Eve Lazarus's Blog: Every Place has a Story, page 12
November 11, 2022
The Fraser Street Swing Span Bridge
The Fraser Street Swing Span Bridge was built in 1894 and linked what’s now Fraser Street with No. 5 Road, Richmond. It was demolished in 1974 and replaced by the Knight Street Bridge. This is part 1 of a 3-part series about crossing the Fraser River in 1972 by Angus McIntyre
On December 31, 1972, Angus McIntyre, 25 was living at the Fairmont Apartments at 10th Avenue and Spruce Street.
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November 6, 2022
The Pamela Darlington Murder
Pamela Darlington turned 19 on October 21, 1973. Seventeen days later her body was found at the edge of the Thompson River in Kamloops. She claims the number four spot on E-Pana’s list—the RCMP’s task force that was set up in 2005 to investigate 18 Highway of Tears cases of missing and murdered women.
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October 28, 2022
The Ghosts of Glen Drive
Jose Lee and her sister bought a house on Vancouver’s Glen Drive in 1984. For a time they shared the house with the previous tenant who had died some years before.
This is an excerpt from a story in Sensational Vancouver.
When Jose Lee bought her house in 1984, she said it had the most beautiful landscaping in the neighbourhood.
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October 21, 2022
Halloween Special 2022
In the Halloween Special of 2022, we visit the Victoria Golf Course, two mansions in Burnaby, and travel to a haunted highway in BC’s interior. Keep the lights on while you listen!
Based on stories from:
Belyk, Robert: Ghosts: More Eerie EncountersLazarus, Eve: At Home with History: The secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage HomesLazarus, Eve: Blood, Sweat and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance,Mansfield, Greg: Ghosts of VancouverVictoria is the laid-back capital of British Columbia.
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October 14, 2022
Kidnapped: The Philip Porter Story
On June 26, 1969, 16-year-old Philip Porter left his home in Townsite, Kimberley to run some errands for his mother. The son of the Cominco boss never came home. A ransom note demanding $100,000 for his safe return arrived instead.
In the late 1960s, Kimberley was a one-company town located in the East Kootenays.
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October 7, 2022
The Missing Jack Family from Prince George
Ronnie Jack, 26, Doreen Jack, 26, Russell 9 and Ryan 4 were last seen on August 2, 1989 in Prince George. They told their family they had jobs at a logging camp and they’d be gone for about 10 days. And then they vanished.
This story is from my new book Cold Case BC: The stories behind the Province’s most sensational murders and missing persons cases
On August 1, 1989, Ronnie Jack, 26, was at the First Litre Pub, a sketchy Prince George drinking hole about four blocks from his home.
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September 30, 2022
The Monica Jack Murder
Monica Jack, 12 was riding her bike near her home on the Upper Nicola reserve at Quilchena when she was abducted, raped and murdered in 1978. And, even though Garry Taylor Handlen was a suspect early on in this investigation and questioned in the 1975 murder of 11-year-old Kathryn-Mary Herbert, it would take another 36 years and a Mr.
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September 23, 2022
Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook Double Murder
Saanich residents Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18 and Jay Cook, 20 were murdered while on an overnight trip to Washington State in 1987. Episode includes interviews with Detective Jim Scharf of the Snohomish Country Sheriff’s Office and CeCe Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon Nanolabs, the crime fighting duo who cracked this case three decades later.
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September 16, 2022
When Cops were Murderers Part 2
Len Hogue was one of three dirty VPD cops who supplemented their salaries initially through B&Es, escalated to bank robberies, and in 1965 pulled off the biggest heist in Vancouver’s history – $1.2 million worth of bank notes that were being sent back to Ottawa to be destroyed. When police officials caught on, 33-year-old Hogue went home, shot his sleeping wife in the head, and then hunted down and shot his six kids aged between three and 14 before turning the gun on himself.
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September 9, 2022
When Cops Were Robbers Part 1
They called themselves the terrible three. Three dirty Vancouver cops who met during training in the notorious “Class of 1956.”
This story is from Cold Case BC: The stories behind the province’s most sensational murder and missing person cases
Constable Leonard Hogue was one of three rogue cops who supplemented their police paychecks through an escalating series of robberies.
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