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He brushed the leaves aside and uncovered the most baffling double murder Vancouver has ever had.

– The Vancouver Province April 15, 1953

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In 1953, the police focused on the investigation as a deliberate homicide.  As the victims were children, it is highly likely they were killed with pre-meditation and precaution but not defensively. From the information gained from the news accounts, the two brothers appeared to have suffered from blunt force trauma by a shingler’s hatchet to the skulls causing death.

Any victim and the injuries that they suffer (or do not suffer), is an extension of that crime scene. (Turvey, 2002)[1]

Even though my graphic novel will be a fictional interpretation of real life events, the details are based on meticulous research of primary resources.

The crime has been reconstructed from the evidence at hand.  All that can be said with certainty is that two young brothers died or were killed elsewhere and brought to the park scene, or died or were killed in the park at some point before January 1953.  Whether or not they were killed at the scene cannot be verified.  It is very likely they were killed deliberately, as there are two victims- both unidentified and unclaimed.

Who killed them cannot be verified either but it appears from the evidence at the scene to have at least involved a woman- a woman who may or may not have been a parent or guardian.  The children were found laid out head-to-toe; it appears they were left at the scene with the intention abandonment or disposal.

To reconstruct the crime and to get an understanding as to who the victims and the offender(s) may be, the time of death needs to be examined in order to establish a historical context. To put “flesh back on the bones” one starts with the skeletons and then moves backward in time by examining the amount of decomposition.  The field of forensic taphonomy examines the postmortem events of human remains and provides valid data to allow a narrowing or increasing of the time-of-death window…

To read more on this particular research section go to: To Put Flesh on Bone (PDF)

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[1] Turvey, B. (2002). Criminal Profiling- An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis.  (2^nd Edition) San Diego, California: Academic Press.