Sunday, July 26, 1998 — North Shore News ~ 3 _. This month marks six years since sesial rapist and murderer David Snow was loose in the community. In a two-part series to be published today and Wednesday, News reporter Anna Marie D’Angelo chronicies an ii-depth lock at the terrifying crime rampage. Part one of the series features 2 siory about the police officer in charge of the Snow manhunt. Part two focuses on Snow’s last victim, North Vancouver resident _ Dalia Gelineau, and a Story about the police constable who ended Snow's crime Spree in a dramatic arrest near Capilano Road. “Anna Marie. D’Angele News Reporter ANDY Beninett was in ichmond enjoying a Saturday euting with his. ‘amity when he heard a radio _ report that there had been an armed robbery and: kidnap-. ing at a video store in North ‘Vancouver. a i July 11/92 - th na: sergeant, was'in : ff thes North’ Vancouver.” ious crime section. An. , .an,armed ‘robbery id apping fell under his man- Bennett found the: closest. pay <“h.. hone’, and‘called;the > RGMP C ffi were in... me later’on’ jg 11; nl 99 iB inet was DAVID. s Ow ro versed almost the entire Baden Powell trail in North ‘Vancouver in Wiser to. : lude police. Unfortunately, Snow would almost kill one. more person befure being, captured. : st ott sergean in hment’s-adra er fi hing work 3 at: photo, gnified 10° fold'ar thar point, in ume a Tanappine of (the first. ‘apist David Snow . dinivuly 199 , armed with a gun‘or- many “guns and’ so eve ery. minute- a the investigation’ informati nc elonged'to the kidnapper. vy ‘Tnside'the backpack. was'a gun. Ir was guickiy triced in the: ter as being stolen from’ Ontario: Police; in: North - Vancouver: then started: tra cking- ‘the ‘ if the. gun’s theft.- Ontario police had just identified '- WW, 37; ‘asthe possible suspect of the gun? un Was among several stolen weapons linked toa : in the Toronto area... a fraud: charge in h “hometown: of’ ; Ontario, He had no criminal ‘record.:A ‘police ow: was ‘booked | for: fraud was not-only faced ‘with these t nwo Sik and ssdults; bu that ‘the guy ‘that was in our bushes im), ‘the. fact “that..he! was Kwasnica:could hear Snow running infront of the officer on” the. Baden’ Powell trail. Kwasnica radioed for assistance to cur: Snow’ off up ahead. That message, never, Bot through. The . | aaa Taly 11/92 — tia am: Armed 7 suspect abducts Westview Moviéland female empioyee. 2pm: Police lacate suspect and 2 women on Indian River Rd. Po july 42/92 - 4 am: Suspect arrested at Bridge House restaurant. _B police’radio’ mee about the ‘aimed boop at “2601 . _. Westview”. Movicland ‘video store; i ‘television’ footage! Of, Snow's’ wietisy bu hon Indian River Road; “Gelineau, filmed ¢ on the Bridge Then Festaurant nt ground "The video is not for public viewing. “7. - ! “Staff ‘Sgt Randy Bennett said the video has been seen, by police across the country i ‘The video goes over the need for contingenc} plans having all available resoure cS ji f “ “We just took the findings of our event and ‘how fast’ it nfolde ‘on us and how quickly we had to draw both’on,” ( cople's resources. to pull: them all together,” said Bennett. o ; . Tithe video, Bennett says thar the press was monitor: ; . ing the ‘police. radio-full-time. He’ said that, a “hard line” telephone would be ideal: to have ina similar situa~, tion... : : “Toronto: Metropolitan Police showed the ‘North’ Van Mountie training video during a homicide. seminar ‘last . F year that drew an international police crowd. : may also be a suspected killer our of Ontario,” said Bennett: « ‘(Snow was a suspect in the April.1992 murders of Ian and “Naney Blackburn. He Was convicted oftheir, first degree mure: ders in 1997.) } The Mounti¢s ‘who. fourid Sno River Road almost caught: the fugitive, immediately... Const: battery, on: Kwasnica’s' portabl adio ‘was’ ‘dead. ‘Const. : Cardinal tried’ to transinit the same’ message on his: radio. Incredibly, the battery. ‘in Cardirial’s radio had just died as 0 awell ; Bennett said that his reaction to both radios failing’ was, _the “regular frustration” associated with police. work, : “ “Damn it,; what do we do next? type of. thing,” said ; “Bennett. i : The staff sergeant ‘said police had to draw quickly on all TESOUFCES, ; Bennett tion with police in neighboring municipalities: The Mountic _ helicopter was ‘called out through RCMP headquarters.-The. “Emergency Response ‘Team (ERT) from Burnaby RCMP was - dispatched to assist the North: Vancouver RCMP. ERT, Police . dogs from Vancouv' in the manhuny - wa * Bennett said bringing i in office bri fing with the right information “not less, not more > than “if Snow's last __been’ strangled‘ with : where. she | Was dampened b nth “these °5 TWO victims on Indian” “the point when: his lawyer. finally BO: a hold of him, : d that Iecal Mounties had. excellent coopera- * * Bennett. i City Police were brought over to help : from elsewhere required ; (was necessary).” _ Bennett said police had t tor, : isolate the Suspect in.the bushes; B deal with the ongoing investiga- tion. of ‘the victims; who: needed - medical care and also needed to be: interviewed by, polices... fis ®@ confine the crime’ scenes so’ that - eviden was not disturbed.’ : On - held captive vel way: The video *, police ishe ‘reinembered: the -roure > that they tad taken, after she. was _ kidnapped. ' oe ‘There were also “officers still at, the video" store. dealing with’ t “manager who had been. tied up'and robbed by.- Snow, hich th avas ‘the where. ie were looking for . forensic evidence. , ' ‘Bennett ve He? said’ th police ha the runne our of there - on-going: ‘ain foolieatg) needs,”.. That includéd ‘police calls'ta the; . domestic disputes and security alarms sounding ~ At one point, dic, Mounties thought y had’g: “man in the bush. ;‘The‘helicopter. was brought, in only a bear. moving'around in. the foliage ““Acthe same time David Snow ay : the cominunity, up iby Cc * said Rennett., After. 13 hours’ on th jot B ‘hours Is The stat? sergeant sai ictim, Dal worked. H S] Was igh ane n lose a : ing the Sine pas going to tell us what hay ‘the bush that we.don’t more than, six years’ late es " Mancouv “His: "(Snow ie life pais ‘for the most part; , to. have ‘fallen apart, in the, last two, years before. he: major-incident out here,” : said Bennett. reciopatiae tende Snow: was.an. 1 antiqu dealer: in : Orang . where he lived for most: ‘of his life. Vancouver, Snow's response were. “words tothe eff _this.was where he ended up. Snow ¢ came to Vanco t killing the’ Blackburn: . He was in the Vancouver: area moré ‘than two fall months before he-was arrested. . “He was reasonably, ‘cooperative’ “with our inv tigation to Wain! said The, staff ‘sergeait said the i photo lab” worker; whos i -order,' coped well and had and family..He noted: th Snow for ight, days had long u ctini ‘knew. she, had, been. o ry:close tothe high. ">: core employee told.