List of unsolved murders in Canada

Hundreds of homicides occur across Canada each year - many of which go unsolved or end up as cold cases.[1]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

List
Year Victim(s) Age Location Notes
1978 Theresa Allore 19 Compton, Quebec Champlain College student Theresa Allore went missing in 1978. It wasn't until the following year that her body was discovered.
1977 Barbara Maclean And Melissa Rehorek 19 & 20 Calgary, Alberta [2]
1924 1924 Canadian Pacific Railway train bombing Various Columbia and Western Railway On the early morning of October 29, 1924, an explosion on the remote Kettle Valley Line in southeastern British Columbia ripped apart Canadian Pacific Railroad Car 1586, killing a total of nine individuals.
2008 Lindsay Buziak 24 Saanich, British Columbia Lindsay Buziak, a real estate agent, was stabbed to death after being lured to an empty home by a couple posing as prospective buyers.
1998 Bindy Johal 27 Vancouver Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal was an Indo-Canadian mobster and drug trafficker with connections to the criminal underworld of British Columbia.
1976–1977 Septic Tank Sam 26-40 (estimate) Tofield Unidentified decedent of Euro-Canadian descent.
2011 Bad News Brown (musician) 33 Montreal, Quebec Musician Paul Frappier, better known by his stage name Bad News Brown, was found murdered near the Lachine Canal in southwest Montreal. Local police say that he had sustained injuries to his head with "clear signs of violence" on his upper body. So far, no arrests have been made and the motive for the killing is unknown.[3][4][5]
1962 Alexandra Wiwcharuk 23 City Park, Saskatoon [6]
2005 Melissa Ivy Chaboyer 35 Thompson, Manitoba The body of Melissa Ivy Chaboyer, a part-time taxi driver, was discovered beside her cab in the City Centre Mall parking lot.[7][8]
2014 Tina Fontaine 15 Winnipeg, Manitoba Tina Fontaine was a First Nations teenage youth who initially went missing multiple times throughout the early month of August 2014, but later found deceased. She was last seen alive accompanying an individual that was solicitating a sex act from her. Fontaine's body was later found at the bottom of the Red River.
1984 Napanee Jane Doe 16-25 (estimate) Napanee, Ontario The corpse of an unidentified white female between the ages of 18–25 years old was found in a ditch along a country road near Napanee, Ontario. It is believed that she was not local resident but had been murdered elsewhere, possibly in Quebec, and dumped at this location.[9][10]
1998 Tara Singh Hayer 62 Surrey, British Columbia East Indian newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer was killed via gunshot while getting out of his car in the garage of his residency. It was later determined that Hayer was murdered after reporting about terrorism, as this had not been the first attempt on his life. As of 2020, no one was ever charged with Tara Singh Hayer's murder and the case remains unsolved.
1991 Cartierville John Doe 30-49 (estimate) Cartierville, Quebec On March 1, 1991, the remains of a naked unidentified male who had sustained traumatic injuries were discovered in Parc Louisbourg in the Cartierville suburb of northern Montreal. The victim's hands had been severed and he had been stabbed 127 times in various parts of his body, including his face and genitals.[11]
1985 Frank Shoofey 44 Montreal, Quebec Shoofey, a prominent criminal lawyer in Canada, was gunned down outside his Montreal law office on Cherrier Street.[12] To this day, his assassination remains a mystery.
2010 Nicolo Rizzuto 86 Montreal, Quebec Godfather of the notorious Rizzuto crime family. Shot dead by an unidentified assailant while in his Cartierville residence.[13]
1991 Asau Tran 38 Toronto, Ontario Vietnamese mobster Asau "Johnny" Tran was fatally shot, along with his girlfriend, outside a Dundas St. restaurant in downtown Toronto. While his killer has never been named, his death was thought to be caused by a turf war between Vietnamese gangs as it was one of more than 10 murders at Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants that summer in 1991.[14]
2012 Ranjit Cheema 43 Vancouver, British Columbia In May 2012, Indo-Canadian gangster Ranjit Singh Cheema was killed in a targeted drive-by shooting.
1986 Kerrie Ann Brown 15 Thompson, Manitoba The corpse of 15 year-old Kerrie Ann Brown was found sexually assaulted in a wooded area on the outskirts of Thompson. She had been last seen at a house party.[15][16]
1924 Janet Smith 22 Vancouver, British Columbia
1975 Sharron Prior 16 Longueuil [17]
1982 Atilla Altıkat 45 Ottawa, Ontario Altıkat was a Colonel in the Turkish Armed Forces who had been operating in Canada as a military attaché. He was fatally gunned down on his way to work as part of a series of attacks on Turkish diplomats around the world. Although far-left Armenian militant group ASALA claimed responsibility for these attacks, Altıkat's specific killer has not since been named.
1976 Rhona Margaret Duncan 16 North Vancouver, British Columbia On the evening of July 16, 1976, Rhona Duncan and some friends attended a house party on East Queens Ave. in North Vancouver. Rhona's body was discovered the following morning behind a neighbor's garage. She was partly dressed and had been sexually assaulted and strangled.[18]
1981 Kelly Cook 15 Standard, Alberta On June 28, 1981, the body of Kelly Cook was located in the Chin Lake Reservoir near Taber, Alberta. While Kelly's body was at a funeral home in Calgary, an unknown man demanded to see her body. Even though he claimed to be a family friend, he was denied and eventually left. This man has never been identified but authorities believe it may have been her killer.[19]
1993 Dino Bravo 44 Laval, Quebec Italian Canadian professional wrestler Adolfo Bresciano, better known by his stage name Dino Bravo, was killed in his home by multiple gunshots in March 1993.
1979 Banff Jane Doe 24-25 (estimate) Calgary, Alberta The name given to an unidentified homicide victim who's remains were discovered by hikers at Banff National Park, about 330 meters off the Trans-Canada Highway.[20]
1996 Jane And Cathryn Johnson 36 & 8 Turner Valley, Alberta Jane Johnson, along with her daughter, Cathryn, were murdered in their home on the evening of September 3, 1996. The culprit(s) set fire to the residence in an effort to conceal the crime. According to the RCMP, these killings were likely committed by an individual(s) who had been aquatinted with the victims and was aware of their routinely day-to-day patterns.[21]
2001 David Buller 50 Toronto, Ontario David was found murdered in his office at the University of Toronto on January 18, 2001. The case is unresolved.[22]
2013 Salvatore Calautti 42 Vaughan, Ontario 'Ndrangheta hitman Salvatore "Sam" Calautti was shot dead outside a bachelor party.
1975 Nation River Lady 25-50 (estimate) Casselman, Ontario On May 3, 1975, the body of an unidentified Caucasian woman was found floating along the Nation River. The autopsy report reveals that she had been strangled to death with coaxial cable television wire. Police suspect her body was thrown from the westbound lane of the Highway 417 bridge into the river.[23]
1983 Double murder of Andrea Scherpf and Bernd Göricke 23 & 26 Chetwynd, British Columbia
1981 Dana Bradley 14 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
2017 Honey and Barry Sherman 69 & 75 Toronto, Ontario
2000 André Desjardins 69 Montreal, Quebec On the morning of April 27, André Desjardins was shot 11 times in his back just moments after departing from a popular restaurant in Montreal. In the years leading up to his death, Desjardins had become one of the leading (and most successful) loan sharks in the city, with strong ties to organized crime.

