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‘I have a lifetime sentence’ Sister of murder victim Vic Fraser speaks at killer’s court hearing by Sheila Reynolds JEANIE FRASER clutched her

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The Canadian Paranormal Society team leader and founder Glen Ferguson (front) with tech specialist John Drescher.

They’re not ghost busters But SSurrey-based B b d iinvestigators i d do take k h haunted db buildings ildi seriously i l by Boaz Joseph

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f any building were to have a ghost of a chance of being home to paranormal activity, this would be the place. It was a venue of the dead after all, where more than 20,000 autopsies took place between 1932 and 1980. The Vancouver Police Museum, a designated heritage building in Gastown, was once home to both the coroner’s court and

autopsy facilities, then the city analyst’s laboratory until 1996. The victim of every murder, suicide and accident in Vancouver for decades passed through the same doors where, on Aug. 13, 2010 (fittingly, a Friday), a team of nine specialists arrived carrying a dozen aluminum cases. The Surrey-based Canadian Paranormal Society (TCPS) arrived for an eight-hour night of apparition analysis. See PARANORMAL / Page 19

rosary and wiped tears from her eyes as she told a New Westminster court how she feels numb and can’t get to sleep at night now that she knows the “horrible” way her brother died 13 years ago. “I have a lifetime sentence,” Jeanie wept, after reading her victim impact statement, in which she shared memories of her brother’s immense kindness and generosity, not only with family, but with impoverished neighbourhood kids. It will be a minimum of 10 years before Gary Jeanie Fraser Johnston, convicted in the 1998 murder of Surrey’s Vic Fraser, is eligible to apply for parole, but Crown prosecutors hope he has to wait much longer. At a hearing in New Westminster Supreme Court Friday, the Crown asked that Justice Robert Crawford set Johnston’s parole eligibility at between 17 and 21 years. See VIC FRASER / Page 3

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