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#41 FawltyVic

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Posted 08 May 2022 - 10:35 PM

Another case without any sign of a resolve in the archives. Could this be officially solved?

 

Frank Hong (44)

Found: Wednesday, May 31, 1972 - just after 8:05 am

 

Hong was found deceased in a tiny back office by then Saanich alderman Ed Lum inside Hong's business Rainbow Fish Co. wholesale store at 560 Fisgard.

 

Hong had been shot between the eyes and killed instantly by a single bullet from a .38 calibre weapon. Hong was discovered laying on one side.

 

The back door was found to be forced. The back door faced the Chinese Hospital at 555 Herald Street. The front door was unlocked.

 

Rainbow Fish Co. was opened by Hong's grandfather 50 years previous and was passed over to Hong in the mid-1960s after his grandfather's death. Hong had renamed the shop from the original "Hong Hop Yick".

 

Hong was born and educated in Victoria. He spent all his working life at the store.

Hong was part of the Victoria Chinatown Lions Club and the Chinese Masonic Society.


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#42 Nparker

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Posted 08 May 2022 - 11:13 PM

If he had lived, that delivery
boy would 76 now.

#43 FawltyVic

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Posted 08 May 2022 - 11:28 PM

If he had lived, that delivery
boy would 76 now.

It was reported a youth admitted during interview of beating Down to rob him of the $22 or $26 dollars (I can't remember) he had in his wallet. The police couldn't corroborate the youth's story. No charges were laid.


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#44 pontcanna

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Posted 08 June 2022 - 06:07 PM

New Photos Released Of Missing Esquimalt Indigenous Woman Belinda Cameron

 

Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - File: #2005-2771

 

Victoria, BC – VicPD Historical Case Review Unit (HCRU) investigators have released previously unshared photos of missing Esquimalt Indigenous woman Belinda Cameron and her daughters as we mark the 17th anniversary of Belinda’s disappearance.

 

Belinda Cameron is confirmed to have been last seen on May 11th, 2005. Belinda was last seen at Esquimalt’s Shoppers Drug Mart in the 800-block of Esquimalt Road that day. Belinda was reported missing nearly a month later, on June 4th, 2005. Officers conducted an extensive investigation and a series of searches for Belinda. She has not been found.

 

Belinda’s disappearance is considered suspicious and investigators believe that Belinda was the victim of foul play. Her disappearance continues to be investigated as a homicide.

 

At the time of her disappearance, Belinda was a 42-year-old Indigenous woman who stood five feet, eight inches tall with a medium to large build, and weighed approximately 170 pounds. Belinda had long, dark brown hair that she wore parted in the middle, and dark brown eyes. She wore silver-framed glasses.

 

Belinda is mom to two young women, now grown, who were young girls at the time of her disappearance.

 

Cameron1.jpgBelinda reading to one of her daughters

 

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Belinda holding one of her daughters before she disappeared

 

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Belinda holding one of her young daughters

 

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Belinda posing with one of her young daughters a short time before she disappeared

 

Belinda’s daughters are now young women who are seeking to understand where their mother is today. Our detectives remain committed to bringing closure to Belinda’s family and believe that somebody knows what happened to Belinda.

 

If you have any information on where Belinda Ann Cameron may be, or what may have happened to her, you are asked to call our Historical Case Review Unit Office as 250-995-7390 or email our Historical Case Review Unit investigators at HCRU@Vicpd.ca.

 

To report what you know anonymously, please call  Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

 

 

 



#45 Mike K.

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Posted 09 June 2022 - 07:17 AM

Jack radio has decided that the woman was the victim of a homicide when they read out their news update today on VicPD’s photo release.

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#46 pontcanna

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Posted 26 June 2022 - 10:47 PM

Community marches for Lisa Young 20 years after she went missing in Nanaimo

 Jun. 26, 2022
 
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Today marked a sombre anniversary for those wanting to know what happened to Lisa Young, a missing Nanaimo woman.

In June of 2002 the 21-year-old went missing.
 
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“Because it’s 20 years it feels like it’s even more important to try and get justice and to raise awareness and to get together,” said Cyndy Hall, who organized the march.
 
