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
On the evening of September 28th, 2001, in the town of Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, veteran journalist Martin O’Hagan was gunned down in a targeted killing that shocked the region even after the Good Friday Agreement had brought a fragile peace. Walking home from a weekly drink with his wife Marie just yards from … More Martin O’Hagan
On September 5th, 2001, in the quiet suburban area of Heaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, sixteen-year-old Yasser Hussain Nazir was gunned down in a brazen, execution-style shooting at a petrol station forecourt. The killing, widely believed to stem from a tit-for-tat gang feud in nearby Keighley, shocked the local community and remains one of West Yorkshire’s … More Yasser Nazir
Lynn Floyd Moore, a seventy-year-old U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War, successful businessman, father, and grandfather, was found shot to death inside his home on the 3700 block of Dover Drive in Odessa, Texas, on September 14th, 2001. Nearly twenty-five years later, the case remains unsolved despite an extensive investigation. Born in 1931 to … More Lynn Floyd Moore
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