Murder. It’s unbelievable to think someone you know or love could ever fall
victim to such a heinous crime. In 2007 alone, police forces in Canada investigated 594 murders. Dealing with such tragedy is even more difficult when a crime goes unsolved—and families never learn why their loved ones were taken, or by whom:

• The last time anyone saw 14-year-old Dana Bradley, she was thumbing a ride along St. John’s, Newfoundland’s, Topsail Road; her body was discovered four days later
• Sharron Prior, 16, kissed her mom goodbye and set off to visit friends at a neighbourhood pizza joint in the Point Sainte-Charles section of Montreal; her ravaged body was discovered four days later
• When Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Roland Cook didn’t come home after an overnight excursion from their Vancouver Island home to Washington State, their families’ worries turned into a nightmare when Tanya’s body, and then Jay’s, was discovered
• Theresa Allore, student of Lennoxville, Quebec’s Champlain College decided to forgo a holiday weekend to work on a psychology paper; her partially nude body was discovered the following spring
• Charles Horvath disappeared while backpacking through Canada in 1989; rumours of a party gone bad led investigators to believe he’d been a victim of foul play—but his body has never been recovered.Review these and many more cold case stories on the books in Canada