Cold-Case Murder Focus of Library Presentation
Prince George, B.C. – An unsolved cold-case murder will be the focus of a presentation at the Bob Harkins branch of the Prince George Public Library Thursday night.
It will be led by forensic anthropologist Debra Komar, author of “The Bastard of Stikine: An unsolved cold-case murder.”
The book looks back at the 1842 murder of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) trader John McLoughlin Jr., who was shot dead inside the walls of Fort Stikine.
“It never went to trial, was never investigated, no police, no autopsy. He was simply put in the ground and essentially forgotten about,” says P.E.I. based Komar. “And I wanted to have a look using modern techniques; whether we could go back that far in time and actually solve an unsolved murder.”
She says the crime was committed in the city known today as Wrangell, Alaska.
“At the time this happened, the HBC was renting it from the Russians. It wasn’t technically Canada, it wasn’t technically anything other than the Czar of Russia claimed authority over it and he rented it to the HBC.”
So what can people expect Thursday night?
“What I like to do is sort of walk people through what is evidence itself. And then how that survives through history and how we can still understand it today. Test it, and analyze it with modern-day cases.”
Komar says her presentation will appear to “anyone who has interest in forensics, and in history.”
The presentation runs from 7-8:30 pm and is free to the public.
Comments
I wish the library got into the new technology and started doing webcast events.
This sounds like a really interesting event.
Yes George needs this sort of event with all unsolved murders that are open files.
Cheers
Cheers, with 24 of those unsolved murders in Abbotsford, I think they should sponsor some sort of event there (from the Sun):
“If murder is the worst crime, then solving cases where someone’s life has ended violently and prematurely should be a top priority for law enforcement agencies in Metro Vancouver.
But a Vancouver Sun investigation has found that over a 12-year period, 290 murders remain unsolved across the Lower Mainland.
The Sun compiled information for a comprehensive database from 2002 to the end of 2013 from police releases, news archives and court files.
Canada’s largest murder squad — the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team — worked with The Sun to verify the 178 murders on our list for which IHIT has sole responsibility.
The Vancouver Police Department has conduct of another 90 unsolved homicide cases in the same time period, including files from West Vancouver and Port Moody that the VPD was contracted to investigate.
Not surprisingly, most of the unsolved murders took place in Vancouver or Surrey — the two largest cities in the region. Vancouver had 86 cases over the 12-year period, while Surrey had 76.
But smaller cities in the region also have many unsolved murders. Burnaby has 22. Abbotsford — twice declared the murder capital of Canada at the height of the gang war — has 24.”
And George is No 1 in Canada When it comes to crime so stop looking at other communities clean up you own act.
Cheers
It went way over his head slinky.
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