Danny Brent’s body was found on the tenth green at UBC’s golf course on September 15, 1954. An early edition of the newspaper was stuffed inside his shirt soaked with his blood. There was a half-smoked cigarette inside his shirt where it had dropped from his mouth when he was shot—once in the back and twice in the head with .45-calibre bullets.
The Babes in the Woods is the story of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park in 1953, and is based on a story in Cold Case Vancouver: The city’s most Baffling unsolved murders
This episode is sponsored by Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours.
The Babes in the Woods case is the story of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park. It is one of Vancouver’s oldest unsolved murder mysteries. This episode is based on a story in Cold Case Vancouver: The city’s most Baffling unsolved murders
This episode is sponsored by Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours.
On December 10, 1965, Tom Kosberg, 17 hacked up his mother, father and four siblings with a double-bladed axe
The Kosberg Axe Murders podcast is based on a story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
Mount Pleasant:
When police arrived at the house in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant area on December 10, 1965, the first thing they saw was the bright red Santa Claus painted on the front window.
Louise Wise, 17 was stabbed to death in her home on Lillooet Street in East Vancouver. Two years later 19-year-old Geraldine Forster, a BCIT student was shot four times and killed coming home from the bus stop at Renfrew and Granville Highway. Geraldine’s murder was eventually solved, Louise’s was not.
In the Halloween Special 2020, we visit the Vogue Theatre, and includes stories of haunted grain elevators, a Chilliwack manor and a once “occupied” house in James Bay, Victoria.
Based on stories from At Home With History: The Secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Houses; Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History; and Sensational Victoria and features an interview with former Vogue theatre manager Bill Allman.
Marion Hamilton, 68 was murdered in her Shaughnessy home in 1975. It’s a creepy story of a once prominent Vancouver family, a run-down old mansion, greed, and the shocking identity of her murderer.
The story of Marion Hamilton’s murder first appeared in my book At Home With History
When police found the body of Marion Hamilton, 68, in her Nanton Street home in 1975, they assumed it was death by natural causes.
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.