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BEHIND THE CRIMES: Who murdered 28-year-old Kara Lynn Clark?

Aug 13, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Nearly three-and-a-half-years have passed since Eva Clark last saw or spoke with her younger sister.

In one of their last phone conversations, Eva’s sister, Kara Lynn Clark, said she found a grey strand in her hair just a couple days after celebrating her 28th birthday on May 11, 2017.

“She was a little bit upset about that,” Clark chuckled.

Two months later, Kara was dead — murdered and her body left to the elements. On the afternoon of July 21, 2017, Kara’s body was found in the brush near a creek on Castlemore Road in Brampton.

Her employer had reported her missing three days earlier.

“We found out she had been missing for two or three days at that point and then it was pretty much the next day, was when we were told they found her body,” recalled her sister.

Clark and her mother travelled eight hours from Timmins to get Kara’s body, only to learn three days later her remains were already on the way back to Timmins.

An autopsy revealed Kara, whom her sister described as “shy and quiet” and having “a strong connection with children and animals,” had obvious signs of trauma. Police started a homicide investigation.

Despite the Peel Regional Police investigation, nobody has been arrested or charged to date.

Today, police said all possible investigative leads have been “exhausted” and the case is now classified as “pending further information.”

“This means that investigators will act on any new information in relation to this investigation as it is received,” said Cst. Bancroft Wright.

In the weeks and months following Kara’s death, little information was publicly released. Police did not share details about potential leads or suspects. Only a single release identifying Kara’s body was published by the force.

According to police, “any leads or references to persons of interest would not be shared with general public unless investigators feels it necessary.”

Cause of death has not been shared with the public or family, Clark said.

“They said essentially, (revealing the cause of death) will entrap whoever caused it; it’s a key piece of evidence for them,” said Clark.

The family has some indication of what happened, but no concrete answers.

Since Kara was found with “little to no hair,” the family believed she may have been scalped. However, that theory on the condition of her hair was debunked by investigators.

Kara had recently moved from Timmins to Brampton and was working at a recycling facility. According to Clark, she was living with a boyfriend she met at work.

Clark said during that last phone call with her sister, Kara revealed she had a fight with her boyfriend.

Clark said police were called and charges laid.

Police said there are separate reports in which both Kara and her boyfriend were charged in relation to domestic related incidents, but they would not confirm if the incidents took place during the days leading up to Kara’s murder.

Now, Clark is beginning to wonder if police took Kara’s missing persons report seriously enough. Clark said she and her family were told when Kara’s boss called police to report her missing, the officer didn’t seem to understand the urgency.

It was very strange for Kara to miss a day at work and her boss was adamant to police that it was “completely out of her character,” said Clark.

Eva described her sister as a “shy and quiet” person who loved to sing and game. Eva Clark photo. 

As members of the Mishkeegogamang Ojibway First Nation, Clark noted the community has historically found law enforcement slow to act on cases of missing Indigenous women.

Clark also wonders if Kara’s and her boyfriend’s past interaction with the police played a role in the initial missing person investigation. Perhaps if police were aware of the fights, they thought Kara had left and was not necessarily missing, she said.

Despite this, Clark said once Kara’s body was found, a real effort was made by police to find her killer.

Eight detectives were assigned to the investigation.

“She had an awful lot of admirers, so they started narrowing down the (suspect) list and removing some people,” Clark said.

Almost a year had passed since Kara’s death when the police told her mother the case had no leads or suspects and that it was essentially “cold,” said Clark, who also believes the elements destroyed a lot or all forensic evidence in her sister’s murder.

Clark said police did not indicate they had a main suspect.

Police would not comment if Kara’s boyfriend was or is a suspect in the investigation.

Clark hopes a renewed interest in Kara’s story will get the investigation moving forward again; however, she believes there are just too many pieces of the puzzle for police to figure it out on their own.

“I think there’s too many factors; (the police) might have a piece of this, but they don’t have the complete layout.”

If there is anyone who has information in the death of Kara Clark, they can contact the Peel Regional Police’s Homicide and Missing Persons office at ext. 3205.

Anonymous tips can be left with Peel Crime Stoppers at  (8477) or can be submitted on the  website. 

