Lori MacLeay

about 3 years ago

Article on Missing Kenley by a true crime reviewer that just came out this week: https://t.co/JmvsGfvSYU

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(Continued from previous tweet) Kayrene, according to the transcript of her 10/14/10 interview with private investigator Tom Martin (see attachment), heard from high school friend and fellow Acadia student Mike Hussey (who also lived in Crowell Tower, room 1102), that “at the party Kenley got drunk” and “was being obnoxious to CM [Cindy MacNeil, Mike’s girlfriend, another high school friend].” In her 2014 Missing Kenley interview, Kayrene also recalled: “Over the years, you know, I'd heard like there was something in the bathroom where he was like kind of almost passed out in the bathroom. But I just really don't know the level of like how drunk he was. And you know, if he pissed off a lot of people that night with his behavior.” According to Mike Hussey, in his 2017 Missing Kenley interview, Kenley “was um, you know, draping himself over some of the women at the party, including my girlfriend…I'm not sure if Kenley realized she was my girlfriend or maybe he didn't care. Um, but anyway, he was hitting on her. And uh, so he and I had a bit of a disagreement that he needed to stop immediately.” Hussey added, “Didn't come to anything, I just said, I'll deal with it with Kayrene in the morning.” There is no indication that Hussey was ever interviewed by police investigators, and in his January 2011 interview with private investigator Tom Martin he was not asked about the incident. We have received a few pictures from the Tower Party, but are still seeking to find additional photographic evidence from 9/18/92. Please contact [email protected] if you have or know someone who might have any pictures (or relevant recollections) from that night (and/or any relevant pictures or recollections from that Fall semester).

MissingKenley's tweet photo. (Continued from previous tweet) Kayrene, according to the transcript of her 10/14/10 interview with private investigator Tom Martin (see attachment), heard from high school friend and fellow Acadia student Mike Hussey (who also lived in Crowell Tower, room 1102), that “at the party Kenley got drunk” and “was being obnoxious to CM [Cindy MacNeil, Mike’s girlfriend, another high school friend].” In her 2014 Missing Kenley interview, Kayrene also recalled: “Over the years, you know, I'd heard like there was something in the bathroom where he was like kind of almost passed out in the bathroom. But I just really don't know the level of like how drunk he was. And you know, if he pissed off a lot of people that night with his behavior.”

According to Mike Hussey, in his 2017 Missing Kenley interview, Kenley “was um, you know, draping himself over some of the women at the party, including my girlfriend…I'm not sure if Kenley realized she was my girlfriend or maybe he didn't care. Um, but anyway, he was hitting on her. And uh, so he and I had a bit of a disagreement that he needed to stop immediately.” Hussey added, “Didn't come to anything, I just said, I'll deal with it with Kayrene in the morning.” There is no indication that Hussey was ever interviewed by police investigators, and in his January 2011 interview with private investigator Tom Martin he was not asked about the incident.

We have received a few pictures from the Tower Party, but are still seeking to find additional photographic evidence from 9/18/92. Please contact ron@missingkenley.com if you have or know someone who might have any pictures (or relevant recollections) from that night (and/or any relevant pictures or recollections from that Fall semester).

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about 3 years ago

According to Kenley’s high school friend and Acadia classmate Chris Hartery, he has an odd encounter with Kenley in downtown Wolfville on Thursday 9/17/92. Chris ran into Kenley cutting through the Petro-Can gas station on Main Street, appearing to be coming from the direction of the dikes. As Chris said in his 2017 interview for Missing Kenley: “He was not very talkative at all. Um, very, very quiet. It wasn't like an easy—a whole bunch of camaraderie to it or anything like that. And I assumed that maybe he was out on the dikes. Maybe he did a joint or there was something up anyway. It just wasn't easy. He didn't seem to be himself is the way I would, I would put it.” Hartery went on to say: “And I remember asking him what he was doing at some point down here, probably would have been pretty early on in the conversation. And he said he was doing laundry. That's my memory of it. Would have been weird that he was doing laundry, he didn't have a laundry bag with him. He was going back up to tower, not, not waiting around to get his laundry if he did have laundry here. And I'm sure has Tower has their own laundry services for all the students. So it was an odd response to the question.”

