Eve Lazarus (Cold Case Vancouver) investigates murder and missing
persons cases that have perplexed and fascinated British Columbians for
years.
In her book Cold Case Vancouver, crime historian and reporter Eve
Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city's most
baffling unsolved murders. In Cold Case BC, Lazarus casts her gaze
more widely on long forgotten and unsolved murder cases throughout the
province of British Columbia, Canada. These include teenager Molly
Justice, who was murdered on the outskirts of Victoria after taking the
bus home from work, and a follow-up to the tragic 1948 Babes in the
Woods story of two children found murdered in Stanley Park, whose names
were finally revealed this year in a story broken by Lazarus herself.
There's also the tale of four police officers in the 1960s who committed
a string of robberies that culminated in the biggest heist in
Vancouver's history. Their reign of terror ended with one of the
officers murdering his family before killing himself. Or were they all
killed by someone else?
Lazarus also looks at some of the province's most intriguing missing
persons cases, such as three-year-old Casey Bohun, who vanished from her
bed in the middle of the night, and the Jack family of four, who left
Prince George to work in a logging camp along the infamous Highway of
Tears but were never seen again.
Interviews with law enforcement, forensic experts, and family and
friends of the victims add new life to these historical cases, some of
which date back to World War II. The book also includes some cases that
have been solved, revealing the painstaking investigative work and new
forensic technology that ultimately brought about closure for victims'
families.
Meticulously researched, Cold Case BC is a fascinating true crime book
that reveals startling details about British Columbia's criminal past.
