Author: Ann Burke

It was undoubtedly a time of innocence in rural Ontario when no-one locked their doors or viewed strangers as anything but just that. That all changed after May 6th, 1970. The following is an excerpt from my book, ‘The Seventh Shot’.

Shortly after the apprehension of California’s Golden State Killer last April, I had the opportunity to speak with Detective Inspector (Retired) Don MacNeil

Less than two weeks after the sadistic murder of Doreen Moorby, the Ghost would strike again within the Oak Ridges Moraine.

For years after West’s conviction for the Moorby/Ferguson murders, police investigations carried on in an attempt to establish West as the perpetrator of the egregious murders at the roadside stop on the Trans Canada Highway. “However,” Inspector Don MacNeil would explain, “we couldn’t get enough on West to give to the Crown Attorney, in fact, we were told that we unless we could put West in the motorhome, through trace evidence, there wasn’t enough”.

I decided at this point to construct a very basic geographical map in relation to Ron West’s known crimes, as well as include several cold cases that existed within the same time span (roughly 1970 to 1972) which I attempt to make a case for in ‘The Seventh Shot’

After completing ‘The Seventh Shot’, I began looking into the heart-breaking story of the disappearance and murder of a 10-year-old girl near Beeton, Ontario in the summer of 1962. The little girl’s name was Thomasena Baker, or Tommy to those who loved her.