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08-12-2005, 06:45 PM
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20050811-019/page.asp
Justice Denied
It was a case that horrified a southwestern Ontario community, and inspired women everywhere to be more vigilant when travelling alone.
After 15 years, and an exhaustive investigation that stretched throughout Canada and into the United States, authorities finally believe they know who killed 21-year-old university Lynda Shaw in 1990.
Their prime suspect is a twice-convicted killer who’s been dead since 1994. Privacy laws prevent him from being identified, but investigators reportedly linked him to the slaying through DNA evidence.
A partly-burned man’s duffel coat found within a metre of her body, a garment they were sure belonged to the killer. The man they’ve just now pinpointed lived less than an hour away from the murder scene.
The third-year engineering student was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered Monday, April 16th, 1990, on her way back to university after spending Easter weekend with her family in Huttonville, just south of Brampton.
After leaving her home at about 11pm Sunday in her 1989 blue Dodge Shadow, Shaw stopped a little more than an hour later at a service centre Burger King off Highway 401 in Oxford County. That was at about 12:17am.
The snack stop, where she’s believed to have purchased a burger and fries, appears to have been her last. She never showed up at Western University the next day for an exam she was supposed to write.
Shaw's abandoned car was found a little up the road on the shoulder - one of its windows smashed and a rear tire replaced by a spare.
After an extensive search, the young woman's body was found beaten, stabbed and partially burned in a wooded area six days later. It was later determined she'd also been sexually assaulted.
More than 900 people were investigated as 'persons of interest' over the years, everyone from unknown strangers to Paul Bernardo was among the suspects. Authorities also sifted through nearly a thousand tips.
For the young woman's mother, Carol Taylor, Friday's announcement provided an ending, but not closure, "because we now have learned that this person was a convicted killer many years before Lynda's murder.
"He not only killed two people, but he killed Lynda," she said in a statement. "All were victims of a man who placed no value on human life."
Shaw's horrifying case has resulted in at least one big change in travelling habits: it inspired women across the country to carry cellphones with them when they're on their own.
It's a sombre ending to a terrible and tragic tale.
August 12, 2005
Justice Denied
It was a case that horrified a southwestern Ontario community, and inspired women everywhere to be more vigilant when travelling alone.
After 15 years, and an exhaustive investigation that stretched throughout Canada and into the United States, authorities finally believe they know who killed 21-year-old university Lynda Shaw in 1990.
Their prime suspect is a twice-convicted killer who’s been dead since 1994. Privacy laws prevent him from being identified, but investigators reportedly linked him to the slaying through DNA evidence.
A partly-burned man’s duffel coat found within a metre of her body, a garment they were sure belonged to the killer. The man they’ve just now pinpointed lived less than an hour away from the murder scene.
The third-year engineering student was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered Monday, April 16th, 1990, on her way back to university after spending Easter weekend with her family in Huttonville, just south of Brampton.
After leaving her home at about 11pm Sunday in her 1989 blue Dodge Shadow, Shaw stopped a little more than an hour later at a service centre Burger King off Highway 401 in Oxford County. That was at about 12:17am.
The snack stop, where she’s believed to have purchased a burger and fries, appears to have been her last. She never showed up at Western University the next day for an exam she was supposed to write.
Shaw's abandoned car was found a little up the road on the shoulder - one of its windows smashed and a rear tire replaced by a spare.
After an extensive search, the young woman's body was found beaten, stabbed and partially burned in a wooded area six days later. It was later determined she'd also been sexually assaulted.
More than 900 people were investigated as 'persons of interest' over the years, everyone from unknown strangers to Paul Bernardo was among the suspects. Authorities also sifted through nearly a thousand tips.
For the young woman's mother, Carol Taylor, Friday's announcement provided an ending, but not closure, "because we now have learned that this person was a convicted killer many years before Lynda's murder.
"He not only killed two people, but he killed Lynda," she said in a statement. "All were victims of a man who placed no value on human life."
Shaw's horrifying case has resulted in at least one big change in travelling habits: it inspired women across the country to carry cellphones with them when they're on their own.
It's a sombre ending to a terrible and tragic tale.
August 12, 2005