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No closure found on this one.

 

Missing in 1980, a hermit named named Salal Joe. Real name was Joe Wilkowski.

 

He was reported missing from his one room float cabin on Turtle Island, July 20th, by a park warden after it was found unlocked and Joe's four-metre boat missing.

 

The boat was later found on the rocks at nearby Chalk Island with two holes in the hull and the engine throttle wide open.

 

An extensive search involving the Canadian Coast Guard, RCMP and fisherman and friends from the coastal villages of Bamfield and Ucluelet was unsuccessful.

 

Joe was born around 1929 in Iran and was raised in Poland. After the Second World War, he emigrated to Saskatchewan.

 

Although Joe occasionally mentioned a wife and child, RCMP said he left no known relatives and details of his citizenship were hazy.

 

Joe earned a living gathering salal and selling it to Vancouver florists. He later sold clams to fish processors at Bamfield and did odd jobs for Parks Canada as a maintenance man for Pacific Rim National Park.

 

Joe lived at the shack on the east side of Turtle Island in a sheltered cove with his cat Chico.

 

Joe lived on Turtle Island for 19 years at the time of a report in 1977. He couldn't remember his age and he couldn't read.

According to a news article in early-mid 1970s, Salal Joe was believed to be about mid-fifties. That would make his birth year the latest of 1929.

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viccrimestop

 

Jesokah Adkens went missing September 26, 2001 – 25 years ago today.

At the time of her disappearance, she was 17 – She would be 41 today. She was last seen around 9:30pm waiting to catch a bus back to Sooke - but she never made it home.

Someone out there knows what happened. Let’s help bring Jesokah home and bring her family justice and closure.

IMPORTANT DETAILS:

Missing from: Sooke, British Columbia
Missing since: Sept 26, 2001
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 88–110 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Long Blonde
Last seen wearing: Doors T-shirt, jeans, black pullover, black runners

 

If anyone has information that can assist in locating Jesokah, please contact police or if you want to tell us anonymously, please call 1-800-222-8477. You may also submit a tip online by visiting www.victoriacrimestoppers.ca

 

 

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Podcaster revisits unsolved homicide of Bree Gamble 

November 7, 2025 

 

Podcaster Laura Palmer shares new info about Bree Gamble (aka Bree Lozano) the woman whose body was found in Beacon Hill Pk in 2021 and remains an unsolved homicide case with little info from authorities.
 

VIIMCU: “Shortly after 0600 Mar 3, 2021, VicPD was called to the S side of Beacon Hill Pk, along Dallas Rd, for a report of an unresponsive woman.”

“I was contacted by Bree’s former partner, the father of her only child, a while back,” says Palmer. Stephen Lalonde (Bree's former partner) contacted Palmer during the summer in frustration & fear that the case was going cold, and to set the record straight about who she was. Their daughter, Melia Gamble-Lozano, was 17 at the time and Stephen wanted her mother’s story to be told more respectfully.

 

Podcast link: https://shows.acast....est-friend-bree

On Mar 25, 2021, police raided a home in the Fort & Foul Bay area. A man was seen in handcuffs, but police have never confirmed arrests or charges. Palmer was told by friends that Bree’s live-in partner at the time of her death was abusive. Bree’s friends & family members have told Palmer they suspect she was killed by lethal injection ("hot shot").

Anyone w/info about the death of Bree is asked to call VIIMCU @ 250-380-6211.

 

More: https://cheknews.ca/...l-park-1288398/

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4.5 years since Shane Wilson was murdered. No suspects.

https://www.timescol...history-4687913

About two years later his former girlfriend committed suicide.

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https://vancouver.ci...imberly-gallup/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lisa remembers Kimberly drying up her tears and starting to cheer up because she had hope that she was going to leave “the lifestyle” and a friend who was going to help her.  The pair got dressed, put on their makeup, and went out on the downtown Victoria stroll. 

 

Back then, the stroll was on Government Street, near Trounce Alley. It’s a quiet fall night, Nov. 20, 1990.

 

“We were standing on the corner and a guy approached her, I was standing farther away so I wasn’t close enough to hear any conversation, but they had talked for a little bit,“ Lisa said.

 

She recalls glancing over a few times because Kim and the man had been standing there talking for a while. She watches as Kim and her “client” wave down a cab. 

 

Kimberly and Lisa share a room at the old Colony Motor Inn. As Kimberly gets into the taxi with the man, Lisa recalls a brief farewell to her friend.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 November 2025 - 08:35 PM.

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Large clean-up in Whiskey Creek includes notorious murder site

 

 

Video: https://cdn.jwplayer...eviews/j2CDmNIE

 

Story: https://cheknews.ca/...r-site-1290886/

 

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