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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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September 2, 2022
Tanya Busch: The Prison Guard’s Daughter
Tanya Busch disappeared on the way to her Vancouver school on June 2, 1972. She was the second 7-year-old abducted in just over two years. Was there a connection?
Klaus Busch, 33 and his wife Ingrid, 29 moved to Vancouver from Germany in 1966. They lived with their two children Tanya, 7 and Ralphie, 5, in a duplex at the corner of Clark Drive and East 14th Avenue, several blocks from the Charles Dickens Elementary School in East Vancouver and just over 4 kilometres from the Azarcon’s home.
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S3 E27 Tanya Busch: The Prison Guard’s Daughter
Tanya Busch disappeared on the way to her Vancouver school on June 2, 1972. She was the second 7-year-old abducted in just over two years. Was there a connection?
Klaus Busch, 33 and his wife Ingrid, 29 moved to Vancouver from Germany in 1966. They lived with their two children Tanya, 7 and Ralphie, 5, in a duplex at the corner of Clark Drive and East 14th Avenue, several blocks from the Charles Dickens Elementary School in East Vancouver and just over 4 kilometres from the Azarcon’s home.
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August 26, 2022
Evangeline Azarcon: Abducted
When 7-year-old Evangeline Azarcon disappeared on her way home from Edith Cavell Elementary on November 20, 1969, her abduction sparked the biggest search in BC’s history.
This episode is based on original research and interviews conducted for my book Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders.
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S3 E26 Evangeline Azarcon
When 7-year-old Evangeline Azarcon disappeared on her way home from Edith Cavell Elementary on November 20, 1969, her abduction sparked the biggest search in BC’s history.
This episode is based on original research and interviews conducted for my book Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders.
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