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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 5, 2015 10:31:50 GMT -5
 (Above photo credit: RCMP Most Wanted website) Fugitive Profile as of March 5th, 2015 (Based on RCMP Most Wanted website): Sex: Male Born: November 1961 Hair Color: Blond Eye Color: Blue Weight: 150 lbs Height: 5'7 Tattoos: Upper right arm, winged horse TIPS: Take no action to apprehend this person yourself. Report any information to the nearest RCMP detachment or the police in your area or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.Ronald Box has been wanted by the Royal Canadian Monted Police by 1992. He was aired on the December 1st, 1995 episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Below is the RCMP wanted/Unsolved Mysteries description of his case: "Around the town of Carcross, Yukon Territory, Ronald was known as a sculptor, taxidermist, outdoorsman and an expert with guns. Now he's known as a suspected killer. After a long history of marital discord and allegations of spousal abuse, Ronald's wife, Lynn, sought refuge in a shelter for battered women on March 1, 1992. Her only visitor that night was her best friend, Krystal Senyk. Theirs was a close friendship that sources say Bax deeply resented. When Krystal returned to her home at around 11 p.m. someone was lying in wait for her. A single shot from close range left Krystal dead in the doorway of her own home. Ronald Bax vanished immediately and is the only known suspect in the murder. Bax has family in Michigan and there is a strong possibility that he is hiding somewhere in the U.S." Thoughts? I'd say there's a strong possibility Bax fled to the United States since that's where he has family. For what it's worth, I found some age-enhanced sketches which I'll post below (and the links about the case after that as well)   unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Ronald_Baxwww.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/wanted/ronald-jeffrey-bax (UPDATE: As of July 23rd, 2018, Bax is still listed on the RCMP website as one of their most wanted fugitives). Admin Note: If you have any news-related updated information on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-form |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Mar 6, 2015 12:38:31 GMT -5
I think this is one of few Canadian cases that Unsolved Mysteries profiled and I wish that AMW would have recognized this fugitive as well. Out of most of the cold case fugitives out there, Ronald Bax doesn't seem like someone who should be that hard to locate, especially if he's believed to be hiding out in the U.S.
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 22, 2017 1:33:44 GMT -5
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Post by mylesd on Aug 23, 2018 10:41:20 GMT -5
Hi! I found this page through a Google search. I am a former reporter living in Whitehorse, Yukon. I have been looking into this case for more than three years now. Most of the information i've gathered can be found at : www.whathappenedtoronbax.comFor the past 6 weeks I've been collaborating with a Canadian author on a project about this story, and it's moving along very quickly. We're making a lot of progress. We just did a fresh round of interviews in fact. Any questions please let me know and i'll do my best to reply. Thanks for your help! |
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 23, 2018 14:00:46 GMT -5
Hi mylesd, welcome to the forum!
I guess I'll ask the obvious question and that is if you think Bax is still alive/at large or not based on your research so far.
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Post by mylesd on Aug 23, 2018 16:31:50 GMT -5
Hi Scumhunter,
Thank you! Based on the interviews we've conducted so far I am still on the fence about whether Ron BAX is alive or dead. The RCMP (federal police agency) is limited in what it can share with the public considering this remains an "open" investigation, but they strongly believe he escaped into the bush and committed suicide. There are many clues that would point to this happening. That being said, a lot of the people we've interviewed - including people who knew him very well - are convinced he is alive and well. Where? We've heard it all - Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe, Michigan, etc. He had connections to all those places through his experiences in sculpting and big-game hunting. People we've recently interviewed are convinced that BAX wasn't a remorseful guy, and could have easily escaped to the continental USA given his proximity to the US border at the time (1 hour by car).
There's a lot more to it than that, as I'm sure you can guess, but that's the CliffsNotes version. What else would you like to know?
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 23, 2018 23:55:10 GMT -5
I don't have any additional questions off the top of my head but will add if I think of them. More so reading your site and absorbing the information so far and found the possible Mississippi lead extremely interesting.
I have never been to Canada while HeadMarshal is from Ontario, but I do take it a crime like this is very out of the ordinary in the Yukon territory.
