PARR’S LANDING POLICE DEPARTMENT
75 Main Street E.
Parr’s Landing, Ontario
P2T 1R2

807-731-1002

TO: Sergeant Gill Styles. Gyles Point Police Dept., Gyles Point, Ont.

FROM: Sergeant Dave Thomson, Parr’s Landing

October 25, 1972

Dear Gill,

Following up on our telephone conversation of earlier this evening, a local boy, Finn Miller, found this hockey bag and its contents in the Spirit Rock area while looking for his dog. PC Elliot McKitrick came upon the young man over the course of doing rounds and brought the boy and the hockey bag back to the station where we took it into evidence.

The bag appears to contain archaeological tools. In light of the Carstairs disappearance on the night of October 22nd in Gyles Point, I recommend that you forward them to Bruce Benson at the RCMP in Sault St. Marie for forensic lab analysis of fingerprints and blood type.

Also found in the bag were several documents that have been identified by Dr. William Lightning, a visitor to Parr’s Landing, as having belonged to his father, Dr. Phenius Osborne of Toronto, who was the victim of homicide early this year. Dr. Lightning believes they were taken from his father’s house during the course of said homicide.

As an aside, he believes the perpetrator was Richard Weal, a former student of Dr. Osborne’s, but according to the information we have from Metro Toronto Homicide, Weal is deceased.

We do not consider Dr. Lightning a suspect at this time, though we have asked him to remain in Parr’s Landing for the next few days. Please call if we can be of any further help.

Dave Thomson, Sgt.

Parr’s Landing