23case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 23 solved cases in Ontario. A solved case is one the record closes with a conviction or an equivalent legal finding; each file names who was convicted only where a court did.
SOLVEDListenChurch and Wellesley, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2017
Tess Richey, a 22-year-old woman from North Bay, Ontario, was killed after a night out in Toronto's Church and Wellesley neighbourhood in November 2017, and Kalen Schlatter was later convicted of first-degree murder in her death.
Credit: AbebenjoeCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListen306 Davenport Road, Yorkville, Toronto, Ontario · 1994
A 1994 armed robbery at the Just Desserts Café in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood ended with 23-year-old patron Georgina Leimonis fatally shot; two men were later convicted and one acquitted after one of Canada's longest and most contentious trials.
SOLVEDListenYonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2005
On December 26, 2005, a gang-related gunfight on Toronto's crowded Yonge Street killed 15-year-old Jane Creba and wounded six bystanders, sparking national debate on gun crime that shaped the 2006 federal election.
SOLVEDListenMississauga, Ontario, Canada · 2007
Aqsa Parvez, a 16-year-old high school student in Mississauga, Ontario, was strangled to death in her family home on December 10, 2007. Her father and brother later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenBarwell Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2009
Donna Ellen Jones, a 33-year-old Ottawa civil servant, died in December 2009 after months of abuse by her husband, Mark Peter Hutt, who scalded her with boiling water and left her untreated for 11 days before calling 911. Hutt was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013.
SOLVEDListenHigh Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1985
Kenneth Zeller, a Toronto teacher and librarian, was beaten to death by five teenage boys in High Park on June 22, 1985, in an attack described as a homophobic hate crime. All five were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to nine years in prison.
SOLVEDListenElizabethtown-Kitley, Ontario, Canada · 1892
On October 8, 1892, John Luckey, his wife Martha, and their daughter Mary Ann "Minnie" Luckey were killed and their farmhouse in Newbliss, Ontario (now part of Elizabethtown-Kitley Township) was set ablaze. John's son, Charles Sanford Luckey, was convicted of the triple murder and hanged in Brockville in 1893.
SOLVEDListenBrampton Centennial Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario, Canada · 1975
On May 28, 1975, a 16-year-old student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student, and wounded 13 others, at Brampton Centennial Secondary School in Ontario, Canada, before killing himself.
The files run from 1892 to 2021. The 2000s hold the most, with 8 files. The oldest is Murder of John, Martha, and Mary Ann Luckey, from 1892.
They are spread across 11 cities and towns; the most are in Toronto (8), Ottawa (3) and Mississauga (3). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (20), domestic violence cases (4) and mass shooting cases (3).
7 files of the 23 have coverage attached: 11 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 5 creators. That Chapter, Crime Beat and JCS have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Toronto Homeless Memorial — Credit: Loretta Lime from Toronto, CanadaCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Morningside-Coronation TCHC 2018 — Credit: ReidgregCC BY-SA 4.0Source
2022-06-27 Former Just Deserts Building site IMG 6997 — Credit: AbebenjoeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
"We Are Danforth Strong - We Love You" -- Memorial for Reese Fallon and Julianna Kozis — Credit: ΙΣΧΣΝΙΚΑ-888CC BY-SA 4.0Source
These files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
23. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Murder of John, Martha, and Mary Ann Luckey, from 1892. Open the file
2018 Toronto van attack, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (4 cases), Crime Beat (2 cases) and JCS (2 cases), among 5 creators in all.
Toronto (8), Ottawa (3) and Mississauga (3).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
