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Crime Beat - Season 7 Episode 18 -
Trail of Terror: Camp Hell
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00:03This program is rated 14-plus and contains scenes of violence and mature subject matter.
00:08Viewer discretion is advised.
00:12The mystery began on Monday night.
00:1454-year-old Ian Blackburn and his 49-year-old wife Nancy were found murdered in the trunk of Nancy's
00:20car.
00:22He drove up to check his cottage and was confronted by an individual in his house and taken under control.
00:27Ian must have asked Nancy to come up there.
00:30The perpetrator could have taken the two of them from there in her car back down to Toronto.
00:37But at the same time, we were dealing with a person who was breaking into the cottages that was named
00:42to be Cottage Hermit or House Hermit.
00:44In each of the break-ins, pages of handwritten notes about World War II bombers and battleships were found in
00:51and around the cottages.
00:52She saw the writings and immediately she recognized them as being a person who she had spent time working in
00:58the store with.
01:00This is the man police are looking for.
01:0337-year-old David Alexander Snow.
01:06Possibly could be armed.
01:08He could be suicidal and extremely dangerous.
01:11There was no thought that he had left the province.
01:17Welcome to Crime Beat.
01:18I'm Anthony Robart.
01:19Police were hunting a predator in Ontario's cottage country linked to two brutal murders and a terrifying abduction.
01:27What they didn't realize was that the search would soon stretch far beyond the province's borders.
01:32Tonight, the shocking twist that left investigators scrambling to catch up.
01:39Here now is Jamie Dahl with part two of Trail of Terror, Camp Hell.
01:49With a college diploma now in her pocket, a young Calgary woman was ready to put her hometown in the
01:56rearview mirror.
01:57It was the spring of 1992.
02:00All of a sudden, one day said, Dad, I'm moving to Vancouver.
02:03She was excited, nervous, like anybody would be.
02:07And then entering the unknown.
02:09She thought her opportunities were better in Vancouver after taking a course at SAIT in journalism.
02:16She was always interested in photography and that sort of thing.
02:21And actually worked at a store here in Calgary.
02:24And then moved to Vancouver and got a job in another store selling film and doing photos.
02:33Lenore Rattray also wanted to be closer to her mom and brother.
02:37Whenever she'd come here, you know, we'd go to the beach and everything like that.
02:41It was really different than, you know, than Calgary.
02:45And then to be closer to me because, you know, we hadn't been that close for a while, like on
02:51a day-to-day basis.
02:52It was great.
02:53Yeah, really good.
02:54It was really fun.
02:56On July 3rd, 1992, Lenore went to work at Suter's Photoshop.
03:02Her dad, Dennis, had been visiting from Calgary that week.
03:05I was heading back to Calgary at that time.
03:08Stopped at the store to say goodbye to her.
03:12And I think back to that moment.
03:16I knew something wasn't quite right.
03:19But late that afternoon, Faye did not hear from her daughter when she was expecting to.
03:24And when she didn't phone, she phones every day.
03:27So I went over to Suter's and her car was there.
03:31And Lenore never went anywhere without her car.
03:33And I just said, something's not, you know, something's not right.
03:37So that's when I phoned the police.
03:40Later that night, Dennis had just pulled into his driveway in Calgary when the phone rang.
03:46And I got a call and said that she was missing.
03:49Her car was still parked where she had left it.
03:53There was just too much evidence saying that there's something wrong.
03:57So, yeah, I just turned around and went back.
04:02There's only one thing you can think of.
04:06Like, hang in there.
04:08I'll find you.
04:12It was Friday afternoon, a seemingly normal day for the clerk at Suter's Photo Store on East Hastings.
04:17She was new on the job.
04:19She'd moved from Calgary just two months ago.
04:2121-year-old Lenore Denise Ratbrae was working alone when she mysteriously disappeared and police fear the worst.
04:27From the circumstances, it would lead us to believe that this is totally out of character
04:33and there's nothing to indicate that there is foul play, but there's nothing to indicate that there isn't.
04:41So we're treating it as seriously as possible.
04:44Lenore apparently locked up the store at 6 o'clock.
04:47Police don't know if anyone was with her, but there was no sign of a struggle.
04:50Her car with Alberta plates was left parked in a lot about a block away.
04:54Is it a suggestion that there may be a boyfriend involved? Is that being pursued?
