The old days, of 2012, the numbers crown Winnipeg as Canada’s murder capital

"Winnipeg is Canada's murder capital again, and it ain't even close. The Manitoba capital led the list of per-capita-homicides last year by a wide margin, according to a new report from Statistics Canada."  

"The full report is here, but here are the nuts and bolts:

• There were 598 murders in Canada last year, 44 more than the previous year."

Latest numbers crown Winnipeg as Canada’s murder capital | Daily Brew - Yahoo! News Canada

"In 2023, Winnipeg had the second-highest homicide rate among Canadian Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) at 5.04 per 100,000 population, behind Thunder Bay at 5.39, according to Statistics Canada.

"For 2024, data is less comprehensive, but Winnipeg recorded 20 homicides by mid-year, projecting a rate of approximately 4.34 per 100,000, still placing it among the highest in Canada. Toronto led with 44 homicides, but its larger population likely results in a lower per-capita rate. Winnipeg’s high violent crime rate, including homicides, continues to be driven by factors like gang activity and socioeconomic challenges. Exact rankings for 2025 are not fully available due to incomplete data." SOURCE: GROK

The Spiralling Murderous Violence and Hate of Thunder Bay Racism

A Statistics Canada report shows Thunder Bay has one-third of Canada's reported anti-Indigenous hate crimes, indicating justice gone missing in the lives of First Nations people in northwestern Ontario. The City

of Thunder Bay is inundated with mysterious deaths and violent acts of racism, and hate crimes against Indigenous youth keep spilling into the news. Northern Ontario news has seen several incidences of horrific Thunder Bay racism.

Often these are bright kids coming out of remote communities to further their education. Future leaders are winding up dead. Indigenous leadership in the region has declared a complete loss of faith in Thunder Bay Police and the OPP.

Here's a partial list of Indigenous people who had their lives cut short in Thunder Bay:

Stacy DeBungee, 41, was discovered dead in the McIntyre River on the morning of Oct. 19, 2015.

Christina Gliddy, 28, resident of Wunnumin Lake First Nationm was found unconscious on the gravel by the bridge over the  Kaministiquia River at 8 a.m. on March 29, 2016, and died in hospital later that morning.

Clayton Chuck Mawakeesic, 38, of Sandy Lake First Nation, was discovered in the McIntyre River on July 29, 2016.

Jethro Anderson, 15, student at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School in Thunder Bay, went missing in 2000 and his body was found in the Kaministiquia River

Curran Strang, 18, Pikangikum First Nation, student at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School, went missing in 2005, body was found in the McIntyre River.

Paul Panacheese, 21, Mishkeegogamang First Nation, student at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School, died in 2006. Cause of death unknown, "We don't know exactly how Paul died . . . we are still waiting for some answers," said his mother, Maryanne Panacheese.

Robyn Harper, 18, Keewaywin First Nation died in 2007, student at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School, alleged to have died of an overdose, but questions remain.

Reggie Bushie, 15, Poplar Hill First Nation, student at Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School, went missing in 2007 and his body was found in the McIntyre River.

Triple Murderer Garland Receives Two Beatings in 3 Weeks

Douglas Garland, who killed couple and their grandson, in hospital after second prison beating in three weeks https://t.co/Z11kSrLqMP pic.twitter.com/mAs72sPHdU

— National Post (@nationalpost) March 8, 2017

Topless Protester from Femen on Trial in Montreal

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/national/bare+breasted+protesters+feminist+warriors+98opposite/12462279/story.html

Shots Fired at East Vancouver House

Two in hospital after shots fired at East Vancouver house https://t.co/s5xGXemyja pic.twitter.com/OynZLDTjwD

— CBC British Columbia (@cbcnewsbc) December 2, 2016

Deadly Force Used by Vancouver Police

Warning: Graphic video. Vancouver police decision to use deadly force https://t.co/vboXJade2N

— CTV Vancouver (@CTVVancouver) November 12, 2016

The Abbotsford, B.C., School Stabbing Video

The Abbotsford, B.C., school stabbing video: Why we can't look away, but should https://t.co/IxIl1oZ2lj pic.twitter.com/T1VcAqer3s

— CBC News (@CBCNews) November 3, 2016

Travis Vader back in court in Edmonton

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/decision-travis-vader-case-could-120000104.html

Travis Vader murder convictions vacated, guilty of manslaughter instead
https://t.co/Z76TnYvpVG

— National Newswatch (@natnewswatch) October 31, 2016

Maintaining the Health and Well-being of People - Indigenous Public Security

Photo credit Jerry Higginson

An important factor in understanding an Aboriginal community starts with respecting that, despite all attempts to eradicate their culture, they still maintain their culture their languages and their beliefs. Elders continue to hold a prominent position in Aboriginal life; they are the teachers and sometimes the medicine people (the healers). 

Their role is in many ways to protect Aboriginal traditions, customs and values. They are the guardians of Aboriginal cultural tradition and through them and the help they provide individually and collectively to tribe members they maintain the health and well-being of their people, they are respected for their wisdom and in many cases in today's changing world advise tribal officials and governments on issues that concern the well-being and best interests of their tribes.

"When the white man first seen us, when they first said, 'Well, there’s something wrong with these people here. They don’t have no religion. They have no judicial system. We have to do something for these people,' I guess that must have been what they thought because they totally screwed up what we already had." -- Chief Philip Michel Brochet.

In reality Aboriginal people have always resolved disputes concerning their communities. They had their own laws and governments and continue never to surrender their rights to be distinct cultural entities that govern themselves via their own custom and traditions. Attempts to interfere in their affairs which has been done repeatedly by federal governments and religious organizations since colonization throughout Canada can only be perceived as discrimination or worse cultural genocide.

Like most societies in the world it cannot be implied that Aboriginal society was free of criminals before Europeans arrived. But there were laws in place and there were consequences if they were broken. One of the more serious punishments was banishment. Historically tribes were family orientated individuals, hunting and socializing together and their survival was dependent on them being able to rely and trust each other. This is no different in European society wherein some criminals must be removed from our society for the safety of others.

On June 17, 2014, Wilfred King Chief of (Kiashke Zaaging) Gull Bay First Nation along with the band's council exercised their rights to protect Aboriginal culture and way of life, issuing an order of banishment on a 21 year old who has been charged on a count of arson. Banishment is a traditional Ojibwa practice used to punish criminals who threaten their society and way of life. Special adviser Beth Boon to the Chief and Council released a statement, "When we have one member who chooses to carry out activities that put the safety in jeopardy of families and community members, that's where banishment is exercised by the council."

