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00:03This program is rated 14-plus and contains scenes of violence and mature subject matter.
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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.
00:21He 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're dealing with a person who was breaking into cottages that was named to be
00:42Cottage 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 him as being a person who she had spent time working in
00:58the store with.
00:59This 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.
01:16Welcome 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.
02:08Entering the unknown.
02:10She 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.
02:21Actually worked at a store here in Calgary and then moved to Vancouver and got a job in another store
02:28selling film and doing photos.
02:33Lenore Rattray also wanted to be closer to her mom and brother.
02:38Whenever 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, stopped at the store and to say goodbye to her.
03:11And I think back to that moment, I 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.
03:46I 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.
03:56So, 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 in 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 Rattray was working alone when she mysteriously disappeared
04:25and 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
04:40that 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.
04:54The suggestion that there may be a boyfriend involved, is that being pursued?
04:59That's normal.
04:59That's what you do in any type of investigation where somebody goes missing, where things don't
05:04add 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.
05:17Well, she must have been here Friday night this morning.
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 Kootenay bus loop over there, hundreds of people every hour.
05:47And 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
05:58happened to her.
05:59I'm going to put some posters around and if anybody would like to help or if there's
06:04anybody that feels they can spread some posters and they can get in touch with the police
06:09to 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 and 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?
06:40Yeah, it's just, yeah, it's just, where is she?
06:45It's like a haunting.
06:46It's like a nightmare.
06:48It's always there in the back of your head.
06:51I said to the police, look in the woods.
06:54Look in the woods.
06:55Look in the, I don't know.
06:55I had sort of a thing that she's in the woods.
06:58I remember one night falling asleep and thinking that, yeah, I think she is in the forest.
07:07Again, the thoughts, just sending them out and hoping that you stay strong and still here.
07:28Welcome 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 Souter's.
08:04Her shift at Souter's started off like any other.
08:07A quiet morning, working alone.
08:09And around 11 a.m., a customer walked in.
08:13The way that I've described it most vividly, I guess, in a simple way, is dead, rotting corpse.
08:20Like he was like a walking, dead person.
08:24He claimed that he was interested in family pictures.
08:28He was focused on his mother.
08:30He wanted to honour her somehow.
08:34She was shut in.
08:35She didn't leave the house much.
08:37And he wanted to know about us coming on site 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.
08:54That was something that I should be aware of.
08:58The man came back two more times before closing.
09:03Where it all turned around, it was just before five.
09:07And I was, we'd had no sales.
09:12I'd done the cash out early, and I heard the bell ding, and I looked out, and there he was
09:20again.
09:20And he said, I'm back.
09:22He said, I've been thinking about that studio option again.
09:27He said, I'd really like to look at it one more time.
09:32I didn't think anything of it.
09:34I turned my back to him, and the next thing I know, I felt something hard and cold on my
09:40cheek.
09:41And his voice dropped, and he said, I want the money.
09:46But he shut the door, and in this room, there were no windows.
09:52There was no back door.
09:54He had me go down on my knees with my back to him.
09:58And you have a gun to your cheek.
10:01Yeah.
10:03Lenore gave the man the money, hoping that would end the robbery.
10:07But he had other ideas.
10:11He wanted my car, and for whatever reason, I was very protective of my car.
10:18I lied, and I said I didn't have it.
10:22I didn't want him to have my car.
10:26I said it was at my mom's house.
10:28That's when he said, get your things.
10:31I'm going to take you with me.
10:34And then we just started walking.
10:39It was very clear that, to me, that the gun was right there, in his pocket, in his hand.
10:46And he had 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.
10:58With 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.
11:18As 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.
11:48We've got nothing substantial in the case to give us any leads or information as to where she could be
11:53at this point.
11:53Wherever she is, it's beyond her control that someone must have, I believe, foul play.
12:08Yeah, this is...
12:13Like it makes my legs weak.
12:16Is this Camp L?
12:18This is Camp L.
12:21He had a bunch of black garbage bags all around the edging.
12:28He had a piece of astroturf laid down.
12:32He had some blankets.
12:33There 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 going to be bad.
12:51What happened then?
12:53Well, that's where he got violent.
12:55Or that's where the...
12:57It just all changed.
12:59He had me go on my knees again.
13:02He 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.
13:25And it was...
13:29It was a mess.
13:30It was bad.
13:31He smashed me repeatedly in the face.
13:35He broke my teeth and he was threatening.
13:39He 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.
13:55It was hours.
13:57Hours.
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.