04:59That's normal. That's what you do in any type of investigation where somebody goes missing, where things don't add up.
05:05You start looking into their past.
05:08Lenore lived in the basement of a Burnaby home shared with Charlene and Dennis Simpkins.
05:12They were away at the time and don't know if she came home.
05:15There was a wine bottle and some glasses.
05:18She must have been here Friday night.
05:19I'm sure they fingerprinted that, but other than that, nobody knows much.
05:23I'd really like to help find her if there's anything I can do.
05:27I didn't even verbalize, oh, I think she's kidnapped and blah, blah.
05:30I just said something's not right.
05:33My gut told me that she wouldn't just take off and not be in contact with anybody.
05:40This is a very busy neighborhood on the Vancouver-Burnaby boundary.
05:44The Kootenai bus loop over there, hundreds of people every hour.
05:48And the store itself, people coming and going all the time, buying film, dropping off photographs.
05:53We're appealing to the public for any information on her whereabouts or anything that may have happened to her.
05:59I'm going to put some posters around and if anybody would like to help
06:03or if there's anybody that feels they can spread some posters
06:07and they can get in touch with the police to spread some too.
06:10But I know somebody must have seen her, but they just don't remember.
06:14seeing her at all.
06:15So something will come up because right now there's nothing
06:18and there's got to be something.
06:20Somebody, you know, somebody must have seen her somewhere.
06:25I drove around aimlessly, Vancouver, there's not much you can do.
06:31Looking at everything in as much detail as you can, thinking, where could she be?
06:41Yeah, it's just, where is she?
06:44It's like a haunting, it's like a nightmare. It's always there in the back of your head.
06:51I said to the police, look in the woods. Look in the woods. I don't know, I had sort of
06:56a thing that she's in the woods.
06:59I remember one night falling asleep and thinking that, yeah, I think she is in the forest.
07:06Gaining the thoughts, just sending them out and hoping that you stay strong and I'm still here and I never
07:15can give up.
07:29Welcome back to Crime Beat.
07:3121-year-old Lenore Rattray vanished while working at a Vancouver photography studio in July 1992.
07:38Her family searched frantically, holding on to hope she would be found safe, unaware of the ordeal she was enduring.
07:48We now return to Jamie Dahl with Trail of Terror, Camp Hell.
07:59What was this?
08:01This was, this was Suter's.
08:04Her shift at Suter's started off like any other. A quiet morning, working alone. And around 11 a.m., a
08:11customer walked in.
08:13The way that I've described it most vividly, I guess, in a simple way, is dead, rotting corpse. Like he
08:20was like a walking, dead person.
08:24He claimed that he was interested in family pictures. He was focused on his mother. He wanted to honour her
08:33somehow. She was shut in. She didn't leave the house much and he wanted to know about us coming on
08:40site to do some pictures.
08:43Then he left.
08:46My dad came by.
08:48Did you tell him about the stinky guy that had come before?
08:51No.
08:51It didn't stick out in my mind at all that of something that I should be aware of.
08:59The man came back two more times before closing.
09:03Where it all turned around, it was just before five. And I was, we'd had no sales. I'd done the
09:13cash out early. And I heard the bell ding. And I looked out. And there he was again. And he
09:21said, I'm back. He said, I've been thinking about that studio option again. He said, I'd really like to look
09:29at it one more time.
09:32And I didn't think anything of it. I turned my back to him. And the next thing I know, I
09:37felt something hard and cold on my cheek. And his voice dropped. And he said, I want the money. But
09:46he shut the door. And in this room, there were no windows. There was no back door. He had me
09:55go down on my knees with my back to him.
09:58And you have a gun to your cheek. Yeah.
10:03Lenore gave the man the money, hoping that would end the robbery. But he had other ideas.
10:12He wanted my car. And for whatever reason, I was very protective of my car. I lied. And I said,
10:19I didn't have it. I didn't want him to have my car. I said, it was at my mom's house.
10:28That's when he said, get your things. I'm going to take you with me.
10:34And then we just started walking.
10:39It was very clear to me that the gun was right there in his pocket, in his hand. And he
10:46had told me he had escaped from prison. And he told me he's not going back there.
10:52And he had said, I don't want to hurt you. But I'm not afraid to use my gun.
10:59With the gun in his pocket, the man walked Lenore eight kilometres towards North Vancouver and over the Iron Workers
11:05Memorial Bridge.