Wyatt DeBruin Murdered Laura Szenrei

The past couple years have borne witness to a lack of safety for women in Vancouver-area parks, awareness of which was raised to frightful new heights in late September 2010 with the murder of 15-year-old Laura Szendrei. She was a Grade 10 student at Burnsview Secondary School in Delta, B.C., who died in hospital early Sunday morning, September 26, 2010, succumbing to injuries from a severe blow to the head.

The lethal attack took place only a few hours earlier, on Saturday, September 25 in a park next to the school she attended in North Delta. The attack which became fatal occurred in broad daylight at 1:30 p.m. while she was walking through the woods on the way to meet friends. Szendrei's friends were near the park and heard two loud cries for help and ran in that direction, arriving seconds after the attack to find her laying on the ground.

Delta Police Force told media they were looking for a 'person-of-interest', and said, “As a result of initial investigative efforts Delta Police were looking to speak to a person who may have information that may further our investigation." The person of interest was described as a young male seen leaving the park at about the same time as the attack, walking swiftly while preoccupied with a cell-phone.

He was Wyatt Debruin. He was convicted of her murder.

Wendy Ladner-Beaudry was an avid jogger, a mother of two young daughters, who entered Pacific Spirit Regional Park (adjacent the UBC campus) where she was attacked and murdered April 3, 2009, and the body was discovered by a hiker the same afternoon. Ladner-Beaudry was co-chair of the BC Games Society and was well-known as an avid promoter of sport and fitness for women in the province, and she was the sister of former Vancouver councillor and mayoral candidate Peter Ladner.

Her husband Michel Beaudry said in the days after the murder, “She was a loving wife, a dedicated mother, a consummate professional and a source of joy, love, and inspiration to everyone she met,.” The murder of Ladner-Beaudry remains unsolved while she was posthumously inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame this year.

This unsolved murder was preceded by another earlier in the spring of 2009, when a 43-year-old woman named Tammi-Lynn Louise Cordone was found in West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park. Her body was found lying near a tent that was set-up close to Juniper Point. Cordone had apparently been living as an itinerant in Lighthouse Park, a 74-hectare park off Marine Drive where camping was not permitted. Initially investigators treated Cordone's death as 'suspicious', then the investigation turned to homicide.

A relative of Cordone from Thunder Bay, Ontario, where Cordone was from, said the family received few details about the attack, and told the Vancouver media, “All we know about what happened was she was a good kid.” This investigation is being handled by both West Vancouver and Vancouver police departments because the West Vancouver Police Department does not have its own homicide unit. This murder also remains unsolved.

About a year ago, Oct. 19, 2009 9:20 AM Vancouver police issued a public warning after a local woman was violently sexually assaulted while walking through a west side park not far from the Pacific Spirit Regional Park. Reports said she was attacked in Hastings Mill Park, located next to the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club on Point Grey Road.

"He repeatedly punched her, multiple times in the head and face, then dragged her towards the centre of the park," said Cst. Jana McGuinness. The woman was able to fend off her attacker after a violent struggle during which the assailant began a sexual assault on the victim. The attacker left the scene, and police reported the victim sustained "significant" facial injuries and bruises.

"Obviously this is a violent and traumatic event," said Cst. McGuinness. "There will be an emotional toll -- no doubt for many weeks, and potentially even longer." Police said the suspect was described as 5-5 to 5-8 tall, medium-skinned with a medium build, and, “speaking in a distinctly British accent.” He wore a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, had a handkerchief over his face. Police discussed a possible connection to the murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry in April the same year because the park on Point Grey Road lies in relatively proximity to Pacific Spirit Regional Park.

Cst. McGuinness said the public must exercise caution in these relatively benign circumstances, and she listed a few safety suggestions, including: walk with a partner, carry a cell phone, stick to well-lit routes, and let someone know where you are. "These are just minor steps, but they can be really helpful in dissuading a serious attack," she said.

Kayla Bourque, "Canada's Cutest Psychopath" Back on the War Path

Convicted, in court, and especially in public opinion

Kayla on Facebook

A twisted soul with sunken eyes that wide stare the world, she looks harmless, in fact she looks scared. Kayla Bourque, 23, is being cited overseas in the UK, for example, as "Canada`s cutest Psychopath." She is 5 ft 4, 130 lbs with dark brown eyes and black hair. She was once an innocent but was left by mankind to starve. She was shut out and left alone to weak to cry. Is it any wonder she is now a psychopath? 

British Columbia corrections facility issued a public warning in December 2012 when Kayla finished a jail sentence and was released. Kayla plans to make her home in Vancouver. The Ministry of Justice said of her "She has offended violently against both people and animals and is considered high risk to re-offend." Kayla Bourque was brought up from the age of 8 months in Prince George. Her adoptive mother said she is "articulate and intelligent" but has a "preoccupation with causing harm to others." She is not welcome back into the family home. "Im scared that is she doesn't get enough help,the right help, it will escalate," her adoptive mother told CBC News. Her adoptive father does not see her as a threat to his own safety, but has concerns about the safety of other members in the family. 

In March 2012 Kayla was arrested after a friend reported a conversation where Kayla had told her she had disemboweled a cat then dismembered its body. She also had said she had fantasies about killing a homeless person or perhaps somebody living in residence at Simon Fraser University, where she was a criminology student.

On investigation officers found in her home a seven inch knife, hypodermic needles and a mask. But the discoveries didn't stop there, they also found a written "confession" where she narrates herself torturing and then hanging the family pet, a dog. The most disturbing find must have been a video she made where she takes enjoyment from killing a cat. It is a callous, cruel and sickening act but imagine feeling nothing and not being impacted by this crime. Imagine for a second how it would feel to feel only shallow and deafened emotions to never experience true happiness or love.

It has been proven by many researchers psychopaths have damaged brains. Psychopaths have been found to have a disproportionate hippocampus, the right side being significantly larger than the left. The corpus callosum also often appears bigger than that of a healthy human being. The way that a psychopath's brain transfers information, the speed that information is processed, is generally believed to be the reason why psychopaths fail to feel normal emotions and genuine remorse.

Kayla served six months in jail before her trial, Judge Malcolm Maclean added two months to her sentence when she she confessed to the charges amounting to an eight month sentence. The public are being requested to report Kayla if they suspect her of breaking any of her terms of release. The terms include a curfew which mean she cannot leave her home between 6am-6pm, a ban on accessing social network sites (she may only use the computer to look for a job). She cannot entertain visitors without first making them fully aware of her charges. She cannot enter into a relationship without a fully written confession of her crimes. In total there are 46 terms to her release which will make it difficult for the public to bump into her at all.

