Will The Real Scarborough Rapist Please Stand-Up
Urban Legend: The innocent man who pled guilty to a crime he did not commit.
This is the urban legend of the innocent man who pled guilty to a crime he did not commit. A terrifying story of mandatory sentencing and the repercussions of being a Canadian Dangerous Offender.
- Dangerous Offender
Dangerous Offender: A serial violent offender who regardless of punishment, shows no control over impulses, by repeatedly re-offending over and over in the future.
Victim Impact Statement: Just by saying the Scarborough Rapist, people don’t know just how awful it was. The Scarborough rapist is just a name, it needs more explanation.
It began in 1987, or 91’…depending on what side of the lake you lived. Metropolitan Toronto Police Scarborough division desperately search for a dangerous serial offender in the suburb of the city. The suspect is described by investigators as,” a unique type of criminal, a determined, organized, mobile, sadistic serial rapist.”
Scarborough Ontario is a suburb sitting on the Bloor-line in Toronto’s eerie east-end. An unforgiving TTC ride from the city’s downtown core. Scarborough teens spend midsummers in the Bluffs: Smoking cigarettes, drinking beer, and playfully teasing next girl for a kiss.[1] “I overly based my self-esteem on sex. It is a very small part of my life now. Back then it was a very big part.” His sexual appetite is high, igniting just after 11pm. When the city of Scarborough is vacant, deadly silent and sleeping. His victims are thin petite body frames weighting 95 to 135 Pounds. Easily dominated.[2]
In the black void of puddling streetlights his white sports car is parked. The panoramic front windshield, a clear view of the tree-lined suburban Home. She is 15, most likely a virgin sleeping soundly in her bed. “Shut up! Shut the fuck up!” The blow to the female’s head came out of nowhere, continuing without leniency for her suffering or submission. Blow after blow smashing the side of her face. The great weight of his body pinning her to the underbelly of the waterbed, holding her captive in a rubber swell. Smothering her mouth and nose with his hand. He bites her ear, hard. Teeth ripping cartilage until it bleeds. She is terrified. Unable to scream. “You know, when you’re a sex predator, that’s what you do right?”
On Tuesday September 29th, 1987 at 5–6am Metropolitan Toronto Police are dispatched to a Scarborough family home. The 911 caller reported she awaken to a noise in her daughter’s room. Thinking that her daughter had fallen out of bed, the victim’s mother went into the hall and turned on the light.” They stated that at 5:10am, in the early morning hours, an unknown male entered her daughter’s bedroom while she slept. He had jumped on top of her sleeping body and sat on her back. He held his hand tightly over her mouth and threatened her with a knife. The mother interrupted and the man leaped off the bed to confront her. Standing tall, he stood inches from the mothers face. The intruder “roared!”, quickly fleeing, driving away in a white sports car. It was clear the male was attempting to rape the 15-year-old. Police checked the immediate area with negative results. No suspects known at this time. Injuries include a bite on the ear and multiple bruising and swelling to the face in the attack.
“Did you ever get caught, no, never why? I am a deadly innocent guy.”-Young Hype aka Paul Jason Teale aka Scarborough Rapist aka Paul Kenneth BERNARDO [2]
It’s 11 o’clock…do you know where your children are?
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[1] The Bluffs are the former shoreline of ancient glacial Lake Iroquois and contains fossilized plants and animals from the last Ice Age.
[2] In 1992 after the kidnapping and murder of two young teens Paul and Karla Bernardo change their sir name to Teale to avoid police uncovering a connection in past and future offenses.
2. Vigilante Justice
Vigilante Justice: A single person or group of people who claim to enforce the law but lack the legal authority to do so.
Court of Appeal: The homeowner told the investigators that she had been sure at the time that the perpetrator was not the Scarborough rapist because his method of operation was different.
To wet to go out and too cold to play ball.
So, we sat in the house, we did nothing at all.
All we could do was sit! Sit! Sit!
…and we did not like it, not one little bit.
