Cold Case Canada
Eve Lazarus
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Cold Case Canada is an independently produced true crime podcast hosted by Eve Lazarus, a reporter and author based in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Mar 17, 2023
S4 E35 Gloria Moody: The Highway of Tears
Gloria Levina Moody, who everybody knew as Lee, had been stripped, beaten, sexually assaulted, and left to bleed to death on a cattle trail about a kilometre off the Chilcotin Highway near Williams Lake, BC. She was the 26-year-old mother of two from Bella Coola on a weekend away with her family. Lee’s 1969 murder is the oldest of 18 cases of missing and murdered women and girls along Highways 5, 16 and 97, currently with the RCMP’s E-PANA unit. Episode includes interviews with Lee’s daughter Vanessa, Steve Pranzl, formerly with E-PANA, and Geraldine Trimble, social development director with the Native Women’s Association of Canada.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases.
For more information, please visit my website: evelazarus.com
Promo: True Crime Files
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Mar 13, 2023
Introducing Season 4 Cold Case Canada Podcast
I’m Eve Lazarus, and I’m the host and producer of Cold Case Canada. This is from a Facebook live event that I did on March 10 to talk about the process behind writing my bestselling book Cold Case BC, some of the challenges that I met along the way, and what you can expect from Season Four of my podcast which launches Friday March 17.
For more information on my books and podcast, please visit https://evelazarus.com/
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Oct 21, 2022
S3 E34 Halloween Special 2022
In the Halloween Special of 2022 we visit a Victoria golf course, two mansions in Burnaby, and travel to a haunted highway in BC’s interior. Keep the lights on while you listen!
Based on stories from Blood, Sweat and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, At Home with History: The secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Homes, Ghosts: More Eerie Encounters and Ghosts of Vancouver.
With special guests: Bill Allman, Patrick Dunae, Damian Inwood and Greg Mansfield
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
Sponsors: Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Arsenal Pulp Press, Erin Hakin Jewellery
Promo: Fireside Canada
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Oct 14, 2022
S3 E33 Kidnapped: The Philip Porter Story
On June 26, 1969, 16-year-old Philip Porter left his home in Townsite, Kimberley to run some errands for his mother. The son of the Cominco boss never came home. A ransom note demanding $100,000 for his safe return arrived instead.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases and includes interviews with family and police.
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
Promo: What Was That Like?
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Oct 14, 2022
S3 E32 The Jack Family Missing from Prince George
Ronnie Jack, 26, Doreen Jack, 26, Russell 9, and Ryan 4 were last seen on August 2, 1989 at their home in Prince George. Earlier that night, Ronnie met a guy in the pub who offered him a job bucking logs and Doreen work in the camp kitchen. They told their family that there was a daycare for the boys and they'd be gone about 10 days. And then they vanished.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases and includes interviews with family and police.
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
Sponsors: Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Arsenal Pulp Press
Promo: Dark Poutine
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Sep 30, 2022
S3 E31 The Monica Jack Murder
In 1978, 12-year-old Monica Jack was riding her bike near her home on the Upper Nicola reserve at Quilchena when she was abducted, raped and murdered. And, even though Garry Handlen was a suspect early on in this investigation and questioned in the 1975 murder of 11-year-old Kathryn-Mary Herbert, it would take another 36 years and a Mr. Big sting to convict him.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
Sponsors: Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Arsenal Pulp Press
Promo: True Crime Island
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Sep 23, 2022
S3 E30 Double Murder: Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook
Saanich residents Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18 and Jay Cook, 20 were murdered while on an overnight trip to Washington State in 1987. Episode includes interviews with Detective Jim Scharf of the Snohomish Country Sheriff's Office and CeCe Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon Nanolabs, who cracked this case three decades later.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
Sponsors: Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Arsenal Pulp Press
Promo: True Crime Files
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Sep 16, 2022
S3 E29 When Cops were Murderers
Len Hogue was one of three dirty VPD cops who supplemented their salaries initially through B&Es, escalated to bank robberies, and in 1965 pulled off the biggest heist in Vancouver’s history - $1.2 million worth of bank notes that were being sent back to Ottawa to be destroyed. When police officials caught on, 33-year-old Hogue went home, shot his sleeping wife in the head, and then hunted down and shot his six kids aged between 3 and 14 before turning the gun on himself. Or did he? This is part two of two.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
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Sep 9, 2022
S3 E28 When Cops Were Robbers
In 1956, Len Hogue, David Harrison and Joe Percival joined the Vancouver Police Department and within a few years, became known as the “terrible three.” The cops were supplementing their salaries initially through B&Es, escalated to bank robberies, and in 1965, pulled off the biggest heist in Vancouver’s history - $1.2 million worth of stolen bank notes that were being sent to Ottawa to be destroyed. This is part one of two.
