Podcast: Cold Case Canada

At the start of 1985, things looked good for Jimmy and Lily Ming. They had two small children, owned their own home and worked in the family’s thriving Robson Street restaurant. But by the end of January, Jimmy and Lily had been kidnapped from their Vancouver house, the restaurant was closed and the rest of… Continue reading S2 E18 Jimmy and Lily Ming: On the Edge of Chinatown

 Rhona Duncan, 16 was murdered in the early hours of July 17, 1976 after walking home from a high school birthday party. She was in sight of her North Vancouver house, when she was intercepted, raped and strangled. Although 45 years has gone by, Rhona’s friends still get together to remember her and to… Continue reading S2 E17 Sweet Sixteen: The Murder of Rhona Duncan

 On January 7, 1976 Brenda Young was found murdered at her store the Good Earth in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. It was a brazen murder and it felt like a hit, but why would anyone target this much-loved 38-year-old mother of four? Brenda was an attractive, petite woman with long black… Continue reading S2 E16 Brenda Young Murdered at the Good Earth

Robert Hopkins was a 48-year-old printer who worked at the Vancouver News Herald, one of three daily newspapers. He was a quiet, friendly man who kept to himself and was liked by his colleagues. None of them knew that Bob was gay and lived a secret life. He had to. In the 1950s homosexuality was… Continue reading S2 E15 Robert Hopkins Murder

 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… Continue reading S2 E14 Danny Brent’s Body

 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 Babes in the Woods is the sthttps://evelazarus.com/books/ory of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park in 1953. The case is still unsolved, but the investigation continues,… Continue reading S1 E13 The Babes in the Woods Part 2

 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 While the murders happened sometime in the 1940s, the story starts… Continue reading S1 E12 The Babes in the Woods Part 1

 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,… Continue reading S1 E11 The Kosberg Axe Murders

 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.  This podcast is from… Continue reading S1 E10 The Renfrew Murders: Louise Wise

 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… Continue reading S1 E9 Halloween Special 2020

 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… Continue reading S1 E8 The Shaughnessy Murder of Marion Hamilton

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.… Continue reading S1 E7 Lila Anderson: The Christmas Day Murder

 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… Continue reading S1 E6 The Pauls Murders

 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. VPD Chief George… Continue reading S1 E5 Evelyn Roche: The Hastings/Sunrise Murder

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… Continue reading S1 E4 Missing or Murdered? The Mysterious Disappearance of Nick and Lisa Masee

 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… Continue reading S1 E3 The Vivien Morzuch Story

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. It usually took him 10… Continue reading S1 E2 Who Killed Roddy Moore?

 In 1944, Jennie Conroy was a 24-year-old war worker living in North Vancouver. She was murdered and left near the West Vancouver cemetery. In 2015, I was almost finished Cold Case Vancouver  when research archivist Daien Ide sent me an email from the NVMA. Daien had just acquired an album with photos that went… Continue reading S1 E1 The Murder of Jennie Eldon Conroy