Psychopaths are often subject to the nature nurture debate. The real question being are psychopaths born or made? Studies into adoption have found that children can inherit psychopathic traits from their parents, however studies also exist that show a lack of secure attachment in early years can also have a devastating effect.
 
Kayla Bourque is the result of Communist tyranny and she is the victim of an institution. For almost 25 years dictator Nicolae Ceauceseu ruled over Romania with an iron fist. In an attempt to increase the population he banned contraception and abortion. In 1989 he was finally thrown from power but not before his disastrous policies left the country in economic ruination. Poverty stricken families were forced to surrender the children they could no longer feed. They surrendered them to decrepit state institutions and run down hospitals creating a whole generation of abandoned and neglected children. Kayla spent her first eight valuable months in such a place before being adopted by a loving Canadian family.

Dr. Elinor Ames researched and compiled a report "The Development of Romanian Orphanage Children Adopted to Canada." During her study she found that 72 percent of adoptive parents she researched believed their child's emotional, behavioral and social problems to be the most worrying issue. In her report she recommended that "All adoptions of orphanage children should be considered by parents and adoption officials to be special-needs adoptions."

The importance of attachment to a parent or caregiver in the first years of life cannot be underestimated. It might not look like much but when a parent looks into a baby`s eyes they are connected. The baby learns about the world around them at this point the brain is making connections of almost 1000 synapses a second. This attachment is in my opinion the most powerful force in the world. The matter of whether we should fear Kayla may be debatable, however the public should be made aware of the basis for her affliction. 

The Senseless US Shooting by Adam Lanza Hit Home in Canada

Earthquakes, hurricanes, plane crashes and terrorist attacks to name just a few. It really doesn’t matter how horrendous the disaster, the reality remains the same in most cases, someone survives. What separates the survivors from those who perish ? Nancy thinks she knows, it is the failure to react when a threat is staring you in the face. That is why she stockpiled food and water in her home and why she registered five guns in her name.

Nancy Lanza 52, was an intelligent, self-reliant women, she was proud of her home situated in the prosperous town of Newtown, near the city of New York. She believed we are all facing an uncertain future that the global economy will collapse. She thought that financial disaster would lead to the fall of civilized society and signal the beginning of barbarism. She could never have guessed that a threat lay closer to home. She was the loving attentive mother of two boys. Once when her youngest was sick she had slept outside his room on the hard floor just so she could reassure him she was there should he wake.

Nancy was asleep in her bed when he years later crept into her room. He shot her four times in the head, using her own weapon a 22 Marlin rifle.

Adam Lanza, 20, must have felt powerless for years, and perhaps his mother seemed demanding. His parents were divorced. He had virtually no contact besides his mother. A year ago he had burnt himself with a lighter in the desperate attempt to feel something. Adam suffered from a medical condition which meant he could not feel pain. This condition stressed him and led to complex psychological issues. He also suffered from Asperger's Syndrome (autism spectrum) and had difficulty with normal social interactions. He was shy, reclusive and seemed unable to make friends.

Lanza was wearing black clothing and a mask when he drove to Sandy Hook Elementary along with a .223 calibre Bushmaster rifle and two pistols.

Victoria Soto was a young, bright eyed teacher, she loved her job and the students. One of her friends Rachel Schiavone remembers her as "a ball of energy with an incredible personality" Victoria spoke about her pupils and had reportedly planned to make gingerbread houses with them that day. When she heard gunfire and screams in the classroom opposite her plans had to change.

Victoria busied herself hiding her students in the cupboards. Then she bravely tried to distract the gunman by telling him her pupils were in the gym. First graders later recalled to their parents and policeman how Victoria had shielded children from bullets with her own body. In her yearbook she quoted Victor Hugo by writing "You have got to dance like nobody s watching. Dream like you will live forever. Live like you will die tomorrow and love like it will never hurt." Hugo s last printed words included "I beg a prayer to all souls."

Gene Rosen’s auditory senses perceived within seconds the abrupt sound of gunfire close to his house. He dismissed it, he was not unfamiliar with the sound of a hunter in the woods. Gene Rosen is a retired man of 69 who had once worked as a psychologist. A peaceful married man who lives in his modest-sized home, painted in bright welcoming yellow. Some might call it the idyllic lifestyle. He had built his small garden with the help of his two young grandchildren who often visited and they had chosen a small fish pond and a bubbling waterfall. He had taken his grandson a few times to a local school parking lot out of hours and taught him how to use his bike. His granddaughter he later recalled had enjoyed being pushed on the swings in the playground.

He could not have conceived the events that were transpiring around him. At 9.30 am Rosen found two young boys and four young girls sat in a semicircle on his driveway. One little boy then made him aware of a terrible event "We cannot go to our school" "Our teacher Mrs Soto is dead, we don’t have a teacher" A school bus driver then revealed to him the true scale of the disaster and that the children had fled a gunman. In total Adam Lanza shot dead 20 children between the ages of six and seven as well as six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary before committing suicide. One 52 year old teacher was reportedly found dead with her arms around a student in an attempt to protect them from harm. Adam Lanza killed 27 people on Friday 14th December 2012, including his mother, and the resounding question through tears will always be "... why ?"

On the 20th December a funeral was held for one of the victims. Ana Marquez Greene was six years old and already a talented singer, ”She didn’t walk anywhere. She danced.” Even at the young age of six she was known for selfless acts of kindness often leaving notes under her mother's pillow just to tell her how much she loved her. She left for school on Friday December 14th, “wearing a white shirt with a purple peace sign,” according to her mother Nelba Marquez Greene who revealed to the media that the day before the shooting she had purchased a new Kindle Fire HD for Ana's Christmas present.

Ana was originally a Winnipeg girl. Her mother had a job at the Aurora Family Therapy Centre, University of Winnipeg and Ana`s father Jimmy Greene worked at the University of Manitoba as a music professor. Her family had moved to Connecticut a year ago. Isaiah, Ana`s older brother also attended Sandy Hook Elementary School but was unharmed.

The last thing Nelba remembers is giving her beautiful daughter two kisses on the cheek before Ana got on the school bus. Uttering the last words her mother would hear, Ana said smiling, “There is something for you under the tree.” Nelba emphasized to the media that she felt the school had all the necessary safety procedures in place, and that, “No lock down procedure in the world could have prevented anyone with that kind of power and ammunition.”

As Winnipeg City Council continue to table the plans for Winnipeg's 2013 budget, Councillor Paula Havixbeck in the district of Charleswood-Tuxedo called for Winnipeg to increase the funding of the (SRO) program. The School Resource Officer Program places uniformed police officers in city schools. She believes in light of the recent shootings in Newtown it is now imperative schools improve on their security. Speaking to the Winnipeg Sun she said of her proposals for change, “Every student and every teacher has a right to be safe.

