The skeletal remains of two children between six and 10 years old are discovered near Beaver Lake in Stanley Park by a city worker. The bodies were found roughly six years after the children were thought to have been killed with a hatchet also found in the area.
The two, dubbed the “Babes in the Woods,” were covered by a woman’s fur coat and a woman’s shoe was found underneath them. The medical examiner at the time mistakenly concluded the victims were a boy and a girl, but a DNA test conducted in 1998 proved they were both male. After spending years on display at the Vancouver Police Museum in the Downtown Eastside, the remains were cremated and their ashes scattered in the ocean.
Neither of the victims or a potential suspect, who would likely now be dead as well, have ever been identified.