-Dr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat
That December, the Metropolitan Toronto police had a Major Problem. A rapist is on the loose in the suburb of Scarborough. At the 43rd division, police are patiently trying to accommodate a local mother. Her frustration at peak with police dragging their feet. Two months have passed, and not one lead in the criminal investigation. Her daughter’s sexual assault overshadowed by the threat of a serial rapist. All she could do was sit, sit, sit, and this victim’s mother did not like it, not one little bit. The mother told police she studied the intruding man’s face for forty seconds and could identify him again. She was a school teacher and “particularly adept” at putting a face to a name. The Scarborough teacher told the police that she remembered two particular characteristics of the man; very piercing eyes and small ears. Police listened to her describe the intruder, while she looked through 100 photos of previous offenders for inspiration. But the computer failed to distinctly portray the intruder’s ears. So the composite computer sketch is never released publicly.
On December 16, a fifth teenage female is tackled and repeatedly beaten by a active serial rapist. Metropolitan Toronto Police link the newest attack with the first two rapes happening earlier that spring. Authorities release a Public announcement warning young women traveling alone at night: Women, please be extremely cautious. We are appealing to the community to be on the lookout and give us any information to prevent another occurrence. The 43 division holds a townhall-style assembly to alert local area. Police take time to educate the community about the importance of reporting to police any suspicious behavior.
In 2012 Alan Castle, a Professor of Psychology at UCLA, conducted a student memory experiment. He asked 85 under-graduate students to draw the Apple Company Logo on a blank piece of paper. Only one student correctly duplicated the logo by memory. “People had trouble picking out the correct logo even when it was right in front of them. An efficient memory system does not need to store the (unique) details of a corporate logo; our brains have learned it is not important.”
Can you pick-out the technology company currently responsible for corrupting young minds with computerized screens?
If you said the one on the bottom right…you are wrong! None of these apples have the three distinct features of the apple corporate logo. These apples are innocent!
Court of Appeal: She (victims mother) decided that the perpetrator must have been keeping watch on her daughter and the house and likely worked on construction in the area. She drove around and looked at the various construction sites and then telephoned one of the companies working in the area. She provided her description to a woman in the personnel department, and the woman gave her the appellant’s name as someone who fit the description — Anthony Hanemaayer.
Anthony Hanemaayer is 52, divorced, and hates his grueling thankless job as a general machinist. In pictures, eyes are often hidden behind sunglasses. His face round with chubby cheeks, forming a jolly smile. He expresses emotion in a colorful collage of body tattoos, the masterpiece on his left leg a dedication to his mother who died too soon. He is kind, doesn’t take himself seriously, laughing back at all my LOL’s! And when I do hit a trauma nerve, he is sweet. He takes a moment to collect his thoughts as if picking up the frightening memory and throwing it away. In 1987 Anthony Hanemaayer was a 19-year-old seasonal roofer employed in the city of Scarborough. Newly married and living in Newmarket. Until a salary dispute with job-site human resources, Refusing to pay Anthony a fair wage, forced him to resign on September 24th, 1987…and not on good terms with the personnel department.[1]
At the 43 station Anthony tells police he did work in the Scarborough area that September as a seasonal roofer, but quit five days before the alleged crime, and had no reason to be in the city at the time. Handing the police, a signed statement of innocence, Anthony denied knowing anything about the attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl.
KM: Let me tell you this story: For research, I wanted to contact a couple of construction sites and give them the description the Scarborough teacher gave the personnel department. I wondered if they would give me a name. I asked a police constable for permission? He replied: Back away from the phone! (Pause) Do you know how much trouble you could get someone in?” Touché Constable![2]
AH: Well, that’s was just the beginning! The photo line-up… They literally point to my picture a few times and then ask, “Is this the man?”
KM: How do you know the detectives pointed several times to the photo? I am curious how you would know that?
AH: I watched it in the courtroom during the appeal. He(police)tapped his finger 4 times on my photo…even my mom noticed it! Like, that’s him, right?
