Ron West

In February of 2022, the Parole Board of Canada ultimately decided not to grant full parole to Ronald Glen West.

I had always hoped beyond hope that new information may come forward to clear the Murder Park Cold Case or other existing cold cases but I never considered that I would hear about and from a woman claiming to be West’s first victim.

Since the launch of The Seventh Shot , I have heard from many of my readers, as well as persons I had interviewed for the book, often with updates and sometimes just checking in. I never anticipated that the book would create its own culture.  I am often contacted by readers with fascinating stories of […]

I promised to tell you about the attempted murder at the Highlands Rural Learning Centre in 1992, how it changed my life, and how it played a part in my decision to immerse myself in over three years of interviews, investigation and writing about the Ronald Glen West case. The Highlands Rural Learning Centre was […]

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.