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Command Post Deployments

Command Post Deployments You may notice York Regional Police officers in your neighbourhood in the coming days. We are proactively increasing patrols and deploying the YRP Command Post at strategic locations across the region, as members of our community observe Passover. This means you may see officers near places of worship, community centres or other gathering places, and in your neighbourhood. Officers on patrol and stationed at the Command Post will be available to answer questions, take reports and …

Tadayoshi Masuko

Tadayoshi Masuko As a hard-working entrepreneur, it was not unusual for Tadayoshi Masuko to be the last out of the office at Masuko International, the Woodbridge plastics business he owned. But when he didn't answer several phone calls at his office on the evening of April 1, 1987, his wife became worried. When she drove to Masuko International, located at 50 Alex Ave., at 9:30 p.m. that night, she discovered her husband lying on the lobby floor. He had been shot. The 45-year-old was pronounced dead in …

Kathleen McLaughlin

Kathleen McLaughlin While working the streets in downtown Toronto, Kathleen McLaughlin went by a handful of aliases: Katherine Lyle, Katherine Moore, and Katherine Descoteaux. To her family, she was simply Kathleen McLaughlin, a 33-year-old mother of three. Kathleen's body was found by surveyors in a cornfield near Warden Avenue, south of Highway 7, in Markham on July 31, 1979. An autopsy later determined that she had died as a result of blunt-force trauma. She was last seen alive more than one month …

Pierre Mercon

Pierre Mercon It was early morning after Halloween night, 1996, when Pierre Mercon's mother Norma drove to the Original Six sports bar at 14 Oxford St., Richmond Hill. She was planning to pick up her son from a costume party at the now-defunct bar. He had called to ask her for a ride home after last call at 2 a.m. But when she arrived at the street corner they had arranged, he was nowhere to be found. Pierre, 21, hasn't been seen since. Just hours earlier, Norma had dropped Pierre off dressed in green army …

William Nash

William Nash A joint investigation between the Ontario Provincial Police and the Markham Township Police revealed that witnesses last saw William Edward Nash alive between 8 and 9 p.m. on June 23, 1956. Before midnight, Nash was murdered. The body of the 64-year-old Markham resident was discovered the next day inside his Unionville snack bar. An autopsy later confirmed that he had been struck in the head with a rare Luger handgun. Nash's store, which is also where he lived, had been robbed. Witnesses also …

Van Boa Nguyen

Van Boa Nguyen Van Boa Nguyen, 27, was shot to death on March 8, 2002 in a marihuana grow house in Maple. An investigation revealed that at 1 a.m., three suspects forced their way into Nguyen's house at 120 Findhorn Cr. and forcibly confined him before executing him. The murder was directly linked to Nguyen's grow operation, which included several hundred mature marihuana plants in the basement of his house. His murderers, however, have not yet been identified. Points of Interest &lt;a href=" …

Thanh Nguyen and Frank Pham

Thanh Nguyen and Frank Pham Three men were shot and two were killed on May 2, 2004 in a Richmond Hill night club parking lot. Thanh Nguyen, 20, Frank Pham, 21 and a third victim, were rushed to hospital at 2:30 a.m., as Illusions, the now-defunct West Beaver Creek Road night club was closing. Thanh and Frank were dead upon arrival. The third man survived his injuries and was released later that day. Though several hundred people were at the club when the victims were shot, Thanh and Frank's murderers have …

Albert Peacock

Albert Peacock Albert Peacock was a social man. The Toronto east ender was a member of the Second Mile Club of Toronto, a senior's social club in downtown Toronto. His body, however, was found by hunters in a lonely, secluded wooded area west of Lake Ridge Road and Third Concession in Georgina on December 2, 1991. An autopsy later determined that the 76-year-old had been strangled to death. When his body was discovered, he was wearing a tan raincoat, pink dress shirt and beige dress pants. He was white, …

Jason Pellicore

Jason Pellicore It was just before 9:30 a.m., August 29, 2007, when a group of people working out inside a Richmond Hill gym heard gunshots in the parking lot. Outside, 34-year-old Jason Pellicore lied bleeding to death from multiple gunshot wounds. His gym bag, full of gear, lied on the ground next to him. He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The suspect, wearing dark-coloured clothing, was riding a scooter or small motorcycle and wearing a grey helmet with a full-face visor. After …

Tiago Pereira

Tiago Pereira The whereabouts of Tiago Pereira between noon on May 4 and 2 p.m. on May 5, 2004 are uncertain. But sometime in that time span, he was shot and killed, his body left on a dead end in King Township. The 35-year-old Toronto resident was last seen in Toronto. His body, however, was found at the end of the Seventeenth Sideroad. The location was not entirely remote - the road could be seen by motorists on both the north and southbound lanes of Highway 400. Police urged citizens to call police if …