11:08Somehow I remember coming down a grassy embankment leading up to this. And that's where the terror really took hold.
11:18Because I was like, where the F am I going?
11:22This is the first time Lenore has stepped foot on this bridge since that day.
11:27I was imagining in my mind, just pushing him. But like the gun, like close to me, the gun was
11:35in his pocket.
11:38I remember police cars driving by when he would mumble to me, don't do anything stupid.
11:46We have nothing new. We've got nothing substantial in the case to give us any leads or information as to
11:52where she could be at this point.
11:53Wherever she is, it's, it's beyond her control that someone must have, I believe, foul play.
12:08Yeah, this is, like it makes my legs wake.
12:16Is this Camp Hell?
12:18This is Camp Hell.
12:21He had a bunch of black garbage bags all around the edging. He had a piece of astra turf laid
12:31down. He had some blankets.
12:34There were evidence of food containers and such that were strewn about.
12:40Moments later, the living nightmare turned into a living hell.
12:46I just knew it was, it was going to be bad.
12:52What happened then?
12:54Well, that's where he got violent. Or that's where the, it just all changed.
12:59He had me go on my knees again. He reached around and he started his dirty talk.
13:06And he started undressing me, undoing the buttons on my shirt, reaching from behind.
13:14And I freaked.
13:15And that's where I just started flailing and the fight was on.
13:21And that's the only time I fought him. And it was, it was, it was a mess. It was bad.
13:31He, he smashed me repeatedly in the face. He broke my teeth. And he was threatening. He started to threaten.
13:40And I think that's where he pulled out his other guns and showed me that I don't know who I'm
13:47dealing with.
13:48Basically, this is not up to you anymore.
13:52That night he forced himself upon me. It was hours. Hours.
14:01But he said if I did this, he'd let me go the next day.
14:05Where did you go in your mind?
14:08I think that's when I started counting.
14:11I don't know where that came from, but my coping mechanism was counting.
14:19I counted seconds to minutes to hours.
14:23As you're being.
14:25Yeah.
14:26My ankles were always bound. My wrists were always bound in the front.
14:29So I, I, you know, was, I was sitting down or laying down and bound by my ankles and my
14:37wrists tightly.
14:39He was just like, I was like this, this toy that he wanted to hurt.
14:50If I stood up, I could, I would be able to see it through there.
14:54That feeling that.
14:56It was so close and so far.
14:58Like, I mean, humanity was right there, but it was whizzing by me.
15:05Lenore said every day her captor would hogtie her and cross the highway to the Safeway.
15:10He'd bring back small amounts of food and the newspaper.
15:15He seemed to be obsessed with finding articles on me being missing in the paper.
15:26I was worried about my mom.
15:28And I saw my mom in the paper.
15:30I just want to tell her that there's a lot of people that are, um, really care for you.
15:37And we're really...
15:48We're really trying to find you.
16:04Welcome back to Crime Beat.
16:0521 year old Lenore Rattray had been missing for days, held captive by a man in the woods.
16:11She was tied up, even stripped of her clothes.
16:15But through all the horror and abuse, she managed to stay alive.
16:21We now return to Trail of Terror, Camp Hell.
16:31I soon learned that I kept talking and kept him entertained and told him stories.
16:37The less and less time was spent on torturing me.
16:42The horrific abuse in the woods continued for eight straight days.
16:47And on the ninth day, something changed when the man went across the road.
16:52My perception is that he was getting less and less turned on by me and borderline bored.
17:00It's 10-10 Saturday morning.
17:02The kidnapper set his sights on Movie Land video near Safeway.
17:05His target this time, a 19 year old clerk, Monica Fast.
17:08He ties up her boss and forces her to drive him away in her car.
17:11When he came back, when he started to tell me,
17:14I've taken another person, you're going to come with me.
17:19I need you to pretend that we are together.
17:21Don't do anything stupid.
17:23I went with him to the car where this blue Volkswagen Beetle was there.
17:30This older model.
17:31And he came out of the woods with her.
17:33She got in the driver's seat.
17:35She looked at me and just, I mean, the terror in her eyes.
17:40She got in the driver's seat?
17:41Mm-hmm.
17:42And then he just barked orders.
17:45Working on a weekend.
17:47And the cameraman that I was working with, he and I were kind of roaming around on the North Shore
17:52of Vancouver.
17:53There was a high alert call that was going out.
