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Charles Kembo
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Charles Kembo |
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Guilty on 4 counts
VANCOUVER
- Charles Kembo was led off to begin serving life in prison without
parole eligibility for 25 years - convicted of four first-degree
murders. “You are a serial killer,” BC Supreme Court Justice Sunni
Stromberg-Stein said in a searing sentencing after the jury returned its
verdict after nearly four days of deliberation.
Guilty of 4 murders
Lawyer told me to lie
VANCOUVER
- Accused serial killer Charles Kembo remained unruffled under
withering cross-examination Monday as the prosecution insisted he was a
manipulative liar. In a testy day of tough questioning in BC Supreme
Court, Kembo repeated he was no murderer as the Crown hammered his
credibility and labelled his explanations unbelievable. |
'RY
plan'
VANCOUVER
- The day Charles Kembo was arrested for two murders, police seized a
calendar with notation that said "RY plan" that allegedly was a
reference to the latest of four murder victims, a trial heard
Wednesday. At the time of Kembo's arrest on July 29, 2005, police had
found two days earlier the body of Kembo's stepdaughter, Rita Yeung, 20.
Murder heard on
audio bug
VANCOUVER -
It's alleged that the killing of Kembo's 21-year-old step-daughter,
Rita Yeung, in July 2005 occurred at the same time that police were
tapping the suspect's phone, had audio-surveillance in his apartment
and also a GPS tracking device and audio bug in his vehicle. It was
the listening device in Kembo's car that prosecutors say caught the
sounds of Yeung's murder. |
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RITA
YEUNG, MARGARET KEMBO
On
July 29th 2005 IHIT arrested
Charles Kembo, also known as Charles Matthew Gwazah, 37, for the murder
of Rita Yeung, 21. The murder took place on July 24th 2005, her
remains were recovered July 27th in Richmond.
Kembo is also charged with the October 2002 murder of his
wife, Margaret Kembo, 44, Richmond, the biological mother of Rita Yeung.
Police are still trying to locate the remains of
Margaret Kembo. July 24, 2005 |
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SIU
YIN MA
(aka: Elvie Ma)
IHIT in
partnership with Richmond Serious Crime Unit has identified the
human remains discovered November 5, 2004 in a slough on Rice Mill
Road in Richmond. The
remains were forensically identified as Siu Yin MA ( aka: Elvie MA).
MA was a 45 year old Asian female who resided in Ladner. Charles Kembo
has been charged with her murder.
IHIT File #2004-139889
Nov. 5, 2004
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ARDEN SAMUEL
Vancouver resident
Arden
Samuel,
38 was the business partner of Charles Kembo. Charles Kembo
stood to gain $800,000 from a life insurance policy taken out on
Arden Samuel, who was found strangled to death on Nov. 5, 2003, in
Vancouver's Quilchena Park with his penis cut off and stuffed into
his pants with four notes. The benefactor on Samuel's life
insurance policy was Kembo's son Grant, a toddler at the time of the
killing. Nov. 5, 2003 |
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Vancouver's other serial killer
VANCOUVER
- At the same time convicted serial killer Robert Pickton was
prowling Vancouver's downtown eastside for victims, another man was
doing the same. While Pickton brought sex trade workers in his truck
to his Coquitlam farm, this other killer dumped women's bodies up
logging roads in the Fraser Valley. And while Pickton sits in a
federal prison, this other killer roams free. The bodies of
Victoria Younker, Tammy Lee Pipe, and Tracy Olajide were all found in
mountains near Mission in the Fraser Valley in 1995. At the time, police
noticed similarities in the cases and believed they had a serial killer
on their hands. (CTV) |
Victoria Younker
Tammy Lee Pipe

Tracy Olajide
Vancouver missing people |
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