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Do you remember this case? This photo was published in the Toronto Star on May 10, 1982. The cutline reads: Rough day’s work: The dense bush around Huntsville is no place for a novice to wander but this member of the OPP TRU [Tactics and Rescue Unit] team was one of those who tracked down murder suspect Ralph Morris.
This related article was published by United Press International on May 9, 1982.
The object of a four-day police manhunt in north Ontario’s resort area was in Parry Sound Jail Sunday, charged with a stabbing murder and eight cottage breakins, police said.
A small army of police surrounded a cottage 12 kilometers south of Huntsville Saturday and arrested an armed fugitive, who surrendered without a struggle.
Several warnings shots were fired, but there were no injuries, said Ontario Provincial Police Const. Ed Meyers. Police seized a shotgun and a rifle following the man’s surrender.
Specially-trained police squads — backed up by two dog teams and two OPP helicopters — had combed a 140-square-kilometer section of bushland for four days before the arrest.
The object of the manhunt, Ralph Whitfield Morris, 47, of Port Colborne, Ont., was wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing April 13 of his former common-law wife, Marion Levinski, outside a Port Colborne bowling alley.
He was to appear in provincial court in Huntsville Wednesday.
Police said a recent series of cottage break-ins around Huntsville, 180 kilometers north of Toronto, convinced police the fugitive was hiding in the area.
An all-out manhunt, involving some 50 police officers, began Wednesday night.
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I got pulled over by that tactical squad on Aspdin Rd on my way home from work.
I guess that’s a reflection on what I looked like back then.