The following is part two in a series by News Reporter Anna Marie D’Angelo that takes an in-depth look at the terrifying crime rampage of David Snow. The serial rapist, murderer and kidnap- per was arrested six years ago this month after a dramatic manhunt in North Vancouver. Part one of the series featured a story about the police officer in charge of the massive Snow manhunt. Today, the series will focus on Snow’s arrest through the recollection of two Mounties. Also included is a story about Snow’s last vic- . tim, North Vancouver resi- dent Dalia Gelineau. Anna Marie D'Angelo ‘News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com f-N ONSTABLES Peter Cross ; and John Woodlock went to a party on July 12, 1992. “.The - two North Vancouver RCMP officers were among several called ir to calm things down at a house at Garden Avenue and Marine Drive. They didn’t usually patrol in the: Capilano-Pemberton area. The officers’ usual territory was Lower Lonsdale. . But. on that. night, most of the North Vancouver RCMP were involved in the biggest manhunt in the community’s history. ,. Suspected. murderer, kidnapper, and seria! - David: Alexander Snow was on the loose somewhere in the northern reaches of North Vancouver. Police believed Snow, then 37, was | with one or more guns. ite the manhunt, regular police work, as attending a party complaint, had to be ‘skeleton crew of officers was handling lar police work. lice cars were hard to come by that night “everybody was up Seymour Mountain for him,” said Cross, 44, now a corpo- h Surrey. RCMP, ‘ at Vancouver RCMP headquarters in the ection. . ‘and. Woodlock were asked by the ispatcher to leave the party complaint investigate an audible alarm in the ‘Bridge H "The . silent Woodlcck. ‘As the officers parked next to Capilano “Road, a.police radio dispatcher cancelled the ‘alarm call'to the restaurant, said Cross. ’ -“They-said the alarm company came back cand everything was fine ’ sre,” said Cross. “Then again for some reason, I tcld dis- patch: that no, we'll get out and check it out anyways,” he said. . Woodlock: went in one direction and Cross “svent in another, around the main building. It vas about 4 a.m. .. Cross said that he “knew full well” that a small building near the ‘staurant would not be alarmed, but he fe ‘d himself walking towards it. “You could see these stacking chairs. I decided to take a walk « er there anyway. It s kind of freaky the way all that kind of came play,” said Cross. He found David Sno~- bending over and twisting “something” are nd the neck of an most. nude and appar: ‘ly lifeless woman. _The woman was Dalia Gy . eau. “My first reaction was tat she was dead and that he had just killed her,” said Cross. _ *That’s when I drew down on him (pulled “out his gun) and he decided to run,” said he ran, said Cross, but Snuw dropped it. “Woody (Const. Woc-'lock) doesn’t even know I’m after him at that point. He (Woodlock) hears me yelling at something,” said Cross. Woodlock said he heard Cross “challenge a guy” which is police jargon for an officer iden- tifving himse/f and ordering someone to stop. Woedlock came around the building to find Cross chasing, Snow. Woodlock tried to call for more officers on his portable radio, but the one-hour battery in the radio was dead. ; Cross tackled Snow and was handcuffing the fugitive when the senior officer told Woodlock, “There is a lady back there with a bag on her head. Run back.” ‘ On his way back to the victim, Woodlock found the loaded gun Snow had fumbled. : “I saw Dalia lying there, bound, pretty graphically, with a-bag over her head,” said Woodlock. She was on her right side, in an almost fetal position. : “I thought she was dead, so I rolled her over,” said Woodlock. * Woodlock removed the bag and released a gag that had bound: Gelineau’s mouth. He pulled out a blood-soaked slip that was stuffed into her mouth. She groaned. He found a wire fastened tightly around her neck and started to untwist it. He saw clotted blood in one of Gelincau’s cars and in her hair. “When she groaned, I realized she was still alive,” said Woodlock. : By this time. Cross had called for assistance and other officers had arrived. Woodlock said Gelineau’s hands had been tightly bound behind her back. Her ankles were also tied with material. | “When | took the bag off it was caught up in something arcand her neck. It turned out that was the wire, it was really thick, like fenc- ing wire,” said Woodlock. He said the wire was so tight that Gelineau’s neck was bulging around ‘it. Woodlock didn’t have a knife so he tried to undo the wire with his hands. Another officer got a pair of scissors from a first-aid kit, but the scissors couldn’t cut the wire. According to policy, Mounties aren’t allowed to carry knives. “I was getting really frustrated so I jus: used my hands and cranked it off,” said Woodlock. “She definitely suffered more than a brief time. He used all of her clothes to tie her up,” said Woodlock. Meanwhile it was not until Cross rolled over the suspect that he “put two and cwo together “and realized he had caught David Snow. “asked him, ‘Are you the guy we are look- ing for?” He said, ‘ya,’” said Crass. “He didn’t say much. He went down pretty hard sc he was cut up and it knocked his glass- es off so he was disoriented tow,” said Cross. Woodlock said Snow’s rotten teeth and “slimy,” smelly skin helped the officers to quickly identify him. Other officers, who were attending nearby at the parry complaine and the alarm at Starbucks, arrived quickly. The officers were surprised to find Snow on NEWS photo Terry Peters TV cameramen and newspaper photographers try to catch a glimpse of David Snow in 1992 as he was hustied out of the police station to court. Snow was char. with 30 crimee. He received an indefinite sentence after being designated a dangerous offender. Capilano Road. They had thought he wasin the Mount Seymour area, a place where he was . ours before. Police had almost: fast seen 12 closed off the Mount Seymour areca at that time. : Cross said that after Snow dropped his gun, the fugitive started yelling that he had another pun in his pocket. Snow wasn’t lying. He did ave another loaded gun in his pocket. : Cross said Snow probably thought the offi- cer was going to shoot him if he had the opportunity to get away with it. “1 think his feeling at the time was that if 1 found a gun in his pocket while I was searching him I could have easily pulled out my gun and - shot him and claimed that he tried to