Rage Owns The World

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/260450

Enjoying the line in the darker waters the way the water separates as she gracefully drifts away, illuminated and ghostly in the sea air and under starlight. The hull wet with blue and moving with gentle friction through luminous lantern lit waves. A gentle breeze of laughter fills the sails and she picks up speed. The gentle surge of midnight ocean against her radiating seashell song soon becomes the steady drum of life. That's me now but where did it begin? 

This dark story tells about a child growing up in the most intense abuse one could imagine, beginning from birth.

 Set in Great Britain in the 1980’s, this is a story about a childhood spent in abuse by a criminal underworld for the first decade of life. The life that ensues becomes a struggle with Reactive Attachment Disorder and physical injury but the will to live overcomes the monsters that would end it.

It's a zombie apocalypse underway in crime

A naked man leans over his nude victim tearing chunks of flesh from his face with his teeth which he readily consumes. An officer approaches and orders the crazed man to get off the victim, the man looks up at the officer blood dripping from his face and growls like a wild animal then continues to devour the victim. This is not a horror film, it's a macabre attack in Miami that some people are understandably calling the start of a zombie apocalypse. Grab your, uh, popcorn. 

More abbreviated justice in society via the abuse excuse

Jeremy Steinke

By Malcolm McColl

Accused of a ghastly murder? Evidence stacked against you? Is your defence council struggling to find any redeeming qualities that humanize you? Don’t panic, there is another get-out-of-jail card to play. No, you can't call the Human Rights Act because courts have yet to recognize the human right to commit homicide. But you can try another fashionable legal device: the plea that you were abused as a child and therefore cannot be held responsible for your actions as an adult.

We might call it the abuse excuse, or perhaps - given that parents are usually blamed for the abuse - the Mother of All Mitigating Circumstances. It is a confession, not of your own sins, but the sins of somebody else from your past. You are not really seeking forgiveness, since you do not accept that anything is your fault. Instead, you demand recognition that you, too, are a victim, a ‘survivor’ in need not of punishment but of support.

And it is not just high-profile, low-life murder cases. The abuse excuse has become a staple argument, almost a fashion statement, for any public figure in need of sympathy. Why did rock musician Pete Townshend access pay-per-view child pornography websites? Because: ‘I believe that I was sexually abused between the ages of five and six and a half ... I cannot remember clearly what happened.’ Why was President Bill Clinton such a philanderer? Because, explained his wife, he was ‘scarred’ by psychological abuse at the age of four.

No doubt many of these people are telling the truth. But why should it now be so readily accepted that childhood abuse can automatically explain what happens in later life? Whereas, once it might have been thought that people would leave these childish horrors behind as they grow and learn coping mechanisms to lead a good and moral life, now the belief seems to be that there can be no escape from traumas suffered as a toddler or teenager and the pains of childhood should be inflicted on others.

What makes the abuse excuse attractive to the accused is the displacement of responsibility. Since you cannot change what was done to you in the past, how can you reasonably be blamed for whatever your childhood drives you to now? What makes the excuse resonate more widely, however, is our diminished view of the human condition. As a society, we seem to have lost faith in the capacity of individuals to overcome adversity and try to shape their destinies. A culture in which it is assumed that we are victims of forces beyond our control, where we are all experiencing diminished responsibility for our lives, provides fertile ground for the abuse excuse. No matter what happens these degrading appeals seem set to continue.

It is a syndrome that more and more attorneys are using when they explain the aberrant behaviour of the accused, telling the court why the crime was committed and indeed why the accused is expecting to get away with it. The abuse excuse gets abused itself, as seen when Jeremy Steinke tried to explain why he committed the Richardson family murders in Medicine Hat, except he wasn't the one being abused. He said it was his then-12 year old girlfriend and accomplice being abused, that she became the youngest mass murderer in Canadian history because of the treatment she received in the household. Thankfully the court rejected Steinke's defence, and rightly so, basically rebutting the abuse excuse as described by legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, a "legal invitation to vigilantism."

The abuse excuse gives us the reason an accused cannot tell right from wrong - responsibility for actions go out the door. The abuse excuse was the reason parole was a free pass for Darnell Pratt who killed in the act of stealing $12 worth of gas to fuel a stolen vehicle, scurrilously ending the life of young gas station attendant Grant DePatie by dragging himfor 7 km in the undercarriage of the stolen vehicle. He continues to claim that a childhood spent in the revolving door of foster care created the Pratt that society must deal with today, problems he doesn't necessarily see in himself. His defence appeared to be holding sway as he ran amok in the parole system to be set completely free in July 2012.

The abuse excuse gives us all reason to commit a crime once we clearly make our accusations against our abusers, but since we have all been abused in someway over the course of our lives, the abuse excuse may be doing a major job abbreviating justice in present day society.

Alberta peace officer’s grisly death in the line of duty

A bold and inviting sign, amongst the grass and sporadic trees, reads "Tangled Spur Ranch." Below it a small green model tractor, its red flag lowered downwards.This ranch is close to the community of Priddis just outside of Calgary, Canada. For Southern Alberta bylaw officer and former Mountie, Rod Lazenby, 62, it was just another day at work on Friday, August, 10th, 2012. He could not have suspected that today someone lay in wait for him,that he was part of a dispute that would lead to his death.

Trevor Kloschinsky 46, had ongoing disagreements with his neighbours ."I said you can leave now and don’t come back," said one neighbour, "He was erratic and foul mouthed, you couldn’t guess if he would do one thing or another." For a few months there had been a number of complaints made about the dogs at the acreage, Kloschinsky is said to believe these complaints were made by a neighbour who wanted to sell his own property.

Kloschinsky had somewhat of an obsession for breeding dogs, he had 30 Australian Cattle dogs (estimated) commonly nicknamed "Blue Heelers" at his rented ranch. He was often visited in response to calls about noise disturbances and had numerous animal and property-related complaints lodged against him. "They didn’t bark unless you went near them," said the Ranch owner Bruce Adams, who had himself been visited and probably cited by Lazenby.

Blue Heelers have a distinct and intense high-pitched bark but usually only bark when alarmed or as a sign of boredom to draw attention. They are a medium-sized dog. Wayne Ryder, a previous landlord of Kloschinsky, court-evicted him from a ranch west of Turner Valley because his dogs barked at all hours and he received numerous complaints from the neighbours."They are always barking and never go outside," said Chuck Caswell who lived close by.

