(Top) Woman's shoe. (Middle) Child's shoe. (Bottom) Woman's shoe (same shoe, different angle). 
posted by coldcase @ 2:34 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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(Top) Woman's shoe. (Middle) Child's shoe. (Bottom) Woman's shoe (same shoe, different angle).
6 Comments:
I will be giving the VPD my profile on babes in the woods case and see what comes up
November 3, 2010
Have you considered taking your profile to the Vancouver Sun? In 1953 they were offering a reward of $500 for info on the killings and still offering a financial reward in 1984. I don't know if the offer still stands but the staff at the Sun would pass your profile on to the police anyway.
Most kind...Elsa killed the grand kids by accident..The little one brought the weapon to the park in his lunch kit. She was not dressed to kill. I have talked to a Mr. Hill about writting the story in several parts..but I'm a ex cop and not a writter. I have now given the cops the Murder of Janet Smith 1924..Babes in the woods 1947 and the murder of the pauls family 1958..Gosh I need a writter to do a Trilogy. I feel after 6 years I can prove in each case that I have found the killers. the problem is finding someone who will read by work, review the maps, diagrams and government documents to see if I have a case. Salty-walt@hotmail.com
Mr hill is the crime reporter at the Vancouver Sun. But as I have said earlier...I's a research who has a good insight into the un seen. As a cop I have handled alot of dead people..if was my job. I grew up in a haunted house on John st.After the babes in the woods I did a study at the archives who lived in mom's house..Elsa and her family lived there the year the kids where found...ouch..the dreams I had were about graves, police,dead children..but I never knew why these dreams ended up in my head...til I found elsa in the west end of Vancouver in 1947..then the dreams made sence.
I have e mailed John Mackin at the Vancouver Sun..hope he replys.
These photos were taken at the Vancouver Police Museum, where there's a display on this case.
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