Reginald Claude Price
Vancouver, BC / Oct. 1, 1945
Reginald Claude Price, 39, drove part time on the night shift for the Pacific Coast Taxi Company owned by his brother Jim Price.
When he did not show up at the end of his shift at 2 a.m. he was reported missing. A house painter investigating what he thought was an abandoned stolen car found Price lying on the front seat under a green coat. The victim had been shot in the head at close range.
The cab's meter registered $1.05, an amount that would cover the distance from downtown Vancouver to the residential district in the southeast of the city where Price was found. The estimated $200 to $300 he was carrying was gone.
The autopsy recovered four .38 calibre revolver bullets from Price's body. A few days later a man who lived 14 blocks from the murder scene found 16 .38 cartridges "grouped" on the grass in front of his house and turned them over to police.
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