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Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)

Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)

Date8/25/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way bridge (left) early Sunday morning. James Wilson Brown; a 37-year-old maintenance man; who lives in townhouse 32 (above left) has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the case. The Massie baby lived with his parents in townhouse 33 (above right) and was stolen from his crib during the night while his parents were at a townhouse complex get acquainted party.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0122091F
Country:Canada
Geograhical feature:Credit River (Ont.)
Province or state:Ontario
Region or district:Peel (Ont. : Regional municipality)
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
8/25/1980
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1/30/1984
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3/19/1946
Dr. Rowena Hume was slain in her once-stately home, Police found her battered body after call from Star reporter Edna Hampton
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10/4/1966
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11/8/1984
Parents of kidnapped baby, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Campbell wait for news of their 17-month-old son, Callum, abducted today from his baby carriage outside a(...)
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10/1/1971
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10/1/1971
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4/27/1973
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5/11/1976
Mysterious bundle, Police stand around the site last April 19 where the body of Sabiha Parvin was dumped, thrown in front of a house just blocks from (...)
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10/23/1993
Body found: A Metro police Emergency Task Force unit and other police vehicles block a road to the Humber River, near the thick underbrush where two boys found the body of Alison Parrott last night
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7/27/1986
Less than an hour after Mrs. William Casovan, 38, was found slain in her Grange Ave. home Friday, detectives entered a rooming house on Wolseley St. a(...)
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