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Don’t be fooled by fewer COVID-19 hospitalizations: epidemiologists

Jul 22, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Ontario’s COVID-19 case numbers are the highest they’ve ever been, yet our hospitalization rates are lower than they were at the height of the first wave of the pandemic last spring.

At the peak of the first wave on April 25, there were 5,675 active cases and 925 people in hospital. Later, on May 5, the number of people in hospital peaked at 1,043, with 223 people in intensive care. As of Oct. 22, Ontario reported 6,930 active cases but only 270 hospitalized patients, and 74 in the ICU.

At a glance, might create the impression that the severity of infections this time is lower, that people are recovering more easily and that hospitals are not at as high a risk of becoming overburdened with COVID-19 patients.

But, say two public health and infectious disease experts, that would be a dangerous assumption to make. Not only are hospitalization numbers not capturing the full severity of the wave we’re currently in, but they tend to lag significantly.

Kednapa Thavorn is a senior scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s clinical epidemiology program, and an assistant professor in the University of Ottawa’s school of epidemiology and public health.

She warned that the proportion of critically ill COVID-19 patients might appear lower as a share of the total caseload this time because the province’s increased capacity for testing means a broader sample of the population is being tested. So patients who are most vulnerable and most likely to require hospitalization are being eclipsed by the larger number of younger, less vulnerable people whose diagnoses were recorded by broader testing.

“charts” These charts updated daily by the provincial government plot the number of active COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from April 2 to Oct. 22, 2020. The numbers are not cumulative. — Government of Ontario graphic

“During the first time around, the prevalence or incidence of older people testing positive may have looked higher because we had fewer resources and we were targeting them specifically,” she said.

“Lately, because we have larger capacity and better access to testing, the people who have had access to this test are actually a wider part of the community.”

A lower share of people with serious infections compared to those with mild infections isn’t something Ontarians should let their guard down over, she said, since we know it’s common for hospitalization rates to lag behind infection rates in daily tracking. This is partly due to the fact that people typically aren’t admitted to hospitals at the onset of infection, but several days later. So while the number of people in hospital might be lower now than during the peak of Ontario’s first wave, it won’t necessarily stay that way, especially if people don’t follow public health guidelines.

“I want to put a caution on the message that we should have peace of mind because younger people are healthier,” she said. “I still emphasize the need for public health measures, social distancing and putting on a mask. Regardless of who gets infected with COVID-19 they still have a chance to infect other people.”

Dr. Curtis Cooper is a scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s clinical epidemiology program and a medical doctor working at the Ottawa Hospital’s general campus.

Based on his firsthand experience during the first wave of the pandemic, Cooper, like Thavorn, expects hospitalization rates to get worse before they get better.

“We’re still really early in the second wave and I’m unfortunately very confident our numbers in the hospital and the ICU are going to start to increase. I think we’re starting to see that already,” he said. “So just like in the first wave you saw a bit of a lag in case diagnosis and people in ICU, I think we’re seeing the same thing here.”

Cooper also said case, hospitalization and ICU numbers don’t necessarily capture the full COVID-19 caseload in seniors and people with comorbidity — the presence of more than one illness or condition simultaneously — if deaths are attributed to another cause, despite the actual cause being COVID-19. This can skew the numbers, too.

“They get sick and die and never end up going to the hospital and those numbers aren’t included,” he said. “For personal reasons and family reasons and other reasons, people sometimes just don’t go. They say ‘I’m going to die at home, or in my long-term-care facility.’”

Cooper said Ontarians should trust health-care professionals when they say the province’s COVID-19 situation is dire, and take action to avoid making it worse. In addition to following the usual public health guidelines around COVID-19, he said Ontarians should make getting this year’s flu vaccine a priority. Doing so can help save health-care resources for the care of patients with COVID-19, and protect elderly and immunocompromised people from dangerous flu infections.

“We have a vaccine for influenza and people really do need to go out and get it. It’s going to help protect them and it’s going to help protect the vulnerable in our community,” he said. “When we’re thinking about ‘What I can do as a citizen?’ and what governments can do, the focus needs to be on protecting our most vulnerable.”

