Gay male murders in Montreal - a list

James Drummond Ross

Gay men murdered in Montreal

1967 Mike Jenkins, a freelance photographer living at 1180 Drummond shot Philosophy Professor James Ross, 36, dead in a fit of jealous rage over Henry Berube, 20 at 1565 Pine on Oct. 12 at about 2 a.m. 
See: How a splashy, hushed-up, gay lovers triangle murder changed history 

Patrice Richard

1969 William Rompre, 51, was killed in a fight on 2 Jan. at 1296 Montcalm. The accused was in his 40s. He was arrested at the Plateau Tavern at 71 St. Catherine E. A 23 year-old student was questioned as a witness. 

1971 Jan 9. Yvon Levesque, 51, a male nurse, beaten to death at his apartment at 4550 Rivard Apt 301.  Christian Sauvage and Jacques Thiviere was arrested soon after.

1971 12 May Patrick Richard, 33, chef living on Duluth, often hung out with other gays in a restaurant near St Louis Square. Found with his throat slashed in l'Assomption.

Lloyd Converse

1974 Claude Payment, 20, left a downtown strip club on St. Catherine and accepted a lift from passerby, the head of CBC Radio international Lloyd Converse, 48.  Payment stabbed Converse 46 times as they sat next to his bed on 30 Jan. 1974. Converse's 84-year-old mom found his body the next day in the basement of their home at 52 Courtney Drive in Montreal West. The fingerprints from the crime scene were kept and matched Payment's when he was arrested for drunk driving in March 1992. Payment told the judge that he believed at the time that he had been drugged. He was a singer in his youth and by 1992 was a trucker and father of five. He was sentenced to five years in prison for the killing

Mason, left, killed Lambert in 1977

1977 American John Mathew Mason, 28, killed Gerald Lambert, 25, after meeting him in a 9895 Bruchesi. Mason stabbed Lambert 46 times. He confessed 18 years later and explained that he was trying to get revenge against his mother, who left him to be raised in foster homes as a child, an upbringing which resulted in him later becoming a rent boy male prostitute. Mason subsequently became a Scientologist, which led him to confess to his misdeed as a way to clear his conscience. The judge ordered him to serve a sentence of not less than 10 years

Mar. 22, 1978 John Court Lund, 44, from Denmark, killed in his apartment at Sherbrooke and Decarie. A 16-year-old boy was later arrested.

Victim John Court Lund

Dec 28 1978, Serge Harvey, a priest, 42, was stabbed 29 times in a Montreal hotel room by Canadian soldier Kyle Thompson, 21. Harvey picked the boy up at the bus station after he missed a bus to his military base in London Ontario. Thomas killed Harvey – brother of cabinet minister Gerald Harvey who thought he was gay, even though Harvey made no advances on him.
25 June 1981 Jose Villa Marulanda, 29, who worked at Pauze's Sea Food restaurant, was killed at his apartment at 2109 St. Catherine E. in a gay affair. his body was found three days later. Marulanda, an immigrant, brought home a series of different sexual partners. 

Jan 11, 1982 Normand Millette, 31, beaten to death in a Point Claire apartment.
April 22, 1982 Anthony Dalonzo, 34, stabbled and strangled with a hanger at a St Laurent apartment.

Victim Joe Rose

March 19, 1989 Joe Rose, a 24-year-old student, was stabbed to death on March 19, 1989 by a  group of teenagers who targeted him because of his pink hair.
March 9, 1989   Richard Gallant, 28, is found on a bed in a friend's apartment on Montcalm St. His throat has been slashed. Gallant's body is found by a friend for whom he was house-sitting. No arrests.
May 19, 1982 Jack Manson, 66, shot in the head at his Montreal West home.
April, 1990 - Brian Booth, a 53-year-old resident of the Yukon Territories in Montreal to attend a convention, is stabbed to death in his hotel room. Was tied up. Police arrest two suspects, one of whom is convicted of second-degree murder.
April 14, 1990 - Mok "Edward" Yong Sua, 26, a Laotian doctor at Maisonneuve- Rosemont Hospital, is found stabbed to death in his apartment. Was found tied up five days after his death at his home at 1819 De Maisonneuve W. apt 502. No arrests. The young doctor was from a wealthy family, drove a Jaguar and had recently returned from a trip to Brazil. An investigator theorized that he might have been killed by someone irritated at him for making a pass at him.
April 2, 1991 - Gaetan Ethier, 46, labourer, is found stabbed and beaten to death in his St. Andre St. apartment. Serial killer Michael McGray later confessed.
April 7, 1991 - Robert Assaly, 59, a retired teacher, is discovered stabbed to death in his home in Nuns' Island. Was found tied up. Serial killer Michael McGray later confessed.