17:56And it was that there was a woman from a video rental store at Westview Shopping Centre in North Vancouver
18:06was missing.
18:07And her car was gone.
18:08And the police were responding.
18:12He took me to a different part where she was.
18:16And he tied me up.
18:18I could hear the sounds of somebody hitting somebody.
18:20I could hear her screaming.
18:22I could hear her saying no.
18:24And within a few moments, his hand was on my shoulder.
18:31And he said, the police are at the car.
18:35I'm on my way now.
18:36I'm not going to hurt you anymore.
18:38And then I looked up.
18:41And it's almost like he just got swallowed into the bush and he was gone.
18:47Come on.
18:48Get back in the car, you guys.
18:51Get back in the van now.
18:53We'll give you a statement and we can find out what's happening.
18:55We raced down to Indian River Road.
18:58And, of course, the police are there and jump out of the van, turn the camera on, and get this
19:05shot of this woman from the movie land who is now being escorted out of the woods.
19:10They've got a tarp or a blanket to warm her up, to pull her out.
19:16And it's like we're still trying to figure out what's going on.
19:19We had no idea the scope of it.
19:22I saw this police officer charging at me, gun drawn.
19:31And I said, my name's Lenore.
19:36I'm a missing person.
19:38Something like that.
19:41I think he had a knife and he cut my bindings then and took me out.
19:45Like, oh my gosh.
19:47This could be over.
19:51It's the end of a horrifying ordeal two young women will never forget.
19:55They are led from the bushes at the base of Mount Seymour Park in North Vancouver.
20:00On the left in the brown jacket, Lenore Denise Rattray, free after being captive for a week.
20:05On the right in black, an unidentified 19-year-old store clerk kidnapped just two hours before.
20:10Are you available to clear from the victim to assist Bravo 9 with the dogmasters?
20:14I just got a phone call and all they said is she's been found.
20:20She looked really disheveled.
20:22You know, I mean, she looked, you know, dirty.
20:24She just looked really, you know, and just kind of, you know, like straight face.
20:29Just, you know, I mean, I think she's in shock, right?
20:33And then when we hugged, we both cried.
20:35Has Lenore told you anything in terms of what she's been through?
20:38Well, she's been very helpful.
20:40We can appreciate she's quite traumatized and we're approaching that very carefully.
20:43She looks like she's, it's been a very difficult week for her.
20:46She's a very difficult week and she's a very strong little girl.
20:49Yes.
20:49Yeah.
20:50I want to cry, but I'm crying because I'm happy.
20:53But she's alive.
20:55That's the main thing.
20:56Yes.
20:57What was that moment like when you saw your mom for the first time?
21:04Just, I felt like it was just all of it.
21:06Just felt safety, like real life.
21:25Like my granny, I don't know why, how my granny got out there, my mum's mum.
21:30I remember her standing there with a little pink and white teddy bear just holding it.
21:35Like just, just like so relieved.
21:43So, yeah, it's like, you know, a hundred elephants just left my back.
21:52It was probably one of the best days of my life.
21:57Lenore's in tough shape.
22:00She's gone, she's gone through an ordeal.
22:02The ordeal isn't over for her.
22:04And we're trying to do everything that we can do to, to give her what she needs and support her.
22:09And also at the same time, satisfy our investigative needs.
22:13But suffice to say that Lenore has been through an ordeal and it's not over for her.
22:20We don't have a whole lot on him, just he's a very dangerous fella.
22:24This is a...
22:25This is very bizarre.
22:27An alert officer had spotted the car, now reported as stolen.
22:31The kidnapper abandoned his victims and ran.
22:34Well, I think this was very critical.
22:38I sincerely think that if the police officer wasn't along at the time he was,
22:43that we'd be looking at the worst case scenario.
22:46He might have been investigating a homicide.
22:48A double homicide.
22:50Late Saturday afternoon, the largest manhunt in North Vancouver RCMP history
22:54takes more than 40 officers into Mount Seymour Park,
22:57searching for a man in connection with the disappearance of two Vancouver women.
23:01I'll be doing that right now, Steph. I'm Epstein.
23:04A member's attending Indian River Drive.
23:07We now have a suspect description.
23:10White male, thin veiled, 30 years.
23:13High cheekbone, wearing gold-rimmed glasses.
23:16A blue t-shirt, blue jean, baseball hat.
23:20He has rotten teeth and he smells very bad.