14:27My wrists were always bound in the front.
14:29So I was sitting down or laying down.
14:34And bound in it by my ankles and my wrists tightly.
14:39He was just like...
14:41I was like this...
14:45This toy that he wanted to hurt.
14:50If I stood up, I would be able to see it through there.
14:54That feeling that...
14:56It was so close and so far.
14:58I 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.
15:27And I saw my mom in the paper.
15:30I just want to tell her that there's a lot of people that really care for you.
15:37And we're really...
15:48And we're really trying to find you.
16:03Welcome back to Crime Meet.
16:0521-year-old Lenore Rattray had been missing for days.
16:09Held 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.
17:17You're going to come with me.
17:19I need you to pretend that we are together.
17:21Don't do anything stupid.
17:22I went with him to the car where this blue Volkswagen Beetle was there, this 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.
17:41And then he just sparked orders.
17:45Working on a weekend, and the cameraman that I was working with,
17:49he and I were kind of roaming around on the north shore of 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
18:02at Westview Shopping Centre in North Vancouver was missing.
18:07And her car was gone.
18:09And the police were responding.
18:12He took me to a different part where she was.
18:15And 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.
18:25And 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 race down to Indian River Road.
18:58And of course, the police are there and jump out of the van,
19:03turn the camera on,
19:04and gut this shot of this woman from the movie land
19:08who 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.
19:15And 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.
19:45I go, my gosh, this 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,
20:03free 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 dark master?
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.
20:36Ms. 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, yes.
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 mom's mom.
21:30And I remember her standing there with a little pink and white teddy bear, just holding him.
21:36Like just.
21:38It's just like so relieved.
21:42So.
21:45Oh, yeah.
21:46It's like, you know, a hundred elephants just left my back.
21:51You know, it was probably one of the best days of my life.
21:57Lenore's in tough shape.
22:00She'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 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.
22:22Just 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.
22:37I 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.
22:46You 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.
23:04A member's attending Indian River Drive.
23:07We now have a suspect description.
23:10White male, thin, veiled, 30 years.
23:13High cheekbones, wearing gold-rimmed glasses.
23:17A 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.
23:26He's hiding up in the bush.
23:29Our suspect is in possession of two 9mm hands
23:33and 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,
23:48a 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.
24:16Police want to question him about the disappearance of Caroline Case,
24:20a 47-year-old abducted from her Toronto gift store.
24:23Or in North Vancouver, a Volkswagen was found with camera equipment
24:30and guns that were known to have been stolen from the 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, have you been watching TV? Because I think they have your guy in B.C.
24:47The detective sergeant from the OPP and myself
24:51made arrangements to fly immediately out to Vancouver.
24:57I first remember that night coming into work
25:01and that was the first time I saw a composite of David's 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
25:22and it's difficult to see because it cuts through a dense forest,
25:25under power lines and in and out of gullies
25:28and police are having a tough time.
25:30I mean, he's a good runner
25:31and he knows very well, he's gone up and down and all around.
25:34Through thick brush, thin brush,
25:36almost through a creek a couple of times.
25:38So pretty tough, pretty tough.
25:42Police eventually closed the mountain
25:44and over the next few hours searched every car as it left the park.
25:48Throughout the day, more and more heavily armed
25:50emergency response team members showed up.
26:06The suspect was spotted a number of times
26:09and at one point it seemed as though police were closing in on him.
26:12But then he disappeared again.
26:28Corporal Rosa, Dog Handler, Brossard, and Marshall
26:32were going in on this Baden-Powell Trail.
26:35We're leaving now.
26:37Much like an advanced scouting team during a war,
26:40North Vancouver police took every precaution
26:42to avoid becoming victims in the search
26:44for a man considered armed and dangerous.
26:46I'll be doing that right now, staff.
26:48I've seen...
26:50Darkness ended the search for the day
26:52and it became a waiting game
26:54as police assumed they had contained the man
26:56in Mount Seymour Park.
26:59Well, they dispatched to me, says,
27:01we've got two alarm calls.
27:03Can you cover them?
27:04And I said, sure.
27:05And Starbucks has got an alarm going in Edgemont Village
27:11and then the next one is the Bridgeview restaurant
27:14further up Capilano Road.
27:16So we were told to cancel
27:17and then we could go to the Starbucks one.
27:20And I did, for some reason,
27:22another one of these things,
27:23you 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
27:30the west and the north side
27:31and then I went along the south and east side
27:34of the building
27:35and I didn't see anybody around.
27:38It was dim lighting inside the restaurant
27:40so it looked like it was closed.