Bellerive

April 27, 1991 - Normand Gareau, salesman 45, is found beaten to death in a rural area near L'Assomption. Police believe he was killed at his home on Sherbrooke St. and his body dumped in the country. No arrests.

Sept. 20, 1991 - Marc Bellerive, 33, an accountant, is stabbed at least 40 times while bicycling in Maisonneuve Park. No arrests
Oct. 10, 1991 Pierre Yvon Croft, 48, was knifed 15 times on a path in Jarry Park. Croft was an adult ed student living at 5649 St. Hubert, dressed in jogging gear and was on his bicycle. No arrests.
Nov. 30, 1991,  Garfield Walker, 30, stabbed to death in his apartment at 4089 Henri Julien. Stephan Corbeil, 24, confessed to the killing three years later.  Corbeil, who is deaf, said that the two met in a bar but quarreled after they returned to Walker's place. Corbeil hit Walker in the head and then stabbed him to death. Walker was originally from McMasterville Quebec, southeast of Montreal. 

Croft

Nov. 30, 1992 - Yves Lalonde, 51, is beaten to death by skinheads in Angrignon Park. Four juveniles - members of a skinhead gang - are arrested and charged. One was a member of an international neo- Nazi group and had photos of Adolf Hitler in an album in his house.
Dec. 18,1992  Daniel Lacombe, 37:  teacher suffered a heart attack during a beating by a group of teen-age boys at a roadside bathroom stop in Joliette; resolved.
Jan. 18, 1993  Michael Hogue, 42:  bound and stabbed to death in his suburban Laval home. A killer later confessed.
 Jan. 27, 1993 Robert Panchaud, 36, welfare recipient  bound and fatally stabbed in his downtown Montreal apartment on Chambord. He was picked up at the same Gay Village bar as Hogue

Victim Eran Allon

Oct. 21, 1993  Rolland Gagne, 70, a former priest, is found strangled in his home on Gilford St. He was bound when discovered. Police charge two suspects - one of them 17.
Nov. 9, 1993 Rev. Warren Eling, 53:  the Anglican priest was found bound and strangled in his home on Nov. 10, 1993,  Was bound when discovered. crack-smoking thief and lover Danny McIlwaine was busted. 

Nolan

Dec. 6, 1993 Harry Nolan, 57, worker,  at home at 6395 Beaulieu in Ville Emard. He worked at the Douglas Hospital. A video game was stolen but no there was no evidence of a struggle, suggesting that the two were acquainted.
Feb. 19, 1995 Richard Niquette, 44, well-known actor, killed at home of perpetrator. Solved.
June 26, 1995 Andre Lafleur, 53, bureaucrat, at his home, solved.

Lin Jun

Aug. 8, 1996 Real Halde 53, in bed with throat slashed, Andre Lortie, 28 charged with second degree murder. (A newspaper article reports that it was the 17th gay murder in Montreal over the previous six years).
Dec. 5, 1996 Normand Trudel (L'Italienne) 45, gay bar owner, at his own home. Unsolved.

Leclerc

April 26, 1997 Francois Tousignant, 58, gay bar owner, found at his own home. Unsolved.
1997 Walter Bourbonnais, 70, killer never found.
Feb. 28, 2003  Pierre Leclerc,
37, was killed at 2552 Rachel E. on the second floor.  He was a male prostitute that had been arrested several times previously. He was HIV positive, a transvestite and a heavy drug consumer. He was stabbed to death in the head and neck in a scuffle. Neighbours saw nothing and nothing was stolen.
2010 Jan. Eran Allon, 29, from Israel. Killed by his gay lover Michael-Andrew Garreau, 36, who then dumped the body into a suitcase and left it on St. Dominique between St. Cat and Dorch.
May 24, 2012 Lin Jun, a student from China, was killed on Decarie by Luka Magnotta who dismembered the body and put it in the trash outside.