This episode is from my book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
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Sep 2, 2022
S3 E27 Tanya Busch: The Prison Guard’s Daughter
Tanya Busch disappeared on the way to her Vancouver school on June 2, 1972. She was the second 7-year-old abducted in just over two years. Was there a connection?
This episode is based on original research and interviews from a chapter in my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Aug 26, 2022
S3 E26 Abducted: Evangeline Azarcon
On November 20, 1969, seven-year-old Evangeline Azarcon disappeared on her way home from Edith Cavell Elementary in Vancouver. Her abduction sparked the biggest search in BC’s history.
This episode is based on original research and interviews from a chapter in my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
This episode is sponsored by Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours. Save 15% off your booking by using the code COLDCASE
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Mar 10, 2022
S3 E25 The Babes in the Woods Update
It's almost 70 years since they were found buried in Vancouver's Stanley Park, but now the Babes in the Woods have their names back. They were Derek and David D'Alton aged 7 and 6 when they were beaten to death with a hatchet.
This episode is based on a chapter in my upcoming book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com
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Oct 15, 2021
S2 E24 Halloween Special 2021
The Halloween Special is the last episode of Season 2. Join me and five storytellers as they tell you their favourite ghost stories: a haunted nightclub, a shooting, a former insane asylum, the Chinatown ghost, a cemetery and a haunted grand piano.
For photos, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
Photo: Riverdale Psychiatric Hospital, courtesy Coquitlam Archives
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Oct 1, 2021
S2 E23 Murder by Milkshake Part 2
In 1965, Rene Castellani, a 40-year-old radio personality murdered his wife Esther with arsenic-laced milkshakes so he could marry Lolly, CKNW’s 25-year-old receptionist. The Castellani's had an 11-year-old daughter called Jeannine, who became the collateral damage in one of the most sensational murder cases of the 20th century.
This episode is based on original research and interviews from Murder by Milkshake: an astonishing true story of adultery, arsenic and a charismatic killer
For photos, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Sep 24, 2021
S2 E22 Murder by Milkshake Part 1
In 1965, Rene Castellani, a 40-year-old radio personality murdered his wife Esther with arsenic-laced milkshakes so he could marry Lolly, CKNW’s 25-year-old receptionist. The Castellani's had an 11-year-old daughter called Jeannine, who became the collateral damage in one of the most sensational murder cases of the 20th century.
This episode is based on original research and interviews from Murder by Milkshake: an astonishing true story of adultery, arsenic and a charismatic killer
For photos, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Sep 10, 2021
S2 E21 Murder of a Poet: Pat Lowther
Three weeks after Pat Lowther was reported missing, her body was discovered by a family out for a hike at Furry Creek, about 50 kilometres from her Vancouver home. She had been beaten to death with a hammer by a man who was jealous of her strong, often violent feminist poetry and her growing place in the Canadian literary scene.
Photo: Pat Lowther and Fred Candelaria co-chairs of the League of Canadian Poets. Ian Lindsay, Vancouver Sun, September 5 1975.
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Aug 27, 2021
S2 E20 Murder in Mole Hill: Muriel Lindsay
In the months leading up to her murder, Muriel Lindsay had been targeted and harassed. Her cat was stolen, she’d received bizarre anonymous letters, and someone had used her credit card to take out subscriptions and make a donation to the United Way in her name. Who was stalking Muriel and why was this 40-year-old postal worker found beaten to death in her West End apartment?
Cold Case Canada is based on original research and interviews from a chapter in my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Aug 13, 2021
S2 E19 The Night Club Murders
On February 22, 1975 country and western singer Debbie Roe, 22 finished her shift at the OK Corral, stopped to get gas and something to eat. Her body was found the next day on an isolated stretch of highway in Langley, BC. Just two months earlier, the body of Barbara LaRocque, 22 had been found nearby. Barbara worked at the Syndicate, a club with the same owner as the OK Corral. In March 1975, the body of Gail (Sam) Rogers, 26 a dancer at Vancouver’s Penthouse Nightclub was found just off the Sea to Sky Highway near Squamish. Is there a connection between these three unsolved murders?