27:42I rattled the French doors and they were locked.
27:46And as I walked further around
27:48to go to the other side,
27:50there was a latticework shed,
27:52maybe 12 feet tall.
27:54I come around the corner
27:55and 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
28:04because she's got a plastic bag over her face.
28:07And he's very studiously sort of doing a motion
28:11like with his hands,
28:13like he's tightening something.
28:15He looks immediately at me
28:16and 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,
28:30a fairly thick hedge
28:31and then we end up in another parking lot
28:34and I tackled him there.
28:36He went down face first.
28:38I handcuffed him
28:40and he's not saying much.
28:43You know,
28:43he's got a little bit of blood
28:45on his face
28:45from hitting the gravel.
28:47And I said to him,
28:48I said,
28:48are you the guy we're looking for?
28:50And he said something like,
28:52yeah, probably.
28:53My partner,
28:54he comes running,
28:55he's yelling for me.
28:56And I said,
28:57did you see the woman on the ground?
28:59And he said,
28:59no, no.
29:00And I said,
29:00well, 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,
29:10I think it was like
29:11a 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
29:18because we thought she was dead, actually.
29:21She started to come to
29:22and started to sputter a bit
29:24and the ambulance was there fairly quickly
29:28and they got her loaded up
29:30and going to the hospital.
29:31Meanwhile, of course,
29:33we had called it in
29:34and where we were
29:35and that we think we've got Mr. Snow
29:38and cars are screaming at us
29:40from across the city.
29:46Police retrieved two guns at the scene
29:47but they had not been used.
29:49Instead, the suspect had attempted
29:50to strangle the woman.
29:53I was locking the door.
29:54As I locked the door
29:56and I turned around,
29:57there was this male
29:59standing there
29:59with something on my side.
30:01I went and looked down.
30:02It was a gun.
30:03And he said,
30:05be quiet.
30:06Don't make a noise.
30:07He said to me,
30:09I've just escaped from jail.
30:10I don't care what I have to do
30:12to get money.
30:13I need money.
30:14So I said,
30:15I don't have any money.
30:15I can't help you.
30:16He dragged me outside,
30:19took me right up to the road
30:22and I was thinking,
30:24I was thinking,
30:25Capilano,
30:26is anybody going to Grouse Mountain?
30:28Let me see a car.
30:29I would either push him in front of it
30:31or fall in front of it.
30:34But he drives me back in again
30:35and then he took me around the corner,
30:37goes into the garden,
30:40pushed me against the wall that's there
30:42and I was still saying to him
30:43that I don't have anything.
30:45What do you want?
30:46What do you want?
30:46That's when he said to me,
30:47I'm going to f*** you to death.
30:49When he said that,
30:50I started fighting.
30:52I was fighting.
30:54I mean,
30:54I didn't even know,
30:55but apparently,
30:57there was a,
30:58he put a bag on my head
31:00and he had taken off
31:01and,
31:02you know,
31:02the hanging baskets that hung,
31:05he took the metal off
31:06one of the baskets
31:07and it was wrapped around my neck.
31:12And I just,
31:13I just fought him.
31:14All I know,
31:15it was hurting a lot
31:16and all there was blood
31:17all over the place
31:18and my hair was stuck
31:19with blood.
31:20I was wearing a slip
31:23under my skirt,
31:24a silk slip.
31:26That was pushed down my throat
31:27so I was having a problem
31:29breathing, of course.
31:32And really,
31:33I mean,
31:33I thought I was dead,
31:34that's why.
31:36When this policeman appeared
31:38and I don't remember
31:40anything else at all
31:41until I saw this face
31:43and I was thinking,
31:44oh,
31:45it's my guardian angel
31:46and that was the policeman.
31:49I was at Lionsgate Hospital
31:51in the intensive care unit.
31:53The room to see a person
31:55in the bed
31:56couldn't recognize
31:57because the beating
31:58was so severe.
32:00It was not recognizable.
32:03His face was swollen.
32:05This person is dying.
32:06There's my mum.
32:09I went over
32:10and, yeah,
32:11she heard my voice right away
32:12and she said,
32:13I thought I was dead.
32:15I thought it was,
32:16your voice was angels' voices.
32:18So it was pretty,
32:19pretty moving.
32:21And the phone rang
32:22and I picked it up
32:23and it was
32:23Sergeant Randy Bennett
32:25and he said,
32:26we caught the bad guy.
32:28That was amazing.
32:32Yeah.
32:35Like,
32:35just indescribable.
