PING!
Suspect in decades-old Ont. murders a career criminal Chris Wattie, CanWest News Service; National Post
Published: Friday, November 17, 2006
Released from prison in 1978 on the attempted murder conviction, Henry changed his name to James Gordon Henry and moved to Vancouver.
In 1981, a passing motorist stopped to help a bloodied, naked woman lying on the side of the Squamish Highway, north of Vancouver. Elizabeth Fells, 24, was bleeding from six stab wounds, including an attempt to slash her throat and told police she was raped and left for dead.
Fells managed to crawl to the roadside for help but died in hospital a few days later. Her statement, however, helped police identify her attacker and Henry was arrested and charged with murder.
A jury convicted Henry in 1982 and during his sentencing, B.C. Supreme Court Justice George Murray called him brutal, callous and appalling, and said the attack on his victim was committed ''to satisfy your perverted sexual desires.''
The judge said he was also shocked that Henry had been released on parole ''to an unsuspecting public'' after his 1967 convictions.
Quigley said the publicity surrounding the re-opened case has already resulted in dozens of tips and detectives are hopeful that one will lead them to identify one or both of the victims.
Police have offered $50,000 for any information leading to the two men's killer.
National Post
SIDEBAR:TIMELINE:
1955 - James Henry Greenidge, then 18, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for rape, an attack on a 14-year-old girl whom he dragged into an alley as she walked home with a bag of groceries. He choked the girl as he assaulted her and Justice Dalton Wells told him during sentencing: ''You are very fortunate you are not charged with murder.''
1960 - paroled on the rape conviction.
1962 - convicted of assault causing bodily harm and sentenced to six months in jail.
1965 - convicted of a second assault causing bodily harm and sentenced again to six months in jail.
1968 - sentenced to 17 years in prison for manslaughter and attempted murder in two separate attacks on young men he had picked up in Toronto's gay village.
1978 - released on parole. Changes his name to James Gordon Henry and moves to Western Canada.
1981 - Henry picks up Elizabeth Fells, 24, in Vancouver and drives her to a remote woods before raping her and slashing her throat. Fells crawls to a nearby highway and survives long enough to identify her attacker. She later dies in hospital of multiple stab wounds.
1982 - convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for 25 years.
June 2006 - Henry, now 69, is eligible for parole. The National Parole Board turns down his application for both full and day parole.
May 2008 - Henry is eligible to re-apply for parole.