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Jul 30, 2021
S2 E18 On the Edge of Chinatown: Jimmy and Lily Ming
At the start of 1985, things looked good for Jimmy and Lily Ming. The couple had two small children, owned their own home and worked in the family’s thriving Robson Street restaurant. But by the end of January, Jimmy and Lily had been kidnapped from their Vancouver house, the restaurant was closed and the rest of the Ming family feared for their lives.
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For crime scene photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Jul 16, 2021
S2 E17 Sweet Sixteen: The Rhona Duncan Murder
Sixteen-year-old Rhona Duncan was murdered in the early hours of July 15, 1976 after walking home from a high school birthday party. She was in sight of her North Vancouver house, when she was intercepted, raped and strangled. Although 45 years has gone by, Rhona’s friends still get together to remember her and to try and solve her murder. Some believe they know who did it.
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For crime scene photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Jul 2, 2021
S2 E16 Murder at the Good Earth: Brenda Young
On January 7, 1976 Brenda Young was found murdered in her store the Good Earth in the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. It was a brazen murder and it felt like a hit, but why would anyone target this much-loved 38-year-old mother of four?
This episode includes the 1973 rape and murder of 96-year-old Albina Lequiea, who lived in a convent a few blocks from the Good Earth.
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Jun 18, 2021
S2 E15 The Murder of Robert David Hopkins
In 1954, Bob Hopkins worked at the Vancouver News Herald. He was a friendly man who kept to himself and was liked by his colleagues. None of them knew that Bob was gay and lived a secret life. He had to. In the 1950s homosexuality was illegal and coming out would have meant losing his job, his place in the community, and possibly his family.
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Jun 4, 2021
S2 E14 Danny Brent’s Murder: Vancouver’s First Gangland Hit
On September 15, 1954, Danny Brent’s body was found on the tenth green at UBC’s golf course. Stuffed inside his shirt was an early edition of the newspaper, soaked with his blood. There was a half-smoked cigarette inside his shirt where it had dropped from his mouth when he was shot—once in the back and twice in the head with .45-calibre bullets.
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city’s most baffling unsolved murders.
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Jun 3, 2021
Trailer: Blood, Sweat, and Fear, the story of Inspector Vance
I'm Eve Lazarus, a reporter and author based in Vancouver, BC. This is a 12-episode podcast based on original research from my book Blood, Sweat, and Fear: the story of Inspector Vance. Inspector Vance was Canada’s first forensic investigator. He worked for the Vancouver Police Department and helped solved some of the most sensational murder cases of the twentieth century.
For more information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit my website: evelazarus.com
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Dec 18, 2020
S1 E13 The Babes in the Woods Part 2
The Babes in the Woods is the story of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park in 1953. The case is still unsolved, but the investigation continues. In part two I visit the site where the boys were found and talk with the VPD Inspector who ordered an exhumation in 2015 in an effort to identify the boys. We also hear about the latest development from the coroner who is currently revisiting Vancouver’s most famous cold case.
Cover image: Kat Thorsen at the Stanley Park site where the Babes in the Woods were found.
This podcast is based on original research and interviews and a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For crime scene photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Dec 4, 2020
S1 E12: The Babes in the Woods Part 1
The Babes in the Woods is the story of two tiny skeletons found in Stanley Park in 1953. It is one of Vancouver's oldest and most fascinating unsolved murder mysteries.
Cover art: Katarina Thorsen
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For crime scene photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
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Nov 20, 2020
S1 E11 Axe Murders in Mount Pleasant: The Kosbergs
In December 1965, 17-year-old Tom Kosberg made milkshakes for his parents and four siblings, dosed them with sleeping pills, and then hacked up their bodies with a double-bladed axe. Only the baby survived. Tom was found not guilty by reason of insanity. So, why was he out in 10?
This podcast is based on a story from my book Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City's Hidden History
For crime scene photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Nov 6, 2020
S1 E10: The Renfrew Murders: Louise Wise and Geraldine Forster
Windemere Secondary School student Louise Wise had just turned 17 when she was stabbed to death in her East Vancouver home in 1971. Two years later, Geraldine Forster, 19 was shot to death at Renfrew Street and Grandview Highway with a Mountie's .38 service revolver. For a while police thought there was a connection, but when Louise's case was reopened 25 years later, detectives found the murder knife that held the killer's DNA was missing from the evidence room.