Geraldine Pickford

Geraldine Pickford A wanted poster issued by the Ontario Provincial Police. Geraldine Pickford had worked at St. Andrew's College for four months before she was choked to death and left on a bank of the Tannery Creek in Aurora. The 40 year old was discovered by a group of students at the all-boys' boarding school on September 19, 1965. At that time, the creek ran through the college grounds near the rugby and cricket fields. She was was found completely nude, her clothes strewn about nearby among pieces of …

Vincenzo Raco

Vincenzo Raco Vincenzo Raco was parked outside of a doctor's office in Woodbridge when he was shot in the head and killed around 8 p.m. on February 9, 2005. The 58-year-old Brampton resident was sitting inside his grey 2005 Ford Freestyle SUV in the parking lot at 8077 Islington Ave., between Willis Road and Woodbridge Avenue. That's when he was approached by his killer, who ran eastbound through the plaza after murdering Vincenzo. The suspect, described as a white, clean-shaven man, roughly 5'11", thin …

Dianna Singh

Dianna Singh Dianna Singh's body was found near a quiet laneway in King Township, 12 days after she was last seen, on August 25, 1974. Dianna, a Toronto resident, was just 21 and working as a waitress when she was killed. An autopsy determined that she was stabbed to death. She was pregnant at the time. A police investigation revealed that Dianna was last seen outside a Becker's convenience store near Jane Street and Woolner Avenue in Toronto. Dianna might have hitchhiked to the store. Points of Interest …

Phillip Ho Sing Sit

Phillip Ho Sing Sit The skeletal remains of Phillip Sit were found August 8, 2006 - nearly a year after the 17-year-old went missing. His body was discovered by the resident of a rural property near King and Weston Roads in King Township, almost 50 kilometres from his home in Scarborough. Phillip was first reported missing after he told his family he was going out with friends in the early morning hours on Saturday, September 24, 2005, and never returned. While Phillip's death was determined to the result …

Wendy Rene Smith

Wendy Rene Smith For Wendy Rene Smith, April 13, 1995 marked her very first shift at Fantasia, a Richmond Hill adult night club. Sadly, it was also the last night anybody saw her alive. The 33-year-old exotic dancer started work at the club, located at 10097 Yonge St., at 10 p.m. Wendy was supposed to return to her Toronto home the next morning at 3 a.m., but she never arrived. Three days later, on April 16, 1995, her roommate reported her missing. Wendy had brown hair, green eyes and a nosering; she was …

Benita Tarantino

Benita Tarantino Today, Teston Road in Vaughan is a well-travelled, four-lane road, bustling with thousands of commuters. But 30 years ago, it was just a long stretch of dirt road bisecting the rural landscape. It was a lonely final resting place for Benita Tarantino, 17, whose body was discovered on October 28, 1985. She was identified three days later. When she was killed, Benita was working as a prostitute in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood of Toronto. She was last seen in the early morning hours of …

Istefan Toma

Istefan Toma Months after 58-year-old Istefan Toma went missing, his grey Pontiac Bonneville was found just down the street from where he worked in Vaughan. He still hasn't been seen since 10 p.m. on the night of June 30, 2001. That's when Istefan clocked out from his shift at Pop's Pizza Bar and Cafe, located at 5694 Highway 7 in Vaughan. His car was later found by police at the West Woodbridge Industrial Mall 5732 Highway 7, less than a block away. Points of Interest <a href=" …

Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach Members of the Special Victims Unit - Sexual Assault Cold Case Section are still looking for a suspect following a sexual assault that occurred in an empty field in Georgina in October 2008. The teenaged victim was walking alone in the area of Highway 48 and Hadden Rd just before 10 PM on the 24th of October, 2008. The female teen travelled through a field next to a coffee shop and convenience store in the area when she was sexually assaulted by an unknown male suspect. Following the assault …

Harding Park

Harding Park Composite sketch of the sex assault suspect at Harding Park. Members of the Special Victims Unit - Sexual Assault Cold Case Section are still looking for a suspect nearly two decades after a 27-year-old woman was assaulted while walking her dog in Richmond Hill. The victim was travelling along Harding Boulevard into Harding Park before 9 p.m. on October 28 when she was approached by a man in a dark, puffy jacket and dark jeans. The man, then in his 20s with short blonde hair and a thin build, …

Pinewood Drive

Pinewood Drive Composite sketch of the sex assault suspect. More than a decade after it took place, members of the Sexual Assault Cold Case section continue to investigate a sexual assault on a dead-end street in Vaughan on May 8, 2008. Just after midnight, a 20-year-old woman walked from Finch subway station in Toronto to the area of Steeles and Hilda Avenues. She suspected she was being followed by an Asian man in his late 20s, so she wandered into a nearby restaurant. When she left, the man continued to …