Cold Case Canada

S3 E30 Double Murder: Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook

Saanich residents Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18 and Jay Cook, 20 were murdered while on an overnight trip to Washington State in 1987. Episode includes interviews with Detective Jim Scharf of the Snohomish Country Sheriff's Office and CeCe Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon Nanolabs, who cracked this case three decades later.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases 
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com 
Sponsors: Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours, Arsenal Pulp Press
Promo: True Crime Files

S3 E29 When Cops were Murderers

Len Hogue was one of three dirty VPD cops who supplemented their salaries initially through B&Es, escalated to bank robberies, and in 1965 pulled off the biggest heist in Vancouver’s history - $1.2 million worth of bank notes that were being sent back to Ottawa to be destroyed. When police officials caught on, 33-year-old Hogue went home, shot his sleeping wife in the head, and then hunted down and shot his six kids aged between 3 and 14 before turning the gun on himself. Or did he? This is part two of two.
This episode is based on a story from Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases 
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com 

S3 E28 When Cops Were Robbers

In 1956, Len Hogue, David Harrison and Joe Percival joined the Vancouver Police Department and within a few years, became known as the “terrible three.” The cops were supplementing their salaries initially through B&Es, escalated to bank robberies, and in 1965, pulled off the biggest heist in Vancouver’s history - $1.2 million worth of stolen bank notes that were being sent to Ottawa to be destroyed. This is part one of two.
This episode is from my book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases 
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com 

S3 E27 Tanya Busch: The Prison Guard’s Daughter

Tanya Busch disappeared on the way to her Vancouver school on June 2, 1972. She was the second 7-year-old abducted in just over two years. Was there a connection?
This episode is based on original research and interviews from a chapter in my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com

S3 E26 Abducted: Evangeline Azarcon

On November 20, 1969, seven-year-old Evangeline Azarcon disappeared on her way home from Edith Cavell Elementary in Vancouver. Her abduction sparked the biggest search in BC’s history. Two years later another seven-year-old was abducted on her way to her Vancouver school. Was there a connection?
This episode is based on original research and interviews from a chapter in my book Cold Case Vancouver: the city's most baffling unsolved murders
This episode is sponsored by Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours. 
For photos, show credits, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com

S3 E25 The Babes in the Woods Update

It's almost 70 years since they were found buried in Vancouver's Stanley Park, but now the Babes in the Woods have their names back. They were Derek and David D'Alton aged 7 and 6 when they were beaten to death with a hatchet. 
This episode is based on a chapter in my upcoming book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province's most sensational murders and missing persons cases 
For more information, please visit my website evelazarus.com 

S2 E24 Halloween Special 2021

The Halloween Special is the last episode of Season 2. Join me and five storytellers as they tell you their favourite ghost stories: a haunted nightclub, a shooting, a former insane asylum, the Chinatown ghost, a cemetery and a haunted grand piano.
For photos, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com
Photo: Riverdale Psychiatric Hospital, courtesy Coquitlam Archives

S2 E23 Murder by Milkshake Part 2

In 1965, Rene Castellani, a 40-year-old radio personality murdered his wife Esther with arsenic-laced milkshakes so he could marry Lolly, CKNW’s 25-year-old receptionist. The Castellani's had an 11-year-old daughter called Jeannine, who became the collateral damage in one of the most sensational murder cases of the 20th century. 
This episode is based on original research and interviews from Murder by Milkshake: an astonishing true story of adultery, arsenic and a charismatic killer 
For photos, sources and information about my books, blog or podcasts visit: evelazarus.com