23:23Again, this suspect should be considered very dangerous.
23:26He's obviously very desperate. He's hiding up in the bush.
23:28Our suspect is in possession of two 9mm hands and one smaller revolver of some sort.
23:37I believe the suspect's first name may be David.
23:41Once the Volkswagen bug was located with the girls, a duffel bag was located with three handguns in it.
23:52When we checked these handguns, they were associated to a break-in in Caledon, Ontario.
23:59That David was now identified as none other than wanted fugitive from Ontario, David Snow.
24:08The Ontario suspect is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for the murders of Ian and Nancy Blackburn.
24:13Their bodies were found in the trunk of their car in the driveway of their home.
24:15Police want to question him about the disappearance of Caroline Case, a 47-year-old abducted from her Toronto gift
24:23store.
24:24In North Vancouver, a Volkswagen was found with camera equipment and guns that were known to have been stolen from
24:33the house across from the Blackburns.
24:35I'm on holidays in London and one of the detectives from London who I had in other cases calls me
24:43and says,
24:44Have you been watching TV? Because I think they have your guy in BC.
24:48The detective sergeant from the OPP and myself made arrangements to fly immediately out to Vancouver.
24:57I first remember that night coming into work and that was the first time I saw a composite.
25:05of David Snow.
25:07So at that point, they knew who they were looking for.
25:14It's heading towards the road too, that trail.
25:19The suspect is traversing the Baden-Powell Trail and it's difficult to see because it cuts through a dense forest.
25:25Under power lines and in and out of gullies and police are having a tough time.
25:30I mean, he's a good runner and he knows the area very well. He's gone up and down and all
25:34around.
25:34Through thick brush, through thin brush, almost through a creek a couple of times.
25:38So, pretty tough. Very tough.
25:42Police eventually closed the mountain and over the next few hours searched every car as it left the park.
25:48Throughout the day, more and more heavily armed emergency response team members showed up.
26:07The suspect was spotted a number of times and at one point it seemed as though police were closing in
26:12on him.
26:12But then he disappeared again.
26:28Corporal Rosa, Dog Handler, Brossard and Marshall were going in on this Baden-Powell Trail.
26:35We're leaving now.
26:37Much like an advanced scouting team during a war, North Vancouver police took every precaution to avoid becoming victims
26:43in the search for a man considered armed and dangerous.
26:47I'll be doing that right now, staff. I'm at the...
26:50Darkness ended the search for the day and it became a waiting game as police assumed they had contained the
26:56man in Mount Seymour Park.
26:59Well, they dispatched to me and said, we've got two alarm calls. Can you cover them? And I said, sure.
27:05And Starbucks has got an alarm going in Edgemont Village.
27:11And then the next one is the Bridgeview Restaurant, further up Capilano Road.
27:16So we were told to cancel and then we could go to the Starbucks one.
27:20And I did for some reason, another one of these things, you don't know why you do it.
27:24But I said, ah, we'll get out and check it anyways.
27:27I sent John around what would be the west and the north side.
27:32And then I went along the south and east side of the building.
27:35And I didn't see anybody around.
27:38It was dim lighting inside the restaurant so it looked like it was closed.
27:42I rattled the French doors and they were locked.
27:46And as I walked further around to go to the other side,
27:50there was a latticework shed, maybe 12 feet tall.
27:53I come around the corner and have my flashlight.
27:57There's a male over a female.
28:00She's naked from the waist down.
28:03But you can't see her face because she's got a plastic bag over her face.
28:07And he's very studiously sort of doing a motion like with his hands like he's tightening something.
28:15He looks immediately at me through the flashlight.
28:18I pull my gun.
28:19I yell something at him.
28:20I don't know what it was at the time.
28:22As he starts running.
28:23And he's running pretty hard.
28:25And I'm behind him.
28:27We go through a hedge.
28:29A fairly thick hedge.
28:32And then we end up in another parking lot.
28:34And I tackled him there.
28:36He went down face first.
28:39I handcuffed him and he's not saying much.
28:43You know, he's got a little bit of blood on his face from hitting the gravel.
28:47And I said to him, I said, are you the guy we're looking for?
28:50And he said something like, yeah, probably.
28:53My partner, he comes running.
28:55He's yelling for me.
28:56And I said, did you see the woman on the ground?
28:59And he says, no, no.
29:00And I said, well, go back.
