Unsolved Homicides

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicide of 79-year-old Thelma Clapham, a mother of five and grandmother remembered for her kindness, humour and devotion to her family.

On December 2, 2004, at approximately 11:30 a.m., police found Thelma dead in her ninth-floor apartment on...

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicide of Colin Jardine.

On October 21, 2003, at approximately 10:45 p.m., police received a 911 call reporting a home invasion at a residence on Maplewood Avenue in Hamilton. Four armed men entered the home and demanded money. When their...

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicide of Kathryn Dow, a retired registered nurse from Henderson Hospital and mother of a daughter who was 20 at the time.

On December 3, 2000, at approximately 6:30 a.m., police and firefighters responded to a house fire on Pinewarbler Drive...

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicide of Damian Dymitraszcuk.

On March 23, 2000, first responders found Damian with severe injuries from an assault inside a storage unit at 55 Lancing Drive, near Nebo Road in Hamilton. He died from his injuries three days later, on March 26...

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicide of 80-year-old Clyde Frost.

Clyde disappeared from his home on Hamilton’s west Mountain on January 23, 1999. On February 2, 1999, his body was found inside his Roadtrek recreational vehicle, parked on a side street in Toronto. He had...

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicides of Lynn and Fred Gilbank, who were found shot to death in their Ancaster home on November 16, 1998.

The couple, both 52, had been married for approximately 30 years. Lynn was a lawyer and Fred was a computer specialist. Their adult son...

Sheryl Sheppard last spoke to her mother on January 1, 1998. Sheryl and her boyfriend Michael Lavoie had attracted attention locally when he had proposed to her on TV the night before during a New Year’s Eve party at the Hamilton Convention Centre.

Her mother reported her missing after she missed...

Hamilton Police continue to seek information about the homicide of Sean Drennan, a McMaster University student.

In the early morning hours of January 22, 1997, residents of a building on West Avenue North in central Hamilton heard Sean scream from his third-floor apartment. They then heard footsteps...