There is widespread speculation that Desjardins' assassin had been a member of the local Hells Angels chapter in Quebec, or possibly a member of the Rock Machine. On the morning of his death, Desjardins had been scheduled to meet with Quebec chapter president, Maurice Boucher to discuss business matters. Boucher, however, did not show up.

Prior to the murder of Desjardins', Boucher had apparently asked him to “forgive” a $400,000 loan with 52% interest had been taken out by a friend of Boucher's. Failing to be intimidated by the notorious biker, Desjardins' angerly refused to excuse the loan. As Maurice Boucher continued to ominously insist that the loan be forgiven, André Desjardins' told Boucher that he did not take orders from the Hells Angels, and reminded him that he had powerful friends in the Mafia, the police and in Quebec politics, saying he was not afraid of Boucher at all. Following this brief argument between the two, Boucher asked Desjardins to meet him the following day for breakfast to further discuss the matter. Desjardins' agreed, but Boucher did not show up as he had planned. It was on this same morning that André Desjardins had been murdered.

1980–1981 Toronto hospital baby deaths Various The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) At least seven babies mysteriously died between the years 1980 and 1981, in what is believed to be a case of homicide.
1980 Gérald Lapierre 50-59 (estimate) Saint-Janvier-de-Joly, Quebec [24]
1983 Paul Volpe 56 Toronto, Ontario
1965 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 Various 100 Mile House, British Columbia A scheduled domestic flight heading to Whitehorse, Yukon exploded on July 8, 1965. All 52 passengers were killed, in this aviation incident that was later discovered to have been caused by a bomb. It is considered to be one of Canada's largest unsolved mass murders.[25]

RCMP investigators believe that the perpetrator was one of four suspicious passengers on board, classifying it as a suicide attack.

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