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00:15Opened the kitchen door and there he was.
00:17Blood everywhere.
00:18It wasn't an accident.
00:20You could tell.
00:22There wasn't a hell of a lot of forensic evidence to be found.
00:26There was a lot of restless nights.
00:28Dad was supposed to go meet my brother, but he didn't show up.
00:34I didn't know whether he was taken, whether he was still alive.
00:38The guy just phones and asks, listen, I hear there was a murder out in Langdon.
00:44Was the guy shot?
00:46Even though I didn't see the guy do it in my heart, I'm convinced he did it.
00:50And I have no mercy for someone who would break into someone's house and kill someone.
00:55In my eyes, you'll be the coldest, bloodiest son of a bitch I've ever met.
01:03Welcome to Crime Beat.
01:04I'm Anthony Robart.
01:06Tonight, a beloved senior was found beaten to death in his own home.
01:11This left a community shaken and detectives puzzled.
01:15Who would commit such a violent act and why?
01:18Now, despite an exhaustive investigation, the case went cold.
01:24And that is when another senior vanished.
01:29Here now is Nancy Hixt with Golden Years Gone.
01:34Out in the country, away from the hustle and bustle of the city in rural Alberta,
01:47neighbours can become like family.
01:49And you keep an eye out for each other.
01:53That's why what happened back in the spring of 1994
01:57will stay with Len Moore for the rest of his life.
02:01It was such a shock.
02:15I can picture everything just clear as day.
02:19It was just horrible.
02:21Len passed by his good friend Artie Turner's place
02:25every day on his way to work.
02:27But on April 30th, 1994, Len remembers that something seemed off.
02:34Get to work and, I don't know, 9 o'clock or so,
02:39I tried phoning him.
02:40I tried phoning him a couple of times.
02:43And anyways, he didn't answer.
02:46So on the way home, I worked an extra hour.
02:49So it was, you know, probably 7.30, 8 o'clock when I was going by.
02:56And his car was still not there.
03:01Len decided to stop in and see if Artie left him a note.
03:06So I'm pulling into Artie's yard.
03:10And, you know, the house was sitting right here.
03:12And his car sat right here, and it's gone.
03:19Get under my truck.
03:25Walk around to the house, and the porch door was closed.
03:30Very, you know, not good.
03:33Because he had a cat in there that just had a kitten.
03:36He never closed that door.
03:39There was no note.
03:40Len decided to take a look inside.
03:44Walked inside the porch,
03:46and the inside plywood door was closed.
03:51And it was never closed, you know.
03:53The only door that was ever closed was the kitchen door,
03:56which had glass panes in it.
03:59So I opened that one, and then I opened the kitchen door,
04:02and there he was, laying there on the kitchen floor.
04:06I leaned in, and I knew he was gone.
04:09So it was panic.
04:13Blood everywhere.
04:16And it was, I ran past him through his living room
04:19and through his bedroom, and that's where the phone was.
04:22It was a rotary phone, so I don't know what I did.
04:24I finally got a hold of the police,
04:27and I couldn't talk.
04:29I dropped the phone 16 times.
04:31Anyways, the lady said, hang on, stay on the phone, stay on the phone.
04:36I said, I've got to get out of here.
04:38Within just minutes, first responders from the RCMP arrived at the property.
04:44He said, you sure Artie just didn't fall down and bang his head?
04:50I said, no, it wasn't an accident.
04:52You could tell, like, the way he was laying, you know,
04:58and the blood everywhere, like, you know, it wasn't just a drop or two.
05:03There was blood running down the floor.
05:06There was pools.
05:08Yeah, it was not just an accident.
05:10When we arrive, our forensic unit is arriving at the same time.
05:18Now, this would be on April the 30th.
05:21There was obviously a situation that happened in the kitchen,
05:25and Mr. Turner was struck several times
05:28and basically went down face first
05:31and then was hit again
05:33and then subsequently bled out there in the kitchen.
05:36So he was in the process of going to bed
05:39when the perpetrator showed up,
05:44struck him, and committed the murder.
05:49Investigators videotaped the scene
05:51and gathered evidence from Artie's property.
05:55His vehicle, which is a very distinctive,
05:58it was basically a GMC El Camino,
06:03and that's, in the old days,
06:05he used to make these cars,
06:07you know, you'd see the odd one around.
06:10It was a passenger car on a passenger frame,
06:14but the back of the frame was basically open
06:17and you could haul materials.
06:20So it was kind of like a miniature pickup,
06:22but only in a car chassis.
06:25So, and it was apparently mustard-colored and brown.
06:28So it would be very distinct,
06:30especially in those days
06:32because there weren't many of those vehicles around.
06:34We see the vehicle as sighted a couple of times,
06:38one on Glenmore Trail,
06:40so a farmer's out working his fields while he's seating,
06:43and then looks and sees this vehicle,
06:46which is Artie's,
06:47and said, holy Christ, look at that thing go.