KM: Ya, I can totally see that being a thing. Trigger Happy
AH: Yes, so true … Trigger happy for sure! From what I was told she (Scarborough Teacher) headed the whole investigation!
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[1] Constriction worker? Police take yearly sensitivity training to prevent stereotyping… It’s dangerous, sounds like this woman profiled the suspect to be a lowly “tradesman” …when in-fact he could have been anyone.
[2]A life could be ruined. You would have to had explained it was for research on the phone for sure. But it then wouldn’t be the most truthful choice, now being a hypothetical.
[3] Photos lineups are simple, but not accurate. An arrest based solely on one would be a stretch. People look the same! Unless you are very familiar with the person. You most likely would not notice such subtle deference’s.
3.Modus Operandi
Modus Operandi: A Latin phrase meaning “mode of operating” refers to a pattern of distinct criminal behavior connecting the same person to previous and future crimes.
Court of Appeal: For example, one of the rapes which Bernardo was known to have committed occurred two and one-half months after the attack on this victim and was committed only half a block from the victim’s home. It is unnecessary to further detail why. There is no doubt of Bernardo’s guilt. The fresh evidence is absolutely compelling.[1]
The Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) is a Policing computer database shared over the entirety of Canada. “ViCLAS tracks patterns”. The Ontario police constable explains, “Let’s say a guy always uses a catch phrase or distinct language during a crime”. An example is: The attackers repeatedly told the victim, “It’s not my fault! It’s not my fault” throughout the act. “That specific pattern of behavior is reported and recorded and shared on ViCLAS.” A criminal police database shared over the entirety of Canada. It is designed to catch a future killer, quickly. “If the violent offender commits another similar criminal act, that pattern will appear as a lead, providing a suspect or similar crime”. No matter where the crime was reported in Canada. Too bad for the Metropolitan Toronto police investigating the Scarborough rapist. The Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System does not exist…
One Hundred and twenty-two thousand Ontario residents own a white Camaro in the year 1992. Police are looking for a model year ranging from 1978 to 1981 owned by a white male. Police review thirty-five witness statements: Who during the crime saw a car in the area and described as a white “Camaro-style” sports car. 10,000 white Camaro cars are cleared at 16 police check points around the golden horseshoe by placing an orange sticker on the windshield of each individual vehicle. No arrests are made and no suspects charged in connection to the dangerous offender. The Scarborough Rapist does not own a white Camaro…he owns a white Nissan.[2]
Some guys in the investigation were eliminating people because they didn’t have a Camaro. (Scarborough rapist police investigator) Steve McLeod hit the roof. He told them that you didn’t eliminate people solely based on the fact they didn’t have a car.”
On May 26th 1990 the sixteenth young woman is attacked by the Scarborough Rapist after exiting a TTC bus. Walking home in the solitude of early morning hours, she heard foot steps behind her, and confronted the man terrorizing teens and taunting Metropolitan Toronto Police… Unlike other victims she got a look at the attacker. Seeing his face in a reasonable condition highlighted by streetlight, for more than a fleeting moment. Police helped the witness recall her memory of the rapist’s face and create a composite from her description. With the assistance of the Toronto Sun Newspaper the image is colorized and released publicly. Police receive 4,000 tips on 5 telephone lines that did not stop ringing. All of the tips and previous detective work resulted in a list of suspects. The men are categorized: Class A means the suspect lives in the area of Guildwood.” Too bad for Metropolitan police investigating the Scarborough rapist, he now lives in the garden city of St. Catharines.[3]
Until Superintendent of #4th district, Joe Wolfe takes over does the Scarborough rapist investigations have any consistency. “They ended up at HQ. One room for analysts and one for investigators requested 27 officers and got 6.” The war room walls at the Toronto police college street headquarters look like New York city streets the day after 9/11. “There was paper everywhere. It was a nightmare. There were walls and walls of stuff”. To find an unknown dangerous offender in a city of a million people is like searching for Waldo in a pile of Waldo’s.[4] “Back then, everything was on paper. It was a paper-driven process. Information was scattered throughout; files and index books, binders and desks”.
