YEAH... IT'S A MYSTERY

-- "But how to explain his DNA found under Barbara Brodkin'S fingernails, nails that had remained in storage until 2017 when advances allowed for sophisticated DNA testing?" --

I'M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN CANADIAN WOMEN...

...WEREN'T BEING SLAUGHTERED LIKE CATTLE...

-- "BC Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies said the Crown had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that former Canadian Football League wide receiver Josh Boden killed Kimberly Lynn Hallgarth by stomping on her head and neck and then strangling her to death... and staging the scene to look like an accident" --

I guess the first two dead kids...

...are deductible...

-- MONTREAL -- Guy Turcotte, the Quebec doctor found not criminally responsible for killing his two young children, is allowed to take unescorted bike rides from a mental hospital, QMI Agency has learned.

He leaves the Pinel institute nearly every day despite the fact a review board and his ex-wife insist he's still dangerous.

Turcotte stabbed five-year-old son Olivier son and three-year-old daughter Anne-Sophie 46 times amid a crumbling marriage in 2009.

Unbelievable.

Toronto the Good

Twelve days after the brothers were back on the street, on Dec. 29, 2009, Mr. Mark was shot execution-style on his way to work.

He was 30.

So much for the myth...

...of the criminal mastermind...

“Who is this person?” Ms. Simone asked.

“I can’t tell,” said S.M., then added helpfully, “It’s my clothes.” A minute later, he elaborated: “My shoes. My cousin’s shoes. I have a hoodie like that too.”

It gets better...

She showed him another picture, this of a stack of money, a bank card and a scale; S.M. said half the money was his, the remainder belonging to his older brother.

Ms. Simone showed him another picture. “What’s this?” she asked. “Plastic bag with ammunition,” S.M. said. “Whose ammunition?” she asked. “I don’t know,” said S.M.

Then he peered more closely at the picture.

“Is that a .22?” he asked, then answered himself: “I think it’s .22 calibre.”

“Do you know what .22 calibre is?” she asked. “No I don’t,” S.M. said, adding a minute later, “Why would I have ammunition?”

Thank gawd for morons.

Playing by big city rules

"It’s alleged that Mr. Mark was killed – shot once in the back of his head as he walked to work on Dec. 29, 2009, headphones on — purely and simply because he had broken the code of silence, co-operated with Toronto police and testified in court against Mr. Skeete and his brother in an earlier proceeding."

Meet the Prezidenteeh

You ever wonder where stereotypes come from? Trust me, my friends... the suspense isn't the only thing that could kill you.
The weight of all that metal... I'm surprised Prezidenteeh could actually lift a gun above his waist...

-- TORONTO -- A Toronto rapper is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and the robbery of a Leaside jewelry store where a clerk was wounded.

Mark Garfield Moore, 27, is charged with the 2010 murders of Jahmeel Spence, 27, Courthney Facey, 18, Mike James, 23, and Carl Cole, 45, and the heist of Arax Jewelry.

Moore was in custody for an unrelated shooting incident in March in the Entertainment District.

Yup... another shocker.

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RELATED: Bright lights, big city

-- TORONTO -- It’s been two years since Christopher Skinner was brutally beaten, run over and left for dead on a downtown Toronto street.

Christopher had been out in the Entertainment District with his sister celebrating her 23rd birthday the night he was killed.

Investigators believe he was on his way home, walking along Adelaide St., possibly attempting to hail a taxi, when his hand brushed up against a black SUV that was stopped at a red light at Victoria St. around 3 a.m.

The occupants of the SUV allegedly beat him up and then drove over him as they took off.

Who says there's no death penalty in Canada?

Less cable TV...

...more bread & water...

The Opposition accused Ontario's Liberal government Wednesday of coddling criminals while failing to help victims of violent crime.

The opposition leader raised the case of Kellie Smith, a Toronto woman whose son was murdered in 2009, saying she had to choose between paying the rent or paying for her son's funeral.

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RELATED: You go back... Jack...

...do it again...

A man who was already in jail for a killing in Toronto is now charged in the home invasion slaying of a Markham woman.

Eric Carty now faces a murder charge for the second time in three months.

The latest charge is in connection with the killing of Bich-Ha Pan, 53, who was shot to death in a home invasion that York police allege was staged by her daughter.

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LAST WORD: Yet another Toronto murder

The body of a 23-year-old woman was found in a North York rooming house Friday.

Toronto Police were called at 11:01 a.m. to the Aldwinkle Hts. home, near York University, after the body was found.

Homicide detectives were notified of the death of the woman described as a student and sexual assault hasn't been ruled out, sources said.

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UPDATE: Murder victim identified

Qian "Necole" Liu, 23, from Beijing, was in Canada on a student visa, Toronto Police say.

Liu was found naked from the waist down around 11 a.m. Friday in her basement apartment at 27 Aldwinckle Heights, northwest of Keele St. and Finch Ave. W.