32:37Have you ever
32:38caught somebody
32:39trying to...
32:41Kill somebody?
32:41No,
32:42it's very, very, very rare.
32:48David Snow lied
32:49to his victims
32:50in British Columbia
32:51that he had escaped
32:52from prison.
32:53That is exactly
32:54where investigators
32:55in Ontario
32:56were hoping to put him
32:57for the rest of his life.
32:59His arrest
32:59on the other side
33:00of the country
33:01was their big break.
33:04It was a massive relief
33:05at the time.
33:06I mean,
33:07we were surprised
33:07where he was at.
33:08We found out
33:09that he had taken
33:10the train
33:11within a couple of days
33:13after the murder
33:13of the Blockburns.
33:15Even before
33:16the kidnapper
33:17was captured,
33:18Ontario police
33:18got involved.
33:19They are now here
33:20to question the suspect
33:21for a double murder
33:23in Caldon, Ontario
33:24and a number
33:25of other unsolved cases.
33:27He said,
33:28I'll tell you everything,
33:29but I don't want
33:30to go to jail
33:31for more than 25 years.
33:33He wanted to make a deal,
33:34but we didn't
33:35and he never did tell us.
33:38Meanwhile,
33:39in British Columbia,
33:40investigators discover
33:41Lenore Rattray
33:42was not Snow's
33:44first victim
33:45in Vancouver.
33:46There is one other
33:47incident
33:48that could be linked.
33:50The NewsHour
33:51has learned
33:51that on Monday,
33:52June 29th
33:53at roughly 5 p.m.
33:54on West Broadway,
33:55another female
33:56was sexually assaulted.
33:58She was closing
33:59Stars on Broadway
34:00when a man
34:00entered the store
34:01and tied her up.
34:02She was detained
34:03for an hour
34:04but somehow
34:05managed to escape.
34:0637-year-old
34:08David Alexander Snow
34:09now faces 30 charges,
34:11twice as many
34:12as yesterday.
34:13They involve incidents
34:14in Vancouver
34:15and North Vancouver.
34:16One count
34:17of attempted murder,
34:19three of kidnapping,
34:20five of unlawful confinement,
34:22five of sexual assault,
34:24including one
34:25causing bodily harm,
34:26five of armed robbery,
34:29two of overcoming resistance
34:30by choking a victim
34:31to commit an offense,
34:33and nine weapons offenses.
34:35The North Vancouver
34:37courthouse
34:37was the scene
34:38of a surprise decision
34:39this afternoon
34:40in the David Alexander Snow case.
34:42Snow pleaded guilty
34:43to 23 charges last month
34:45but he faced the verdict
34:46on seven more,
34:47including one
34:48for attempted murder.
34:49And that's where
34:50the surprise comes in.
34:51The judge found Snow guilty
34:53on counts of sexual assault
34:54in unlawful confinement
34:55but found him not guilty
34:57on the most serious charge
34:58of attempted murder.
34:59The judge said that Snow
35:00had no intent
35:01to murder his fourth victim.
35:02He said Snow just made things up
35:04as he went along.
35:05Were you angry
35:06when he was found not guilty
35:07for your attempted murder?
35:09Very angry.
35:10She was a childhood survivor
35:11of Auschwitz
35:12and she grew up
35:14and came to Canada
35:15and was just a wonderful
35:17human being.
35:18Snow, who is known
35:19as the house hermit
35:21in Ontario
35:21after a series of break-ins
35:23in cottage country,
35:24still faces
35:25abduction charges there
35:27and he is a suspect
35:28in a number
35:29of Toronto-area murders.
35:43Welcome back.
35:44While David Snow
35:46awaits his fate
35:47for crimes committed
35:48in British Columbia
35:49and Ontario,
35:50the search
35:51for the missing
35:52Toronto woman
35:52Caroline Case
35:53ramps up.
35:56Here's Jamie Dahl
35:58with a conclusion
35:59of Trail of Terror
36:01Camp Hell.
36:03Nine months
36:05before Lenore Rattray
36:06went missing in B.C.,
36:0847-year-old businesswoman
36:09Caroline Case
36:11vanished.
36:12Police believe Case
36:13was abducted
36:14from her West End
36:15Toronto gift shop
36:16and then murdered.
36:17The next day,
36:18her blood-stained
36:19Mercedes station wagon
36:20was found rolled over
36:22in a Caledon ditch.
36:26Initially,
36:26police searched
36:27the area
36:28where her car
36:28was found
36:29but now they are
36:30shifting their efforts
36:31northwest
36:31after new information
36:33came to light
36:34this summer.