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“There are still people coming forward. None of that has broken the case wide open but it’s like putting together a big puzzle so every time someone comes in and talks to us and gives us a little bit more with that puzzle it helps us along,” said Cpl. Markus Muntener, with Nanaimo RCMP.

Lisa Marie Young was out at a bar with friends on June 30, 2002 before going to a house party. She left with a man in a Jaguar before calling a friend back at the party.

What happened then to Lisa is a mystery though investigators soon believe she met with foul play though they’ve never found her remains.

Just this week investigative journalist Laura Palmer released a new episode to her podcast called Where is Lisa? In it, she names and sheds new light on Chris Adair. He was driving the red Jaguar.
 
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Chris Adair
 
Adair was one of the last people known to be with Lisa the night she went missing. He’s been living outside of North America for years.

You can listen to the new episode here: https://podcasts.app...i=1000567240343
 
 


#47 pontcanna

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Posted 09 July 2022 - 12:40 PM

Laura Huebner?

 

Gone since the end of April, mystery boat seized (for a while). Case assigned to Nanaimo Mounties. No updates? Foul play? Should we still be out there searching? What of the male supposedly involved (Greig Fredrik Wikoren)? Relatives on FB looking for answers and get...crickets...

 

https://vibrantvicto...rsons/?p=647767

 


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#48 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 July 2022 - 01:10 PM

Typical.

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Posted 22 July 2022 - 03:39 AM

-The author's brother was murdered last August in Victoria. A baffling case with no apparent motive and no updates from VicPD.
 
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Getting back on a bike after my brother’s unexplained death helps me heal

ALISA GORDANEER
CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL - JULY 22, 2022

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I wouldn’t say bike riding is something my little brother and I had ever done together, at least not since that time 40 years ago when I beat him to school and he’d called me a poopyhead. Or, maybe it happened the other way around.

Either way, living in different cities for our entire adult lives, bike riding wasn’t really on the agenda on our rare cross-country visits. Until last summer, when he was visiting me and a free afternoon and a pair of electric bicycles presented themselves. To my surprise, he agreed to go for a long bike ride, something he sheepishly confessed would be more exercise than he’d had for the whole pandemic.

I older-sister ordered him to wear one of my extra helmets. We’re not as bouncy as we used to be, I reminded him. I’m not 50 yet, he scoffed.

It didn’t matter – age disappeared as soon as we set out. We laughed giddily at the near-forgotten sensation of zooming through the streets of our childhood, revelling in a break from the late-August heat.

Cruising aimlessly through time and space, we paused often: to breathe in the scent of blackberries overripening in the sun, to check out the apartment where he’d lived when his first daughter was born or the spot along the harbour where he once took his now-grown kids to watch boats.

That evening at dinner, we marvelled at what we’d done. We hadn’t seen each other for more than a year and hadn’t hung out together, just us siblings, in years. Thanks to the simple power of a couple of bicycles, we’d reconnected, for one short afternoon of joy. People just don’t have enough fun, we agreed. We should carpe this darn diem more often.

But this is where the story turns. My brother was murdered later that week. I don’t know why.

More: https://www.theglobe...death-helps-me/
 


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Posted 18 August 2022 - 07:13 PM

‘She’s our loved one’: Penelakut Island haunted by teenager Delores Brown’s unsolved murder

Aug. 18, 2022

Seven years of tides have washed into Penelakut Island, over the beach that Dee Dee Brown vanished from on the night of July 27, 2015, as her family waits for the person who killed her, to be caught.
 
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“She’s our loved one, she’s our sister and she’s not to be thrown away,” said close family friend Connie Crocker.

The 19-year-old disappeared on a hot summer night after a boat full of travellers from off Island arrived for an Indigenous games event on Penelakut Island. Brown was at a beach with friends but never made it home.

Searchers combed for weeks afterward, and their worst fears were realized when Brown was found murdered, her body washing up on nearby Norway Island on Aug. 19, 2015.
 
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According to the Vancouver Island Major Crimes Unit, Dee Dee Brown’s murder is still an open and active investigation and seven years later investigators are still following up leads.

As seven years without an arrest settles in. Anyone with information about the murder of Dee Dee Brown is urged to contact RCMP.
 
 


#51 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 18 August 2022 - 07:18 PM

 

-The author's brother was murdered last August in Victoria. A baffling case with no apparent motive and no updates from VicPD.
 
