Cold Case Canada Podcast by Eve Lazarus
Vanessa was four years old when her mother, Gloria Levina Moody, was murdered. Her brother, Dan, was three. Gloria, who everyone called Lee, was from the Bella Coola reserve of the Nuxalk Nation. She was the second oldest of eight children.
This podcast is based on a story in Cold Case Canada: The Stories Behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Person Cases
On October 23, 1969, Lee, her brother Dave and her parents left for Williams Lake.
On Friday March 10, I held a Facebook live event through my Facebook page Cold Case BC, and the podcast group page Cold Case Canada. It was a good excuse to introduce myself to the thousands of new members who have joined in the past year and talk about the process of writing my book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the most intriguing murder and missing person cases.
Seventy years ago this week, two tiny skeletons were found in Stanley Park and quickly became known as the Babes in the Woods. Last February, they were identified through genetic genealogy as Derek and David D’Alton aged 7 and 6 when they were murdered in 1947.
This is an excerpt from my new book Cold Case BC: The Stories Behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Person Cases
By the second week of February 2022, I was able to confirm with two different sources that the VPD had the names of the Babes in the Woods.
This was supposed to be a short and happy seasonal post about a cabin and a Christmas log, but then I stumbled across a murder.
Like everyone else, I’m familiar with Shaw’s fire log, but I’d never given any thought to its origins. Then Kyla and Grant Stuart Gardiner’s monthly newsletter came in the mail and talked about its history.
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.
Monica Jack, 12 was riding her bike near her home in Quilchena when she was abducted 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. Big sting to convict him.
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.
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.