29:01She wasn't breathing then.
29:03She had a wire around her neck.
29:05But it was tight.
29:06He couldn't undo it.
29:07He managed to cut off the wire.
29:09She had a plastic, I think it was like a yellow save-on bag over her head.
29:13So that came out.
29:14She had a ball gag in her mouth.
29:16She started to come to because we thought she was dead, actually.
29:21She started to come to and started to sputter a bit.
29:25And the ambulance was there fairly quickly.
29:28And they got her loaded up and going to the hospital.
29:31And meanwhile, of course, we had called it in and where we were
29:35and we think we've got Mr. Snow and cars are screaming at us from across the city.
29:46Police retrieved two guns at the scene, but they had not been used.
29:49Instead, the suspect had attempted to strangle the woman.
29:53I was locking the door.
29:55As I locked the door and I turned around, there was this male standing there with something
30:00on my side.
30:01I went to look down.
30:02It was a gun.
30:03And he said, be quiet.
30:06Don't make a noise.
30:07He said to me, I've just escaped from jail.
30:11I don't care what I have to do to get money.
30:13I need money.
30:14So I said, I don't have any money.
30:16I can't help you.
30:16He dragged me outside, took me right up to the road.
30:22And I was thinking, oh, Capilano, is anybody going to Grouse Mountain?
30:28Let me see a car.
30:29I would either push him in front of it or fall in front of it.
30:34But he dragged me back in again.
30:35And then he took me around the corner, goes into the garden,
30:40pushed him against the wall that's there.
30:42And I was still saying to him, I don't have anything.
30:45What do you want?
30:46What do you want?
30:46That's when he said to me, I'm going to you to death.
30:49When he said that, I started fighting.
30:52I was fighting him.
30:54I mean, I didn't even know, but apparently there was a, he put a bag on my head
31:00and he had taken off and, you know, the hanging baskets that hang.
31:05He took the metal off one of the baskets and it was wrapped around on my neck.
31:12And I just, I just fought him.
31:14All or not, it was hurting a lot.
31:16And all, there was blood all over the place.
31:18And my hair was stuck with blood.
31:20I was wearing a slip under my skirt.
31:24It was a silk slip.
31:26That was pushed down my throat.
31:28So I was having a problem breathing, of course.
31:32And really, I mean, I thought I was dead.
31:34That's why.
31:37When this policeman appeared.
31:38And I don't remember anything else at all until I saw this face.
31:43And I was thinking, oh, it's my guardian angel.
31:46And that was the policeman.
31:49I was at Lionsgate Hospital in the intensive care unit.
31:53And at the room to see a person in the bed, I couldn't recognize.
31:57Because the beating was so severe.
32:00It was not recognizable.
32:03His face was swollen.
32:05This person was like, there's my mom.
32:09I went over and, yeah, she heard my voice right away.
32:12And she said, I thought I was dead.
32:15I thought it was, your voice was angels' voices.
32:17So it was pretty, pretty moving.
32:21And the phone rang.
32:22And I picked it up.
32:23And it was Sergeant Randy Bennett.
32:25And he said, we caught the bad guy.
32:28That was amazing.
32:33Yeah.
32:35Like, just indescribable.
32:37Have you ever caught somebody trying to-
32:41Kill somebody?
32:42No, it's very, very, very rare.
32:48David Snow lied to his victims in British Columbia
32:51that he had escaped from prison.
32:53But that is exactly where investigators in Ontario
32:56were hoping to put him for the rest of his life.
32:59His arrest on the other side of the country
33:01was their big break.
33:04It was a massive relief at the time.
33:06I mean, we were surprised where he was at.
33:09We found out that he had taken the train within a couple of days
33:13after the murder of the Blackburns.
33:15Even before the kidnapper was captured,
33:18Ontario police got involved.
33:19They are now here to question the suspect
33:22for a double murder in Caldon, Ontario,
33:24and a number of other unsolved cases.
33:28He said, I'll tell you everything,
33:29but I don't want to go to jail for more than 25 years.
33:33He wanted to make a deal, but we didn't,
33:35and he never did tell us.
33:38Meanwhile, in British Columbia,
33:40investigators discover Lenore Rattray was not Snow's first victim in Vancouver.
33:46There is one other incident that could be linked.
33:50The NewsHour has learned that on Monday, June 29th,
33:53at roughly 5pm on West Broadway,
33:56another female was sexually assaulted.
