Cold Case Canada Podcast by Eve Lazarus
On April 1 1992, 19-year-old Aimee Beaulieu was killed in her home just outside of Nelson, British Columbia. Her twin babies died in the fire that was lit to cover up her murder.
Several months before she died, 19-year-old Aimee Beaulieu left an abusive relationship in Summerland, in BC’s interior and returned to her home in Nelson.
Hirsch-Creek Park:
On Saturday July 14, 1997, at around 9:30 pm, campers at Hirsch-Creek Park and campground just north of Kitimat, BC, heard eight gunshots. They called police.
The officer who arrived at the scene found three young male residents lying dead in and beside a car in the campground parking lot, covered in blood.
Seven-year-old Terri Lynn Scalf was last seen outside her Aldergrove, BC townhouse complex on Sunday July 24, 1983. She had been outside playing with friends and never returned.
By 10:30 the next morning, a massive search was underway.
Terri Lynn Scalf:
Terri Lynn Scalf was born on August 11, 1975.
Ten-year-old Joanne Pedersen was last seen in a Chilliwack phone booth at 8:20 p.m. on Saturday February 19, 1983. She had been calling her mother to tell her that she had been locked out of her house and asked if she could pick her up from the Penny Pincher store on Vedder Road.
Transcript for The Alley Murder episode trailer
I just want to know what happened. I want the whole story. I want people to know that she was more than a prostitute, she was more than a dancer, she was our little sister and we loved her with our whole heart.
In this last episode of season 4, Cold Case Canada, I’ve asked four BC-based storytellers to tell us their favourite murder and haunted building stories.
Francis Rattenbury (1867-1935)
Will Woods, founder of Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours tells us the story of Francis Rattenbury’s murder, an architect responsible for buildings that include the Parliament Buildings and the Empress Hotel in Victoria and the Law Courts in Vancouver.
Michael Smith, 17 missing since December 30, 1967. Last seen at his North Vancouver home. Canada’s Missing website (National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains) RCMP case #2014003272
Canada’s Missing:
I came across this listing and a grainy photo of North Vancouver’s 17-year-old Michael Smith when I was researching missing person cases on Canada’s Missing website for Cold Case BC.
On November 6, 1967 sometime before 6:00 pm, seven-year-old Nancy Johnsen went missing from her Cloverdale, BC farmhouse. Nancy, one of 10 children ranging in age from six months to 16 years, was found on the property the next morning. She had been strangled. No one reported seeing a stranger around the house that night and Nancy was not known to wander outside alone.