"Theres no reason to have so many dogs,unless your a hoarder," said a dog breeder in Priddis.
  
Kloschinsky was a loner and a volatile man, RCMP were aware of this, unfortunately their concerns regarding this were not passed on to Foothills peace officers. Rod Lazenby who responded to a noise complaint, arrived at the Ranch unarmed. Peace Officers are not permitted to use guns. Hidden amongst the trees, Kloschinsky allegedly ambushed Lazenby on arrival. Lazenby was then handcuffed and severely beaten.

Lazenby had worked for the RCMP for over 35 years as an undercover officer and homicide detective, he had retired in 1996 then taken a job as a Peace Officer to be closer to his daughter. "He did some very unique and dangerous work," said Mike Butcher, former RCMP colleague and best friend. He was a quiet respecful man who showed understanding to people of all walks of life. Lazenby was a regular community volunteer, he was once the mascot for the Ototok Oilers hockey team. Lazenby had spent his life dedicated to locking up dangerous criminals and was highly trained. According to the City Of Calgary, Peace Officers are also "trained in conflict resolution and mediation to better assist with neighbourhood issues." Nonetheless Lazenby was ill equipped for the events that took place that day.

After allegedly beating Lazenby within an inch of his life,Kloschinsky then drove his victim to a South Calgary police station in a SUV claiming to have captured a person who wanted to "steal his dogs." Sources suggest some of Kloschinky’s dogs had been seized in the past. Lazenby was described as being in severe "medical distress" and was rushed to RockyView General Hospital, Calgary but died on the way to the hospital from his injuries. He left behind a devastated wife and daughter, he also had a grandson he was devoted to.

 The RCMP charged Kloschinsky with first degree murder, on August 15, 2012, he made his first court appearance briefly to answer questions about his mental fitness. Kloschinsky, a large built man, heavily bearded with glasses may have seemed menacing as he faced the court had it not been for the handcuffs and shackles. He was however polite to the judge and thanked him before leaving the stand. A mental fitness assessment cannot be conducted until Kloschinsky has secured a legal representative. Crown Prosecutor Jim Sawa told reporters, "We are concerned that Mr Kloschinsky have legal representative. . . until we see the police material I cannot disclose anymore."

The Calgary Humane society offered its condolences, emailing the CBC, "Its a stark realisation at the capacity of risk these officers take to protect the welfare of animals everyday" Kloschinsky’s dogs are still at the property and "still barking " according to a neighbour. They are being cared for by the SPCA who are ensuring they have plenty of food and water but it is not yet known what will happen to them in the future and if they will need rehoming in light of Kloschinsky’s arrest.

Lazenby was a level 2 Peace Officer as such he was not even equipped with pepper spray or a baton. Alberta Solictor General stated that considering changing the equipment given to Peace officers is something the department will be doing after this investigation.

The mystifying elements of murder

One of the situations in crime investigation involves the interview process, and the news and social media services have allowed the public to become a fly on the wall in these proceedings. 

The police have a problem, a missing person, and they have a strong scent of foul play, sometimes a whack in the nose with the stench of death. The police have to go through the process of interviewing a person of interest, or a suspect, or an alleged murderer.

When the trial of Mark Twitchell in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was being prosecuted in the Criminal Court of the Queen's Bench in the Provincial Court of Alberta, the police interviews prior to his arrest made the rounds, and the public saw his behaviour after the murder and before he was charged with the first degree murder of Johnny Atlinger. It is a fact that this was a murder conducted with amazing alacrity and aplomb by a relatively unstoppable (until 'after the fact') moron, in the City of Edmonton, on Oct. 10, 2008. It was carried out in a rented garage on the south-side of Edmonton by a self-confessed Star Wars movie buff.  By all appearances the so-called movie set-slash-garage was rented for murder, and murder was done under cover of atrocious film-making (atrocious in the Ed Wood sense), and a whole lot of specious plotting.

The mystifying element to the bloody atrocity was the faux double life led by the perpetrator. He is a cartoon character in real-life, setting up shows, himself as the central caricature, a role immediately present when the cops start doing the interviews, as these appear in the video-tapes. He's a performer of atrocious deeds, and is the director, the stage hand, doorman to the performance, or would most certainly do so if he thought it was contributing to the outcome of the  'something or other' that he's unempathetically doin', which was attempting one murder and doing another.

The trial is a case that began with the disappearance of Johnny Atlinger on Oct. 10, 2008. Johnny Atlinger didn't just disappear at that date because he was killed without mercy, and that's the thing that makes this trial so interesting. Police interviews of Mark Twitchell before he was arrested and charged with murder contain about six hours of video interview that comes across as conversational dialogue between a couple of guys in a room, except Mark is on curtain call.

The detectives were adept in breaking down character even when they are caricatures. This character was never in focus in Mark Twitchell's mind because of the interviewing technique and the set-up of interviews. They have a physically exhausted prime suspect who they are treating as a person of interest but they are dragging it out; the interviews are 4 hours, then 6 hours within the same 24-hour period.

Twitchell is tired, and the detectives are leading him gently through interrogation, and Twitchell is compliant throughout the interrogations, which he is probably treating as casting calls. It is Twitchell's opportunity to lead the cops into various digressions, but not once do they show any regard for his dissembling narratives. Nor can any reasoning viewer discern an actual character in Mark Twitchell, but that is largely due to the police interrogators and their ability to keep pulling the real person back from the dissembling two dimension Twitchell pining for a role.

This trial has given Canadians an insight into the police interview techniques by allowing the evidence to be presented on video as two Edmonton Police Service homicide detectives engaged the murderer Mark Twitchell in an intensive questioning process, to which he submits without a lawyer, and does so for a lengthy examination before he breaks down and probably realizes he's a fucking idiot for not asking for a lawyer a lot sooner. At the end of these long interviews he finally asks for a lawyer.

The reader requires some background on the first degree murder charges involved here. Johnny Atlinger was lured into a garage by a woman named 'Sheena', whereas Atlinger was a person who spent a lot of time on PlentyofFish so he must have been meeting with some success. So is Mark Twitchell one such user, historically, for dates that included a date that led to a miserable marriage, and within the time-frame of the murder, for victims. Mark Twitchell's wife Jess was found on Plenty of Fish. So is the girlfriend of Mark Twitchell, Traci, and she's also a Facebook user, as are they all. Aren't we all?

The interviews of Oct 20, 2008, took place before the police gathered the evidence that pointed to Mark Twitchell, including DNA evidence found on butchery tools in his possession in the rental property he frequented for the purpose of making films. "You're there on the 10th. Is that the day you're trying to clean up all the corn syrup and stuff?" (Gag scene.)

