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Mary Steinhauser (August 25, 1942 – June 11, 1975) was a Canadian social worker and prison classification officer who was killed during a hostage-taking at the B.C. Penitentiary in 1975. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On June 9, 1975, Steinhauser was one of 15 people that were taken hostage by three inmates, Andy Bruce, Dwight Lucas and Claire Wilson, who were ...
Amber Alyssa Tuccaro (3 January 1990 – disappeared 18 August 2010) was a Canadian First Nations woman from Fort McMurray, Alberta, who went missing in 2010. Tuccaro was last seen near Edmonton, hitchhiking with an unidentified man. Her remains were found in 2012. As of 2024, her case is still unsolved.
Killed 10 girls and women between 1991 and 1992. Ruslan Alikhadzhiyev: 2000 Russia: Torture or heart attack Parliamentary speaker of Chechenia: Disappeared in 2000, his death was reported as a prison death by Chechenpress and AFP; the FSB denied that Byron De La Beckwith: 2001-01-21 United States: Heart attack [13] American white supremacist
Palmira Silva. On 4 September 2014, 82-year-old Palmira Silva was beheaded in her back garden in Edmonton, London, by 25-year-old Nicholas Salvador, who was on a rampage.. Friends of Salvador had recently noticed odd behaviour by him, including drug and alcohol abuse and an obsession with videos of behead
[28] [29] He died in prison due to hepatitis C two months into his sentence. [28] [4] Police said that Morgan was a suspect of two unsolved murders in Alberta in the 1970s. [29] [30] Ellis's name is featured on Enclave, a monument commemorating the lives of Ottawa women who were murdered by men from 1990 to 2000.
Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011 for the murder of John Brian Altinger. [2] His trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fictional character Dexter Morgan.
Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer.After dropping out of school, he left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm, and inherited it in the early 1990s.
First post-confederation peace officer to be killed in the line of duty. Struck in the head during an escape. [3] Guard John Rutledge [4] Toronto Central Prison, Toronto, Ontario: c.1888 Instructor David Cunningham Kingston Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario December 5, 1890 Killed during prison renovations. [3] Deputy Warden Richard H. Stedman [5]