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Don’t be fooled by fewer COVID-19 hospitalizations: epidemiologists

Jul 22, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Ontario’s COVID-19 case numbers are the highest they’ve ever been, yet our hospitalization rates are lower than they were at the height of the first wave of the pandemic last spring.

At the peak of the first wave on April 25, there were 5,675 active cases and 925 people in hospital. Later, on May 5, the number of people in hospital peaked at 1,043, with 223 people in intensive care. As of Oct. 22, Ontario reported 6,930 active cases but only 270 hospitalized patients, and 74 in the ICU.

At a glance, might create the impression that the severity of infections this time is lower, that people are recovering more easily and that hospitals are not at as high a risk of becoming overburdened with COVID-19 patients.

But, say two public health and infectious disease experts, that would be a dangerous assumption to make. Not only are hospitalization numbers not capturing the full severity of the wave we’re currently in, but they tend to lag significantly.

Kednapa Thavorn is a senior scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s clinical epidemiology program, and an assistant professor in the University of Ottawa’s school of epidemiology and public health.

She warned that the proportion of critically ill COVID-19 patients might appear lower as a share of the total caseload this time because the province’s increased capacity for testing means a broader sample of the population is being tested. So patients who are most vulnerable and most likely to require hospitalization are being eclipsed by the larger number of younger, less vulnerable people whose diagnoses were recorded by broader testing.

“charts” These charts updated daily by the provincial government plot the number of active COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario from April 2 to Oct. 22, 2020. The numbers are not cumulative. — Government of Ontario graphic

“During the first time around, the prevalence or incidence of older people testing positive may have looked higher because we had fewer resources and we were targeting them specifically,” she said.

“Lately, because we have larger capacity and better access to testing, the people who have had access to this test are actually a wider part of the community.”

A lower share of people with serious infections compared to those with mild infections isn’t something Ontarians should let their guard down over, she said, since we know it’s common for hospitalization rates to lag behind infection rates in daily tracking. This is partly due to the fact that people typically aren’t admitted to hospitals at the onset of infection, but several days later. So while the number of people in hospital might be lower now than during the peak of Ontario’s first wave, it won’t necessarily stay that way, especially if people don’t follow public health guidelines.

“I want to put a caution on the message that we should have peace of mind because younger people are healthier,” she said. “I still emphasize the need for public health measures, social distancing and putting on a mask. Regardless of who gets infected with COVID-19 they still have a chance to infect other people.”

Dr. Curtis Cooper is a scientist in the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s clinical epidemiology program and a medical doctor working at the Ottawa Hospital’s general campus.

Based on his firsthand experience during the first wave of the pandemic, Cooper, like Thavorn, expects hospitalization rates to get worse before they get better.

“We’re still really early in the second wave and I’m unfortunately very confident our numbers in the hospital and the ICU are going to start to increase. I think we’re starting to see that already,” he said. “So just like in the first wave you saw a bit of a lag in case diagnosis and people in ICU, I think we’re seeing the same thing here.”

Cooper also said case, hospitalization and ICU numbers don’t necessarily capture the full COVID-19 caseload in seniors and people with comorbidity — the presence of more than one illness or condition simultaneously — if deaths are attributed to another cause, despite the actual cause being COVID-19. This can skew the numbers, too.

“They get sick and die and never end up going to the hospital and those numbers aren’t included,” he said. “For personal reasons and family reasons and other reasons, people sometimes just don’t go. They say ‘I’m going to die at home, or in my long-term-care facility.’”

Cooper said Ontarians should trust health-care professionals when they say the province’s COVID-19 situation is dire, and take action to avoid making it worse. In addition to following the usual public health guidelines around COVID-19, he said Ontarians should make getting this year’s flu vaccine a priority. Doing so can help save health-care resources for the care of patients with COVID-19, and protect elderly and immunocompromised people from dangerous flu infections.

“We have a vaccine for influenza and people really do need to go out and get it. It’s going to help protect them and it’s going to help protect the vulnerable in our community,” he said. “When we’re thinking about ‘What I can do as a citizen?’ and what governments can do, the focus needs to be on protecting our most vulnerable.”