Patrick Dombroskie: The 1992 Ontario Glove Factory Murders
It would have been better for all concerned if Patrick Dombroskie turned his rifle on himself before he left home that day, instead of taking out his misplaced rage on former employees who he believed were responsible for his failures in life.
Jealous Rage Leads to Claresholm, AB, Highway Massacre
When Derek Jensen stumbled across Tabitha Stepple, his ex-girlfriend, out with a friend and two minor league baseball players at a Lethbridge pub on the night of December 14, 2011, the final thread holding his jealousy in check broke.
Less than six hours later, four young people would be dead on the side of an Alberta highway with a fifth fighting for her life while surgeons removed four bullets from her body.
Menhaz Zaman: Markham Mass Murderer Sentenced to Life in prison
The horrific reality is it was easier for Menhaz Zaman to murder his entire family than tell them the truth and face his own shame.
Dustin Joseph Paul, Cocaine and the 2004 Penticton Indian Reserve Shooting
On October 30, 2004, self-confessed drug dealer Dustin Joseph Paul snorted four scoops of cocaine through a Slurpee straw to try sober up at a drug-fuelled bush party on the Penticton Indian Reserve. Then he killed three people and tried to kill two others before attempting to end his own life.
The triple homicide emotionally devastated families and created a high level of awareness of the drug-dealing activities by organized crime in native communities, said Stewart Phillips, chief of the Penticton Indian Band in 2006, and he hoped this would be the wakeup call his community needed.
Robert Poulin: 1975 St. Pius X High School Shooting
On the morning of October 27, 1975, 18-year-old Robert Poulin handcuffed his 17-year-old acquaintance Kim Rabot to his bed, raped and sodomized her and, when he was finished, stabbed her nine times.
Then he ate lunch.
Mass Murderer John Brittain Sentenced to Life in Prison with no chance of parole for 25 years
On Wednesday, October 14, 2020, mass murderer John Brittain pleaded guilty to the execution-style murders of Rudi Winter, Darlene Knippelberg, Susan and Barry Wonch.
Brittain’s rationale for the murders?
He wanted them to stop bullying his ex-wife, Katherine Brittain.
John Brittain: Killer of Four to Plead Guilty
Accused quadruple murderer John Brittain intends to plead guilty, sparing the families of the victims a scheduled 4-week trial, which was scheduled to begin on Monday.
John Brittain’s trial will now be replaced by a plea hearing, scheduled on October 14th, and after Brittain’s plea is entered a 2-day sentencing hearing will begin.
Dale Merle Nelson’s 1970 Murder Spree in Creston, British Columbia
On Friday, September 4, 1970, Dale Merle Nelson got drunk and, most likely, high on LSD, grabbed a 7mm Mauser 98k bolt action rifle he previously lent to a friend, and used it to murder eight people, including five children, in and around Creston, BC.
Escaped Mental Patient William Bernard Lepine and the 1972 Kettle Valley Murders
On July 30, 1972, William Lepine escaped from Riverview Provincial Mental Hospital in Coquitlam a fourth time.
While free, he obtained two guns which he used to shoot and kill six people in the B.C. Interior’s Kettle Valley.
Why nobody took his repeated escapes seriously is a mystery buried in a BC Cabinet report that remains hidden from the public to this day.
Scarborough Crossbow Killer Brett Ryan
On August 25, 2016, 35-year-old Brett Ryan did the unthinkable.
He murdered his mother so she couldn’t tell his fiancé he was a liar. Then he murdered two of his brothers and attempted to kill the third after they tried to come to their mother’s aid.
Matthew Vincent Raymond and the 2018 Fredericton Shooting That Left Four Dead
On August 10, 2018, ten children lost a parent when one colossally stupid 48-year-old man chose to take out his rage against the world on four innocent people. What nobody knows is why.
David William Shearing: Slaughtered Family of Six in Wells Gray Provincial Park
On August 2, 1982, Bob and Jackie Johnson, their two daughters Janet, 13, and Karen, 11, and Jackie’s parents, George and Edith Bentley set out on a family camping trip.
Their trip was meant to be two-week vacation in one of British Columbia’s most spectacular locations, Wells Gray Provincial Park, near Clearwater, BC, but last anyone heard from the Johnsons and Bentleys was on August 6th, 1982.
Instead of a world-class holiday, within days of their last contact with the outside world all four adults were dead.
Raymond Russell Rafuse Murdered Four at a 1988 Calgary Party
Raymond Russell Rafuse showed signs of trouble early in life. He tried to hang himself when he was six years old. When he was 13 years old, Rafuse swung an axe into his father’s arm. When he was 20 he killed his first human being. He would go on to kill four people more before he was locked up for the rest of his life.
Menhaz Zaman and the 2019 Markham Massacre
Despite his parents’ best efforts to give their son all the benefits they never had, Menhaz Zaman turned on them out of a twisted sense of personal shame over his long history of failure.
This hard-working immigrant family’s Canadian dream ended in a nightmare when their son, Menhaz Zaman, murdered his entire family.
2012 Danzig Street Gang Shooting
On July 16, 2012, not a single thug was killed when two rival street gangs opened fire on each other at a Danzig Street bloc party. Instead, four members of these violent street gangs shot and killed 14-year-old Shyanne Charles, 23-year-old Joshua Yasay and injured 22 others during their grudge-fueled shooting spree.
Shannon Cruse: Murdered by an Abusive Ex-Boyfriend with a Smuggled Handgun
Some mass murders take on lives of their own, driven by political activists with agendas.