06:51As investigators followed the trail of Artie's missing car,
06:55an autopsy revealed he had died from head injuries.
07:00Artie had been struck on the head at least 14 times
07:04with a rod-shaped implement.
07:07Well, it was a blunt force, you know,
07:10I mean, just what he was struck with,
07:11and then there was a couple of marks on the glass door,
07:15the third door.
07:16There was a couple from swinging.
07:18He had obviously hit the door a couple of times
07:20with this weapon.
07:23Police never recovered a murder weapon.
07:27They asked me to go and take a look
07:29to see if I knew what was missing,
07:32and all of Artie's prescription pills were gone.
07:38And, you know,
07:40there was a few things that I remembered that were gone.
07:43You know, he didn't have a hell of a lot of stuff,
07:46and so we went through,
07:48and then we found Artie's wallet,
07:50and it had his driver's license,
07:52and I think Alberta Health
07:54may have had his birth certificate as well,
07:59but it was just laying empty,
08:01just the wallet,
08:02and that was found in,
08:04I think, on one of the cabinets in the dining room.
08:08You know, robbery would be the motive.
08:09You know, basically a financial note of this deal,
08:14his money, knowing full well
08:16it was the end of the month,
08:17and he would have cash.
08:33It's been more than 30 years
08:36since Len Moore stopped in to see Artie Turner
08:39only to discover his friend had been murdered.
08:45Memories of that day continue to haunt him.
08:49He knew Artie as a kind, grandfatherly figure
08:52who loved to visit with friends.
08:55He just liked socializing, you know.
08:58He liked gardening, he liked socializing.
09:02Be us once in a while.
09:04And, you know.
09:06Artie Turner wasn't a wealthy man.
09:09He had worked for both Canadian National Rail
09:12and Canadian Pacific Rail, then retired.
09:16Well, he probably lived like a lot of people today,
09:19from check to check, you know, from payday to payday.
09:22I think his pension from the railway
09:26was around maybe $1,200,
09:28and then he would have got Canada Pension, of course,
09:31and CPP, and probably, you know, on a monthly basis,
09:37if it amounted to $2,000, you know,
09:41that would be pretty well it.
09:42So his rent for that residence,
09:45originally I was told it was $150,
09:48and then I was later told it was, I think, $200
09:51and he was paying a month for this place.
09:53And basically, he was there by himself.
09:56He was a single person.
10:00Artie Turner's murder topped local news headlines.
10:05The RCMP asked for the public's help
10:07to find his missing El Camino.
10:10It was later located in the parking lot
10:13of a Calgary shopping mall.
10:15Police believe it had been wiped down clean.
10:18With no forensic evidence to point to a suspect,
10:24police turned to Len Moore for help.
10:27He was interviewing me in his police car.
10:31He's asked me a bunch of questions.
10:33Who did I think could have done it?
10:35I said, I have no idea.
10:37Like, he already never had any enemies.
10:39You know, he was a friendly guy.
10:41And I was sitting in the car and I had this,
10:43this is no word of a lie,
10:45I had the worst shiver right from the top of my neck,
10:49right through my spine.
10:51Blurted out, Raymond Tudor.
10:55And Bob, the cop, looked at me and went, what?
10:59I said, I don't know why I said that.
11:01It was just like Artie was, you know,
11:03he always liked to poke you, you know,
11:04I just sort of felt like.
11:09Artie had said that Raymond was a bad actor.
11:15Like he, he got into trouble with the law.
11:20You know, he wasn't a fan favorite by any means,
11:22but he was a, I guess he was a sketchy person.
11:27Is that okay to say?
11:28The RCMP dug into Raymond Tudor's background
11:32and learned he lived at Aylith Lodge,
11:35a Southeast Calgary apartment complex.
11:38He had recently finished a jail term
11:41for convictions of forcible confinement
11:43and firearms offenses.
11:46Everybody was leery of Raymond John Tudor.
11:50He's one of those guys that you grew up with
11:52and didn't really want to know.
11:54So we ended up bringing him into the office very early,
11:58I think probably about the 3rd or 4th of May
12:01and interviewed him there.
12:03Any leads in the case?
12:06Raymond, I tell you, we're in trouble.
12:08We don't have anything at all to help us.
12:14Well, I can't believe somebody's doing that.
12:16It's like an old story, you know.
12:19How come your question didn't mean to you?
12:22Who's Raymond, we've been talking to you
12:25and he's been talking to everybody?
12:26First time I was talking to him
12:28was my dad used to work in the CPR.
12:30I used to stop anything to me once in a while
12:32and I used to go on to work, I think.
12:36And I've had one of my folks named
12:38this time if we suffered.
12:40When's a lot of time you've been along?
