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

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crimes_Constables_and_Courts/Yoz_2oMu12IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=evelyn+dick+vagrancy&pg=PA150&printsec=frontcover

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.

https://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news/crime/true-crime-the-dark-and-incredible-mystery-of-evelyn-dick/article_d8b8ce1e-0fd0-508a-848b-8b74675ca04e.html

“The Strange and Compelling Story of Evelyn Dick” by Mark McNeil (The Hamilton Spectator) 2016.

https://www.thespec.com/news/crime/the-strange-and-compelling-story-of-evelyn-dick/article_42fe7c1c-c648-5221-a866-3adefbd20214.html

“Canada: ONTARIO: The Dick Affair” (Time Magazine) 1946.

https://time.com/archive/6606357/canada-ontario-the-dick-affair/

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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/

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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.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20160402/282703341237134?srsltid=AfmBOoo0cbXxieg0nwT3BW4Wv6zPyY-2AL-D_aDCrZpEUNnJ8ugTd3mP

“Story of murderer Evelyn Dick enthralled and enraged Hamilton” (Hamilton Spectator) 2021.

https://www.thespec.com/life/hamilton-region/story-of-murderer-evelyn-dick-enthralled-and-enraged-hamilton/article_bcef52cd-7616-59f7-a2c1-9967387b9c44.html

“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