MissingKenley's tweet photo. According to Kenley’s high school friend and Acadia classmate Chris Hartery, he has an odd encounter with Kenley in downtown Wolfville on Thursday 9/17/92. Chris ran into Kenley cutting through the Petro-Can gas station on Main Street, appearing to be coming from the direction of the dikes. As Chris said in his 2017 interview for Missing Kenley:

“He was not very talkative at all. Um, very, very quiet. It wasn't like an easy—a whole bunch of camaraderie to it or anything like that. And I assumed that maybe he was out on the dikes. Maybe he did a joint or there was something up anyway. It just wasn't easy. He didn't seem to be himself is the way I would, I would put it.”

Hartery went on to say: “And I remember asking him what he was doing at some point down here, probably would have been pretty early on in the conversation. And he said he was doing laundry. That's my memory of it. Would have been weird that he was doing laundry, he didn't have a laundry bag with him. He was going back up to tower, not, not waiting around to get his laundry if he did have laundry here. And I'm sure has Tower has their own laundry services for all the students. So it was an odd response to the question.”

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On 9/15/92 Kenley attended his Tuesday classes. We have one source (from a 2010 interview transcript, a detail as of yet unconfirmed by a bank source or backed up by any other primary source) that Kenley withdrew $50 on this day from his Royal Bank account, most likely via the Royal Bank ATM on Main Street in Wolfville. We also believe, though again not definitively confirmed by any other sources, that Kenley may have been with Tom Gordon and Kirsten Tomilson when they were at The Anvil tavern later that night. Tom’s journal, however, makes no specific mention of Kenley being there with them.

MissingKenley's tweet photo. On 9/15/92 Kenley attended his Tuesday classes. We have one source (from a 2010 interview transcript, a detail as of yet unconfirmed by a bank source or backed up by any other primary source) that Kenley withdrew $50 on this day from his Royal Bank account, most likely via the Royal Bank ATM on Main Street in Wolfville. We also believe, though again not definitively confirmed by any other sources, that Kenley may have been with Tom Gordon and Kirsten Tomilson when they were at The Anvil tavern later that night. Tom’s journal, however, makes no specific mention of Kenley being there with them.

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On Monday 9/14/92 Kenley was back in classes (see 9/14 chemistry class notebook page). According to Tom Gordon’s journal, he and Kenley had an early dinner together, which was followed by “a drive out to Three Pools.” It seems likely that Kenley went along, and one can assume that it was in Kirsten’s car, but the journal does not explicitly state this. Tom, did, however, suggest in his 2014 interview that Kenley was there, as he describes in Episode 1 of Missing Kenley: “So the week after the, uh, Corkums Island trick, trip, we um, yeah, we continued to do a little bit of local exploring. Uh, I think we went back to Three Pools.”

MissingKenley's tweet photo. On Monday 9/14/92 Kenley was back in classes (see 9/14 chemistry class notebook page). According to Tom Gordon’s journal, he and Kenley had an early dinner together, which was followed by “a drive out to Three Pools.” It seems likely that Kenley went along, and one can assume that it was in Kirsten’s car, but the journal does not explicitly state this. Tom, did, however, suggest in his 2014 interview that Kenley was there, as he describes in Episode 1 of Missing Kenley: “So the week after the, uh, Corkums Island trick, trip, we um, yeah, we continued to do a little bit of local exploring. Uh, I think we went back to Three Pools.”

