EPISODE 16: Northern Exposure
In this week's episode Paul and Kate head to 1953 Vancouver, BC where two bodies are discovered in a park. Due to nature's toll on the evidence, the bodies remain unidentified until a breakthrough in detective work decades later helps change the outcome.
Sources:
“For nearly 70 years, these 2 murdered boys were known as the 'Babes in the Woods.' Now they finally have names” by Bethany Lindsay (CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/babes-in-the-woods-identified-1.6352438
“VPD identifies child victims in historic cold case murder” (Vancouver Police Department) 2022.
https://vpd.ca/news/2022/02/15/vpd-identifies-child-victims-in-historic-cold-case-murder/
“How DNA techniques could identify the young victims in Vancouver’s longest-running cold case” by Alan Regan (2018)
https://globalnews.ca/news/4611940/babes-in-the-woods-case-dna/
“Babes in the Woods Haunt Retired Cop” by Kerry Gold (2003)
“Were Mission brothers ‘Babes in the Woods’?” by Jason Roessle (The Abbotsford News) 2003.
“Park Skeletons Definitely Boy and Girl” (The Vancouver Sun) 1953.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75435452/babes-in-the-woods-does/
“’Babes in Woods’ Slaying Laid to Deranged Mother” (The Vancouver Sun) 1953.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75435604/babes-in-the-woods-does/
“Unsolved Stanley Park ‘Babes in the Woods’ case still haunts a city” by Ian Bailey (The Globe and Mail) 2013.
Review: Babes in the Woods (Vancouver Police Museum)
https://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/post/murder-mystery-and-intrigue-in-review-babes-in-the-woods
“Stanley Park” (City of Vancouver)
https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/stanley-park.aspx