 
 
Getting back on a bike after my brother’s unexplained death helps me heal

ALISA GORDANEER
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I wouldn’t say bike riding is something my little brother and I had ever done together, at least not since that time 40 years ago when I beat him to school and he’d called me a poopyhead. Or, maybe it happened the other way around.

Either way, living in different cities for our entire adult lives, bike riding wasn’t really on the agenda on our rare cross-country visits. Until last summer, when he was visiting me and a free afternoon and a pair of electric bicycles presented themselves. To my surprise, he agreed to go for a long bike ride, something he sheepishly confessed would be more exercise than he’d had for the whole pandemic.

I older-sister ordered him to wear one of my extra helmets. We’re not as bouncy as we used to be, I reminded him. I’m not 50 yet, he scoffed.

It didn’t matter – age disappeared as soon as we set out. We laughed giddily at the near-forgotten sensation of zooming through the streets of our childhood, revelling in a break from the late-August heat.

Cruising aimlessly through time and space, we paused often: to breathe in the scent of blackberries overripening in the sun, to check out the apartment where he’d lived when his first daughter was born or the spot along the harbour where he once took his now-grown kids to watch boats.

That evening at dinner, we marvelled at what we’d done. We hadn’t seen each other for more than a year and hadn’t hung out together, just us siblings, in years. Thanks to the simple power of a couple of bicycles, we’d reconnected, for one short afternoon of joy. People just don’t have enough fun, we agreed. We should carpe this darn diem more often.

But this is where the story turns. My brother was murdered later that week. I don’t know why.

More: https://www.theglobe...death-helps-me/

 

 

 

This case is very puzzling.

 

If the police have no motive, no suspects etc., why aren't they releasing more information, so the public can help?

 

Now, of course the Buziak murder has not been solved, but look at all the effort there to let the public know what they know, in the hope someone can come forward with tips.

 

In this murder, police have said nearly nothing.  As far as I know, no call for dashcam footage, no call for tips.  Something here is not quite right.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 August 2022 - 07:19 PM.


#52 Mike K.

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 06:04 AM

The victim had only just arrived to Victoria from Ontario for a visit, and was subsequently murdered late at night in the family home.

It’s a bizarre case, indeed.

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 07:00 AM

This was a murder, so there's no doubt to be had that VicPD is giving anything less than 100% in their investigation ... but what VicPD appear not to have these days is a skilled Public Affairs Officer who can ensure the public feels they're being kept informed, all while not sharing anything that could compromise the case. 

 

This particular murder is a very strange one, and the need for such communication with the public is more profound in cases like this. I mean can you imagine living in that complex and not knowing if the murder was targeted or random? 

It would be incredibly disconcerting for months or years after the actual murder took place.

 

Great Public Affairs Officer offer many benefits to the departments they serve, from investigative, political, financial, and moral boosters ... they can be invaluable. 



#54 Mike K.

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 07:04 AM

I wonder if nearby resident are offered any sort of information that isn’t publicly available?

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 07:21 AM

I wonder if nearby resident are offered any sort of information that isn’t publicly available?

I don't know, but can you imagine living in any the units beside or even nearby the location of the murder?

If you had kids, and you had zero information on a murder committed next door, it would be a never-ending concern.

 

I'm not sure though, outside of any sort of legal obligation backed up by signed paperwork, if a police department investigation can "swear" citizens to secrecy in order to offer them proprietary information in order to subsequently offer them some peace of mind?


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#56 Mike K.

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 07:30 AM

Yeah, I wonder. I mean if they don’t know, they don’t know. But if there is anything they have gleaned that may be a suspicion only, I would wager they may divulge it in some way to concerned neighbours.

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Posted 19 August 2022 - 03:56 PM

The murder of Terrance Mack

Port Alberni, General Investigation Services

2022-08-19 - File #2021-4242

On May 4 2021, the Port Alberni RCMP received a report of a deceased man, who was located in a residence on the 3200 block of 3 Ave.

Investigators suspected the body had been in the suite for at least two weeks before residents notified police of a smell coming from inside the building. He is the father of two children and would’ve turned 34 about a week after he was found dead. (CHEK)
 
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Frontline officers and Serious Crime Investigators arrived at the residence, and quickly dove into an investigation to determine the identity of the man, and the leading cause of his death. Investigators confirmed the man’s identity as Terrance Mack of Port Alberni.

