On September 19th, 2001, two-year-old Taia Colwell was killed in Terrigal, a coastal suburb on New South Wales’ Central Coast in Australia. Her death was ruled a homicide after she was deliberately struck with a blunt instrument. Taia was the daughter of Michelle Colwell and her de facto partner, Jeremy Ball. At the time of … More Taia Colwell
On the morning of Friday, June 8th, 2001, a security guard discovered a horrific scene in a shallow ditch off Crooked River Road near Gerroa, on New South Wales’ South Coast in Australia. The partially burned, semi-naked body of twenty-three-year-old Rachelle Leigh Childs lay there, doused in gasoline, particularly on her face and specific areas … More Rachelle Childs
On the morning of Sunday, May 13th, 2001, which was Mother’s Day weekend, twenty-nine-year-old Darryl Ferneyhough vanished from the streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia. A well-liked butcher, active member of the city’s LGBTQ+ community, and someone with no known history of running away or personal troubles, Darryl was last seen running north along Gottingen Street … More Darryl Ferneyhough
On August 10th, 2001, Gary Frank Meier, a fifty-two-year-old successful auctioneer and businessman, was found shot to death inside his sprawling rural home on an acreage near Lacombe, Alberta, about eighty miles south of Edmonton. What appeared at first as a suspicious death quickly became one of central Alberta’s most notorious unsolved homicides, marked by … More Gary Meier
On the early morning of December 28th, 2001, twenty-two-year-old Robert “B.J.” Raymond was fatally stabbed in the chest during a chaotic brawl in a parking lot behind a bar in downtown Sarnia, Ontario. More than twenty-four years later, the case remains unsolved despite repeated appeals from police and a substantial reward for information. At approximately … More Robert “B.J.” Raymond
On the evening of Monday, April 9th, 2001, fifty-five-year-old David George Roads was shot twice in the head at close range in a lit alleyway off Cowper Road in Kingston, southwest London. The killing bore the hallmarks of a carefully planned professional hit, with both bullets fired before he hit the ground and no signs … More David George Roads
On the morning of April 13th, 2001, twenty-year-old Céline Goyette was dropped off at the home of her partner, forty-two-year-old Richard Gleeson, on Forestwood Street in Rosemère, Quebec, a quiet suburban community north of Montreal. It was a seemingly ordinary moment: a routine visit to her boyfriend’s residence. Yet neither Céline nor Richard has been … More Céline Goyette and Richard Gleeson
On August 24th, 2001, at approximately twelve ten a.m., thirty-three-year-old Cecil Hinds was shot and killed outside a townhouse complex at 53 Silverstone Drive in Rexdale, a neighborhood in north Etobicoke, Ontario. Toronto Police Service officers responded to the scene in 23 Division, where Cecil was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Despite life-saving efforts … More Cecil Hinds
On June 13th, 2001, nineteen-year-old Kathleen MacVicar vanished while walking on foot from a friend’s residence near Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton in Ontario. Two days later, on June 15th, her body was discovered in a wooded area just west of Middleton Park on National Defence property at CFB Trenton. She had been sexually assaulted … More Kathleen MacVicar
On the evening of November 6th, 2001, thirty-six-year-old Sellathurai Balasingham, a Sri Lankan Tamil man and manager at a local laundry, was brutally attacked just yards from his home on the Pollards Hill Estate in Mitcham, South London. He died in the early hours of November 7th from severe head injuries, including a fractured skull … More Sellathurai Balasingham
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