36:35As you know,
36:36there's been
36:37a couple of cases
36:38of kidnapping
36:39and confinement
36:40in B.C.
36:41Taking a look
36:42at that method
36:43of operation,
36:44we've given this
36:45another try
36:46in this area
36:47after having
36:49a discussion
36:49with a person
36:51that was arrested
36:52out in B.C.
36:54So a year later
36:56when we came back
36:57and conducted
36:58the search here,
37:00her body was found
37:01500 meters
37:02straight out
37:03from the car
37:04right back
37:05in the field
37:05in the area.
37:06Just bones,
37:07nothing else,
37:08just on top
37:09of the ground,
37:10the weeds
37:11and grass
37:12was growing up
37:13around the skeletal
37:14remains,
37:15so very hard
37:15to look to see
37:17even in this grass.
37:19It's unfortunate
37:20that her body
37:20was missed.
37:21It's really,
37:22truly unfortunate
37:23because if she
37:24was found early,
37:25there would have
37:26been a lot of,
37:27I'm sure,
37:28evidence.
37:29Case's husband
37:30is astounded.
37:31Police failed
37:31to find the body
37:32the first time
37:33they searched,
37:34if in fact
37:35the body was there
37:36at that time.
37:37Not so much anger
37:38as frustrated
37:39that it would have
37:40made this year
37:42so much easier,
37:43I guess,
37:43if we'd known
37:45the answers a year ago.
37:48It's been a lot
37:49of agony
37:50trying to unravel
37:51what has happened
37:52and why it happened.
37:55The following year
37:57in 1993,
37:58back in Vancouver,
38:00a dangerous offender
38:01hearing was held
38:02for David Snow.
38:04Snow shows a pattern
38:05of antisocial
38:06and narcissistic behavior.
38:08He suffers
38:09from a sexual disorder
38:10known as paraphilia,
38:11meaning he's only
38:12sexually gratified
38:13when violence is involved.
38:14As Hoffman described
38:16the chances of treatment
38:17as being low,
38:18the probability
38:18of re-offending
38:19as very high.
38:21And he was declared
38:22a dangerous offender
38:23in British Columbia
38:24and at that point
38:26in 1993,
38:28myself and Detective
38:29Doug Grady
38:29from Metro Homicide
38:31went to B.C.
38:32and brought him
38:32back to Ontario
38:33for the two charges
38:35of the first-degree murder
38:37of Nancy and Ian Blackburn.
38:38And in 1995,
38:42he pled guilty
38:43to the Appleton abduction
38:44and was sentenced
38:45to six years
38:46and then we ended up
38:48with our trial
38:49in Toronto in 1997.
38:52David Snow,
38:54a former antique dealer,
38:55has pleaded not guilty
38:56to two counts
38:57of first-degree murder.
38:58After not hearing
39:00from Ian and Nancy Blackburn,
39:02nephew Jamie Osborne
39:03was sent to the couple's
39:04North Toronto home.
39:05Upon arrival,
39:06Osborne noticed
39:07Nancy's car
39:08was parked in the driveway.
39:10Inside the car,
39:11he discovered a Kleenex
39:12on the front driver's seat.
39:14Osborne told the jury,
39:15quote,
39:16I saw some spots on it.
39:17It looked like blood.
39:19DNA from David Snow
39:20matched the blood
39:22in the tissue paper
39:24in the front seat of the car.
39:26That's what Crown Prosecutor
39:28Hank Goody says
39:28is a key piece of evidence.
39:31It was a long trial.
39:32It went from February
39:34to July.
39:36Survivors from British Columbia
39:37also took the stand.
39:40I think it was very important
39:41for those women
39:42that come and testified
39:44to show the similar fact
39:45and to show what kind of a monster
39:48that individual it was.
39:50And it tied into some of our forensic evidence
39:54that we had
39:54and our evidence that we had here in Ontario.
39:57Facing him in court was powerful, I guess,
40:00because he was stuck in the box
40:03and I had the freedom to move.
40:06Ms. Rattray,
40:07when she got off the witness stand,
40:08was just relieved
40:10and confronted him,
40:11saying,
40:12you're not going to get away with this.
40:13She was very strong
40:15and just telling Snow
40:16she's going to live
40:17and have a good life
40:20despite what he's done to her.
40:23And I just thought
40:24it was one of the bravest testimonies
40:25I'd seen.
40:30What was that like
40:31to see him again?
40:37I wanted to kill him.