12:42And of course he gave us a denial statement
13:07saying no, that he had gone up
13:09to the Blackfoot truck stop,
13:13had dinner there and did some laundry there
13:15and then came back and he was at the Aleth Lodge
13:20the rest of the evening.
13:21So he wasn't responsible for this.
13:26Weeks went by and investigators struggled
13:29to push the case forward.
13:31It does slow down because now we've interviewed everybody
13:34that we know that's attached to that file.
13:37We don't have any DNA evidence.
13:40We don't have the weapon that was used to kill Artie.
13:45Then, out of the blue,
13:47Len Moore received a strange phone call
13:50from an unidentified man.
13:53He asked me all the information
13:55about how Artie was murdered.
13:58Was he stabbed or was he shot?
14:00And he said, if you could give me any of that information,
14:04he said, I might have, I might know the person that did it.
14:08I thought it was totally crazy.
14:12I mean, why would somebody phone you at work and ask you?
14:14And if you knew the person that did the murdering,
14:18turn them in.
14:20The RCMP received a similar anonymous tip.
14:24The guy just phones and asks,
14:26listen, I hear there was a murder out in Langdon.
14:30Was the guy shot?
14:33Artie Turner had been bludgeoned to death,
14:36but the RCMP had never made that information public.
14:41We know that there's somebody out there
14:43that wants to talk to us,
14:45but probably scared for himself.
14:48And we just got to find that guy.
14:50But more than a year passed with no arrests.
14:57And then another senior was targeted
15:00and the case seemed eerily similar.
15:17Welcome back to Crime Beat.
15:18In the spring of 1994,
15:21a 75-year-old man was found murdered
15:24in his rural home, east of Calgary.
15:26Without forensic evidence, the case went cold.
15:29Then, 16 months later,
15:32another senior vanished under suspicious circumstances.
15:37Here again is Nancy Hicks with Golden Years Gone.
15:42That was us when we were a little older,
15:51Jim and I and Mom and Dad.
15:55Bill Vamastic was a hardworking man
15:57who wanted to spend his golden years
16:00with his wife, Lee,
16:02only to lose the love of his life to cancer.
16:05And he was devastated.
16:10You know, he'd say to me,
16:12I can handle daytime,
16:14but he said, nighttime, I can't cope.
16:17It had been a rough year,
16:19but the 67-year-old was finally feeling like himself again.
16:23And in the summer of 1995,
16:26Bill had joined a group of friends
16:28on an expedition to Alaska.
16:31Dad caught this 153-pound halibut,
16:37this huge, and he was so excited.
16:42Bill was a devout family man
16:44who visited his kids and grandson almost every day
16:48and would frequently call to catch up
16:51when they were apart.
16:53Three or four times a day, easy, yeah.
16:57And he would usually be waiting for me
16:59when I got home from work.
17:01On the evening of August 24th, 1995,
17:08Bill called his daughter.
17:10He phoned quarter to nine,
17:13and I said, what's wrong?
17:15And I could hear people talking in the background.
17:18He sounded a little off,
17:22and I said, are you okay, Dad?
17:24I said, do you want me to come down?
17:26And he goes, no, no, it's fine.
17:28He said, your brother's here,
17:30and I said, well, okay.
17:33I don't know, it was just like he wanted me to know
17:36what was going on.
17:39And I said, well, if you decide you want me to come down,
17:43I can drive over.
17:44I said, just take me a minute, you know.
17:46And he goes, no, no, everything's okay.
17:49And we hung up.
17:50The next day, Bill had planned to meet his son
17:55at a Calgary tire shop.
17:57Jim went there, and Dad didn't show up.
18:01And so Jim started phoning the house,
18:05going, well, where's Dad?
18:06Where's Dad?
18:07And I said, well, I don't know.
18:08If he said he was going to be there,
18:10he'll be there.
18:11But he didn't show.
18:14And so Jim said, well, I'm going to go up to Dad's
18:18and see if he's home.
18:20He wasn't answering the phone either.
18:23But when Jim arrived at the house,
18:25his dad wasn't there.
18:28There was a note on the table
18:30that said, Gone Fishing to Montana, Dad.
18:37Sharon immediately went to meet her brother
18:40at her dad's home and saw the note.
18:43It was written in big, big letters.
18:46Well, Dad didn't print.
18:48He wrote.
18:49And it was kind of tiny writing that he had.
18:53So I knew it wasn't Dad that had written it.
18:56You don't know what to think.
18:57You don't want to believe that something's wrong.
19:03But there were things that I knew were wrong.
19:07Well, the first thing I did was look up in the cupboard.
19:10He kept a roll of American money
19:13for when he did go down to the States.
19:17And it was still there.
19:19And then I went in the closet.
19:21His suitcases were all still there.
19:23His jacket and hat were in the kitchen,
19:28the ones that he always wore.