33:58She was closing stars on Broadway when a man entered the store and tied her up.
34:02She was detained for an hour, but somehow managed to escape.
34:0637-year-old David Alexander Snow now faces 30 charges,
34:11twice as many as yesterday.
34:13They involve incidents in Vancouver and North Vancouver.
34:16One count of attempted murder,
34:19three of kidnapping,
34:20five of unlawful confinement,
34:22five of sexual assault,
34:24including one causing bodily harm,
34:27five of armed robbery,
34:29two of overcoming resistance by choking a victim to commit an offense,
34:33and nine weapons offenses.
34:35The North Vancouver Courthouse was the scene of a surprise decision this afternoon
34:40in the David Alexander Snow case.
34:42Snow pleaded guilty to 23 charges last month,
34:45but he faced the verdict on seven more,
34:47including one for attempted murder.
34:49And that's where the surprise comes in.
34:51The judge found Snow guilty on counts of sexual assault in unlawful confinement,
34:56but found him not guilty on the most serious charge of attempted murder.
34:59The judge said that Snow had no intent to murder his fourth victim.
35:02He said Snow just made things up as he went along.
35:05Were you angry when he was found not guilty for your attempted murder?
35:09Very angry.
35:10She was a childhood survivor of Auschwitz,
35:12and she grew up and came to Canada
35:15and was just a wonderful human being.
35:18Snow, who is known as the house hermit in Ontario
35:21after a series of break-ins in cottage country,
35:24still faces abduction charges there,
35:27and he is a suspect in a number of Toronto area murders.
35:43Welcome back.
35:45While David Snow awaits his fate for crimes committed in British Columbia and Ontario,
35:50the search for the missing Toronto woman Caroline Case ramps up.
35:56Here's Jamie Dahl with a conclusion of Trail of Terror Camp Hell.
36:03Nine months before Lenore Rattray went missing in BC,
36:0847-year-old businesswoman Caroline Case vanished.
36:12Police believe Case was abducted from her West End Toronto gift shop and then murdered.
36:17The next day, her blood-stained Mercedes station wagon was found rolled over in a Caledon ditch.
36:26Initially, police searched the area where her car was found,
36:29but now they are shifting their efforts northwest after new information came to light this summer.
36:35As you know, there's been a couple of cases of kidnapping and confinement in BC.
36:41Taking a look at that method of operation,
36:44we've given this another try in this area after having a discussion with a person that was arrested out in
36:52BC.
36:54So a year later, when we came back and conducted the search here,
36:59her body was found 500 metres straight out from the car right back in the field in that area.
37:06Just bones, nothing else, just on top of the ground.
37:10The weeds and grass are growing up around the skeletal remains.
37:15So very hard to look, to see, even in this grass.
37:19It's unfortunate that her body was missed.
37:21It's really, truly unfortunate because if she was found early,
37:25there would have been a lot of, I'm sure, evidence.
37:28Case's husband is astounded.
37:31Police failed to find the body the first time they searched,
37:34if in fact the body was there at that time.
37:37Not so much angry as frustrated.
37:40It would have made this year so much easier, I guess,
37:43if we'd known the answers a year ago.
37:48It's been a lot of agony trying to unravel what has happened and why it happened.
37:55The following year in 1993, back in Vancouver, a dangerous offender hearing was held for David Snow.
38:04Snow shows a pattern of antisocial and narcissistic behaviour.
38:08He suffers from a sexual disorder known as paraphilia, meaning he's only sexually gratified when violence is involved.
38:14Zothman described the chances of treatment as being low, the probability of re-offending as very high.
38:21And he was declared a dangerous offender in British Columbia.
38:24And at that point in 1993, myself and Detective Doug Grady from Metro Homicide went to BC
38:32and brought him back to Ontario for the two charges of the first degree murder of Nancy and Ian Blackburn.
38:39And in 1995, he pled guilty to the Appleton abduction and was sentenced to six years.
38:46And then we ended up with our trial in Toronto in 1997.
38:52David Snow, a former antique dealer, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first degree murder.
38:59After not hearing from Ian and Nancy Blackburn,
39:02nephew Jamie Osborne was sent to the couple's North Toronto home.
39:05Upon arrival, Osborne noticed Nancy's car was parked in the driveway.
39:10Inside the car, he discovered a Kleenex on the front driver's seat.
