OUTRAGED
The Murder of Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques and How It Changed a City
Robert Hoshowsky
The tragic story of the 1977 sex murder of Yonge Street Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques in Toronto has been the basis of novels, short stories, a documentary, a play, songs, a children’s book on the dangers of abduction, and dozens of essays, but never a True Crime book… until now.
The torture and killing of Emanuel over a 12-hour period above a seedy body rub parlour outraged citizens who demanded change to Toronto’s Yonge Street strip, which by 1977 resembled New York’s grimy 42nd Street with its many X-rated movie theatres, massage parlours, pornographic bookstores, and prostitutes.
Through a series of original interviews, archival research, and previously unpublished documents, author Robert J. Hoshowsky recreates in detail for the first time, Emanuel’s brutal death, the hunt for the boy’s killers, the shocking trial and press coverage, the controversial Yonge Street clean-up, and what remains one of the most sensational True Crime cases in Canadian history.
Included: Never-before seen evidence and crime scene photos from the files of the Toronto Police.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert J. Hoshowsky is the author of the Arthur Ellis-shortlisted, The Last to Die: Ronald Turpin, Arthur Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada,and the highly acclaimed Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases. A former Researcher-Reporter at Maclean's Magazine, he has contributed to top-rated television programs, including, the Canadian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. His investigative work has been published in over 100 magazines and newspapers worldwide. Presently, he is an on-air consultant for an upcoming True Crime TV series.
With a lifelong interest in criminology and forensic science, Hoshowsky's recent work has appeared in Serial Killer Quarterly, where he has profiled infamous murderers, including, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Christie, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, Sheila LaBarre, and Andrei Chikatilo.
