![]() ![]() Police described him later as “neatly dressed” and “calm”. Tom drove off in the family’s 1954 sedan and ran it into a power pole. When everyone was asleep he went to the basement to fetch the double-bladed axe. While the rest of his family slept, Tom waited up for Osborne who was working a late shift as a truck driver for Allied Heat and Fuel. Tom suggested she stay the night, but she called a taxi and left. She remembers Dorothy saying, “I didn’t know that I was that tired.” Florence then fell asleep and woke up about 11:00 pm. Florence sat at one end of the chesterfield while Tom sat at the other reading a book. Courtesy Vancouver Police Museum and Archives Watching Television: He made chocolate milkshakes for his mother, for Florence a family friend who was visiting, and for his two brothers and two sisters. On the night of the murder, he bought a bottle of 25 sleeping pills from a local drugstore. Tom, 17, had a history of mental illness, but no one could imagine him plotting a murder, let alone killing his own family. Crime scene photo courtesy Vancouver Police Museum and Archives The axe was found leaning against the kitchen stove. They had all been hacked to bits with a double-bladed axe. They kicked in the front door and found the bodies of Osborne and Dorothy Kosberg, Barry, 15, Gayle, 11, Vincent, 2 and Marianne, 13 clinging to life. When police arrived at the house in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant area on December 10, 1965, the first thing they saw was the bright red Santa Claus painted on the front window. The Kosberg Axe Murders podcast is based on a story from Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History Kosberg house at Main and 22nd Avenue. ![]()
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