Others, like the murder of Shannon Cruse, her 6-year-old daughter Shaniya and her parents, Mary and Donald Cruse, are seemingly forgotten.
Justin Bourque’s 2014 Cop-Killing Rampage in Moncton, New Brunswick
Justin Bourque’s 2014 killing spree in Moncton, New Brunswick, left three wives without their husbands, six children without their fathers and a community without three brave and courageous RCMP constables willing to put themselves in harm’s way to protect others.
Those are the basic facts but there is more to this story than one deranged person who hates cops. Much more.
Christopher Husbands: 2012 Toronto Eaton’s Centre Shooting
On June 2, 2012, with a grudge in his heart and a gun in his hand, Christopher Husbands walked into the Toronto Eaton Centre’s North Food Court and opened fire on Nixon Nirmalendran and Ahmed Hassan.
Christopher Husbands didn’t care who else he hurt, so long as his intended victims were among the dead.
Derek Anthony Wood and the Sydney River McDonald’s Murders
Human depravity and greed are a lethal combination. On May 7, 1992, three young men robbed a Sydney River, Nova Scotia, McDonald’s restaurant in the belief they would make off with $200,000.Instead they found only $2,000 and murdered three innocent people: Jimmy Fagan, 27, Donna Warren, 22, and Neil Burroughs Jr., 29. They left Arlene MacNeil, 20, for dead. She survived but was permanently disabled.
Judge: Nothing in Nanaimo killer’s past could predict these murders
“By all accounts, Kevin Douglas Addison was a diligent and competent worker. He did not abuse alcohol or drugs. There was nothing in his personal antecedents that could possibly be seen as a precursor to the murderous violence that he unleashed on April 30th, 2014.”
— Justice Robin A. Baird
1999 High School Shooting in Taber, Alberta
On April 28, 1999, just eight days after the Littleton, Colorado, school massacre that horrified the world, a 14-year-old high school dropout saw the Columbine killers as some deranged idols to emulate.
Richardson Family Murders: How a 300-year-old werewolf helped a 12-year-old girl become Canada’s youngest multiple murderer
The Richardson Family Murders is a bizarre story of a 23-year-old high school dropout, the 12-year-old girl who manipulated him to do her bidding, and the parents desperate to regain control of their deeply troubled daughter.
John Brittain: Murders Four in Penticton Then Turns Himself In to RCMP
On April 15, 2019, a 68-year-old man allegedly shot and killed Rudi Winter outside his Penticton home, then drove to the homes of Darlene Knippelberg and Susan and Barry Wonch and killed them too.
The murders are apparently linked to neighbourhood disputes between the alleged killer’s ex-wife and three of the four victims.
Matrix Savage Gathergood and the Salmon Arm Church of Christ Shooting
Matrix Savage Gathergood had a grudge against Gordon and Peggy Parmenter. First, Gathergood allegedly burned their home to the ground then, a month later on Sunday morning, he allegedly shot and killed Gordon Parmenter inside the Salmon Arm Church of Christ. His case has yet to go to trial.
Matthew de Grood: 2014 Calgary Stabbing Victims Were Illuminati, Vampires and Werewolves
April 14, 2014, 22-year old Matthew de Grood went on a stabbing spree the left five young people dead at a house party in the upscale neighbourhood of Brentwood in Calgary, Alberta. It was the largest mass murder in Calgary’s history.
He said the victims were Illuminati, vampires and werewolves who were going to kill him if he didn’t kill them first.
Pierre Lebrun and the 1999 OC Transpo Murders
On April 6, 1999, at approximately 2:30 p.m., Pierre Lebrun drove into the parking lot of OC Transpo’s St. Laurent Boulevard garage, parked near the supervisor’s office. He went inside, a Remington Model 760 pump-action rifle in hand, and “It’s Judgement Day!” Then he began shooting.
Mark Chahal’s Revenge: Man Executes Estranged Wife and Her Entire Family
In less than five minutes, Mark Chahal wiped out the entire Gakhal family in the second deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history. “He told them he was going to make sure none of their other daughters would ever get married,” Balwinder Gakhal. “Nobody imagined he would be capable of doing this.”
Robert Charron’s Murder-Suicide At Les Racines de vie Montessori Daycare
On Friday, April 5, 2013, Robert Charron walked into the Les Racines de vie Montessori day care in Gatineau, Quebec, executed a 38-year-old man in front of the children, then killed himself, but not before dousing his estranged wife, the day care’s Director, in “a flammable liquid” and attempting to set her on fire.
Dillon Ricky Whitehawk: Firearm Prohibition Order Didn’t Prevent Three Murders
Whitehawk was a known threat to public safety. He had a Firearm Prohibition Order against him one of his conditions of release for previous crimes was he not be in Regina.
Now three people are dead because our government refuses to check on and track these proven, repeat violent offenders.Whitehawk was a known threat to public safety. He had a Firearm Prohibition Order against him one of his conditions of release for previous crimes was he not be in Regina.
Now three people are dead because our government refuses to check on and track these proven, repeat violent offenders.
John LaFleche Bludgeons Wife and Two Young Children to Death With a Baseball Bat
Alcohol is no more responsible John LaFleche’s heinous actions than a gun is responsible for Gamil Gharbi’s heinous 1989 murders of 14 female engineers at École Polytechnique. Both men are responsible for their repugnant acts – not beer, not baseball bats and not guns.