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December 17, 2010
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Missing & feared murdered
A deadly secret
Local man’s compassionate nature may have cost him his life
A dark past is revealed as the man many knew locally as Reno Trevor Hogg stands accused of murder . . . for the second time
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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he evening before he disappeared, Robert-Jan (Robbie) Planje told Colleen Crook, an old friend of 40 years, that he was afraid to return to his tidy home at Rainbow Estates mobile home park. Just hours earlier, his crackaddicted roommate had been arrested after going into a rage that saw him throw meat and food around the home and at Planje. Planje wasn’t sure if his roommate would be released or held in custody but the 64-yearold Chilliwack was EB IRST man—who loathe to leave First reported on his dogs alone chilliwacktimes.com f o r m o re t h a n an hour—did go home. He hasn’t been seen since. By Tuesday morning, the roommate—who was released Sunday night—was back in police custody and being questioned by homicide investigators as to the whereabouts of Planje. According to Crook, Planje called the roommate his stepson. The roommate is, in fact, a 44-year-old struggling crack addict. Planje— who was secretary of the Gypsy Project, a non-profit that tries to house the homeless—had dated the man’s mother and took his
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Described as congenial and polite by some, Reno Trevor Hogg came to Chilliwack and fooled many people in the community regarding his true identity. BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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eno Trevor Hogg got to know a lot of people in Chillliwack but not one of those people truly knew
him. What they do know is that he integrated himself as well or better than most newcomers with no connections do. Some of those who met and worked with Hogg describe him as smooth, accommodating, polite, friendly and congenial. Hogg liked to party and he liked to drink. But he also worked hard and he liked to get things done.
He got to know a lot of people, he made friends and it truly seemed like he wanted to fit in here in the Fraser Valley. But there was another side. One person who knew Hogg says he thought he was a “snake.” Another says he was a “shyster.” The reality is that Hogg had terrible and disturbing secrets, which he did an incredible job of keeping under wraps. “This is the story of a person that came into a community and used people of stature,” said Wayne, the man who knew Hogg best and even let him live in his home for a brief period of time. (Wayne did not want his last name used.)
“He got himself known. Reno Trevor Hogg is the nice guy that can do this and this and this. He had an apartment and a dog. He lived basically a normal life. “Here was somebody that fooled everybody.” Nearly 10 years after they first met, Wayne found out that Reno Trevor Hogg isn’t and wasn’t Reno Trevor Hogg. The enigmatic and charismatic guy he knew was actually George Mitchell Allgood, an American citizen who, 27 years ago, tied up a 71-year-old man in his own home and beat him to death with a shovel in Baltimore, Md. Twenty-three years after that horrific crime, on July 15, 2006, 40-
year-old Susan Reinhardt and 43year-old David Ristow were asleep together in a Saskatoon home at about 1:15 a.m. when they were hit with blasts from a shotgun. Ristow survived but Reinhardt—Allgood’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child—died. In a Saskatoon courtroom this week, at the conclusion of a fourday preliminary hearing, Judge Barry Singer ruled that the Crown had presented enough evidence for Allgood to stand trial for first degree murder and attempted murder. Allgood denied the allegations. See ALLGOOD, Page 7
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