19:30And there was one shoe by the back doorway,
19:34just one.
19:35And I couldn't figure that out.
19:38I looked in the liquor cabinet.
19:40It was empty.
19:41He always had a good selection.
19:44And it was all gone.
19:47Guns were missing.
19:49He had a lot of black powder guns,
19:51but he also had a lot of collector rifles and pistols.
19:58The last room that I looked in
20:01was kind of a study room that he had.
20:05And he had a record player set up in there.
20:08And he'd like to go sit in there on the couch
20:11and listen to music.
20:14That couch had been moved to the middle of the floor
20:17and it was covered with a bedspread.
20:19And I guess when it's not your house,
20:22it's your parents' house,
20:24you don't want to be touching things.
20:26Or I don't know,
20:27I just sort of had that mentality.
20:29So I went home.
20:31But Sharon couldn't shake the feeling
20:35that something was wrong.
20:37We went back the next morning
20:39and I brought my son along.
20:42I headed for that room.
20:44By then, that bedspread had started to seep
20:48and you could see blood coming up.
20:51So I said, move the couch.
20:54And it was just...
20:57this big, huge pool of blood.
21:01So I grabbed my son
21:05and ran out of the house.
21:09I just tried to collect my thoughts.
21:13I didn't know whether he was taken,
21:16whether he was still alive,
21:18whether he was laying somewhere injured.
21:21You don't, you know, don't know, right?
21:25Bill's family reported him missing to police.
21:28They were able to provide the investigators
21:31at the time with some information,
21:33some timelines,
21:35and certainly it looked suspicious.
21:38One of the things that the family noticed
21:40is that their dad's Ford Victoria vehicle was missing.
21:45And so one of the first things that we did
21:47was push out an alert
21:49with the vehicle description
21:50so that if it's spotted,
21:52that we would know.
21:53And again, we're still not sure what we have here.
21:56It's very possible
21:57that their dad is in the vehicle.
22:00We don't know.
22:02Just hours later,
22:04at about 10 p.m.
22:05on August 26, 1995,
22:08the vehicle was spotted
22:10by Calgary police officers.
22:12They see a vehicle driving on a flat tire.
22:14They run the license plate
22:15and they see that it has been flagged
22:17by our investigators
22:19as belonging to a missing person.
22:22So the vehicle does pull over
22:23and then right away,
22:24the driver gets out and flees on foot.
22:27And so there's a foot chase
22:29between the police officers
22:30and that driver of the vehicle.
22:31Within a block,
22:33the driver of that vehicle is arrested.
22:36Police confirmed
22:37the driver was not Bill the Mastic.
22:41Upon search,
22:42they find the car keys for that vehicle
22:45and they also find Bill the Mastic's wallet
22:48on that driver.
22:50One of the other things
22:50that they noted
22:51is that he was wearing cowboy boots.
22:54They noticed in the stitching,
22:56there appeared to be some blood
22:57in that stitching.
22:57That driver was transported
22:59to our headquarters.
23:00Again, we don't know what we have yet.
23:02So we know we have
23:04what looks like a crime scene,
23:05but again,
23:06is it a crime scene
23:07of somebody being assaulted and bleeding?
23:09Is it a murder scene?
23:11Like, we're not sure what we have yet.
23:12In September of 1995,
23:26Bill the Mastic's family
23:28should have been celebrating
23:29his 68th birthday.
23:32Instead, they searched.
23:35He hadn't been seen
23:36since August 24th.
23:38It was a really unpleasant time.
23:41It really was.
23:43Bill's kids told police
23:44about an incident
23:45that occurred earlier that summer
23:47when he attended a friend's funeral.
23:51Apparently,
23:52one of their adult children
23:53named Raymond
23:54had approached him.
23:56And I guess
23:57he was outside
23:58of the church
24:00having a cigarette
24:02after the service.
24:04Raymond came up to him
24:06and I guess
24:07started talking with him,
24:10told him he was having
24:11a hard time,
24:12borrowed $40
24:13off of Dad
24:14and asked for Dad's address
24:18to drop the money back off
24:21the following week.
24:24So Dad gave him the money,
24:27apparently,
24:27and never thought
24:29anything more of it.
24:31But it turned out
24:33that same man
24:34showed up at Bill's home
24:36the last night
24:37he was seen alive.
24:39Dad and my brother Jim
24:41had supper together
24:43and there was a knock
24:45at the door
24:45and it was Raymond.
24:49Raymond was drinking
24:51and borrowing smokes
24:53off Dad
24:54and I think my brother
24:55just felt a bit agitated
24:58maybe and left.
24:59Sharon and her brother
25:01told police
25:02they felt
25:03this fellow Raymond
25:04was the last person
25:06to see their father.
