Bikker Singh Sangha

On August 4, 1993, a gruesome discovery was made inside the Pizza King restaurant in Surrey, British Columbia. What authorities found were the charred human remains of a man, laid out on four trays. Police believe the victim was 64-year-old Bikker Singh Sangha, a male whose life ended in a manner that continues to baffle investigators decades later. The restaurant, once located at 12012 88th Avenue, has long since disappeared, but the questions surrounding the horrifying scene discovered within its walls remain unanswered.

Little public information has ever been released about Bikker Singh Sangha's personal life, his family, or what might have brought him to the Pizza King restaurant that day. The shocking and unusual nature of his death has largely defined his public story, leaving a void where memories of a man who lived for 64 years should be. His case is one of several violent and unsolved homicides that occurred in Surrey during the early 1990s, a period that left a number of families searching for justice.

The year 1993 was a particularly violent one for the city. Just months before Sangha's death, two other unsolved murders occurred in the Newton area of Surrey. On March 21, 49-year-old Doreta Mary Andrews was strangled in her townhouse. Ten days later, on March 31, 80-year-old Dorothy Britton was found stabbed to death in her bungalow. The discovery of Sangha's remains in August added another layer of fear and mystery to the community, with a crime scene that was both brutal and bizarre.

For more than three decades, the investigation into the homicide of Bikker Singh Sangha was handled by the Surrey Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). His file was maintained by the detachment's Unsolved Homicides Unit, a team tasked with re-examining cold cases in the hopes that new technology or new witnesses could provide a breakthrough. Despite their efforts, the case yielded no arrests, and the circumstances leading to the fire and the dismemberment of the victim remained unknown.

The investigation has entered a new chapter. In October 2024, as part of a broader public safety transition in the city of Surrey, Sangha's case file was one of 56 unsolved homicides officially transferred from the Surrey RCMP to the newly formed Surrey Police Service. This transfer means a fresh set of investigators will now be responsible for reviewing the evidence and pursuing any potential leads.

As of late 2024, the death of Bikker Singh Sangha is an active and ongoing cold case investigation. Authorities have never publicly discussed a motive for the killing or named any persons of interest. The fundamental questions of who killed him, why, and how he came to be in such a horrific state inside the pizza restaurant are still waiting for an answer. Police hope that someone who knows something about this decades-old crime will finally come forward.