Cover art: the Wise's East Vancouver House. Eve Lazarus photo
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Oct 23, 2020
S1 E9: Halloween Special - Three Ghost Stories and a Murder
A Halloween Special that travels to Chilliwack to cover the Hostess with the Ghostess; to North Vancouver for the Grain Elevators: a fire and a ghost story; to Victoria for Murder in James Bay; and to the Vogue Theatre's resident's ghost.
Stories are from my books Vancouver Exposed; At Home with History; and Sensational Victoria.
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcast, please visit evelazarus.com
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Oct 9, 2020
S1 E8: The Shaughnessy Murder of Marion Hamilton
In 1975, Marion Hamilton, 69 was found dead in the bedroom of her Shaughnessy mansion. At first her death looked like suicide, but it was soon apparent that Marion had been murdered. It’s a fascinating story of a once prominent Vancouver family, money, a rambling old run-down mansion, and the shocking identity of Marion’s murderer.
Cover art: the Hamilton's Nanton Street house. Eve Lazarus photo
This podcast is based on a story from my book At Home with History: the secrets of Greater Vancouver's heritage homes
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Sep 25, 2020
S1 E7 The Christmas Day Murder of Lila Anderson
Lila Anderson, 38 was murdered on Christmas Day 1959. She had been beaten with a tire iron and her head smashed against a rock after she was taken from a bus stop. Her naked body was dumped in a ravine at Knight Street and 45th Avenue in South Vancouver less than two blocks from the Paul house. Did Vancouver have a serial killer?
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Sep 11, 2020
S1 E6: The Pauls, Vancouver’s First Triple Murder
On June 10, 1958, David Pauls, 52 was shot in the head with a .22-calibre revolver by the back door of the family home. The killer then went upstairs and clubbed 11-year-old Dorothy Pauls to death in her bed. When Helen Pauls, 45 returned from work a short time later the killer shot her twice in the head and then beat her dead body with a blunt instrument. It was Vancouver’s first triple homicide.
Cover art: The Pauls family, courtesy Vancouver Police Museum and Archives
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Aug 28, 2020
S1 E5: The Hastings-Sunrise Murder of Evelyn Roche
In 1958, Evelyn Roche was murdered on the way home from the bus just two blocks from her Vancouver home. It’s a case that really haunted me when I first read about it. The newspaper stories just said was that she was a 39-year-old widow who had recently remarried and had a boy and a girl. I wanted to know what happened to her children, how their lives had turned out.
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
Cover art: From the murder scene of Evelyn Roche, Vancouver Sun, April 5, 1958
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Aug 14, 2020
S1 E4: Missing Without A Trace: Nick and Lisa Masee
In August 1994, Nick and Lisa Masee disappeared from their North Vancouver house. Their case has long gone cold, ruled a missing persons with suspicious circumstances by the RCMP. Are they really just missing or murdered?
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Jul 31, 2020
S1 E3: How To Catch A Killer: the Vivien Morzuch Story
In 2000, Vivien Morzuch was 15 when he was beaten to death and dumped in a ditch near Kamloops, BC. Former homicide detective Steve McCartney tells us how Vivien’s murderer was caught six years later through a Mr. Big operation.
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Jul 17, 2020
S1 E2: Who Killed Roddy Moore?
Seven-year-old Roddy Moore was killed on the way to his East Vancouver school in 1947. Why were his two step-fathers suspects? Interviews with Roddy's sisters Patty and Leona.
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
Cover art photo: Vancouver Sun, September 30, 2006
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Jul 3, 2020
S1 E1: The Murder of Jennie Eldon Conroy
Jennie Eldon Conroy was a 24-year-old shipyard war worker who was beaten to death in 1944, her body dumped at the West Vancouver cemetery. Seventy-five years after her murder, forensic samples including her hair and gravel from the crime scene ended up on my desk. What happened to her baby?
This podcast is based on a story from my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
Cover art: Jennie and Eva Conroy early 1940s. Courtesy North Vancouver Museum and Archives
For more photos, show credits, sources, and information about my true crime books, blog or podcast, please visit: evelazarus.com
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Jun 29, 2020
Cold Case Canada Trailer
I'm Eve Lazarus, a reporter and author based in Vancouver, BC. For the past few years I've been investigating unsolved murders and missing persons cases. I'm convinced that many of these cases can still be solved.
This true crime podcast is based on original research and interviews I've conducted with family members and friends, police detectives, criminologists, forensic psychologists and a coroner.
For more information, please visit my website at evelazarus.com
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