(Top) "The Murder Weapon" A Lather's Axe. (Bottom) Pieces Of Flying Helmets
posted by coldcase @ 1:47 PM
The "Babes in the Woods" murder case
The most infamous murder case in the history of Vancouver, British Columbia was unearthed on January 15, 1953 when the tiny skeletons of two children were found under leaves and a woman's "oilskin" coat deep in Stanley Park. For 45 years these children were thought to be a boy and a girl under 10 years of age. Dubbed the "Babes in the Woods," there was renewed interest in 1998 when DNA testing on the teeth of the skeletons revealed they were actually half-brothers. Can you help identify them?
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3 Comments:
the laythers tool was tossed by a worker, or lost in the back yard.the littlest child found it and placed it in his lunch pail. It was he who brought it to the park and brought it out at the tunnel where teacher smith saw him with it. It broke after 3 hits because it was rotten
I have a picture of Japanese children and their parents being lead away to the camps some time in the 1940's. This would prove that the leather helmets were available in Vancouver area around 1945. The second helmet was removed from the second childs head and tossed..then he was struck twice.
These photos were taken at the Vancouver Police Museum, where there's a display on this case.
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