"And on the tenth when are ya there?"

"Some time between three and five and five-thirty," says Twitchell.

That's the crime scene the detective is trying to zero in on, the Friday afternoon or early evening when Johnny Atlinger's disappearance is practically immediately discerned.
 

The two detectives spent those hours under close scrutiny of their own cameras with a primary suspect in a perplexing disappearance. It's not a stretch to suggest that the disappearance was more perplexing than it might normally be simply because the disappeared was a person of interest in his own right, as a sexual predator.

Toronto's dark find on a day in the park

It is Wednesday August 15th, 2012, and approaching midday. Rich vibrant green spruce trees, some tinted with white rise from the grass,stopping at a grey uneven road. There is an aroma of pureness in the air at Hewick Meadows Park, West Toronto. A group of hikers are enjoying a stroll near the Mississauga`s Credit River in the park. On the rivers edge amongst leaves and dead fallen branches they make a grisly discovery. Half submerged in the murky water is a severed human foot.

"There’s definitely something amiss," said Inspector Randy Cowan of Peel Regional Police.

The decomposition of the severed foot suggested it had remained undiscovered in the park for several weeks. The presence of yellow nail varnish on the toes of the victim pointed towards the foot belonging to a female. On March 27th 2004 a hiker discovered the body of 9 year Cecilia Zhang in the same park. Four months later a visa student Min Chen 21 originating from Shanghai,China was charged with her murder. Police confirmed that the size of the severed foot outruled the victim being a child. But who is she ?

The Police began the arduous task of scouring the park and river for evidence and more remains. Police search dogs and members of Peel Regional police search team,waded through the murky river as a helicopter scanned the area. On Thursday 16th August 2012 a second find was made,police stated they had found the remains of a decapitated human head.It is hard to believe a place of such natural beauty where deers roam and people gather to enjoy the summertime would be the site of something so horrible. Mid afternoon on Friday 17th August 2012 Police made a third discovery a pair of human hands,one hand was located close to where the foot had been found on Wednesday downstream along the Credit River ,the other hand,even further downstream and quite a distance from the other body parts.

"The liklyhood of it being the same person is common sense wise, preety high !" said Sargent Pete Brandwood of Peel Regional Police

Dismemberment is a horrible business, it takes apart society's trust in their own safety limb by limb. Imagery of deep gashes ,blood gushing to the floor,painful screams and maniacal laughter, Canada is no stranger to being drenched in blood. On 31st December 2011 in Edmonton, the dismembered body of Misty Lynn Ward 27 was found in a bathtub,her blood coating the floor and the walls. The tenant of the apartment where she was discovered ,Joshua James Houle was later charged with second degree murder. She is one of many to suffer such a gruesome end.

In Montreal on July 26th 2012 the father of Jun Lin ,hugged a box containing his sons remains at his funeral and wept his eyes worn by grief and exhaustion. Jun Lins death hit global headlines when his headless torso was discovered in a suitcase his other body parts mailed to Government offices and schools. Luka Rocco Magnotto is charged with committing an indignity to a human body and also faces a charge of first degree murder. Could this case be connected ?

"There is no evidence at all to indicate that there is any connection to that incident" said Constable George Tudos.

On Saturday 18th August 2012,at West Highland Creek , 37 miles from where the body parts were found , a golfer Cameron James was searching for golf balls when he came across a "pungent smell". On further investigation he discovered it to be a decomposing human calf. The next day a Toronto Star reporter almost tripped over a garbage bag floating in the creek whilst reporting Cameron Jame's gruesome find - it contained more human remains. In total one arm,two calves and a thigh were found over that weekend. Was this a second victim ?

"We have a female victim, unfortunately we've been able to find portions of her body in two jurisdictions," said Sargent Pete Brandwood, speaking to the CBC on Monday August 20, 2012.

Forensic teams continued to examine the remains, closer study would hopefully provide investigators with more answers such as the weight,height and DNA of the victim. Meanwhile police sifted through piles of missing person reports in the hope of finding her identity .

On Tuesday August 14th, a day before the first body part was found, Guang Hua Liu, 41, mother of three, was reported missing by her boyfriend, Ken, she was described in the report as being 5"1, roughly 108 lbs in weight with tattooed eyebrows and long straight brown hair. Liu was last been seen the previous Friday at 6.30 pm after being dropped off at the Spa she owned, the Forget Me Not Holistic Spa on Englinton Avenue East which she had owned since May. On Tuesday August 21st Police released information that it was missing Guang Hua Liu who's body had been dismembered and disposed of in the river. The unfortunate woman finally had an identity now the questions remain - Who did this ? and why?

Chillingly evil domestic violent crime occurrence in the UK

Imagine never setting your eyes on your children again, never seeing the sun set and rise, smelling the sea air as it crashes against the rocks but not seeing it. For Tina Nash, 32, from a small town in Hayle, Cornwall, UK, this is a stark reality and it is now only in dreams she regains her vision, because on the April 21st, 2011 she lost her sight. 

"I feel like I’ve been buried alive." said Tina Nash when she spoke for the first time of her ordeal. "I actually look forward to going to sleep, because in my dreams, I have sight. It’s when I wake up that the truth hits home.”     

Last year her boyfriend Shane Jenkins, 33 ,subjected her to a 12-hour “premeditated, sustained and vicious attack.” as described by a Detective Inspector. For Tina life would never be the same because on the horrific night in question Jenkins gouged out her eyes.      

"I wonder if he brags that he's the last person I saw," said Tina, during a BBC interview. On Tina's birthday, Jenkins who now resides in a psychiatric unit spoke to the Daily Mirror stating, "I didn't start the whole thing that night. She's the one that attacked me. I'm not as evil as everyone has made out, I'm actually really chilled."     Why did Jenkins choose her Birthday to give his own account of events ? It appears even now he is intentionally attempting to control her life.      The night before the attack the couple had watched the horror film Hostel in which a lady has her eyes gouged out. On the night in question the couple had argued after Jenkins had attempted to hand some sleeping pills to a neighbour and Tina had left and gone to bed at her own home in Hayle, Cornwall, only later to be beaten unconscious in her sleep.      