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On Sunday 9/13/92 Kenley, Kirsten, and Tom were back out on the water most of the day jet-skiing, but also knee-boarding and waterskiing. That night they drove back to Acadia University in Wolfville. Kirsten Tomilson told the Wolfville police five and a half months later that Kenley left his Lakers hat at Corkums Island that weekend. According to the Wolfville police Kenley Matheson investigation timeline, the first time that they spoke with Kirsten—and took a statement from her—was on 2/15/93. Fifteen days later (on 3/2/93, see attached WPD timelines) she went down to the Wolfville police station and at 4:40 p.m. gave Kenley’s Lakers hat to Constable MacKillop, telling him that Kenley left it at Corkums Island on 9/13/92. Also according to the Wolfville police timeline, on that same day (3/2/93), also at 4:40 p.m. (see attached WPD timeline), Tom Gordon was at the Wolfville police station as well, and he gave a formal statement—a written statement that was also recorded onto audiotape (that became Exhibit #1, see attachment). In 2014 the producer-director of Missing Kenley was told by Kenneth Hill—the St. Mary’s University psychology professor who appears in the opening of Episode 3—that Kirsten’s statement was also recorded onto audiotape, and that he had listened to it in 2005 [as seen here, the Wolfville police timeline makes no mention of her statement being recorded, and neither the tape(s) nor statements of Gordon and Tomilson—nor the sections of the Wolfville Continuation Reports related to these statements (see attached end of the 2/15/93 redaction)—were released to Kenley’s family as part of the RCMP’s 2019 fulfillment of their Access to Information request]. Below is an excerpt from Episode 3 of Missing Kenley, when Kirsten was asked about the Lakers hat being left at Corkums Island and bringing it in to the Wolfville police station several months later: RL: “In early '93, you gave the Wolfville Police Department, Constable MacKillop, I guess, Kenley's baseball cap—" KT: “I did?” RL: “That he had left on Corkums Island.” KT: “Oh.” RL: “What was—how did that come about?” KT: “I don't even remember that. Wow. His baseball cap. He didn't even have his baseball cap. I don't remember. I don't remember that. Wow. Yeah, that doesn't stand out for me at all.” Below is an excerpt, also from Episode 3 of Missing Kenley, when Tom Gordon was asked if he remembered the Lakers hat being returned to the Wolfville police: RL: “Do you remember Kenley leaving his hat at Corkums and Kirsten returning it to Wolfville Police Department, you know, several months later, does that ring a bell at all?” TG: “It does ring a bell. Do you mean the—the—the baseball cap?” RL: “Yeah.” TG: “Um, it does ring a bell that he left it behind somewhere. Uh, but I can't remember how or why he left it behind. Um, but then I didn't know that she'd returned it to Wolfville Police. No.”

MissingKenley's tweet photo. On Sunday 9/13/92 Kenley, Kirsten, and Tom were back out on the water most of the day jet-skiing, but also knee-boarding and waterskiing. That night they drove back to Acadia University in Wolfville.

Kirsten Tomilson told the Wolfville police five and a half months later that Kenley left his Lakers hat at Corkums Island that weekend. According to the Wolfville police Kenley Matheson investigation timeline, the first time that they spoke with Kirsten—and took a statement from her—was on 2/15/93. Fifteen days later (on 3/2/93, see attached WPD timelines) she went down to the Wolfville police station and at 4:40 p.m. gave Kenley’s Lakers hat to Constable MacKillop, telling him that Kenley left it at Corkums Island on 9/13/92. Also according to the Wolfville police timeline, on that same day (3/2/93), also at 4:40 p.m. (see attached WPD timeline), Tom Gordon was at the Wolfville police station as well, and he gave a formal statement—a written statement that was also recorded onto audiotape (that became Exhibit #1, see attachment).

In 2014 the producer-director of Missing Kenley was told by Kenneth Hill—the St. Mary’s University psychology professor who appears in the opening of Episode 3—that Kirsten’s statement was also recorded onto audiotape, and that he had listened to it in 2005 [as seen here, the Wolfville police timeline makes no mention of her statement being recorded, and neither the tape(s) nor statements of Gordon and Tomilson—nor the sections of the Wolfville Continuation Reports related to these statements (see attached end of the 2/15/93 redaction)—were released to Kenley’s family as part of the RCMP’s 2019 fulfillment of their Access to Information request].

Below is an excerpt from Episode 3 of Missing Kenley, when Kirsten was asked about the Lakers hat being left at Corkums Island and bringing it in to the Wolfville police station several months later:

RL: “In early '93, you gave the Wolfville Police Department, Constable MacKillop, I guess, Kenley's baseball cap—"

KT: “I did?”

RL: “That he had left on Corkums Island.”

KT: “Oh.”

RL: “What was—how did that come about?”

KT: “I don't even remember that. Wow. His baseball cap. He didn't even have his baseball cap. I don't remember. I don't remember that. Wow. Yeah, that doesn't stand out for me at all.”

Below is an excerpt, also from Episode 3 of Missing Kenley, when Tom Gordon was asked if he remembered the Lakers hat being returned to the Wolfville police:

RL: “Do you remember Kenley leaving his hat at Corkums and Kirsten returning it to Wolfville Police Department, you know, several months later, does that ring a bell at all?”

TG: “It does ring a bell. Do you mean the—the—the baseball cap?”

RL: “Yeah.”

TG: “Um, it does ring a bell that he left it behind somewhere. Uh, but I can't remember how or why he left it behind. Um, but then I didn't know that she'd returned it to Wolfville Police. No.”