In June 1996 a review of the investigation reveals Paul Bernardo is not the only priority rapist in the city of Toronto.
Q. How many with the same priority?
A. Several. We had the guy on the beaches. He was peeping and then masturbating on the front doors. We had the one with the semen in the condom. The Ninja. We had the guy in High Park. He had been working a long time. We did one, who was attacking elderly women in 53 Division…extreme violence with the elderly. Another guy was the subway rapist. Another guy was in relation to Peel… The Mississauga Rapist. Our guys were working back and forth with Peel.[5]
The Scarborough Rapist modus operandi is a blitz-style attack from behind, on teenagers short and thin in body frame. He Prevents facial recognition by repeatedly punching his victims in the face and head. Victims are Sexually Assaulted. Threated with a Knife and Forced to repeat certain dialog: “Tell me you hate your boyfriend and you love me.” “Tell me it feels good” and other ego-gratifying statement.”
Audit of Bernardo Investigations: When the Scarborough rapes stopped, the investigation wound down and Metro put it on the back burner because of competing workload from other recent sexual assaults.[6]
That summer in 1990 Paul Jason Teale aka Paul Bernardo officially becomes Niagara’s problem… “I am the solo creep. I make the girls weep. Acting out my crimes while others sleep.”
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[1] Evidence is basically something that proves or helps to prove an incident or or suspect. There’s really strong evidence and weak evidence. More is always better.
[2] Just like a face the details of a vehicle are easily mistaken.
[3] Niagara to Toronto is 3 jurisdictions away. I lot of disconnect, especially 30 years ago. Technology has come a long way since
[4] The Land of Waldos is a land occupied by hundreds of Waldos. The location is first featured in The Great Waldo Search. Waldo’s quest to discover the truth about himself led him to a world where he is “just one Waldo among many”.
[5] Constable Commentary: Really? That is too many rapes, something sounds off there. Wow, it was 30+ years ago and a lot has changed. That is very surprising to me. It must have something to do with lack of technology like security cameras and lighting.
[6] Those times were very influential to modern policing. A lot was learned, its sad tragedy occurred but positive change was made.
4. Alford Plea
Alford Plea: A plea of guilt, after is it concluded a guilty verdict is enviable, and the threat of a maxim sentence (in a maxim facility) is presented to a knowingly innocent client standing trial.
Court of Appeal: Almost twenty years ago, on October 18, 1989, the appellant pleaded guilty to two criminal offenses that he did not commit. The story of how that happened is an important cautionary tale for the administration of criminal justice in this province.
In an affidavit (a written statement confirmed by oath, used as evidence in court) Anthony Hanemaayer explains why he plead s guilty to a crime he did not commit: In short, he lost his nerve. He found the homeowner to be a very convincing witness and he could tell that his lawyer was not making any headway in convincing the judge otherwise. Further, since his wife had left him and wanted nothing more to do with him, he had no one to support his story that he was home at the time of the offense.
KM: Did you know the Plea deal you made has a name: The Alford Plea.
AH: Well, I would call it the petrified plea! At that time my parents didn’t have a lot of money and either did I. So, it was legal aid … and this lawyer was a real big joke.
Legal Aid: In Canada everyone has the right to council and the right to a fair trial. Legal aid is Government funding provided to people who are unable to afford legal representation
In 1995 The Canadian Justice System is criticized after refusing a second degree-murder plea deal during Paul Bernardo aka Paul Jason Teale most sensational murder trial of the century. The year-long court room trauma cripples the mind of victims’ families, authorities, juries, and anyone near the graphic publicly banned evidence echoing in the room. Paul Jason Teale’s extended trial and protected living conditions cost millions. “To this day” the defense lawyer speaks during a media interview, “I have not seen one penny.” …Anthony Hanemaayer is not famous and is not offered the same perks as Bernardo
KM: Did you have an alibi?
