List of unsolved murders in Canada

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

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
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.
1962	Alexandra Wiwcharuk	23	City Park, Saskatoon
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.
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.
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.
1985	Frank Shoofey	44	Montreal, Quebec	Shoofey, a prominent criminal lawyer in Canada, was gunned down outside his Montreal law office on Cherrier Street. 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.
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.
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.
1924	Janet Smith	22	Vancouver, British Columbia
1975	Sharron Prior	16	Longueuil
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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. RCMP investigators believe that the perpetrator was one of four suspicious passengers on board, classifying it as a suicide attack.