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OAKVILLE BEAVER Thursday, October 15, 2009 · 12 Retired reporter commits mysteries to paper By Tim Whitnell METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP The unsolved murders of two Oakville residents are featured in a new book by a Halton writer. First-time author Cal Millar has written Find My Killer -- Crime Stoppers: Unsolved Homicides. It is a compilation of 258 unsolved murders from around North America; rewards offered in those cases total $5.5 million. The book includes 38 such cases from Canada with a couple of them from the 1980s involving two Oakville residents who were killed and their deaths yet to be solved by police. The two Oakville cases Millar writes about in Find My Killer are the murders of Delia Adriano (1982) and William McIntyre (1984). Millar, 65, retired from the Toronto Star five years ago after a lengthy career as a reporter. He began his newspaper career with the Toronto Telegram. When that paper folded in 1971 he was one of the original group that launched the Toronto Sun. "I covered lots of major stories through the years as a two-way reporter who responded like a firefighter to breaking news events and picked up a few awards," he noted. Millar has been involved with Crime Stoppers for the past 25 years and is now a member of the board of directors of the Halton chapter of the program. "My involvement with Crime Stoppers began when I wrote a story about the program's success in Hamilton and was invited by the Toronto Police to sit on the steering committee in 1983 to set up a program there. I was a board member with Toronto's program until 2006 when I moved to Burlington from Mississauga and volunteered with Halton's program." Millar lived in Burlington as a teenager and attended Nelson High School. He said he worked on the book for two years. The original idea was to write a history of Crime Stoppers -- it originated with a murder at a gas station in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1976 -- but that didn't elicit much enthusiasm from publishers. He was considering writing about the successes of the program, when his wife suggested he write about unsolved killings -- an idea that caught his attention. He eventually compiled information on 500 such murders in Canada and the United States and whittled it down to about half that list for the book, with a sequel a possibility. "Each year about 17,000 people across North America are victims of homicide and the family members or friends in cases that go unsolved ride a roller coaster of emotion while police work to find the killers," Millar said. RIZIERO VERTOLLI / OAKVILLE BEAVER "In many cases, there are people who know UNSOLVED: Cal Millar with his new book those responsible for taking the life of another about unsolved murders, including some right individual, but for various reasons will not come here at home. forward and identify the killer. The purpose of this book is to acquaint the public with some of the unsolved homicides and hopefully trigger something in someone's mind that will produce the clues that police require to find a killer." Police services and various Crime Stoppers chapters provided him with a lot of his information, but Millar did travel to Florida, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Arizona and Washington, D.C. to talk to police in person about certain cases. The victim/case profiles in his book range from a couple of paragraphs to several pages. "Some of these homicides are high profile cases, but others are run of the mill and have not received a great deal of publicity apart from coverage in the local newspaper or broadcast stations. They run the gamut from contract murders, cop killings and homicides during robberies to deliberately set arson deaths, child murders and mysterious who-dun-its." Cases covered in the book include the shooting death of a federal prosecutor in Seattle, Washington, the killing of the sheriff's wife in Alexandria, Virginia, the beating death of a homeless woman in Rochester, Minn., the murder of a clown in Canada and the slaying of a young girl in Arlington, Texas, which led to the establishment of the Amber Alert system. Find My Killer is only available online from amazon.com. The book's cover price is $21.99. 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