Mystery Location No. 355: May 28, 2023

Could this be 3176 Lillooet Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada? This is the house where Theresa Louise Wise was raped then stabbed to death. A neighbor discovered her body. Based on the last sighting of her, it is assumed that she was murdered the night of July 7, 1971.

She had convinced her parents to leave her home alone while they took the rest of the family on vacation in Washington. The victim had a job selling flowers from a cart outside of a liquor store and had complained to a friend that a man she met at work had been pestering her.

The Columbia River, for which British Columbia is named, was discovered by the American explorer Captain Robert Gray. He named the river after his ship the Columbia Rediviva. Columbia is the female personification of the Americas, especially the United States. Prior to the Oregon Treaty of 1846, Vancouver, BC was part of a large territory controlled jointly by the United States (Oregon Country) and Great Britain (Columbia District).