At around four-thirty p.m. on the afternoon of August 7th, 1962, sixteen-year-old Julian “Julie” Wolanski told her mother that she was going to the Eglinton subway station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in order to meet with a teacher about some credit requirements to finish Grade 9. She was never seen alive again.
Five days later, Julie’s body was found lying in a ditch near the Humber River, not far from Rexdale Boulevard. She was clad only in a pair of silk stockings; the rest of her clothing and her purse were never found. She had been raped, savagely beaten, and shot in the heart at close range with a .32 caliber pistol. Authorities determined that the perpetrator had likely kept her captive for several days before killing her and eventually dumping her from his car.
As law enforcement looked into the appalling crime, they discovered that several other young women had been contacted by an individual claiming to be a teacher or a doctor, and asking them to come meet him. Though authorities asserted that they had a strong suspect, they didn’t name him, and evidently never had enough evidence for an arrest. They have laid no charges as of this writing.
The rape and murder of Julie Wolanski remains unsolved, more than sixty years later.
Crime Immemorial 