The Babes in the Woods—the story of two young children found in Stanley Park just after the Second World War—is one of Vancouver's oldest and most fascinating murder mysteries.
While the murders happened sometime in the 1940s, the story starts in January 1953 when a Vancouver Parks Board employee stepped on a skull in a remote area of Stanley Park near Beaver Lake.
When he scraped back the leaves, he found bones covered by a woman’s coat, two children’s flying helmets, shoes, a lunch box, and the murder weapon—a hatchet.