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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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