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On Saturday 9/12/92 Kenley, Tom, and Kirsten spent the afternoon jet skiing off the west side of Corkums Island in Upper South Cove. “Burning around, having a great time,” according to Tom, and Kenley “was loving it.” Kirsten remembers Kenley “was up for that adventure, and any adventure, really—he was definitely an adventurous spirit” (see still image screenshot from Episode 1 of Missing Kenley, a photograph of Kenley jet skiing taken by Tom Gordon). That night they played “Hot Knives,” a method of smoking cannabis using heated knives, followed by the watching of home video taken in Morocco, shown by a middle-aged couple named Dave and Janet who were there for dinner. During the late 1990s and for over a decade thereafter, it was believed that this couple was the suspected serial killer Andrew Paul Johnson and his girlfriend at the time, Joan Watson. According to what Sarah MacDonald (Kenley’s mother) was told by an RCMP officer in 1998, Johnson and Watson were camping nearby at “The Ovens” the same weekend that Kenley came to Corkums Island. Moreover, she was told that the couple was “at Ralph Tomilson’s that weekend in Corkums Island for supper.” Andrew Paul Johnson did live and work in the area at the time, in Lunenburg as a chef at the Zwicker Inn, and Johnson and Watson did camp at The Ovens campground once for two or three nights, according the Johnson. However, we believe that investigators mistakenly, and without any concrete evidence, conflated Tom Gordon’s official statements about that weekend and a couple being at the Tomilson’s residence with Johnson’s proximity to Corkums Island during those same days, whose whereabouts in the early 90s they were detailing for Operation “Full Course” (a joint HRP-RCMP task force established in 1997 to review unsolved homicides and missing person files to see if they had any relationship to Andrew Paul Johnson, recently imprisoned in British Columbia). We still do not know exactly how the RCMP placed him at The Ovens the weekend of 9/11/92–9/13/92; when we tried in June 2014 to get documentary evidence of this the campground owners told us that these records were no longer extant. For some reason, the RCMP either never bothered to ask Tom Gordon if he knew, or documented, the names of the couple, or perhaps were never given the names that appear in Gordon’s journal. Whatever the case, Kenley’s family was led to believe, for many years, that Andrew Paul Johnson was at the Tomilsons that second weekend of September 1992. Indeed, even as late as November 2011, in private investigator Tom Martin’s “Investigative Findings to Date,” it was still being discussed as a possibility, and still unsubstantiated, and with Johnson still seen as a primary POI. It wasn’t until 2014, when the producer-director of Missing Kenley saw the names “Dave and Janet” written in Tom Gordon’s journal, that this theory of Andrew and Joan being “the couple” was finally debunked. Now, it is possible that “Dave and Janet” were pseudonyms, and that they were in fact Andrew and Joan, but this seems rather unlikely. It’s also within the realm of possibility, though also rather unlikely, that the “fisherman bloke,” also mentioned in Gordon’s journal, was Andrew Paul Johnson, but there is at present no documentary evidence to support this.

MissingKenley's tweet photo. On Saturday 9/12/92 Kenley, Tom, and Kirsten spent the afternoon jet skiing off the west side of Corkums Island in Upper South Cove. “Burning around, having a great time,” according to Tom, and Kenley “was loving it.” Kirsten remembers Kenley “was up for that adventure, and any adventure, really—he was definitely an adventurous spirit” (see still image screenshot from Episode 1 of Missing Kenley, a photograph of Kenley jet skiing taken by Tom Gordon).

That night they played “Hot Knives,” a method of smoking cannabis using heated knives, followed by the watching of home video taken in Morocco, shown by a middle-aged couple named Dave and Janet who were there for dinner.

During the late 1990s and for over a decade thereafter, it was believed that this couple was the suspected serial killer Andrew Paul Johnson and his girlfriend at the time, Joan Watson. According to what Sarah MacDonald (Kenley’s mother) was told by an RCMP officer in 1998, Johnson and Watson were camping nearby at “The Ovens” the same weekend that Kenley came to Corkums Island. Moreover, she was told that the couple was “at Ralph Tomilson’s that weekend in Corkums Island for supper.”

