fathom the torment endured in that span by the family of Jacqueline English. The 15-year-old London, Ontario, girl was abducted, raped and murdered 40 years ago. Her murderer, perhaps a serial killer who preyed on young girls in the region during that time, has not been caught.
Who killed Sharmini Anandavel?
June 12, 2009 By
Precisely 10 years ago today, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel (inset) left her Toronto, Ontario, apartment, telling her parents she had a new job to go to. Four months later, Sharmini’s skeletal remains were found (video of body scene) scattered in a ravine about two kilometres from her home. Her murder has never been solved. But police have always had a good suspect, convicted stalker Stanley Tippett, who is back behind bars. A detective who spent a year trying to solve Sharmini’s murder says Tippett was never “eliminated” as the possible killer.
If Steven Truscott didn't kill Lynne Harper, who did?
June 9, 2009 By
On a warm summer evening half a century ago, June 9, 1959, 12-year-old Lynne Harper (inset) of Clinton, Ontario, quarrelled at home with her parents, Leslie and Shirley, before setting off after dinner toward a nearby school playground. There she met a slightly older schoolmate, who had his bicycle. She asked for a ride to a nearby highway. Steven Truscott agreed. Lynn clambered onto the handlebars of the 14-year-old boy’s bike and they pedalled off. It was a brief ride that would set in motion a 48-year-long chain of events that shattered two families; that horrified a community; that subverted justice and forced a country to question its morality and the virtuousness of its criminal justice system.