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Post by mylesd on Aug 24, 2018 10:37:07 GMT -5
Hi ScumHunter, Indeed a crime of this nature - especially a homicide where the main suspect has vanished - doesn't happen very often. He's probably the only fugitive of this nature around here in the past 30 years. As you can imagine it has affected a fair number of people, many of whom are still around. We are still looking into the Mississippi lead as we have touched base with the reporter who wrote that story. A few interesting tidbits: the man in question had burned hands, so would that have compromised the fingerprint comparison? He had a winged-horse tattoo (like Bax), northern accent (like Bax), similar appearance to Bax, drug habit (like Bax), talked about sculpting and taxidermy (like Bax), AND (allegedly) had ID cards with "Ronald Jeffrey Bax" on them. The RCMP officer formerly in charge of the case file assures me he investigated this one to the fullest extent, in partnership with the FBI, but I am still not fully convinced. In fact I recently made a FOI request with the FBI for the document that was prepared about the fingerprint comparison. The only fingerprints the RCMP had of BAX were from the early 80s and may have faded a bit with time? So you're comparing prints from the early 80s with the ones from a man whose hands are severely burnt. Make your own conclusion  |
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Post by mylesd on Jul 15, 2019 20:51:15 GMT -5
Hi everyone - just a quick update that our book project is moving forward and we are hoping to have it completed and in stores in 2021. We also created a thread on Websleuths - we need all the help, suggestions, and ideas we can get. I just finished listening to Seasons 1-2 of the Up and Vanished podcast and there really is a lot of progress that can be made when people bring a cold case back to life. Thanks again. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 15, 2019 23:48:39 GMT -5
Looking forward to it, off the top of my head as far as suggestions, have you tried reaching out to Unsolved Mysteries themselves?
Also I see the websleuths thread since I admittedly forgot what the Mississippi lead was and reread the article apparently taken off the internet.
I went to CrimeCon this year and there was an expert on one of the panels, forgot which one but although it didn't pertain to this case, he explained that even when burning or purposely doing stuff to your fingerprints they're still nearly impossible to truly change, they still have the same patterns etc... so unless there was some sort of record-keeping error, it would seem the man may not actually be Clark based on that.
Also we were always under the impression only Unsolved Mysteries and not AMW aired the manhunt (we're mainly an AMW/John Walsh-focused fan forum but an overall unsolved true crime tv show fan forum as well), but the article says Bax was listed on AMW. Perhaps they aired him after all, or did they just get confused after seeing our site and think we were the actual show?
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Post by mylesd on Jul 16, 2019 10:40:48 GMT -5
I think you're right - I don't think AMW aired an episode or segment about Bax, I think that's erroneous. I did track down the Unsolved Mysteries episode in which there was supposedly a Bax segment - but after realizing the segment didn't appear, I contacted Unsolved Mysteries last year, and they told me the "case was a special bulletin, and it was not able to be included in the streaming version of the series." When I asked whether I could purchase the segment on tape they told me it was on old tape formats and was not accessible at this time.
That's really interesting about the fingerprints. My colleague and I think the Mississippi lead is the best one so far - given all the coincidences (man had northern accent, had ID card with Ron Bax written on it, talked about taxidermy, etc) - and she is planning on going to Rena Lara next year to try and find out more.
On my end here in Whitehorse I am still trying to get an interview with the RCMP (local police) to get more details about the circumstances of Krystal's last night alive. Her friend Lynn wasn't granted a restraining order against Bax on the grounds that the threats weren't "threatening" enough, and Krystal was denied an escort back home when she requested one. She even asked a cop to call the police station in her little town, so they could check on her cabin and make sure Bax wasn't around, but they said they "don't do that." You know the rest.
So there's an important chapter in our book that'll be focused on accountability, and what went wrong, why the system ultimately failed Krystal and continues to fail women in our society.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 17, 2019 3:13:03 GMT -5
Although different types of cases, one thing interesting is we had a bit of a reverse scenario in the U.S. with an FBI top ten fugitive named Robert Fisher, who allegedly killed his family in Arizona in 2001.
In 2004, man was arrested in Canada and held for a week as thought to be Fisher. According to a documentary I watched, a neighbor even identified him as Fisher and claimed Fisher gave him a "what are you doing here?" look but the fingerprints didn't match. The neighbor is still insistent to this day the man was Fisher and perhaps he burned/altered his fingerprints. So kind of interesting how we have the same scenario albeit two different types of cases.
I am very glad to hear you are doing a chapter on accountability and horrifying and tragic to think what could have been and maybe Krystal would still be here today. Things have sort of gotten better after the turn of the century, but obviously still not where they could be.
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Post by Maddog on Jul 17, 2019 18:12:43 GMT -5
I think a challenging issue in this case is Bax’s appearance. In one photo, he’s wearing just a mustache, but in the one in this forum, he has a full beard. If he’s on the run, he’s probably changing his look often, and considering how dissimilar the two photos of him I have seen are, I don’t doubt he’s doing it with ease if he’s alive.
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Post by mylesd on Jul 22, 2019 16:52:38 GMT -5
I agree maddog34 - although the forensic psychologists hired by the police concluded there was a 70 per cent chance Bax committed suicide most people here aren't convinced. I've heard of way too many cold cases where the fugitives were eventually found. We're going to keep going on the assumption he's out there somewhere.
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Post by Scumhunter on Oct 24, 2020 0:03:26 GMT -5
Hey Mylesd, not sure when you'll see this but I looked at the website and although I'm sorry Covid-19 has pushed your book back a year I still look forward to reading it, hopefully with an added chapter on a capture as well!
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