40:40I was angry
40:41and I'm still to this day
40:42because you know what?
40:43His lawyer was arguing with me,
40:45trying to tell me
40:46that I was a liar
40:46and I was dreaming all this up
40:47and it wasn't true
40:49and I was having none of it.
40:51The testimony of Lenore Rattray
40:53and Dahlia Jeleneau
40:54will stay with me forever
40:56because of the horrible ordeal
40:59they both endured
41:00and the way they fought
41:01to save their lives
41:03will stay with me forever.
41:05The verdict was guilty
41:06to two counts
41:07of first degree murder
41:08and sentenced to life imprisonment.
41:10It's been a long six months
41:12waiting for this to come
41:13and I'm so thrilled
41:14that we finally have
41:15a verdict we all want.
41:17What's the thought process
41:19to make somebody do this
41:20not just to Ian and Nancy
41:22but to all the victims out west
41:23and it's incomprehensible.
41:26David Snow did not look
41:28at the jury
41:29and showed no visible reaction
41:30as the guilty verdict was read.
41:32When given the opportunity to speak
41:34he mumbled
41:35I have nothing to say.
41:37Snow was also convicted
41:39of break and enter
41:40with intent, robbery
41:41and armed robbery.
41:44Why no charges
41:45in the Caroline Case investigation?
41:48He's never been charged
41:49with Caroline Case
41:50but the timeline is there
41:52and I don't believe
41:53that there's any physical evidence.
41:56It's just a matter of
41:57the fact that
41:58the similarities are there.
42:00There's no doubt in my mind
42:02that it's not David Snow.
42:06Ontario investigators say
42:08David Snow has refused
42:09to speak with them
42:10about Caroline Case
42:11and has never admitted
42:13to any involvement.
42:15They did tremendous work
42:16back there
42:17in putting those cases together.
42:18What happened in that case
42:20with Dahlia
42:21is it becomes very personal
42:22real quick
42:23and so it's hard
42:25to dismiss it, right?
42:26Normally
42:27you just move on
42:28and go on to the next file.
42:29That one's
42:30a tougher one.
42:31We've got someone
42:32that we actually want you to meet.
42:42You and I will be
42:44an icon forever,
42:45forever, forever.
42:46Yeah, I know.
42:47You will always,
42:48always,
42:49I will always remember you.
42:51Thank you so much
42:52for saving me.
42:52I'm here because of you.
42:53Thank you, you too.
42:55Yeah.
42:55Often you've been in my heart,
42:57in my soul forever.
42:59You'll always be there too
43:00for me, so.
43:01Yeah, we will be there
43:03forever.
43:03Yeah, yeah.
43:04You and I.
43:05Thank you again.
43:06Yeah.
43:06You know,
43:06the effects of
43:08other people's debauchery
43:10is so impactful
43:12on so many
43:15in ways
43:18unannounced.
43:19Nothing is normal for me.
43:21I'm afraid to do this,
43:22I'm afraid to do that.
43:23I don't go here,
43:23I don't want to go there
43:25because although I think
43:26I'm really strong
43:27and nobody else sees it,
43:29I'm petrified inside
43:30to do anything
43:31just in case.
43:33It made me realize
43:34I'm not safe.
43:36It made me really realize
43:38how unsafe this world is.
43:41Every situation I'm in,
43:43I overthink.
43:45I always look
43:46at the worst case scenario.
43:49Here we are
43:5030 some odd years later,
43:54all the trauma
43:56she's gone through
43:57with that.
43:57It still comes back,
43:59I still want to kill
44:00the bastard.
44:01My sister said to me,
44:03you know,
44:03Faye,
44:04if you didn't find Lenore,
44:06you'd probably still
44:07be looking.
44:07And that's probably true.
44:09I'd probably be looking
44:11my whole life.
44:12The mental health
44:14piece has been
44:17the toughest one.
44:18but my mental capacity
44:22is what kept me alive.
44:25But that's the biggest fight
44:26that I battle
44:27is not letting
44:31the darkness win.
44:36In 2025,
44:37David Snow was charged
44:39with first degree murder
44:40in connection
44:41with the death
44:41of Angeline Quinnell,
44:43whose body was discovered
44:44near Apsley, Ontario,
44:46one month after
44:47Caroline Case
44:48went missing.
44:50No one has ever
44:51been charged
44:51in Caroline's murder.
44:53David Snow
44:54remains behind bars.
44:58Thank you for joining us
45:00tonight on Crime Beat.
45:01I'm Anthony Robart.
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