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Wildcats on a roll
A Dutch painter inspires an American poet who inspires a Canadian composer resulting in Pictures of Brueghel, a piano concert Sunday in Steveston.
McMath Wildcats will have plenty of momentum when they co-host this week’s provincial junior volleyball championships after winning the district title.
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Cold case heats up 25-year-old murder investigation may have new lead BY ALAN CAMPBELL
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It’s almost 25 years to the day since police made the gruesome discovery of Kim Dianne Stolberg’s brutally stabbed body in a Richmond office. The 21-year-old woman’s killer has never been found. Last week, however, it emerged that investigators may have finally got a break in her unsolved murder. A former girlfriend of convicted killer Darren Kelly — who was sentenced to a minimum 25-year to life sentence for raping and murdering a young girl on the Sunshine Coast a week after Stolberg’s body was found — has recently been interviewed by police. The woman, who requested anonymity, told the Province newspaper how she can place Kelly, now 45, at or near the scene of two unsolved 1985 murders, one in Vancouver, the other the Stolberg case. She said she believes she may have driven him or loaned him her car to go to the two scenes. The former girlfriend recalled Kelly, who changed his name while in prison to Ryan Scott Brady, picking her up in Richmond in 1985, in an agitated state, with a knife lying on the car seat. “The next day, I heard on the radio that a girl had been murdered in Richmond,” recalled the woman. That girl was Stolberg. Earlier that fateful Sunday evening,
Stolberg had been in her father’s office — Stolberg Engineering at 7080 River Rd., where she worked as a receptionist — and was on the phone to her big sister, planning their parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. It was just after 7 p.m. when she noticed something suspicious and put her sister on hold. She never returned. Her lifeless body was found covered in stab wounds two hours later inside one of the offices. Her murder remains unsolved. Kelly has not been charged and police are investigating. But a former police investigator who questioned Kelly at the time says he has long been considered a suspect in the Richmond homicide. And RCMP Sgt. Rob Vermeulen, whose Vancouver department is still investigating the murders, confirmed that “there was communication between Richmond . . . and Vancouver right from the onset of those files.” Richmond RCMP’s Const. TammyLyn Walker said the Stolberg file, like most other unsolved cases, has never been closed. “The file is still ongoing, we don’t really close any files,” Walker said. “Right now, it’s still being investigated. And like any file, it will be properly investigated. I can’t comment on anything specific about the investigation, but we are actively investigating this and looking into all avenues.” see Kelly page 4
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James Branker, 2, meets his first snowman in Garden City Park. James and his mom Daniella are Richmond-born, but returned in October after a year in Trinidad.
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planning to turn its attention away from the snow to ice and frost on the roads. The wind-chill factor was due to bring the temperature crashing
down to double digits overnight in parts of Metro Vancouver on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some wet snow is forecast in the city for Thursday, followed by ris-
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on keeping the main roads clear of black ice and frost. “I think we’re going to be dealing mostly with the frost, so we’ll see Shelter page 4 07283111
BY ALAN CAMPBELL
acampbell@richmond-news.com