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_Globe and Mail_ (National Edition, Monday, November 15, 1993)

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Community wants coroner's inquest

MONTREAL - Since 1989, there have been at least 14 sex slayings of
homosexual men in Montreal.  The gay community has demanded a
coroner's inquest to investigate the inability to solve the crimes.
     Many of the men killed were known to be "closet" gays who
sought partners in Montreal's Gay Village, so there are suggestions
some of the crimes may be linked.  Four people have been convicted
in connection with the killings, while nine of the crimes remain
unresolved.
     The victims include:
- Rev. Warren Eling, 53:  the Anglican priest was found bound and
strangled in his home on Nov. 10; unresolved.
- Robert Panchaud, 36:  bound and fatally stabbed in his downtown
Montreal apartment on Jan. 27; unresolved.
- Michael Hogue, 42:  bound and stabbed to death in his suburban
Laval home on Jan. 18; unresolved.
- Daniel Lacombe, 37:  the teacher suffered a heart attack during
a beating by a group of teen-age boys at a roadside stop in
Joliette; resolved.
- Yves Lalonde, 51:  the accountant was beaten to death by
skinheads in a west-end park popular with "cruising" gay men;
resolved.
- Garfield Walker, 30:  stabbed to death in his Montreal home on
No. 30, 1991; unresolved.
- Pierre-Yvon Croft, 48:  stabbed to death in an east-end park
popular with gay men on Oct. 9, 1991; unresolved.
- Marc Bellerive, 33:  the accountant was stabbed to death in a
different east-end park on Sept. 20, 1991; unresolved.
- Normand Gareau, 45:  a salesman who was beaten to death in his
downtown apartment on May 10, 1991; unresolved.
- Robert Assaly, 59:  a retired teacher beaten to death in his
Nun's Island condominium on April 7, 1991; unresolved.
- Gaetan Ethier, 45:  the labourer was fatally stabbed in his
downtown apartment April 2, 1991; unresolved.
- Dr. Edward Yong Sua Mok, 26:  the doctor was stabbed in his
Montreal apartment on April 14, 1990; unresolved.
- Brian Booth, 53:  the businessman was stabbed to death in a
downtown hotel on April 10, 1990, by a man he met in a Gay Village
bar; resolved.
- Richard Gallant, 28:  stabbed to death in his downtown apartment
on March 9, 1989; unresolved.
     Joe Rose, a 24-year-old student, was stabbed to death on March
19, 1989 by a  group of teenagers who targeted him because of his
pink hair.  While the killing of Mr. Rose, a high-profile gay
activist, is not classified as a sex slaying, it focused attention
on homophobic violence.

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