25:08So when police
25:09recovered Bill's vehicle
25:11and it turned out
25:12to be a man
25:12named Raymond
25:13driving it,
25:15investigators
25:16were extremely suspicious.
25:19I understand
25:19you're Raymond Tudor?
25:20No.
25:21Okay.
25:22There's a connection
25:23between you
25:24and a vehicle
25:25that belongs
25:26to this fellow
25:26that we're looking
25:27into his disappearance.
25:28his name is Bill
25:29Volnastic,
25:31I think is that
25:32how you pronounce it,
25:33I think.
25:34At the current time
25:36you're under arrest
25:38because you fled
25:40from Mr. Volnastic's car
25:42and the circumstances
25:44surrounding Mr. Volnastic's
25:46disappearance
25:47are suspicious
25:47and we have reason
25:49to believe
25:50there may be
25:50violence involved.
25:51so at the current time
25:54you're under arrest
25:55because in our eyes
25:56you're a suspect
25:57in the violence
25:59that we believe
26:00happened to Mr. Volnastic.
26:02We're not sure what.
26:03Bill went fishing
26:04as far as I know.
26:05Can you help us out
26:06at all
26:06with where Bill
26:09Volnastic might be
26:10or what happened?
26:12The last I talked
26:14to him
26:14he was going fishing
26:15and he left me
26:16his car
26:16and he said
26:17he was going fishing
26:17down in Montana
26:19or Idaho
26:20or something.
26:22When did you
26:23when did you borrow
26:24Bill's car?
26:26Well, that same night
26:27he went over there.
26:28So he gave you
26:29the car that same night?
26:30Yeah.
26:31After the same night.
26:32And when are you
26:33to return it?
26:34When he gets back.
26:37When he gets back.
26:40Did he lend you
26:41anything else?
26:42Mm-hmm.
26:42What else did he lend you?
26:43He gave me his wallet
26:44with his credit card
26:45in it
26:45because I don't have
26:46any money
26:47to put gas in the car
26:48so he gave me his oil
26:49to put gas in his car.
26:54So he lent you his wallet?
26:55Mm-hmm.
26:56And his credit cards?
26:57Yeah.
26:58All right.
26:58Well, we're friends.
27:00The investigators
27:00were suspicious initially
27:02that he's not telling
27:03the full story.
27:05Don't know what the story is
27:06but certainly not
27:07telling the full story.
27:08The detectives
27:09left the room
27:10and Tudor slept.
27:12At the same time,
27:14a forensic examination
27:15of Bill Vimastic's home
27:17was taking place.
27:19So when the blood spatter
27:20expert arrived at the scene
27:23and took a look at the scene,
27:26it was their expert opinion
27:27that somebody had tried
27:28to cover up,
27:29that somebody had tried
27:30to clean up the scene.
27:32They found what appeared
27:33to be a boot print
27:35that had, you know,
27:37from blood essentially.
27:39And so the boot print
27:40looked like it had
27:41a pointier toe
27:42similar to a cowboy boot.
27:45They noticed
27:46what appeared
27:47to be drag marks.
27:48The drag marks
27:49were from essentially
27:51the garage to the door
27:53or perhaps from the door
27:55to the garage.
27:56Difficult to tell.
27:57Police also examined
27:59Bill Vimastic's vehicle
28:00and found a large amount
28:03of blood.
28:05Raymond.
28:06Raymond.
28:06It would appear
28:14that someone bleeding
28:19very badly was placed
28:21in the trunk of that car.
28:24I didn't even have
28:25the trunk before.
28:26I don't know.
28:28Well, there appears
28:29to be a large quantity
28:30of blood in the trunk
28:30of that car.
28:31There's blood in there.
28:32I don't know how
28:33the hell it's got there.
28:35It's not my car.
28:36A friend of mine's car.
28:39Who's missing?
28:42Well, I don't know
28:43what they detect
28:44on in Montana
28:44because I'm pretty sure
28:45that's where he said
28:46he was going.
28:47But the note
28:48that was written
28:49has been shown
28:50to Bill's daughter.
28:51Mm-hmm.
28:52And it's not
28:53Bill's handwriting.
28:54What note
28:55are you talking about?
28:56The one that says
28:57gone fishing.
28:59I didn't even know
29:00what he left him out.
29:01All he told me
29:02is he was going fishing.
29:03Why is there blood
29:04on your cowboy boots then?
29:07I have no idea.
29:08Whose blood would that be?
29:10I have no idea.
29:14Would that be Bill's blood?
29:16I didn't even know
29:17there was blood
29:17on my cow.
29:18I don't know.
29:19It appears to me
29:20that you've killed Bill.
29:21That's when investigators
29:37brought up
29:38another unsolved homicide.
29:40You know what bothers me
29:42is
29:43we did a little check-in
29:47tonight.
29:49Mm.
29:51There's an old fellow
29:52that lived out of Langdon.
