The Happy Face Killer - Keith Hunter Jesperson

Keith Hunter Jesperson was born in Chilliwack, BC in 1955. As a child, he displayed the typical behavior of someone who would grow up to be a serial killer. He was cruel and abusive to animals and enjoyed torturing and killing them. Often he would make animals fight and kill each other for his amusement.

In Keith's own words, he came from an abusive home. His father was an alcoholic and often violent with his children, as was his grandfather. Keith was a large child and often faced teasing from other children, and was treated like an outcast even by his own family. He showed vindictive tendencies, feeling like he needed to retaliate against every slight against him. Twice as a child he tried to kill his classmates. One boy, he beat badly until his father pulled him away, and later Keith admitted that he was attempting to kill the boy. In another incident, a different boy had held Keiths head under water when swimming till he blacked out. In retaliation, when swimming in a public pool, Keith tried to drown the boy and would have if a lifeguard hadn't stopped him.

The Paper Bag Rapist - John Horace Oughton

It was a sunny day in Vancouver on April 26, 1981. Carmen Aguirre and her cousin Macarena were walking along a trail in the University of British Columbia Endowment Lands, giggling and talking about boys. Typical 13-year-old girl type of stuff. They were looking to share a smoke that Carmen had snuck from her dad's pack of cigarettes.

As they walked down the trail they heard a twig snap behind them. Freezing in fear, they thought that they were somehow busted for the cigarette. The reality was far worse.

"Put your hands on your head, turn around, and don’t look back.", a man's voice said behind them. "Don’t try to run. I have a gun and I will shoot you. Do as I say."

"Put your hands on her shoulders and walk. If either of you turn around, I’ll shoot." "Walk! I have the gun to your sister’s head and I’ll shoot her if you don’t walk. Off the trail, into the bush. Now."

The two girls had the misfortune to have met a man named John Horace Oughton. A man that was dubbed by the media as "The Paper Bag Rapist".

Murdered Unidentified Children - The Babes in the Woods

In Vancouver's Stanley Park, January 1953, gardener Albert Tong went about his duties clearing brush by an area near Beaver Lake when he found a tragic scene. After clearing some brush he discovered a decomposing fur coat under which were the bones of two young children.

Murder of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg

In November 1987, high school sweethearts Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg decided that they wanted to travel from their hometown of Sanich, BC, to Seattle, Washington. Sanich is located on Vancouver Island, so this trip required that they take a ferry from Victoria, BC to Port Angeles. After a short drive to Bremerton, Washington, they needed to take a second ferry to their final destination of Seattle. They borrowed Jay's fathers 1977 Ford Club Van for the drive. Sanich and Seattle aren't too far away from each other and the couple was due back home the next day.

Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg

They left home on November 18, 1987, took the first ferry and then drove to Bremerton. Jay and Tanya bought tickets for the second ferry, and that was the last time they were seen alive again.

When they didn't return home on the 19th, their parents waited nervously by the phone, hoping to get a call from them saying they had been delayed. But that sinking feeling got bigger when they still did not hear from the couple by the 20th. Their parents decided to call the police and report them missing
on the 20th.

On November 24th, Tanya Van Cuylenborg's half-naked body was found in a ditch near Alger, Washington, a short distance south of Bellingham. Zip ties bound her hands behind her back, she had been raped and shot in the back of the head with a .38 caliber gun.

The next day, on the 25th. Tanya's wallet and keys were found at a Greyhound bus station in Bellingham. Nearby, the van that Jay and Tanya were driving was found. When the van was searched, police found zip ties, the same kind that was used to bind Tanya, and plastic gloves. Investigators thought that the killer left the plastic gloves in plain sight as a taunt, saying "You won't find any prints because I wore these".