Recent Posts
Cancrime
Return To Blog Listing
Cancrime is crime, explained. How are murders solved? Why are crime maps useless? Find out what crime stats don't tell us. Twenty-year veteran crime writer Rob Tripp blogs about Canadian crime, criminals and the justice system plus, the document arch
Recent Posts Tagged With 'bodies'
Kingston canal death scene by night - a video tour
The short video above gives you another idea of why police likely were very suspicious from the very start that the Kingston canal case was not an accident, as the Shafia family immediately suggested. I shot the video exactly two weeks after the car ...
Accused canal mass murderer assaulted in jail
Can three members of the Shafia family, accused of killing four other family members, survive in jail, awaiting trial? One of the three, 18-year-old Hamed Shafia (inset), was assaulted by fellow inmates at the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee (jus...
Hidden answers in a mass murder probe?
Sometimes, there are clues to a complicated police investigation between the lines of what police have said. It's worth reading closely the three-page news release (above) investigators in Kingston, ...
'He's given her back to me in a box'
Wali Abdali was articulate, animated and direct, as he spoke to me yesterday from his home in Lyon, France, about the horror of his sister's death, about how his beautiful little sister is coming home to him 'in a box.' Though he spoke to me through ...
Abuse, vengeance, dark secrets alleged in Shafia home
from left, Mohammed Shafia, 56, wife Tooba, 39, son Hamed, 18, at the Kingston, Ontario courthouse on July 23 (photos by Ian MacAlpine and Michael Lea/The Whig-Standard)A portrait is emerging of a home of dark secrets - the Shafia home, where police ...
Mass murder in black and white
The document above is an inventory of mass murder.It's the charge sheet or 'information,' the document filed July 23, 2009, in a Kingston, Ontario court by police, setting out the criminal charges ag...
A shocking mass murder at Kingston Mills
Four women mysteriously found dead inside a submerged car in a canal in Kingston, Ontario, three weeks ago weren't victims of a freak accident - they were murdered, police believe. The stunning revelation came yesterday, with arrests in the case. Pol...
Beauty and death at Kingston Mills
In tragedy there can be beauty.I stumbled on this striking shot of the Kingston Mills lock where three teenage Montreal sisters and their aunt were found dead in a submerged car on June 30. To view the image full size, visit this flickr page of shoot...
Revelations about the bodies in the canal probe
I've tracked down a few more details about the police investigation into the deaths of four women found in a car submerged near the locks at Kingston Mills, in Kingston, Ontario. The revelations are contained in my story that appears today in the Kin...
How it happened: A video theory of 4 canal deaths
How could it happen? How could a car carrying three teenage sisters and their 50-year-old aunt negotiate a precarious grassy approach of rocks, tables, stoneworks and steel structures – all in the dead of night in a dimly lit spot – and then plun...
Names of 4 victims in submerged car released
Late tonight, Kingston Police released the names of three teenage sisters and a woman found dead on June 30 in a submerged car in Kingston Mills, a lock station on the Rideau Canal at Kingston, Ontario. The victims are:Zainab Shafia, 19Sahar Shafia, ...
Dead in submerged car are three sisters and woman
At a news conference today in Kingston, Ontario, police revealed that the bodies of four people pulled Tuesday from a submerged car in the Rideau Canal are three teenage sisters and a 50-year-old woman who is a relative. They are all members of a fam...
UPDATED - Four bodies pulled from car in canal
View Bodies in Rideau Canal in a larger mapUPDATED TUESDAY EVENING 11 p.m. EST - Police pulled four bodies from a submerged car in the Rideau Canal in Kingston. Police haven't said whether they believe the situation involves foul play. It is a bizarr...