29:54Mm.
29:56That you were friends with.
29:58Mm.
29:59You know who I'm referring to?
30:00Yeah, I know exactly
30:01who you're talking to.
30:02Who am I talking about?
30:03Talking about Artie.
30:05Talking about Artie.
30:06What's Artie's last name?
30:08I don't know.
30:09And no,
30:11I didn't have anything
30:12to do with that either.
30:14But the circumstances
30:15are so similar,
30:15aren't they?
30:17I have no idea.
30:19You look me in the eye
30:19and you tell me again
30:20that you didn't kill Bill.
30:22I didn't kill Bill.
30:24When is this nonsense
30:25going to stop?
30:26There's two men dead.
30:27What nonsense?
30:29You killing people.
30:30That's what nonsense.
30:31There's two men dead.
30:32Yeah, right.
30:33You can help the family
30:35by putting Bill's body
30:37to rest
30:37and letting them
30:38have a service.
30:39Now, you can sit here stubborn.
30:40I'm still locking you up.
30:42You are being locked up.
30:43No joke.
30:44Tonight.
30:45You can sit here
30:46and you can make us look
30:48and we'll look for a day
30:49we'll look for three years.
30:51But we'll find them.
30:52And then at that point in time,
30:55in my eyes,
30:58you'll be the coldest,
30:59bloodiest son of a bitch
31:00I've ever met.
31:01I'm telling you that you're
31:02probably going to jail
31:03for murder here.
31:04I don't think I'm going
31:05to jail for murder
31:06because I haven't murdered
31:07anybody.
31:07I'm telling you that
31:08you will be locked up tonight
31:10and charged with the murder
31:11of Bill.
31:12Tonight.
31:13I think I better
31:14phone my lawyer
31:14anytime you want
31:16because that's bulls**t.
31:18Police believed
31:20Raymond Tudor
31:21was responsible
31:22for the disappearance
31:23of Bill Vamastic
31:24and they charged him
31:26with second-degree murder.
31:28He refused to disclose anything,
31:33refused to admit doing anything,
31:39said he'd been and left
31:41and that Dad was fine
31:44when he left
31:46and he knew nothing about it.
31:49Yet he was wearing
31:50Dad's gold retirement watch
31:53when he was apprehended
31:56that night,
31:57you know,
31:58driving Dad's car.
32:00I think it was
32:00one of the first cases
32:02in Canada
32:05where charges were laid
32:08without a body
32:11being recovered.
32:14Just the amount of blood
32:15that was found.
32:17In the meantime,
32:19the search for Bill's body
32:20continued.
32:21I had posters made up
32:23that we distributed
32:25all throughout
32:27southern Alberta
32:28with pictures of things
32:30that were missing
32:30from the house.
32:32There was a couch cushion,
32:33there was a bedspread
32:35that was missing
32:36off another bed,
32:38pictures of his car.
32:40The television coverage
32:41died down
32:42and I wanted to keep it alive.
32:44I wanted people
32:46to keep looking for him
32:48because I wasn't going to rest
32:50until he was found.
33:03Welcome back.
33:04After one senior
33:06had been found murdered
33:07and another was missing
33:08and presumed dead,
33:10police discovered
33:11an eerie connection.
33:13They believed
33:14the same person
33:15killed both men.
33:17The problem was
33:18finding the evidence
33:19to prove it.
33:22Here now is
33:23Nancy Hickst
33:24with a conclusion
33:25of Golden Years Gone.
33:35Yeah, that was a smile.
33:37For more than a year,
33:40Artie Turner's killer
33:41had eluded arrest.
33:43The RCMP knew
33:47someone had information
33:49about the homicide
33:50and finally,
33:52that witness
33:53came forward.
33:55Okay, my name is
33:56Nolan Dodd.
33:58I'm giving information
34:00voluntarily here
34:02because I believe
34:04I know something
34:05about a murder
34:06that happened
34:07out at Langdon.
34:08The witness told police
34:10he was watching the news
34:12and learned
34:13Raymond Tudor
34:14was a suspect
34:15in the death
34:16of Bill Vemastic.
34:19I believe the same guy
34:21is responsible
34:22for the murder
34:23out at Langdon.
34:24The night of the murder
34:25out at Langdon,
34:27the pal's name
34:28that I drove out there
34:29was also
34:30Raymond Tudor.
34:33See, because I was
34:33just afraid
34:34that it was going to be
34:34my word
34:35against his word.
34:36Right.
34:37And, you know,
34:38I'm like,
34:38I don't have an alibi
34:39for that night.
34:40I drove the guy out,
34:42dropped him off
34:42alongside the road,
34:44then I went back
34:45to Ogden.
34:46The man said
34:47he had no idea
34:49Tudor was going
34:50to kill Artie Turner.
