Episode 112: Missing Pieces PT 1
On today’s episode, the first part of a two-parter, Paul and Kate head to 1945 Hamilton, Ontario where a limbless and headless torso is found on the side of the road. After matching it with a missing persons report, a series of alarming discoveries are made.
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Sources:
“Crimes, Constables, and Courts” by John C. Weaver
R. v. Dick (Ontario Court of Appeals) 1947.
https://historyofrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/cases/dick.pdf
“TRUE CRIME: The dark and incredible mystery of Evelyn Dick” by Mark McNeil (The Hamilton Spectator) 2016.
“The Strange and Compelling Story of Evelyn Dick” by Mark McNeil (The Hamilton Spectator) 2016.
“Canada: ONTARIO: The Dick Affair” (Time Magazine) 1946.
https://time.com/archive/6606357/canada-ontario-the-dick-affair/
“Evelyn Dick” by Edward Butts (The Canadian Encyclopedia) 2008.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/evelyn-dick
“Evelyn Dick at 100” by Mark McNeil (The Hamilton Spectator) 2020.
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20200811/281831466086850
“Tale of Evelyn Dick cut off at the knees” by John Doyle (The Globe and Mail) 2001.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/tale-of-evelyn-dick-cut-off-at-the-knees/article1338902/
“The Evelyn Dick Files” (Wordpress)
https://evelyndick1946.wordpress.com/
“Hamilton, Ontario, Canada” (Brittanica)
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hamilton-Ontario
“Population of Greater cities, 1941 compared with 1931” (Statistics Canada)
https://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb02/1947/acyb02_19470103003-eng.htm
“The torso murder LANDMARKS” (The Hamilton Spectator) 2016.
“Story of murderer Evelyn Dick enthralled and enraged Hamilton” (Hamilton Spectator) 2021.
“Murder indicated as Torso Found on Mountainside” (The Hamilton Spectator) 2009.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1014714981/?match=1&terms=%22evelyn%20dick%22%20paroled
“Party Doll: Getting inside the mind of Evelyn Dick” (The Hamilton Spectator) 1999.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1013193742/?match=1&terms=%22evelyn%20dick%22%20paroled
“Torso” (National Cancer Institute)
https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/torso