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UPDATE2:

Brian Dickson is charged with first-degree murder. Investigators would not say if Mr. Dickson was the former roommate of Ms. Liu's, who had previously been questioned in the case.

Karla Syndrome

We keep letting these freaks back out into the larger field of folk... we have no one to blame but ourselves...

A hot-headed killer who bludgeoned a former co-worker to death — four years after finishing a 14-year prison term for another homicide — has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Scheniman pleaded guilty in April to the lesser offence of second-degree murder in the June 17, 2009, killing of Jimmy Anderson, who was in his 40s.

He was denied parole five times after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the August 1990 killing of fellow drifter Stanley Simon George, 27.

And, make no mistake... Ontario's "catch and release" program is in full flower...

The Bedroom Strangler, Russell Johnson, Ontario’s worst serial killer has set his sights on freedom.

Now 62, the sexual sadist and necrophiliac is back before the Ontario Review Board, as he has been many times before, seeking a transfer to the medium-security Brockville Psychiatric Hospital, the gateway to his eventual release into society.

Two walking, talking arguments for reinstatement of the death penalty.

C'mon Canada... wake up and smell the homicidal maniacs.

Who says there's no death penalty...

...in fuzzy-bunny Canuckistan?

-- TORONTO -- A Markham man accused of the gangland-style hit on two men found stuffed in the trunk of the car in Pickering likely won’t be facing his rap alone, police announced Friday.

John Le, of Germain Cr., Markham, is charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement and using a firearm in the commission of an indictable offence.

Bright lights, big city... no forgiveness.

Wake up and smell the science

Who says the parole board doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground?

-- ST. JOHNS (CBC) -- CBC News obtained 17 pages of parole board rulings for Aggek, dating back to the late '90s.

The board noted repeatedly that Aggek was likely to commit a violent offence if he was released into the community.

But they let him go anyway.

Must feel good to be right, huh?

Goodness gracious... looks like I'm not the only one who's getting a little fed up...

This hardening attitude among Canadians is revealed in a new Angus Reid public opinion survey that found 62 per cent of respondents favour capital punishment for murderers, while 31 per cent believe that rapists should be put to death.

Hmmm...

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I think we can expect this poll to disappear down the memory hole during the next federal election campaign - when The Count runs on the patented 'Scary! Hidden! Agenda!(tm)' platform."

Two words...

...that should never be used in the same sentence... trust AND junkies...

Most clients in New Brunswick methadone treatment programs have to go to a drug store daily to drink the liquid in front of a pharmacist. But some clients, who are considered stable, are allowed to take multiple doses home with them.

If methadone is such a wonderful solution to this problem... why aren't we treating pedophiles with pornography?

And one last thought.

Try to imagine the uproar & outrage if this toddler had picked up a loaded gun and shot herself. That'd be a whole different ballgame, huh?

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RELATED: Our modern world

Remember when you were a kid... and people were murdered for being model citizens?

Yeah... me neither.

Toronto police arrested two young men in the shooting death of Kenneth Mark, an anti-violence activist shot in the back of the head last month. A third suspect remains outstanding.

A 16-year-old boy and Lamar Skeete, 19, have been charged with first-degree-murder.

In other "crime is down" news

Try imagine the horrified outrage... if Toronto Police had fatally tasered 62 people in 2009...

A young man was found shot to death in the street outside a west Toronto pizza shop on Tuesday night.

A TTC driver led emergency crews to the scene, on Gilmour Ave. in the Dundas St.-Runnymede Rd. area, shortly before 10 p.m.

The victim has not been identified and police are looking for two suspects.

It is the city's 62nd murder of 2009.

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UPDATE: Who's zoomin' who?

The deceased was identified as Kenneth Mark of Toronto.

And guess what he was murdered for...

A 29-year-old man shot in the back of the head in the Junction last night may have been targeted because he was a police community liaison, investigators said today.

Kenneth Mark was found on Gilmour Avenue just north of Dundas Street West; he had stopped for pizza en route to a nearby Wal-Mart, where he was night manager. Police said he was wearing headphones and likely didn’t hear anyone as he was approached from behind.

Paramedics performed CPR for 20 minutes before taking him to hospital, where he later died.

‘‘He was the salt of the earth,’’ said Detective Hank Idsinga, the homicide officer in charge of the investigation, who said Mr. Mark had no criminal record and had done ‘‘some community work,’’ for police in the neighbourhood.

Mr. Mark has reportedly recently stopped some young men from entering a nearby housing complex with a gun, which investigators say may have been the motive behind the shooting.

Witnesses have described two suspects — both black men in their 20s wearing dark clothing.

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A jagged tear in the thin Blue Line

-- OTTAWA -- An Ottawa police officer has been stabbed to death in an early-morning incident at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital.

The incident occurred outside the main emergency room entrance of the Carling Ave. hospital inside the covered ambulance bay.

Police have not released the identity of the slain officer pending notification of next of kin. A further update will be provided by police around 11 a.m.

