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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Stafford Lake
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Race: Other |
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Age Now: 59 |
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Height: 6'1" |
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Weight: 234 lbs |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Gray / White
Beard, and mustache |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Goatee that is closely shaven
Has a mustache |
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Wanted for :
Escape ;
May 08, 2004
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Prince George, Canada
Kenneth Creek Work Camp |
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Possible Location : Hamilton, Canada
Both Stafford Lake and his cohort, Wayne Cassidy have ties to the Hamilton/Niagara areas. |
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Last Known : Agassiz, Canada
Kenneth Creek Work Facilty- located 85 kilometers outside prince George |
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Traits |
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Is a member of the Metis tribe of aboriginal Canadians. |
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Case Story |
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Convicted Rapist On The Loose |
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When Stafford Lake arrived in the small Canadian town of Riviere-du-loup, Quebec, he was already an ex-con without any prospects. So he decided to make a living the only way he knew how - through violence.
On February 20, 1992, Lake walked into a local dive bar. He hung around and waited for the bar to close. Once alone, Lake approached the female bartender. He demanded the bar's receipts. The bartender, however, didn't have access to them. This infuriated Lake, who pounced over the bar and grabbed the woman by the hair. He dragged her over the bar and then forced her into the kitchen, where he brutally sexually assaulted her.
After the rape, Lake duct taped her and threw her in the back of his car. After driving for a while on a wooded street, dumped the woman in a snow bank along the side of the road. It is unclear whether Lake intended for her to die in the freezing snow or if he thought he could escape before she could get help, but thankfully, the woman survived and made it out of the woods. For a month police developed a case against Lake and searched for him, but he remained a fugitive. Then, finally, police caught up with Lake and charged him with sexual assault and forcible confinement. He was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison. |
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Lake was a model prisoner for the first decade of his confinement. Police had no reason to believe him to be a flight risk. So in April of 2004, prison officials decided to transfer Lake to the Kenneth Creek Camp just 50 miles from Agassiz, BC. The camp has a work release program, teaching inmates forestry skills which they can use after their prison terms have ended. The program has a very good track record - very few inmates ever attempt escape, and many come out of the program with the ability to reintegrate successfully into society.
Lake, police say, had no intention of learning a trade and fulfilling his sentence. Soon after arriving at Kenneth Creek, he met Wayne Cassidy, a convicted killer who cops say also had a yearning for life on the run. Officials say on May 8, 2004, Lake and Cassidy stashed pillows and blankets under their sheets and took off into the woods in a stolen truck. It is dozens of miles to any civilization from the camp, and the truck didn't make it. Cops found it abandoned a few miles away. Corrections authorities conducted a massive search through the woods wurrounding the camp, but came up empty handed. Now they fear that Lake and Cassidy are once again up to no good. |
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