AH: Yes, I did. My ex-wife…but she wanted no part of it
KM: So, she was like, “No, I am not going to testify”?
AH: You have no idea how scared I was!
KM: Why did you leave your job at the site 5 days before?
AH: Hmmmmm…I think it was they didn’t want to pay me what I was asking for.
KM: When they released you from the police station were you out on bail, On an promise to appear in court?
AH: I was totally freaked out and scared … so I just ran! Ran from the problem. I skipped my court date cuz the way everyone looked at me as if I was guilty! The dirty looks. Well, the disgusting looks at me… My defense lawyer said I could get up to ten years in prison!
KM: Wait, What!?
Anthony Hanemaayer fails to appear for his first inquiry to plead his innocence.
AH: Did you know about my suicide attempt back then?
KM: I did come across the word in articles, but don’t know of any confirmed act of attempting Suicide, no?
AH: I went through it …. walked in a big bush and tied a rope around the branch 20 feet up. I put the noose around my neck. And I jumped. …but the branch broke! “FU*K me!” I landed on my back. I was there on my back for 3 hours. I couldn’t move.
KM: Then what happened? Did you try again later? Get help?
AH: Well… When I was finally able to move, I walked home. My brother seen the rope burn on my neck. In a way…he sorta was the help I needed.
Anthony Hanemaayer is arrested and detained for ten months until trial.
Court of Appeal: The appellant was originally released on bail but when he failed to appear for his scheduled preliminary inquiry, he was arrested and detained in custody until his trial. His preliminary inquiry was ultimately held in May 1989 and he was committed for trial. His trial commenced on October 17, 1989.
AH: Everyone had me guilty … you should have seen everyone’s eyes overwhelmed with disgust. They looked at me like I was a rapist. My lawyer made me take a guilty plea. Scaring me Saying: If you don’t plead guilty and take a deal for 2 years, you’re looking at 8–12 years in a Maxim Facility. I had never done any big time. I didn’t like it in jail. You have got to watch your back 24/7. But they told me that a federal pen is worse. My lawyer had me shaken…. If you go to the pen, either you are not going to survive, or you are going to get in a lot of fights. Even in minim I still got into a lot of fights!
Mandatory Sentencing: Requires offender to serves a predetermined minimum term of sentencing for specific crimes. Canada loves charts and predetermined numbers: No matter if you are calculating taxes, monthly child support, or facing sentencing after being convicted for a crime. Crocodile tears are not a factor in reducing your time in our Canadian Justice System courtrooms. Everyone is made of an example of…equally. Assault causing bodily harm to a person under the age of 16 is a Mandatory Sentence of five years in Folsom aka Kingston Maximum-security Penitentiary.
The “single” 20-year-old roofer from Newmarket. Working at a Scarborough construction site at the time of the crime. Anthony Hanemaayer is charged with two counts of assault. One while breaking and entering and a second while threatening to use a weapon. Anthony is sentenced to two years less one day imprisonment…Anthony Hanemaayer is still innocent. Anthony sees light again after the parole board gives him early release.
AH: I did 10 months dead time. Then got 2 years less a day. Then got parole after 8 months of my time. I spent 18 months total inside.
KM: Where did you serve?
AH: Ah, Man…I did time in the east detention center while doing dead time. The jails were packed so ended going what’s called a ghost run. Went to the Don jail and ended up in Wellington near Niagara. I got sentenced and went to Maplehurst for my time. Oh ya! I was in Millbrook as well.
KM: The Don!? Is that not Max!?
AH: Ya that’s max! … and that was FUCKING scary. My first step in side I see a guy standing against the wall whistling. Then BANG! Some other guy punches him out. The whistling fool’s head splits open. Blood spilling all over the floor. I had to adapt really quick! My best friend…is the wall. My Back always to the wall…always facing forward.
