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A disheveled Jimmy Wise was pushed into a Cornwall courtroom in a wheelchair Friday to face a charge of first-degree murder — more than three decades after he came to public attention as a serial murder suspect.
The retired mechanic, 75, was remanded into custody by Justice of the Peace Ginette Forgues and ordered not to communicate with 31 people connected to the case.
He was to appear in court again Monday by video link from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
Wise’s salt-and-pepper hair stood on end and his left knee hammered as he faced court Friday. Wearing a green sweater and blue pants, he told Forgues in a weak voice that he wanted his case conducted in English.
Wise’s defence lawyer, Ian Carter, asked that his client be kept in the infirmary at the detention centre while a potential bail plan is constructed.
Outside court, Carter said his client will be pleading not guilty to the charge against him. “I can’t tell you anything about his state of mind other than the fact that he instructed me that he’ll be pleading not guilty to this charge,” Carter told reporters.
Wise has been charged with first-degree murder four years after the decomposed body of Raymond Collison was found in a Morewood drainage ditch.
Collison, 59, was reported missing in September 2009, three weeks after he was last seen getting on his bicycle outside the McCloskey Hotel in Chesterville. His body wasn’t discovered until April 2014 when two people out for an evening walk came across a human skull in a drainage ditch.
DNA testing was required to identify the body.
OPP investigators have never revealed Collison’s cause of death, but their findings triggered a detailed re-examination of the county’s large archive of cold cases.
Two OPP officers, led by Det. Insp. Jim Gorry, a 36-year police veteran, have worked on that investigation full-time for more than four years. Their work led to Wise’s arrest Thursday at a long-term care home in Winchester, where he has lived since suffering a stroke.
Homicide victim Raymond Collison. (Photo courtesy of the Collison family.)
James Henry “Jimmy” Wise has a long and contentious history with the OPP.
As a young man, Wise lived in Chesterville where he compiled a modest criminal record for robbery, theft and weapons possession. But his life changed dramatically in 1987 when he became the subject of an OPP probe into several macabre homicides.
The OPP followed him constantly for more than a year, during which time he became known publicly as a murder suspect — an allegation he repeatedly denied.
“I haven’t done nothing,” he told one reporter at the time.
He was never charged with murder, but he did go to trial after being arrested for mischief in the toppling of a $2.3-million communications tower.
He stood trial twice but both verdicts were vacated on appeal, and in February 1996 the case against him was stayed on the eve of a third trial.
The province’s solicitor general apologized to Wise for having his name made public as a murder suspect, and he sued the OPP for defamation and civil rights abuses. Wise agreed to an undisclosed out-of-court settlement in 2002.
He stayed in the area despite his fractious relationship with the OPP and the gossip that attached to him. “They had 15 years to come up with something. They came up with nothing,” he said at the time.
Then, in November 2016, the OPP again knocked on his door: this time it was at a low-rent apartment in downtown Winchester.
Backed by members of the tactical squad, the OPP executed a search warrant obtained pursuant to information collected during the Collison homicide investigation.
Wise was subsequently charged with a series of minor offences, including break and enter, mischief and possession of stolen property, but those charges were stayed last October.
It appeared then that Wise’s epic legal saga had finally come to an end, but Thursday’s surprise arrest means a new chapter has still to be written.
“I thought that was it: I didn’t know they were doing anything more,” said Collison’s sister, Daryl Kennedy. “I’m happy something has finally been done. It would be nice to get some closure.”
Her brother lived with mental illness — schizophrenia — but he had many friends, Kennedy said, and liked to do odd jobs for people.
The discovery of Collison’s decomposed remains in April 2014 breathed new life into a number of old cold cases in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
Among them was the unsolved slaying of Randy Rankin, 46, who was shot in the head as he sat at his basement computer in Morewood in February 2007. Rankin, a children’s clown who dabbled in harness racing, was shot through the window by a gunman standing in the dark at 5 a.m.
Rankin lived less than two kilometres from the site where Collison’s body was found, on the same sparsely populated rural road.
During their cold case investigation, OPP detectives produced a crime map that plotted five unsolved murders clustered around Morewood, along with more than 50 unsolved arsons and suspicious fires.
The map was based, in part, on the strong similarities that the Rankin case bore to three other unsolved homicides dating back to 1983:
* In November 1983, Harold Davidson was sitting at the kitchen table of his remote farmhouse, near Brinston, when he was shot three times with a .38 calibre handgun
* In May 1987, a single shot was fired through the dining room window of an Avonmore farmhouse, killing Wallace Johnston, a 48-year-old dairy farmer, as he ate his supper
* In July 1987, a nighttime fire engulfed the Morewood home of John King, 59, a reclusive bachelor; forensic tests showed he had been shot in the head
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The retired mechanic, 75, was remanded into custody by Justice of the Peace Ginette Forgues and ordered not to communicate with 31 people connected to the case.