This investigation has pressed on over the last 15 months; officers have followed up each lead and are confident in the theory that Terrance’s death was a homicide. Officers believe that more people within the West Coast communities have information about Terrance’s murder.

Investigators are still looking to anyone who may have key information to further this investigation and bring closure to those who have been impacted; stated Constable Richard Johns if you know anything about the events surrounding Terrance’s murder please contact the Port Alberni Serious Crime Unit.

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Posted 31 August 2022 - 09:58 AM

Family Of Jeremy Gordaneer Appeals For Information In Homicide Investigation

 

Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 - File: #21-35509

 

Victoria, BC – The family of Jeremy Gordaneer, along with the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit (VIIMCU), is appealing for information to assist with the investigation into Jeremy’s homicide in August of 2021.

 

At approximately 5 a.m. on August 31st, 2021, VicPD officers were called to Jeremy Gordaneer’s mother’s residence in the 1000-block of Carberry Gardens. Officers attended, along with B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) paramedics, and located Jeremy Gordaneer within the residence suffering from life-threatening injuries. Officers and BCEHS paramedics provided emergency first aid. However, Jeremy died from his injuries. He was 49 years old.

 

Detectives with VicPD’s Major Crime Unit were called to the scene and continued the investigation. The incident was determined to be a homicide and VIIMCU assumed conduct of the investigation.

 

A video appeal from Jeremy Gordaneer’s family, including his sister, Alisa, and his daughters, Clea and Sylvie, is available below.

 

The investigation remains ongoing. No arrests have been made. At the present time there is nothing to indicate that there is risk to the general public. This risk assessment remains ongoing.

 

Investigators are continuing to seek information surrounding the homicide of Jeremy Gordaneer. If you have information about this incident please call the VIIMCU Information Line at (250) 380-6211 or submit a tip online at vicpd.ca/gordaneertips.

 

https://youtu.be/1JV49Bsw5PY

 

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Posted 31 August 2022 - 03:01 PM

There's a lot that VicPD still isn't providing the public with regarding Jeremy Gordaneer's death:

  • That entire block is very close to Stadacona Park (a block and a half or so away), and Stadacona was in the middle of a major homeless camping issue when this murder took place - were there previous issues with transient campers around Carberry Gardens and vicinity?
  • It would be helpful when the goal is to jog somebody's memory to know if the house or condo showed signs of being broken into, or whether all was well with doors and windows?
  • Was it a "locked room" murder, or were there unsecured egress points when VicPD arrived?
  • Who (exactly) called the VicPD to report the incident - and what incentivized them to make that call?
  • The caller that reported made that call at around 5:00am, but the police are asking for information beginning at 6:00pm the evening before ... was he murdered many hours before VicPD's arrival, or was he murdered just prior to the time somebody made the phone call to VicPD?
  • Was there an indication that Gordaneer had spent the evening and/or nighttime with anybody else, or did the evidence indicate he spent the evening and night alone?
  • Was anything in the house disturbed, taken, or moved ... or was the house exactly as his mother always left it, with just his body the only difference?
  • Was the murder one of major violence (stabbed 20 times), or was it something like a single stab wound?
  • Reports were initially made indicating "popping" sounds ... was it a shooting death, or was some other method used, rendering the reports of "popping" irrelevant?
  • Were the lights on in the house when VicPD arrived (it was 5:00am, so that would be a bit unusual), or was the house completely dark (as many houses are at 5:00am)?
  • Was Gordaneer murdered in his sleep, or was he (apparently) up and awake when whatever happened ... happened?

I get that VicPD won't be answering any of the above questions anytime soon, and that the thought process immediately turns to seeking such answers as nothing more than idle curiosity.

But answers to the above questions could potentially frame the incident in the mind of the public such that somebody might "remember" seeing or hearing something that they otherwise feel is unimportant, or have simply forgotten.

 

These calls to action well after the fact intend to try and trigger that lucky memory of some passerby or neighbour, or even random Rockland folks ... and IMO it's detailed information that tends to get folks thinking about things differently than they might currently be thinking of them.


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Posted 31 August 2022 - 05:03 PM

^ well said.

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