Andrew Paul Johnson did live and work in the area at the time, in Lunenburg as a chef at the Zwicker Inn, and Johnson and Watson did camp at The Ovens campground once for two or three nights, according the Johnson. However, we believe that investigators mistakenly, and without any concrete evidence, conflated Tom Gordon’s official statements about that weekend and a couple being at the Tomilson’s residence with Johnson’s proximity to Corkums Island during those same days, whose whereabouts in the early 90s they were detailing for Operation “Full Course” (a joint HRP-RCMP task force established in 1997 to review unsolved homicides and missing person files to see if they had any relationship to Andrew Paul Johnson, recently imprisoned in British Columbia).

We still do not know exactly how the RCMP placed him at The Ovens the weekend of 9/11/92–9/13/92; when we tried in June 2014 to get documentary evidence of this the campground owners told us that these records were no longer extant. For some reason, the RCMP either never bothered to ask Tom Gordon if he knew, or documented, the names of the couple, or perhaps were never given the names that appear in Gordon’s journal. Whatever the case, Kenley’s family was led to believe, for many years, that Andrew Paul Johnson was at the Tomilsons that second weekend of September 1992. Indeed, even as late as November 2011, in private investigator Tom Martin’s “Investigative Findings to Date,” it was still being discussed as a possibility, and still unsubstantiated, and with Johnson still seen as a primary POI. It wasn’t until 2014, when the producer-director of Missing Kenley saw the names “Dave and Janet” written in Tom Gordon’s journal, that this theory of Andrew and Joan being “the couple” was finally debunked. Now, it is possible that “Dave and Janet” were pseudonyms, and that they were in fact Andrew and Joan, but this seems rather unlikely. It’s also within the realm of possibility, though also rather unlikely, that the “fisherman bloke,” also mentioned in Gordon’s journal, was Andrew Paul Johnson, but there is at present no documentary evidence to support this.

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On Sunday 9/6/92 Kenley may have gone to Super Sub, a “non-alcoholic” Orientation event attended by 810 of the roughly 1,200 Acadia “Frosh.” According to an article in the student newspaper, The Athenaeum, the entertainment at Super Sub that year was “a trio of acts, headlined by the Leslie Spit Treeo.” However, we have no documentary evidence that Kenley was there, or anything related to his second day on campus.

MissingKenley's tweet photo. On Sunday 9/6/92 Kenley may have gone to Super Sub, a “non-alcoholic” Orientation event attended by 810 of the roughly 1,200 Acadia “Frosh.” According to an article in the student newspaper, The Athenaeum, the entertainment at Super Sub that year was “a trio of acts, headlined by the Leslie Spit Treeo.” However, we have no documentary evidence that Kenley was there, or anything related to his second day on campus.

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When they get to Acadia, according to his father, Kenley tells him, “I don’t want nothing to do with Frosh week.” At one point Kenley also says, “Why don’t you just take me back and drop me at the airport.” Kenley moves into a single on the 9th floor of Crowell Tower (room 904, shown here in 2014).

MissingKenley's tweet photo. When they get to Acadia, according to his father, Kenley tells him, “I don’t want nothing to do with Frosh week.” At one point Kenley also says, “Why don’t you just take me back and drop me at the airport.” Kenley moves into a single on the 9th floor of Crowell Tower (room 904, shown here in 2014).

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over 3 years ago

On Saturday 9/5/92 Kenley and Kayrene Matheson leave from Glendale, Cape Breton, and head off to Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. During the ride Kenley was quiet and slept most of the way.

MissingKenley's tweet photo. On Saturday 9/5/92 Kenley and Kayrene Matheson leave from Glendale, Cape Breton, and head off to Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. During the ride Kenley was quiet and slept most of the way. https://t.co/TIvsgAs8xb

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over 3 years ago

Sunday Op-Ed: "RCMP Obstruction of Justice in the Missing Kenley Case"

over 3 years ago

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over 3 years ago

@AliciaAKG @taphens Pool noodles

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over 3 years ago

Feel free to let CBC Nova Scotia know how you feel about its decision to cancel the story: Meredith Dellandrea, Sr. Manag. Dir. [email protected] Ian Brimamcombe, Manag. Ed. [email protected] Ken MacIntosh, Exec. Prod. of News [email protected] #MissingKenley

over 3 years ago

@MissingKenley Shame on CBC

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over 3 years ago

Kenley's sister Kayrene & director Ron Lamothe were scheduled for a CBC Nova Scotia interview last week, but it was cancelled when the network bosses got cold feet & were afraid to cover the RCMP conflict of interest scandal we recently uncovered. Shame on them. #MissingKenley

over 3 years ago

@doug_gleddie Congratulations Melanie!

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