34:52Even though I didn't
34:53see the guy do it
34:53in my heart,
34:54I'm convinced
34:54he did it,
34:55and I have no mercy
34:57for someone
34:57who would break
34:58into someone's house
34:59and kill someone.
35:03Days later,
35:04the witness provided
35:05a videotaped statement
35:07to RCMP Corporal
35:08Doug Morrison.
35:10This is the golden witness,
35:12yeah.
35:13You know,
35:14because we could
35:14never figure out
35:15how would Tudor
35:17get out there.
35:19I could not see him
35:20walking alongside
35:21the road
35:22or in either ditch.
35:23Okay.
35:24Now, when you dropped
35:25him off and pulled away
35:26and you used
35:27your rearview mirror,
35:28did you see which way
35:28he went from there?
35:30No.
35:31So this is the area
35:32where you made
35:33your turn around
35:33and then continued
35:34northbound.
35:34Yeah, I turned around
35:35right here
35:36and as I was facing
35:38this house over here
35:39that's been told me
35:42that it's Artie Turner's,
35:43I noticed there were
35:44no lights on
35:44at that house.
35:46As the RCMP
35:47finalized their case
35:49against Tudor
35:50for the murder
35:51of Artie Turner,
35:52there was a development
35:54in the investigation
35:56into Bill Vamastic's
35:58homicide.
35:59We had a break
36:00on September 2nd
36:02and that's when
36:03somebody that lives
36:04just east of Calgary,
36:05just outside city limits,
36:07located what appeared
36:08to be some blood-stained
36:10shower curtain
36:11and a rod
36:12and called the RCMP.
36:14There was, in fact,
36:15a shower curtain
36:17and a shower rod
36:18that was missing
36:18from the victim's house
36:20and this description matched.
36:25Then, on September 22nd, 1995,
36:29four weeks after Bill Vamastic
36:31disappeared,
36:33two pheasant hunters
36:34on a rural property
36:36south of Carsland
36:37discovered a body
36:39near an old abandoned barn.
36:42When Calgary homicide detectives
36:44arrived at the scene,
36:46located about an hour's drive
36:48southeast of Bill's home,
36:50they confirmed
36:51it was, in fact,
36:53the missing senior.
36:55The investigators took the time
36:57to take a really
36:59a beautiful sunset photograph
37:01from the place
37:03that Bill was located
37:04and, you know,
37:06it's, like,
37:08it's heartfelt.
37:11It's the investigators
37:12trying to provide closure
37:15to the family
37:16and, yeah,
37:18I just thought it was
37:18very kind of what they did
37:20and super impactful.
37:21And they said,
37:22this is, you know,
37:23your dad's view
37:24every day
37:25and it was actually
37:27beautiful.
37:28But, yeah.
37:31But any sense of peace
37:33the family felt
37:35was short-lived.
37:36The autopsy report
37:38gave me answers,
37:40you know,
37:41seven stab wounds
37:42into the back,
37:44violent wounds
37:45which busted rib bones
37:47and they figured
37:50that dad was bent over,
37:51I think,
37:52putting a record on
37:53or something
37:53when Tudor came up
37:55behind him
37:56and just started
37:58stabbing him.
37:59The extreme violence,
38:02all for a few hundred dollars.
38:05Well,
38:06and I think he figured
38:07that he'd got away
38:08with Artie's.
38:10So,
38:11do it again,
38:12right?
38:12That was easy.
38:13In December of 1995,
38:19about a year and a half
38:21after Artie Turner
38:22was killed,
38:23the RCMP
38:24paid Raymond Tudor
38:26a visit
38:26at the Calgary
38:27Remand Centre.
38:29Actually,
38:30just this morning
38:30I received a call
38:31from a fellow
38:33by the name
38:33of Mr. Dodd.
38:34He told me
38:36that
38:37he had,
38:39in fact,
38:39dropped you off
38:40at Artie Turner's place
38:42which is very close
38:43to Artie Turner's place
38:44on the evening
38:45of it.
38:48Now,
38:50that's contrary
38:51to what the U.S.
38:52because they don't even
38:53know the guy.
38:54They don't know Mr. Dodd.
38:57Tudor was charged
38:58with the second degree murder
39:00of Artie Turner,
39:01which was later upgraded
39:03to first degree murder.
39:05Because our case
39:06went so long,
39:07our investigation
39:08went so long,
39:09I think he figured
39:10that he was smart enough
39:11to beat the system.
39:14Raymond Tudor faced
39:15a series of trials.
39:17In June of 1997,
39:19a jury convicted him
39:21of the first degree murder
39:23of Artie Turner.
39:25But he appealed
39:25that conviction
39:26and Alberta's top court
39:28found there was an error
39:30in the original instructions
39:32to the jury.
39:33A retrial was ordered.
