Stories of Murder in Toronto's Gay Village
Seventy-two-year-old Harley Walker was born in Manchester England and immigrated to Toronto in 1958 where he found employment with the CBC for 30 years. He went missing on October 13, 2006, after meeting a man, David Reid, on an internet gay chat room. The two men exchanged messages, and met for coffee for several months. … Read more
Early on the morning of Sunday, August 27, 1978, in an apartment on St. Joseph Street, a man who had fallen asleep woke to find his room-mate unconscious and bleeding from a head injury. The injured man was Colin Nicholson, 41. That was how the Toronto Star told it after he died. The evening had … Read more
On October 9, 1976, friends went to the Prince Arthur Avenue apartment of Hugh Thomas Armstrong after he failed to show up for work. The Toronto Sun reported that they found his body on the bedroom floor, in a bathrobe. The Globe and Mail reported that he lay face down and that the apartment had … Read more