Diane holding David at right Genetic Genealogy:Ĭindy wanted to find out her mother’s genetic mix, so she took a swab from Diane, who was by then suffering from dementia, and sent it off to MyHeritage.
#CHARLES LAZARUS UNSOLVED MYSTERIES WINDOWS#
“I remember my mother sharing stories with me about her mother’s poverty and how they used to jump out of windows at places they were renting in Vancouver to avoid having to pay because they were just so poor,” says Ally.īut when Ally’s Mum Cindy pressed her mother Diane for more information, Diane would tell her: “we don’t talk about that” or “that’s in the past.” Photos of Derek and David with the family. Twenty-six year old Ally, says the story handed down in the family was that the two little boys were taken away by social services because their mother Eileen who was of Metis heritage, was too poor to look after them. When Ally asked her grandmother Diane who they were, she found out they were Diane’s younger brothers David and Derek. The older boy had blonde hair and blue eyes, and the younger had darker features. When Ally spit into a tube in 2020, she had no idea that her DNA would help to solve one of Vancouver’s oldest and coldest murder mysteries.Īlly was flicking through the family album one day when she discovered that she had two great uncles who she had never met.
This episode is based on a chapter in my book Cold Case BC: the stories behind the province’s most sensational murders and missing persons cases Doreen, Eileen’s fraternal twin is shown with David and possibly Derek, ca.1943 But thanks to a young woman named Ally who went searching for her Great Uncles-I can now tell you the names of the Babes in the Woods-the little boys whose skeletons were found in Stanley Park in 1953.
Since I write about history and cold cases, it’s not often I’ve get to break an actual news story.
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