Читать книгу Murder, Eh? - Lou Allin - Страница 3

The Sudbury Star, August 26, 2006

“Second Murder Rocks City”

A concerned neighbour found the body of Selma Atler, 42, Sunday morning after she failed to answer the door at her home on Bloor Street in the Donovan area. An accountant at the Taxation Centre, Ms. Atler appeared to have been strangled, then placed nude in the bathtub.

June Reymond told police that they always drove to church together. “I just went on in. The door wasn’t locked. That wasn’t like Selma.”

There was no sign of forced entry, but missing were a plasma television, a Sony laptop, and an assortment of jewellery, according to Norm Atler, her son, a lawyer in Lively.

“We’re the Nickel Capital, not the Murder Capital. The person responsible will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. That’s a promise,” said Nan Martin, Police Public Relations Officer, in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. She was referring to a local newscast stating that the latest death had bumped the annual homicide rate to 5.5 per hundred thousand, passing the leaders, Saskatoon and Regina. “With only 165,000 people in the City of Greater Sudbury, small numbers can skew the data. We were only .6 last year. Why doesn’t anyone mention that?”

The shocking killing echoed the death of Jennifer Spark the week before, also found under similar circumstances by her sister, Marge Blake. A divorcee, the 40-year-old Spark lived alone in an apartment on Teele Street in Lockerby. Mrs. Blake noticed the absence of a collection of Georgian silver, a Bose radio, a bottle of Courvoisier and several hundred dollars collected for a cat shelter.

Take Back the Night, a local activist group, will march tomorrow to Tom Davies Square to demand more police patrols. Meanwhile, single women are being advised to lock their doors and report any stranger. Anyone with information is urged to call the TIPS hotline at 705-226-7821.

The tragic deaths have touched many parts of the community. Belinda Jeffries, manager of the City Pound on Douglas Street, reported that most of its larger dogs had been adopted. Dick Derro, manager at Blue Steel Protection, said, “We’ve doubled our rate for installations of home security systems. No one wants to take chances.”