Eve Lazarus
An Interview with Jazmin Welch, book designer about working on Vancouver Exposed
I’m excited to tell you that Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History is now in bookstores. And, while the saying goes “don’t judge a book by its cover,” I have to disagree.
Lila Anderson, 38 was murdered on Christmas Day 1959. She had been beaten with a tire iron and her head smashed against a rock after she was taken from a bus stop. Her naked body was dumped in a ravine at Knight street and 45th Avenue and discovered by two young boys the following day.
Sam Wiebe is the award-winning author of the Wakeland novels, a detective series set in Vancouver that includes Invisible Dead and Hell and Gone.
“When poet-turned-screenwriter Paul Ling goes missing, his teenage daughter hires Vancouver P.I. Dave Wakeland to track him down. To the shock of his family and colleagues, Ling’s body is found within days in the home of a stranger, killed by a drug overdose—and Wakeland suspects foul play.
On June 10, 1958, David Pauls, Helen and their 11-year-old Dorothy, were murdered in their South Vancouver home. It was the city’s first triple murder.
This podcast is based on a chapter from Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
When I was researching this story of the Pauls murders, what upset me the most aside from the sheer brutality of the murders; was why this could happen to what seemed to be such a normal family, in their own home.
Evelyn Roche got off the East Broadway bus and was stabbed to death two blocks from her house on April 3, 1958. This podcast is from a chapter in Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders and includes an interview with Evelyn’s daughter Sharon.
Evelyn’s murder terrorized the city.
In August 1994, Nick and Lisa Masee disappeared from their North Vancouver home. Their case is with the RCMP, filed as missing persons with suspicious circumstances. Are they intentionally missing or murdered? You decide.
I worked for the Vancouver Stock Exchange in the late 1980s—the same time that Forbes Magazine published a cover story calling it the “Scam Capital of the World.” While I never met Nick Masee, the mysterious disappearance of he and his wife Lisa in August 1994 has always intrigued me.
Vivien Morzuch was 15 when he was beaten to death and dumped in a ditch near Kamloops, BC in 2000. His case was solved six years later
This podcast is from a chapter in Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
Vancouver Police Museum:
In 2014, I was at a talk at the Vancouver Police Museum given by former homicide detective Steve McCartney.
Roddy Moore, 7 was killed on the way to his East Vancouver school in 1947. Why were his step-fathers suspects?
Begbie Annex:
On Friday October 17, 1947, seven-year-old Roddy Moore waved goodbye to his mother and left for his grade one class at Begbie Annex school in Vancouver’s Renfrew area.