"When I came round he was trying to strangle me and knocked me unconscious. I come round again and he was strangling me again and he knocked me unconscious again but when I came around again I realized what was going on and thought oh my god, he's trying to kill me.”      Tina then in desperation apologized and said she loved Jenkins, it was only then she was to realize the severity of her injuries when Jenkins chillingly described what he had done to her. “Your eyes are hanging out your head, you will never see your kids again, I'm going to get 20 years for this”      

Tina then felt her face only to realize one of her eyes was now out of the socket and hanging from her face and another punched deep into the socket. It was in that moment Tina Nash discovered she was blind. Other injuries included a fractured jaw and a broken nose. Yet despite her desperate pleas to be saved and for Jenkins to call an ambulance he did not release Tina for 12 hours. Doctors and surgeons battled for four weeks but couldn't save Tina's eyes. One eye was pushed so far back it had burst and she now wears a prosthetic eye in her left socket.      

Six foot four inch Jenkins who has the word "Outlaw" tattooed on his arm, owned a book about Raoul Moat a deranged murderer from Newcastle upon Tyne who shot three people with a sawed off shotgun before killing himself in July 2010. During Moat`s attack he had shot a police officer David Rathband who survived but was permanently blinded. Jenkins reportedly once told Tina, "If I am going down, I am going down for something worthwhile."      

This was not the first time Jenkins had been violent, three months before the attack he was reportedly charged with breaching bail after being charged with a domestic assault causing actual bodily harm. Pubs in Penzance, Cornwall (the Southwest of England), had repeatedly barred him for violent behaviour. "He once dragged someone outside, up the road, put a bench on his head and started jumping on it,” one barman said, “He ended up with a fractured skull and brain damage and I think he did some prison time for that but played the diminished responsibility card and was out in about 10 months. This was several years ago in his mid-twenties." Devon and Cornwall police refused to confirm this.      

Eight months into his relationship with Tina he had physically attacked her after she had found him with her friend dressed only in her underwear. As an explanation to the event he punched her three times. She then had fled to the bedroom and hid under the duvet but he attacked her again pressing his thumbs into her eyes but that time she had managed to escape. From then on in their relationship Jenkins had subjected Tina to repeated violent attacks, strangling and beating her, she had stayed with him out of fear.

Jenkins has been given an indeterminate sentence with a minimum of six years, which he is serving in a mental hospital. He admits he "went nuts" and "lost the plot" but continues to blame Tina for the assault. Tina has life changing injuries, she will never see her children again or the Cornish seaside but now lives independently with her two sons 4 and 14 and their new pet dog. She is striving to help other women who are victims of domestic violence by highlighting her own suffering at the hands of Jenkins, urging them to speak up. "Shane was not mentally ill when he attacked me, he was not drunk or under the influence of drugs."      

As she stood for the cameras last month, she was a completely changed woman from the victim who tearfully described her ordeal, she is now a survivor who continues to outstand locals with her positive attitude.      

"I urge anyone out there suffering domestic abuse to contact the police before it is too late. Don’t be frightened or embarrassed," said Tina.

Update 2022

Monster Shane Jenkin who gouged partner's eyes out in Hayle fails in freedom bid - Cornwall Live

Summer of hell messenger delivered to court

Alleged murderer Lulonda Lynn Flett, 41, was led into a week-long preliminary hearing in Winnipeg August 13, 2012, to see if there was sufficient evidence to send her to trial for a massacre that killed five and severely injured three, and there is enough evidence. The hearing ended abruptly when the Crown dropped three additional charges of attempted murder and Flett stands to face five counts of murder in the second degree allegedly committed by arson last year, July 13, 2011. Now the trial will proceed at a date to be determined.

Police say Flett was witnessed torching the porch at the front of an old 13-room wood-frame tenement, igniting the front of the building using some kind of combustible fuel. She started the fire in the middle of the night, before 2:00 a.m., then was seen leaving the area while the ensuing blaze lit-up the tinder-dry house and immolated eight people inside. City fire officials told media the blaze was climbing stairs and “blocking an obvious escape route by the time crews arrived.” Neighbours told Winnipeg media that the rooming house was occupied by drug addicts.

Flett's fiery attack took place last summer in a city staggered by a heatwave, a weather inferno that seemed to spawn a fury of arsonists. By the end of it, firefighters told CBC News in October they had just been through the "summer of hell" with arson incidents. Flett's charges came from witness accounts and investigation into her motives.

"I can acknowledge that our accused may have known at least one individual who did reside at that location," said Const. Jason Michalyshen, on the Sunday following her arrest. The 13-room tenement was not known to be her residence. She was under court order to stay away from her sister-in-law, Lynette Harper, who was among eight people at the house during the time of the fire. Harper was one of the few who escaped “unscathed” along with another resident Marie Flett.

Flett`s August date at the hearing occurred after Howard James Mason, 52, another arson-killer, had a life sentence upheld July 2, 2012 by the Manitoba Court of Appeal. Justices Richard Chartier, Holly Beard and Marc Monnin agreed with the judge who sentenced Mason, Justice Brenda Keyser, in putting the protection of the public first after "chilling" crime and his horrendous criminal record.” Mason was a violent Winnipeg arsonist who confessed to killing two people on Dec. 21, 2006, using a lighter, what he calls a "f--kin' deadly weapon," to inflict a 'Rubby death' by setting fire to a couch of a rooming house. People were passed out inside.

A few days after the fire Mason turned himself into police. He said he was motivated by “anger … wanted to hurt some people.” Dan Vaillant and Lavina Bradburn were burned beyond recognition and had to be identified through DNA tests. Another woman trapped in the blaze spent five months in hospital, suffered burns to 55 per cent of her body, lost fingers and required over two dozen surgeries.

In 2011 Mason made a plea of guilty to two counts of manslaughter and a count of arson causing bodily harm. Mason had a long criminal record including arson convictons in 1977 and 2001, and numerous convictions for assault and robbery. He served three prior prison terms. During the appeal a psychologist called Mason a "versatile and persistent" criminal. Mason has been "unable or unwilling" to face substance abuse and anger problems.

The Appeal Court judges ruled that his punishment of was not "harsh and excessive. It was certainly open to the sentencing judge … to conclude that (Mason) could not be deterred and that, out of public safety concerns, the time had come to physically remove and separate him from society and to put controls in place for the remainder of his life," Chartier said.

Justice Keyser based her lower court decision on evidence showing he had "minimal prospects for rehabilitation, lack of empathy and insight as well as repeated and continuous aggressive behaviour spanning his entire adult life." Mason presently serves a life sentence. The last recourse for this convicted killer is the Supreme Court of Canada if he still believes the sentence is excessive punishment for killing two and mutilating another. He receives his first chance at parole in 2013.

Hit and Miss Justice in Canada

Seems the court system in Canada is hit and miss on actual justice, and these days it often appears to be a total miss. A few cases in the news of the past few months speak to the missing justice in violent crime cases in Canada.