39:37Months later,
39:38in December of 1997,
39:40Tudor was found guilty
39:41of the second degree murder
39:43of Bill Vamastic
39:44and sentenced to life
39:46in prison
39:47with no chance of parole
39:48for 20 years.
39:51Then,
39:52in June of 2000,
39:54following a retrial
39:55for the death
39:56of Artie Turner,
39:57a judge found him guilty
39:59of the lesser charge
40:01of second degree murder.
40:04Tudor was sentenced
40:05to life in prison
40:06with no chance of parole
40:08for 20 years.
40:10He figured that he was smart
40:12and he would pick
40:15on pensioners
40:16and people that were older
40:17and weaker.
40:18He would wait
40:19till the end of the month
40:21to murder them
40:22once they had
40:22their pension checks, right?
40:26But less than two years
40:28into his prison sentence,
40:30there was an unexpected
40:32and very high-profile development.
40:34On March 26, 2002,
40:39Raymond Tudor
40:39disappeared
40:41from Drumheller Institution.
40:43Raymond Tudor
40:44shouldn't be hard to spot
40:46unless he has shaved
40:47off his beard and hair.
40:49This is the first escape
40:50from the medium security
40:51part of the institution
40:52since 1994
40:53and prison officials
40:55still aren't sure
40:55how he got out.
40:56A Canada-wide warrant
40:59was issued
41:00and the convicted
41:01double murderer
41:02was even featured
41:04on America's Most Wanted.
41:06There's been a lot
41:07of speculation
41:08about, you know,
41:09like, did he walk
41:10out the front gate
41:11or did he climb a fence?
41:13We don't really know.
41:14We do know
41:14that the fence alarms
41:15were working
41:16at that time.
41:18I was MP in Strathmore.
41:20Came down to my work.
41:23Called me up
41:24to the office
41:25to the front
41:26and they said,
41:31yes, we have some bad news.
41:33Raymond Tudor escaped
41:34Drumheller jail
41:37and we don't know
41:39where he is.
41:41So this is just a word
41:43of caution to you
41:44and your family
41:45and your friends
41:46to be alert.
41:50There's a lot
41:51of restless nights
41:52over there.
41:54Well, he did apparently
41:56have a hit list
41:57that he left
41:58in his jail cell.
42:01The prosecutor was on it.
42:04I was on it.
42:06It was quite a lengthy list
42:09of people
42:09that he was going
42:10to get rid of.
42:13So I phoned
42:14the detectives
42:16and they sent police cars
42:18to circle the house.
42:20They told me to go
42:21and take a different route
42:24to and from work.
42:25And even with my son,
42:27you know,
42:27I'd tell him
42:28when you get home
42:29from school,
42:30you lock the door,
42:31you don't answer the door.
42:32Anybody comes,
42:34just don't.
42:36Tudor had disappeared
42:37for seven weeks,
42:39but it turned out
42:40he hadn't gone far.
42:43The 48-year-old
42:44had been hiding
42:45in the prison's duct system
42:47and the walls
42:48of the institution's workshop.
42:50This is a hole
42:52he created in the wall.
42:54You see from the size of it.
42:56It's not a very large hole,
42:58approximately 12 inches square
43:00to something to that extent.
43:01He was able
43:02to slide through there.
43:05Officials believed
43:06other inmates helped him
43:07as he had a box of cookies
43:09with him when he was found.
43:11But by then,
43:12Tudor had lost 40 pounds.
43:15Tudor had lost 40 pounds.
43:20Decades later,
43:22family and friends
43:23of the victims
43:24still struggle
43:25with the senseless murders.
43:28And why?
43:29For nothing.
43:31Shit.
43:33Car ride and murder.
43:36200 bucks,
43:37400 bucks,
43:37whatever.
43:39I think he's an animal
43:40and I think
43:41he should stay locked up.
43:43I really do,
43:44regardless of how old
43:45he is now,
43:46I don't care.
43:48Don't let him out.
43:51In Sharon's home,
43:53there are a lot
43:53of her father's treasures,
43:56mementos she holds onto
43:58because she didn't have
43:59the chance
44:00to hold onto him.
44:02We became very, very close
44:07in later years,
44:08you know,
44:08when he had retired
44:10and he had a wicked
44:12sense of humor.
44:13He was a funny, funny guy.
44:16And I'm glad
44:17that we can focus
44:19on dad
44:21and who he was.
44:23I think it's important.
44:28Raymond Tudor
44:29remains in prison.
44:30In 2021,
44:32he was denied
44:33day parole.
44:34He's scheduled
44:35to have another hearing
44:36in 2026.
44:38Both the victim's
44:39families
44:40and Tudor's
44:41own family
44:42have expressed fear
44:43for their safety
44:44and the public's
44:46if he is ever released.
44:47Thank you for joining us
44:51tonight on Crime Beat.
44:53I'm Anthony Robart.
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