Inspector Vance is called to a crime scene at Merritt, B.C. in 1934. Two police officers are missing, believed murdered and the investigation focuses in on an abandoned Model B Ford and members of the Canford Indian band.
The stories for this first series are from my book Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance (Eve Lazarus, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017). Vance was one of the first forensic scientists in North America, and during his 42-year-career, helped to solve some of the most sensational murders of the 20th Century. Each episode focuses on one of those cases.
Image: Crime scene photo of the wrecked Model B Ford just below the Merritt-Spence’s Bridge Road. From the personal files of the Vancouver Police Department’s Inspector John Vance.
Credits:
- Intro and outro music: Duke Ellington’s St. Louie Toodle
- Intro, voice of Inspector Vance and Attorney General Gordon Sloan: Mark Dunn
- Background track created by Nico Vettese www.wetalkofdreams.com
Sources:
- Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator, by Eve Lazarus (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017)
- Vital Statistics
- Inquest of Frank Gisbourne and Percy Carr: BC Archives
- The personal files of Inspector John F.C.B. Vance
- Newspapers: Daily Province, Merritt Herald, Vancouver Sun