When two children’s skeletons are discovered in one of Vancouver’s premier urban parks in 1953, the mystery of who they were and how they were killed haunts residents. Decades later, curiosity and cutting-edge science solve the enduring question: Who were the Babes in the Woods?
Derek & David D’Alton (Photo Source) Vancouver Police Department via Cold Case Canada: Meet Olivia McCarter. By Eve Lazarus. Published April 2, 2022.
Derek D’Alton (Photo Source) Vancouver Police Department via Cold Case Canada: Meet Olivia McCarter. By Eve Lazarus. Published April 2, 2022.
David D’Alton (Photo Source) Vancouver Police Department via Cold Case Canada: Meet Olivia McCarter. By Eve Lazarus. Published April 2, 2022.
Eileen D’Alton (Photo Source) The Province: The Vancouver Daily Province.
Reproduction Images of victims’ clothing, lathing hatchet, fur coat, victims’ shoes, woman’s loafer (Photo Source) The Vancouver Sun
Clay recreations of victims (Photo Source) The Vancouver Sun
Child’s shoe evidence archived at The Vancouver Police Museum (Photo Source) Vancouver Police Museum & Archives
News clipping map of where bones were discovered (Photo Source)Vancouver Police Museum & Archives
Stanley Park Image (Photo Source) Authentik Canada
Stanley Park Map (Source) Google Maps
Episode Source Material
- A&E: Cold Case Files, Season 1, Episode 5 Segment. “The Skulls of Stanley Park” Via Youtube.
- Killer Crime: Unmasking the Past, The Stanley Park Grave via Youtube.
- The Province: The Vancouver Daily Province. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Skeletons hint murder of girl, boy. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Two mystery skeletons found by workmen in Stanley Park. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Police seek clues to bodies in the park. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Province newsmen find mystery clues. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver News-Herald: Skeletons remains of brother, sister. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Sun offers $500 reward for two children’s slayer. By Staff via newspapers.com
- The Vancouver Sun: Park skeletons definitely boy and girl. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Sun’s reward brings many death clues. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Babes-in-Park still puzzle detectives. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Police check new clues in park mystery. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: ‘Babes in the Woods’ slain by mother. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: 5 call police on ‘Babes in Woods’. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Police work praised. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Sculptress to help solve park ‘Babes in Woods’ murder. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Woman scientist tackles ‘Babes in Woods’ murder. By Jim Wood via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Police to show soon how murdered children looked. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: No title. By Staff via newspapers.com
- The Vancouver News-Herald: Deaths in park still unsolved. By Jim Smith via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Witness saw woman with slain children. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Skulls more welcome than bouquets to her. By Joan Fraser via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Secrets of Vancouver crime world revealed in police show at PNE. By Jim Fairley via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Detective won’t give up. By Mac Reynolds via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: New leads in Stanley Park murder case. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Skeleton found in Stanley Park. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: City’s most baffling murder. By Bob Porter via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: New clues probed in ‘Babes’ slaying. By Bob Porter via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: ‘Babes’ clue Peters out. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Weddings. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Light shed on ‘Babes in Woods’ case. By Paul Musgrove via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Crimestoppers to try to crack 1953 Babes in Woods mystery. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: ‘Babes’ murder film on trail 33 years ago. By Chris Wong via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Boys sorely missed. By Steve Berry via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Old morgue in new life. By Greg Middleton via newspapers.com.
- The Abbotsford News: Show results in tip. By Steve Greenwood via newspapers.com.
- Star-Phoenix: Missing. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Province: DNA testing explodes. By Staff. via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: DNA test sheds new light 1947 park murder case. By John Mackie via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Exploring the dark side of the park. By Shane McCune via newspapers.com.
- Times Colonist (CP): Search renewed for missing boys. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- Nanaimo Daily News (CP): Findings may help solve mystery of missing kids. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Stanley Park searchers find clues for cops. By Lora Grindlay via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Cops to tipster: Please call back. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- National Post: Stanley Park murder points to a serial killer. By Mark Hume via newspapers.com.
- The Province: Serial killer theory in teens’ murder. By Greg Middleton via newspapers.com.
- National Post: Second skull identified in Stanley Park killings of native teenagers. By Drew Hasselback via newspapers.com
- The Vancouver Sun: Tip is final hope in slayings. By Lindsay Kines via newspapers.com
- The Vancouver Sun: Famous murder subject of UBC play via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Babes in the Woods murderer still unknown to police. By Lori Culbert via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Babes in the Woods haunt retired cop. By Kerry Gold via newspapers.com.
- ‘Babes in the Woods’ investigation goes cold again- 51 years later. By Jonathan Woodward via newspapers.com.
- The Vancouver Sun: Photos: Babes in the woods case reportedly finally solved after almost 70 years. By Staff via vancouversun.com.
- The Other Press: Interview with retired homicide detective Brian Honeybourn. By Brandon Yip via theotherpress.ca.
- Redgrave Research Forensic Services: Identified: Derek and David D’Alton, formerly “The Babes in the Woods” – Stanley Park, Vancouver 1953. By Staff via redgraveresearch.com.
- Vancouver Police Department News Release: VPD identifies child victims in historic cold case murder.
- Vancouver Sun: Victims ID’d in Vancouver’s 70-year-old Babes in the Woods murder mystery. By Keith Fraser and John Mackie via vancouversun.com.
- Global News: Identities of Stanley Park Babes in the Woods revealed almost 70 years later. By Amy Judd via globalnews.ca.
- People: Boys Found Dead in Vancouver Park in 1953 Are ID’d, offering closure in city’s oldest unsolved murder case. By Christine Pelisek via people.com.
- Vancouver Police Museum & Archives: Murder, mystery and intrigue in review: Babes in the Woods. By Sheena Koo via vancouverpolicemuseum.ca.
- KIRO 7: Genealogy resolves Canada’s ‘Babes in the Woods’ case 70 years after boys’ hatchet murders. By Crystal Bonvillian via kiro7.com.
- 63. LakeheadU.ca: Who were the Babes in the Woods? By Tracey Skehan.