In April 2006 police receive a tip from a defense lawyer. According to the lawyer he has received a letter from his client (currently serving a life sentence in Kingston Penitentiary) listing 18 sexual assaults and other offenses he believed not been solved. Anthony Hanemaayer is innocent! The letter, the first piece of hard evidence to prove it.
KM: I was reading this article that said: The parents first reaction is revenge to catch and kill the rapist. Did the Key-witness and victim’s mother create an impact statement for the parole board? I am just saying as a mother…6 month is not a justified. A small sentence for someone who entered my daughter’s bedroom and brutally attacked her?
AH: I don’t think she had a statement for the parole board
KM: Did you go through the parole board?
AH: Yes, I did. Everyone told me if I say I was innocent that they would deny me parole. It does have basis. I didn’t really say anything. I said this experience has taught me a lot and I would never be in trouble again. Three (two ladies) voted yes, the man voted no.
“What Life?”
By Anthony Hanemaayer
How can a “sorry” reverse the damage done?
Within my being, the demons and ghosts haunt my every breath, my every action
A life of irreversible suffering, nightmares, shattered dreams
Faith, a distant hope, an illusion
What will become of me?
How can I look to the future when I have been robbed of all that I was?
All that I could have become?
Alone.
My life stolen.
Where is the justice? How can a wrong be made right?
Faith and hope no more, separated from society
Withdrawn from the world, so I ask
“What life?”
KM: I noticed some people believe you are still guilty for the crime, possibly people don’t care to know the truth? Is there something I can do for you?
AH: Only One thing…Turn back time
5. Obstruction of Justice
Obstruction of Justice: A person who knowing misleads police into concluding a criminal theory by purposely withholding evidence.
In a secure room of steal and thick limestone brick two police officers interview a mad man. Paul Jason Teale spends twenty-three hours of his twenty-four-hour day in solitary isolation aka “The Hole”: A section of adjoining confinement cells reserved for Canada’s most Dangerous Offenders.” …he’s reviled not by just people out of jail, but by people in jail.” Paul is in Protective Custody: To protect Paul from other inmates, and Administrative Segregation: To protect other inmates from Paul… Slowly decaying in a metal state fixed in mundane madness, Paul cries all the time…
“There was a girl there you know. I had to try, try to go up there and get her…”
In 2007 lawyer James Lockyer was reviewing the Bernardo confession police transcripts when he found a curious note.
September 29th 1987 (Anthony Haanmayer) Victim Quote: I’m not dead. I’m not encased in concrete. I’m still here. Probably two summers ago, they contacted my mother and let her know what was going on and about Bernardo. It was through the police department, one of the police officers there … They said that Bernardo was saying that he did it, that there had been a lot of evidence that wasn’t out in the open that he knew about.”
Court of Appeals: They (police) are satisfied that Bernardo, not the appellant (Anthony Hannemayer), committed the crime. The fresh evidence is absolutely compelling.
KH: The police did not tell you?
AH: No, the lawyer told me about it on a roof while I was working then months later the police called me and we met.
KM: Did they tell you he confessed?
AH: No, they didn’t say anything …. all he said was good news coming my way.
Matter Of Compensation In R. v. Hanemaayer: After careful consideration of the factors relating to this matter, the Attorney General has concluded that the payment of financial compensation is not appropriate in this case.
KM: I wanted to ask if it bothers you to have a “Paul Bernardo” reference attached to your name?
AH: I’ve often imagine going to see Paul …have so much to say to him. I wanted to be normal. Have a normal life! I wanted to be a paramedic. I got arrested and all those dreams flew out the window.
Matter Of Compensation In R. v. Hanemaayer: A number of factors are taken into consideration to determine if a case is sufficiently rare and unusual to warrant financial compensation. In the case of Anthony Hanemaayer’s miscarriage of justice…the court decides Anthony does not qualify for financial compensation for pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit!
What is your innocence worth?
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[1] Read about the exciting career of Sam Pazzano in the article: Final chapter of glorious Sun career covering murder and mayhem — Toronto Sun
