Stories of Murder in Toronto's Gay Village
At 3:43 a.m. on Tuesday, February 18, 1975, Toronto police headquarters took an emergency call. The caller, a man, would not give his name. He said there was “trouble” at 286 Borden St., near Bloor Street West. Police later traced the call to a phone booth about a mile away. A squad car went to … Read more
On May 15, 1968, a man ploughing a field near Schomberg, Ontario, found a human skeleton lying against a wire fence in a hedgerow. The spot was on the west side of Sideroad 17 in Tecumseth Township, about two kilometres north of Highway 9. The Ontario Provincial Police later described what was there. The body … Read more
On Sunday, December 17, 1967, Donald Alton was driving a sideroad by Balsam Lake Provincial Park, near Coboconk, when he saw a partridge. He stopped the car, climbed a fence and followed the bird’s tracks through the snow. About 40 feet from the road, on a bare patch of ground, he found bones. A pair … Read more
At about 10 a.m. on Friday, January 20, 1967, Toronto police answered an emergency call to a rooming house at 103 Hamilton Street, near Broadview Avenue and Dundas Street. A fellow roomer had found Bruno Max Seidel dead in his room. Police at first thought the three knife wounds in his chest were self-inflicted, the … Read more