39:13Osborne told the jury, quote, I saw some spots on it. It looked like blood.
39:19DNA from David Snow matched the blood in the tissue paper in the front seat of the car.
39:26That's what Crown Prosecutor Hank Goody says is a key piece of evidence.
39:31It was a long trial. It went from February to July.
39:36Survivors from British Columbia also took the stand.
39:40I think it was very important for those women that come and testified to show the similar fact
39:45and to show what kind of a monster that individual it was.
39:50And it tied into some of our forensic evidence that we had and our evidence that we had here in
39:56Ontario.
39:57Facing him in court was powerful, I guess, because he was stuck in the box and I had the freedom
40:04to move.
40:06Miss Rattray, when she got off the witness stand, was just relieved and confronted him saying,
40:12you're not going to get away with this.
40:13She was very strong and just telling Snow, she's going to live and have a good life,
40:21despite what he's done to her.
40:23And I just thought it was one of the bravest testimonies I'd seen.
40:30What was that like to see him again?
40:37I wanted to kill him.
40:40I was angry and I'm still to this day because you know what?
40:43His lawyer was arguing with me, trying to tell me that I was a liar and I was dreaming all
40:47this up and it wasn't true.
40:49And I was having none of it.
40:51The testimony of Lenore Rattray and Dalia Jeleno will stay with me forever because of the horrible ordeal they both
41:00endured
41:00and the way they fought to save their lives will stay with me forever.
41:05The verdict was guilty.
41:06Two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
41:10It's been a long six months waiting for this to come.
41:13I'm so thrilled that we finally have a verdict we all want.
41:17What's the thought process to make somebody do this?
41:20Not just to Ian and Nancy, but to all the victims out west and it's incomprehensible.
41:26David Snow did not look at the jury and showed no visible reaction as the guilty verdict was read.
41:32When given the opportunity to speak, he mumbled, I have nothing to say.
41:37Snow was also convicted of break and enter with intent, robbery and armed robbery.
41:44Why no charges in the Caroline Case investigation?
41:48He's never been charged with Caroline Case, but the timeline is there and I don't believe that there's any physical
41:55evidence.
41:55It's just a matter of the fact that the similarities are there.
42:01There's no doubt in my mind that it's not David Snow.
42:06Ontario investigators say David Snow has refused to speak with them about Caroline Case and has never admitted to any
42:13involvement.
42:15They did tremendous work back there in putting those cases together.
42:18What happened in that case with Dahlia is it becomes very personal real quick.
42:24And so it's hard to dismiss it, right?
42:27Normally, you just move on, I'm going to the next file.
42:30That one's a tougher one.
42:31We've got someone that we actually want you to meet.
42:42You and I will be an icon forever, forever, forever.
42:46Yeah, I know.
42:47You will always, always, I will always remember you.
42:51Thank you so much for saving me. I'm here because of you.
42:54Thank you, you too.
42:55Yeah.
42:55Often you've been in my heart, in my soul forever.
42:59You'll always be there too for me, so.
43:01Yeah, we will be there forever.
43:03Yeah, yeah.
43:04You and I.
43:05Thank you again.
43:06You know, the effects of other people's debauchery is so impactful on so many in ways unannounced.
43:19Nothing is normal for me. I'm afraid to do this. I'm afraid to do that. I don't want to go
43:23here. I don't want to go there.
43:25Because although I think I'm really strong and nobody else sees it, I'm petrified inside to do anything just in
43:31case.
43:33It made me realize I'm not safe. It made me really realize how unsafe this world is.
43:41Every situation I'm in, I overthink. I always look at the worst case scenario.
43:49Here we are 30 some odd years later. All the trauma she's gone through with that. It still comes back.
43:59I still want to kill the bastard.
44:01My sister said to me, you know, Faye, if you didn't find Lenore, you'd probably still be looking. And that's
44:08probably true. I'd probably be looking my whole life.
44:12The mental health piece has been the toughest one. But my mental capacity is what kept me alive. But that's
44:26the biggest fight that I battle, is not letting the darkness win.
44:36In 2025, David Snow was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Angeline Quinnell, whose body
44:44was discovered near Apsley, Ontario, one month after Caroline Case went missing.
44:49No one has ever been charged in Caroline's murder. David Snow remains behind bars.
44:58Thank you for joining us tonight on Crime Beat. I'm Anthony Robart.
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