Cold case: Squamish RCMP seek tips in historic murder of retired teacher – BC
Squamish RCMP are renewing a name for suggestions in a chilly case, forward of the thirty second anniversary of a retired college trainer’s brutal homicide.
Kathleen Vauden Kermode, often known as “Kay,” was stabbed to loss of life in her Sundown Seashore dwelling at a while within the evening between March 17 and March 18, 1990.
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Regardless that a lot time has handed, we nonetheless search closure and surprise simply what occurred to our Aunt Kay,” Kermode’s niece stated in a press release by means of Squamish RCMP.
We’re grateful the police are nonetheless looking for solutions and hopeful that one thing will come to mild to help the investigation.
RCMP say the 73-year-old’s killer climbed to her raised deck, the place they entered her dwelling by means of a sliding glass door. The suspect stabbed her a number of instances, earlier than rummaging by means of her purse and stealing her inexperienced 1982 VW Jetta.
The killer deserted the automobile within the roadway the place a neighbour noticed it and referred to as police after they couldn’t get in contact with Kermode.
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Mounties say they’ve obtained quite a few suggestions within the three many years since Kermode’s homicide, however that they nonetheless haven’t been in a position to decide a motive.
Investigators say Kermode, a former trainer with the West Vancouver College District, had remained socially lively and adopted theatre and politics.
“She was a sufferer in each sense of the phrase,” Cpl. Ashley MacKay stated in a media launch.
Anybody with info is requested to contact Squamish RCMP at 604-892-6100, or Crime Stoppers in the event that they want to stay nameless.