He was to appear in court again Monday by video link from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
Wise’s salt-and-pepper hair stood on end and his left knee hammered as he faced court Friday. Wearing a green sweater and blue pants, he told Forgues in a weak voice that he wanted his case conducted in English.
Wise’s defence lawyer, Ian Carter, asked that his client be kept in the infirmary at the detention centre while a potential bail plan is constructed.
Outside court, Carter said his client will be pleading not guilty to the charge against him. “I can’t tell you anything about his state of mind other than the fact that he instructed me that he’ll be pleading not guilty to this charge,” Carter told reporters.
Wise has been charged with first-degree murder four years after the decomposed body of Raymond Collison was found in a Morewood drainage ditch.
Collison, 59, was reported missing in September 2009, three weeks after he was last seen getting on his bicycle outside the McCloskey Hotel in Chesterville. His body wasn’t discovered until April 2014 when two people out for an evening walk came across a human skull in a drainage ditch.
DNA testing was required to identify the body.
OPP investigators have never revealed Collison’s cause of death, but their findings triggered a detailed re-examination of the county’s large archive of cold cases.
Two OPP officers, led by Det. Insp. Jim Gorry, a 36-year police veteran, have worked on that investigation full-time for more than four years. Their work led to Wise’s arrest Thursday at a long-term care home in Winchester, where he has lived since suffering a stroke.
Homicide victim Raymond Collison. (Photo courtesy of the Collison family.)
James Henry “Jimmy” Wise has a long and contentious history with the OPP.
As a young man, Wise lived in Chesterville where he compiled a modest criminal record for robbery, theft and weapons possession. But his life changed dramatically in 1987 when he became the subject of an OPP probe into several macabre homicides.
The OPP followed him constantly for more than a year, during which time he became known publicly as a murder suspect — an allegation he repeatedly denied.
“I haven’t done nothing,” he told one reporter at the time.
He was never charged with murder, but he did go to trial after being arrested for mischief in the toppling of a $2.3-million communications tower.
He stood trial twice but both verdicts were vacated on appeal, and in February 1996 the case against him was stayed on the eve of a third trial.
The province’s solicitor general apologized to Wise for having his name made public as a murder suspect, and he sued the OPP for defamation and civil rights abuses. Wise agreed to an undisclosed out-of-court settlement in 2002.
He stayed in the area despite his fractious relationship with the OPP and the gossip that attached to him. “They had 15 years to come up with something. They came up with nothing,” he said at the time.
Then, in November 2016, the OPP again knocked on his door: this time it was at a low-rent apartment in downtown Winchester.
Backed by members of the tactical squad, the OPP executed a search warrant obtained pursuant to information collected during the Collison homicide investigation.
Wise was subsequently charged with a series of minor offences, including break and enter, mischief and possession of stolen property, but those charges were stayed last October.
It appeared then that Wise’s epic legal saga had finally come to an end, but Thursday’s surprise arrest means a new chapter has still to be written.
“I thought that was it: I didn’t know they were doing anything more,” said Collison’s sister, Daryl Kennedy. “I’m happy something has finally been done. It would be nice to get some closure.”
Her brother lived with mental illness — schizophrenia — but he had many friends, Kennedy said, and liked to do odd jobs for people.
The discovery of Collison’s decomposed remains in April 2014 breathed new life into a number of old cold cases in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
Among them was the unsolved slaying of Randy Rankin, 46, who was shot in the head as he sat at his basement computer in Morewood in February 2007. Rankin, a children’s clown who dabbled in harness racing, was shot through the window by a gunman standing in the dark at 5 a.m.
Rankin lived less than two kilometres from the site where Collison’s body was found, on the same sparsely populated rural road.
During their cold case investigation, OPP detectives produced a crime map that plotted five unsolved murders clustered around Morewood, along with more than 50 unsolved arsons and suspicious fires.
The map was based, in part, on the strong similarities that the Rankin case bore to three other unsolved homicides dating back to 1983:
* In November 1983, Harold Davidson was sitting at the kitchen table of his remote farmhouse, near Brinston, when he was shot three times with a .38 calibre handgun
* In May 1987, a single shot was fired through the dining room window of an Avonmore farmhouse, killing Wallace Johnston, a 48-year-old dairy farmer, as he ate his supper
* In July 1987, a nighttime fire engulfed the Morewood home of John King, 59, a reclusive bachelor; forensic tests showed he had been shot in the head
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