The theory went that when Roddy screamed it panicked his attacker and the killer flew into a rage, smashing in the little boy’s head with a shingler’s axe. Police believed that Roddy was grabbed by a pedophile soon after entering the trail to the school. One side of his head bore the imprint of a steel heel plate, his skull was smashed, and one of his ears severed. Roddy had lain in that shallow grave, three blocks from his house, for more than two days. He looked again and saw that it was a boy wearing a brown wool jacket. He thought he had found a dead dog buried under dried bracken.
The search for Roddy continued all weekend until a volunteer was poking through the bottom of a trench when something caught his eye. When he failed to come home, a panicked Nettie phoned police. They told her that he hadn’t arrived but was probably just playing hooky and would turn up later that day. When Roddy didn’t come home for lunch, his worried mother phoned the school. There were only four houses on the west side of Rupert, while across the road the land was still undeveloped and mostly bush skirted what is now Thunderbird Elementary. Photo courtesy Leona Moore and Patty Turner It was pouring rain and it took him about 10 minutes to walk along East 8th Avenue to Rupert Street. On Friday, Octoseven-year-old Roddy Moore waved goodbye to his mother and walked to his grade one class at the Begbie Annex school in Vancouver’s Renfrew area.
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