Stories of Murder in Toronto's Gay Village
Late on the night of Tuesday, May 3, 1960, a young man walked into a restaurant on North Yonge Street. His right hand was badly cut. He said later that he had come in to call the police. He met an officer coming through the door. Police testified that he alternately laughed and cried. As … Read more
On Monday, February 18, 1957, Cecil William Burns did not turn up for work. He was a chef with a catering firm in East York. By about noon his employers were making inquiries. They telephoned the Edwin Hotel on Queen Street East, where Burns had lived for the past two months, and asked that his … Read more
At about 10:45 on the morning of Friday, October 30, 1953, Robert Cowan was driving his tractor along the 10th Concession of Innisfil Township, toward the village of Stroud. He saw a coat in the ditch. “I stopped to have a closer look, saw the legs and recognized the body of a man,” he told … Read more
At about two in the morning on Wednesday, July 27, 1949, three visitors from Montreal were walking along the boardwalk at Kew Beach, looking for shelter for the night. Ralph Cragg was with Marion Nelson and her brother Herbert. They came upon a man lying motionless by the boardwalk. A young man stepped out of … Read more