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UPDATE: Killer was a cop?

-- OTTAWA -- A former RCMP officer is in custody in connection to the stabbing death of an Ottawa police officer this morning outside the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, the Sun has learned.

Multiple sources have confirmed to the Sun that Kevin Gregson, 43, will appear at the Elgin Street courthouse this morning to face charges in the slaying.

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Remember when you were a kid...

...and murdering people wasn't actually considered a viable social solution?

-- TORONTO -- A 23-year-old man was arrested after he walked into 53 Division police station at Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. early Friday evening, said Det.-Sgt. Mike Barsky, of the Toronto Police homicide squad.

Investigators found the strangled body of a 19-year-old girl at the man's apartment, he said.

Investigators alleged the killing was pre-meditated and charged New Orleans resident Binh Nguyen with one count of first-degree murder.

You wrap your hands around the throat of a teenage girl and... looking right into her eyes... you crush her windpipe and watch her life drain away.

I got nothing.

No, wait a minute, I actually do.

Two words... lethal... injection.
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In Dalton McGuinty's socialist paradise...

...there's no such thing as a bad boy...

With 62 convictions already on his rap sheet, many of them drug-related, this 32-year-old man recently appeared in bail court at Old City Hall and was released on a $1,000 surety -- no deposit, and therefore no financial pain -- and given the liberty of house arrest after being charged, yet again, for trafficking in crack cocaine.

And he was given this break by a JP despite also being on bail on other charges, as well as being on probation for one of those previous 62 convictions.

And...

About $70,000 worth of marijuana and cocaine was allegedly found in the rented Yorkville house Mr. Kenk shared with classical pianist Jeanie Chung, who also faced drug charges. Those charges were dropped as part of today's plea bargain.

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RELATED: And right around the corner

A 27-year-old man is expected to survive after being shot in the head early Tuesday morning in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood.

The man was shot while on Edwin Avenue at Dupont Street, just east of Dundas Street West, at around 12:30 a.m. Police say the bullet hit the man in the forehead but inflicted non life-threatening injuries. He spent the night in hospital having surgery.

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Another Hogtown Homicide

The murder of a 62-year-old woman is just the latest in a series of violent incidences to befall the seventh floor of a Dundas St. W. and Scarlett Rd. apartment building.

Antonia Catherine Zammit was found dead early this morning in her seventh-floor unit at 3725 Dundas St. W.

Directly across the hall is where 14-year-old Adrian Johnston lived with his mom until he was shot and killed in May. And just this Friday, a shooting just down the hall left a bullet hole in the door frame of the garbage room.

A man said to be Zammit's son, John Boukhalfa, 26, was investigated by police just before midnight Sunday in the Lakeshore Blvd. W. and Windermere Ave. area.

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RELATED: Another day in paradise

Eric Carty, 29, of Toronto, is wanted for first-degree murder in the December 6 shooting death of Eric Matthews in a North York parking lot.

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No word yet from Mayor's office...

...on which gun club the shooters belonged to...

A 28-year-old man was shot to death in northwest Toronto on Wednesday.

Toronto Police were called to a bar on Wilson Ave. just north of Hwy. 401 around 3 a.m. and found a wounded man in the bar area of a tavern. He was rushed to hospital and was last reported in serious condition.

A second man, who'd suffered obvious gunshots, was found sprawled on the parking lot outside the rear of the tavern and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

The death is the city's 59th homicide of the year and the fourth in less than a week.

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UPDATE: Latest shooting victim id'd

The man who has killed in a double shooting at a northwest Toronto bar early yesterday morning was identified today as 30-year-old Tafari Spear.

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Bright lights, big city...

...bang-bang... you're dead...

-- TORONTO -- A woman has died after a shooting in North York, Monday. It happened around 9 p.m. in the Weston Rd. and Lawrence Ave. area.

There are reports the victim was in her 30s and that she was shot in the back of the head while standing outside of her car.

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UPDATE: Latest shooting victim id'd

The woman, who friends have identified as 45-year-old Laura Rios Gallego, staggered out of the car after she was shot and collapsed near the rear of a white pickup truck.

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No good deed

Bright lights, big city... gonna squash you like a bug.

-- TORONTO -- A 33-year-old man facing second-degree murder charges was arrested last night following the brutal death of a young Toronto mother this weekend.

Police had issued a Canada-wide warrant Sunday for Levi Samuel Aggek after the body of Spring Phillips, 26, was found in her East End apartment the previous afternoon.

Ms. Phillips had offered Mr. Aggek a place to sleep Saturday night, police said. He has spent much of his time sleeping in shelters since arriving in the city two to three months ago from the East Coast.

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RELATED: Busy, busy, busy

A man is dead after an early morning shooting yesterday.

Police were called around 3:30 a.m. to the Islington-Steeles Aves. area where they found a man in his 20s suffering from a gunshot wound.

About 15 men in their 20s, who were gathered around the home of the man, said they didn't know what had happened.

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