Stories of Murder in Toronto's Gay Village
When At about midnight on Monday, May 3, 1982, Ottawa police stopped a car that had run a caution light in the downtown. Staff-Inspector George Zhukow told the Globe and Mail that the two men inside produced an ownership document. The officers became suspicious of the ownership and of certain contents in the car, he … Read more
David Murphy, 61, was found dead in his bedroom at Brimley Acres, a senior citizens’ apartment building at 2950 Lawrence Avenue East in Scarborough, on Monday, June 29, 1981. The Toronto Star reported that the superintendent found him after Murphy did not answer his phone. The Body Politic reported that police found the body just … Read more
At about 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, January 25, 1977, Toronto police answered a call to check an address at 141 Erskine Avenue. A young bank employee had not come to work, and the apartment superintendent had been asked to look in on him. Police found Brian Latocki dead in his bedroom. He was nude and … Read more
On the morning of Monday, September 20, 1976, John Fretz, the superintendent at 262 Jarvis Street, went into a sixth-floor apartment. Another tenant had complained that its door had been open since Sunday. It was unlocked. Inside was the nude body of the man who lived there, James Stewart Kennedy. “When I found him he … Read more