Man turned in suspected killer’s wallet

Homicide detectives seeking to speak to Good Samaritan and find cellphones of victim and possible murderer

Though the case may appear to be closed, homicide detectives are still putting the pieces together in what has been a puzzling and disturbing murder/suicide.

Det. Dave Oleniuk of the Hamilton Police Service and his team continue to gather evidence, await autopsy results and appeal to the public for assistance as they investigate the murder of Tammy Le in a hotel room and the hanging death of Terry Moore, the man suspected of killing her.

In particular, they are looking for a Good Samaritan who found Moore’s wallet on the night of the homicide and the cellphones belonging to the victim and Moore.

Le, 25, and her husband, who are from Markham, came to Hamilton Friday and took a room at the Admiral Inn on Dundurn Street North, near York Boulevard. Police have said Le was here to work in the sex trade and that her husband knew that.

Moore, 30, who lived with a roommate on the central Mountain and worked as a housing sider, was Le’s client.

Oleniuk says Moore came to Le’s hotel room at about midnight and her husband left. When he returned at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, he found his wife dead.

Oleniuk would not say how Le was killed.

Police believe Moore fled the hotel on foot, dropping his wallet on the sidewalk outside the hotel.

A man found it and kindly returned it to Moore’s home address, giving it to his roommate. The Good Samaritan would have had no way of knowing the wallet was connected to a homicide. Detectives would like to speak with that man.

After dropping his wallet, investigators think Moore headed into the ravine behind the Admiral Inn, eventually making his way over to a wooded area behind École Secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier in Westdale — on the other side of Highway 403 — where he was found hanging from a tree Monday morning.

The cellphones belonging to Le and Moore may be somewhere in that area, says Oleniuk, who is calling on the public’s help to find them.

Police officers searched the area Monday, but at that point there was snow on the ground. Tuesday’s melt might make it easier to spot the phones, although the detective ac- knowledged they may have been tossed into Cootes Paradise.

Le’s post-mortem exam was done Sunday, but police are still awaiting some test results, according to Oleniuk.

Moore’s autopsy was to take place Tuesday afternoon.

The Good Samaritan, or anyone who finds a cellphone in the area immediately around the Admiral Inn, the ravine or Vanier, is asked to contact Det. Ross Johnson at 905546-3827.