Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984 by Arntfield Michael

Author:Arntfield, Michael [Arntfield, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Tags: True Crime, Murder, Serial Killers, Psychology, Forensic Psychology, True Crime, Murder
ISBN: 9781460261835
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2015-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

The Telephone Man

On the evening of October 4th, London resident Elizabeth Harrison, along with her husband and teenaged son, had been inside the restaurant at the Metropolitan Store and seated at the lunch counter near the kitchen’s short order window. On October 19th, the 43-year-old Elizabeth belatedly came forward and confirmed with police that she and her family had been served by Jackie English that same night and had been witness to something unnerving. During the hour or so they were at the restaurant, near closing, the Harrisons watched as Jackie was approached by two separate men on two separate occasions. The description of each man was similar, with both males roughly ten years older than Jackie and both with short dark hair and medium builds. The first of the two to approach her was described as wearing a “work overcoat,” as though he were perhaps employed in some outdoor capacity. The second man, who approached sometime later, looked almost identical other than that he was dressed in casual clothes. Neither Elizabeth nor her family could say for certain whether the two men were in the restaurant at the same time or whether they might have actually observed the same man dressed differently on the second occasion. The Harrison family, however, was unanimous in saying that, after the second encounter in particular, Jackie looked frightened.

Although these encounters might have meant nothing, it was the most consistent piece of information Dennis had to go on, especially given the wildly varying descriptions of the car that Jackie entered that night. Dennis considered it the most valuable lead and arranged for the Harrisons to meet with a police sketch artist using a new technology that had recently made its way to Canada: the Identi-Kit.

Developed by firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson—a preferred supplier of revolvers among Canadian and U.S. police departments of the day—the Identi-Kit was a spiral-bound set of transparencies featuring standardized sets of stencilled facial features that, it was hoped, might allow for an equally standardized system of suspect composite sketching. The Identi-Kit first gained notoriety in 1954 when it was used to create the composite of the unidentified “bushy haired man” described by Dr. Sam Sheppard as being the intruder to his Ohio lake house and murderer of his wife. Sheppard was himself later tried and convicted for the crime and his case became the inspiration for the acclaimed television series The Fugitive, where the Identi-Kit’s “bushy haired man” composite was replaced with the elusive “one armed man” and Sheppard was fictionalized as Dr. Richard Kimble. Then, in 1966, after the Identi-Kit proved its worth by successfully helping to identify Richard Speck for the massacre of eight nursing students in a Chicago hospital dormitory, it eventually found its way north. By early November 1969, it had made its way to London and was used to create a composite of the man seen by the Harrisons speaking to Jackie English just before her disappearance and murder. A Photostat of the composite was

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