Between April 1988 and August 1990, a serial killer murdered six sex trade workers and dumped their bodies in the laneways of Vancouver. Officially, the murders are unsolved and two were added to the Vancouver Police Department’s cold case website just last year. But two retired detectives who worked on a joint RCMP/VPD task force called E-Alley, say they know who killed these women, and he died in 2007.

The Alley Murders is a Webby Award finalist

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Casey Rose Bohun, 3 disappeared from her North Delta, BC home on August 5, 1989. Dozens of volunteers searched for Casey but no trace of her was ever found. Police believe that she either wandered off and got lost, was killed by someone close to her, abducted by a stranger, or sold and living somewhere else with no memory of her real family.

This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases.

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At the end of 1974, 22-year-old Barbara Larocque’s body was found in Langley, BC. She had been strangled with her own scarf. Two months later, Gail "Sam" Rogers, 26 went missing from her Kitsilano basement suite. Her body was found in a creek near Squamish, her head bashed in with a claw hammer. Both women were go-go dancers at Vancouver nightclubs. Their deaths are believed to be the result of contract killings.

This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases.

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On May 7, 1961, 12-year-old Brenda Byman went for her first sleepover at her friend’s house in Wilmer, a tiny community outside of Invermere, BC. The next day she and four teens went for a hike to Lake Enid. Brenda never returned. Over six decades later, Brenda's tragic disappearance continues to divide the town. 

This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases 

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On June 24, 1992 Jean Ann James, a 53-year-old former Canadian Pacific Airlines flight attendant, went to the Shaughnessy home of her husband’s wealthy younger lover, and slit her throat with a box cutter. It would take police another 19 years to catch her.

This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases.

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On the day that 14-year-old Lindsey Nicholls disappeared, she was last seen walking down Royston Road, outside of Comox on Vancouver Island. It was August 2, 1993 - the Monday of the BC Day long weekend, and Lindsey was meeting friends at the annual Comox Nautical Days Festival. 

This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases.

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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.

Preorder my new book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck through Arsenal Pulp Press or our favourite bookstore - coming April 2025For more information, please visit my website: evelazarus.com

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.

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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

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Preorder my new book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck through Arsenal Pulp Press or our favourite bookstore - coming April 2025

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