Two little boys were out walking their dog on Boxing Day in 1959 when they came across the naked body of Lila Anderson, 38. She had a black skirt wrapped around her head. She had been abducted from a bus stop, dragged into a car, beaten with a tire iron and her head was then smashed against a rock.
Lila came from small town Rock Creek, BC and during the war served with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a sergeant cook. She moved to Vancouver after her discharge and first worked as an assistant night manager at the White Lunch and later as a cashier at the Safeway store at Broadway and Main Street.
In 1950 she bought a property on East 15th Avenue in East Vancouver and drew up blueprints for a boarding house. She hired a construction crew and supervised the work. When it was finished, she moved into the bottom suite and rented out the upstairs. Lila made it clear that her private life was her own business, and she expected her neighbours and friends to respect that. What they did know was that she loved to garden; she loved Mikie, her eight-year-old cat, and she was happy to stay at home and listen to the radio or watch television. Relatives and friends painted a picture of a quiet woman who liked her own company and preferred to live alone. She laughed at funny things, they said, was friendly to small children, and had a nice smile.
Lila told her sister and a neighbour that she had made plans for Christmas dinner but she didn’t say who with. No one saw her after she left home Christmas day. An autopsy determined that Lila had eaten about an hour before she was murdered.
“It is a dreadful commentary on a type of city as ours that such a crime could occur,” Vancouver Police Chief George Archer told the media. “Someone must have seen her travelling about the city, or at her Christmas dinner. Yet not one single witness had come forward to help with the investigation.”
Lila had two children both of whom she adopted out. Ross Dewar was born in 1947 and believes he has an older half-sister in Ontario. Ross recently connected with a half-brother from his father’s side after adding his DNA to the Ancestry.com genealogy databank.
Sources:
Vancouver is Awesome: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/vancouver-cold-case-files-the-christmas-day-murder-4882050
I originally wrote about Lila Anderson in my book Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling
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It’s a very interesting 3 part documentary that has the feel of Making a Murderer
30 years ago, on October 6, 1991, the famous Soviet singer Igor Talkov was shot dead at a concert in St. Petersburg. This crime is considered to this day the biggest in the history of Russian show business, and the course of its investigation raises many questions: although at the time of Talkov's death there were only a few people with him, the investigators could not solve the case and expose the murderer.
Igor Talkov's childhood was spent in the Tula Oblast. The parents of the future musician (his father belonged to an old noble family) at one time fell into the millstones of Stalin's repressions and met in the village of Orlovo-Rozovo, Kemerovo Oblast, where both served time and played in an amateur theater of the local GULAG. After their release, they tried to return to Moscow, but the former political prisoners were denied housing, and the couple settled in the village of Gretsovka, Tula Oblast.
Igor was born there on November 4, 1956. The boy showed love for music since childhood: in addition to the usual school, he attended a music school, learned to play the button accordion. Igor had abilities for it: having mastered the button accordion, he learned to play the piano, guitar and mastered the drum kit. In high school, Talkov founded his first musical group, called "Guitarists" (according to other sources - "Past and Thoughts"). At the same time, he began to write songs; his debut works were the compositions "Dusha" (Soul) and "Mne ne jal'" (I'm Not Sorry).
Another passion of Talkov was theater: although he was embarrassed to go on stage in a school drama club and only watched performances, he still dreamed of an acting career. Having received an academic certificate, Igor shortly studied in a local school on a locksmith, but dropped out and went to Moscow. There he tried to enter the theater institute but failed the literature exam.
After the failure with the theater institute, Talkov tried to study at the pedagogical institute and the institute of culture, but in the end, he dropped out of both educational institutions. For some time he was a member of the Wrappers musical group, and besides music he was also fond of political activities, sympathizing with the dissident movement. In 1975, on Tverskaya Square, Talkov made an accusatory speech against the political leadership of the USSR. It was an equally bold and reckless move. In those years, the authorities reacted extremely painfully to any criticism. Igor escaped criminal prosecution by j
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Let me know what I should add. Thanks
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Egf6MaWbhaCp9DfPBASex?si=ec0681b3d12a4a83
Hello there;I'm Harold and recently I've been recording songs of which I've spent like two years thinking of lyrics for after I started getting ideas for an album about murder when I visited a London Cemetery. I know these songs aren't amazing but they may still interest you-like what do you guys think of the lyrics?? Or the track my friend did vocals for??
If anyone wants to listen please lemme know what you think! It would mean a lot to me:)
https://twistedecstasy.bandcamp.com/album/frantic-murder
Many thanks, Harold
