Peeping Tom Found in Wall of Woman's Washroom

Calgary police are investigating after a maintenance worker at the CORE Shopping Centre discovered a man’s body inside a washroom wall.

Spokeswoman Emma Poole said a worker was called Monday morning to fix a toilet that wouldn’t flush in a women’s washroom in the downtown mall.

“If you were to look at the toilet, there’s a panel behind it so that when people move it would automatically flush,” she said. “When they removed that panel, they found a deceased person behind that wall.”

Yellow caution tape was draped across the bathroom entrance as security guards turned people away Monday. Early in the afternoon, people in the nearby food court were eating and others were using the men’s bathroom as police ducked in and out of the women’s bathroom.


Police and security guard the women’s washroom in Calgary’s CORE mall food court after reports that a body had been found in the wall of the washroom on Monday, April 30, 2018.
Later Monday afternoon police ruled out foul play in the case.

Ted Petrow said he was in the fourth floor men’s washroom at 9:30 a.m. when security staff cleared both washrooms.

“The security guards cleared out the men’s washroom and then their boss came over, the manager or whatever, and said ‘no, it’s just the women’s washroom.’ So I was allowed to go back in and finish my business,” said Petrow.

“A couple workmen came in, checking the walls to see if there was any hollow points. I could hear the banging. I was in the stall and I could hear them banging.”

By early afternoon, all the washrooms on the fourth floor were closed and part of the food court was cordoned off entirely and media were asked to move back. Curious mall staff and shoppers were milling about nearby.

Three of the eateries nearby were closed.

About an hour after the area was closed, someone wheeled a gurney past the cordon to the washroom. A short time later, the body was removed.

Poole said investigators have not yet determined if the death is suspicious. She said it’s possible someone crawling through a vent or duct fell from above and got stuck in the wall.

“That would be the most logical at this point is that it was from above,” said Poole. “So that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system.”

Via: http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/breaking-worker-finds-body-inside-bathroom-wall-of-downtown-shopping-centre/wcm/8ccb7429-f348-499d-8b12-5debb16b3f6e