 The murder of Jordan Manners will go unpunished. At the outset it was case clear. Evidence was abundant, witnesses were forthcoming, and a lot of anguished people sought justice for the reputedly mild-mannered Jordan Manners. Then it all went south. What happened to annihilate justice in this case?

 News reports (invested with a bit of the Jane and Finch twang), said, “SW, the only one to claims to have heard a gunshot, said she heard the sound coming from the general direction of the washroom and shortly after saw Manners leaving, followed closely by two black boys, one fat and one slim. (The report continues. . . ) CD and JW are both black. JW is tall and thin, while CD is shorter and stout. But the boys she saw were dressed differently than the two defendants that day and were shorter, defence lawyers said. Besides two young black men were seen hurrying away several blocks away from the school, they said.” It looks like fat boy and slim walk away scot-free, and that's a wrap on justice in the case of Jordan Manners.

 Daniel Pratt is on the streets a mere five years after murdering Grant DePatie in a senseless act of using vehicular homicide as a mask for murder, a theft of $20 as the feint behind an act of mindless rage. It was an unthinkable torture of Grant DePatie that saw the young man dragged 9 km and rendered into pieces hanging from the undercarriage of the car. Terrible, and ironic, because the youthful DePatie worked at a gas station though he purposely never drove a car because a high-performance bicycle was his chosen mode of transportation. He was a jock. He posthumously changed the gas station laws in British Columbia to Pay Before You Pump.

 Dwayne Allen Shoenborn dodged a triple-murder conviction three years ago for the senseless murder of his three children not in his custody, and now he occupies a psychicatric treatment centre where he edges toward the exit door. A gullible board recommended he be free to visit the streets of a city in the Lower Mainland of BC. The mother of the children cried foul, publicly fearing for her own safety, and the Attorney General of BC backed her up. If the government changes, Dwayne Allen Shoenborn will be up for giving himself another shot at freedom, and a seemingly compliant mental health board will likely be advocating on his behalf.

 (My suggestion would be to lower the amount of SSRI antidepressant Shoenborn is administered in the mental hospital because the antidepressant have made him chatty and quite convincing to his 'guardians' on the mental health board. And I suggest keeping him away from the board, find other people for him to see in the hospital who don`t have the keys to everything.

 The initial first degree murder conviction of Kim Walker for killing James Hayward in Saskatchewan has been overturned last year and the retrial produced a manslaughter conviction at the end of May 2011. Well, two convictions is better than nothing, even though evidence tells the story for premeditated first degree murder, as was the finding in the first trial. What went wrong in the first trial that abbreviated the meaning of justice here in the end after retrial? Well the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal said a fatal error was made when discussions were held between lawyers and judge without Walker present.

 News reports from the second trial reiterated evidence that Kim Walker, father to Jadah Walker, had still killed the same James Hayward (then still Jadah's boyfriend) for getting his daughter hooked on drugs. Jadah, 16 years old and living with Hayward, was using drugs. Kim Walker entered the house in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on March 17, 2003, armed with a pistol. Eyewitnesses including Jadah identified Walker as the shooter while ten rounds were expended, five into the victim. The justice in this case remains to be seen in the sentencing. I'm always holding my breath anyway at violent crime. Aren`t you?

Justice has a shallow meaning at present in Canadian violent crime outcomes

Seems the court system in Canada is hit and miss on actual justice, and these days it often appears to be a total miss. A few cases in the news of the past few months speak to the missing justice in violent crime cases in Canada.

 The murder of Jordan Manners will go unpunished. At the outset it was case clear. Evidence was abundant, witnesses were forthcoming, and a lot of anguished people sought justice for the reputedly mild-mannered Jordan Manners. Then it all went south. What happened to annihilate justice in this case?

 News reports (invested with a bit of the Jane and Finch twang), said, “SW, the only one to claims to have heard a gunshot, said she heard the sound coming from the general direction of the washroom and shortly after saw Manners leaving, followed closely by two black boys, one fat and one slim. (The report continues. . . ) CD and JW are both black. JW is tall and thin, while CD is shorter and stout. But the boys she saw were dressed differently than the two defendants that day and were shorter, defence lawyers said. Besides two young black men were seen hurrying away several blocks away from the school, they said.” It looks like fat boy and slim walk away scot-free, and that's a wrap on justice in the case of Jordan Manners.

 Daniel Pratt is on the streets a mere five years after murdering Grant DePatie in a senseless act of using vehicular homicide as a mask for murder, a theft of $20 as the feint behind an act of mindless rage. It was an unthinkable torture of Grant DePatie that saw the young man dragged 9 km and rendered into pieces hanging from the undercarriage of the car. Terrible, and ironic, because the youthful DePatie worked at a gas station though he purposely never drove a car because a high-performance bicycle was his chosen mode of transportation. He was a jock. He posthumously changed the gas station laws in British Columbia to Pay Before You Pump.

 Dwayne Allen Shoenborn dodged a triple-murder conviction three years ago for the senseless murder of his three children not in his custody, and now he occupies a psychicatric treatment centre where he edges toward the exit door. A gullible board recommended he be free to visit the streets of a city in the Lower Mainland of BC. The mother of the children cried foul, publicly fearing for her own safety, and the Attorney General of BC backed her up. If the government changes, Dwayne Allen Shoenborn will be up for giving himself another shot at freedom, and a seemingly compliant mental health board will likely be advocating on his behalf.

 (My suggestion would be to lower the amount of SSRI antidepressant Shoenborn is administered in the mental hospital because the antidepressant have made him chatty and quite convincing to his 'guardians' on the mental health board. And I suggest keeping him away from the board, find other people for him to see in the hospital who don`t have the keys to everything.

 The initial first degree murder conviction of Kim Walker for killing James Hayward in Saskatchewan has been overturned last year and the retrial produced a manslaughter conviction at the end of May 2011. Well, two convictions is better than nothing, even though evidence tells the story for premeditated first degree murder, as was the finding in the first trial. What went wrong in the first trial that abbreviated the meaning of justice here in the end after retrial? Well the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal said a fatal error was made when discussions were held between lawyers and judge without Walker present.

 News reports from the second trial reiterated evidence that Kim Walker, father to Jadah Walker, had still killed the same James Hayward (then still Jadah's boyfriend) for getting his daughter hooked on drugs. Jadah, 16 years old and living with Hayward, was using drugs. Kim Walker entered the house in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on March 17, 2003, armed with a pistol. Eyewitnesses including Jadah identified Walker as the shooter while ten rounds were expended, five into the victim. The justice in this case remains to be seen in the sentencing. I'm always holding my breath anyway at violent crime. Aren`t you?