Practically Perfect
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June 2, 1909
Court of Appeal refuses to hear Ryan’s request for new trial.
June 3, 1909
Ryan hanged in Nipissing District jail; denied he murdered his brother.
Marcel Bernier:
The Bodies Came Back
August 8, 1961
Denise Therrien disappears on way to job interview.
August 13, 1961
Therrien’s killer shows up at family home; offers condolences.
August 19, 1961
Therrien family receives ransom note; postmarked previous day.
August 24, 1961
Second ransom note received; man telephones demanding money.
August 26, 1961
Man charged with trying to extort money; third telephone ransom received.
August 27, 1961
Father and uncle of missing girl consult mystic.
August 28, 1961
Uncle of missing girl offers $10,000 for proof she is alive or dead.
September 11, 1961
Father hires team of private detectives hired to help police in their search.
November 2, 1961
Investigation into disappearance reopened; new information received.
January 1962
Bernier tells wife and mother-in-law only he knows where Therrien is.
January 18, 1965
Police begin digging in countryside around Shawinigan.
January 22, 1965
Police stop digging; frozen ground makes progress too difficult.
April 6, 1965
Body of Laurette Beaudoin found; Bernier arrested for attempt murder.
April 13, 1965
Police begin digging for Therrien; tell public have new information.
April 30, 1965
Police find Therrien’s skeleton in shallow grave near river in bush area.
May 4, 1965
Autopsy indicates that Therrien died from multiple skull fractures.
May 11, 1965
Coroner’s inquest holds Bernier criminally responsible for death of Therrien; Bernier arraigned on murder charges; Bernier confesses.
May 12, 1965
Bernier sentenced to three months in jail for assaulting priest.
May 19, 1965
Preliminary hearing in charge of murder held for Bernier.
June 2, 1965
Bernier confesses; tells undercover police officer he murdered Therrien.
February 14, 1966
Bernier brought from Bodeaux Jail for beginning of murder trial.
February 24, 1966
Bernier found guilty of murder; sentenced to hang July 22, 1966.
January 4, 1968
Bernier’s death sentenced commuted to life imprisonment.
April 16, 1969
Lawyer for Bernier announces his client wrote book about the murder.
February 24, 1970
Bernier sentenced to twenty-five years in jail for murder of Beaudoin.
May 1977
Bernier dies of heart attack while imprisoned in British Columbia.
November 8, 1977
Member of Parliament writes book on murders; wants inquest reopened.
Notes
1: They Got Away With It Before
1. Winnipeg Free Press (13 July 1933) 1.
2. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (12 May 1933) 3.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (5 October 1933) 3.
9. Dr. Frances McGill, “She Solved Murders in the Morgue” in Ottawa Citizen (22 October 1955).
10. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (10 May 1933) 3.
11. Ottawa Citizen (22 March 1932) 1.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid. (12 December 1932) 13.
14. Ibid. (9 December 1932) 20.
15. Ibid. (12 December 1932) 13.
16. Ibid. (15 December 1932) 1.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid. (16 December 1932) 28.
2: Murdering Neighbours
1. The Conway Murder. www.pbalkcom.com/valcartier/Biographies/conway_murder.htm
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. British Canadian (25 August 1909) 1.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid. (9 June 1915) 1.
25. Ibid. (26 May 1915) 7.
26. Ibid.
27. The Globe (20 May 1915) 2.
28. British Canadian (22 December 1915) 7.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Brandon Sun (17 April 1998) 1.
38. Ibid. (18 April 1998) 1.
39. Ibid.
40. Brandon Sun (7 June 1977) 1.
41. Dale Brawn, Every Stone A Story II (Great Plains: Winnipeg, 2009) 131.
42. Brandon Sun (23 April 1998) 3.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid. (21 September 1998) 1.
3: Reprieved to Kill Again
1. “Crime Reporter” by Jana Pruden: Edmonton Journal, www.edmonton
journal.com/news/hanged/upcoming/barrett.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Montreal Gazette (29 November 1946) 13.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid. (25 February 1947) 3.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid. (26 February 1947) 11.
18. Ibid. (25 February 1947) 3.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid. (26 November 1948) 3.
21. Ibid. (25 November 1948) 11.
22. Ibid. (27 November 1948) 3.
4: Loved Ones Tell All
1. Daily Journal (27 February 1897) 3.
2. The Globe (7 December 1897) 2.
3. Ibid.
4. Toronto Daily Mail and Empire (8 December 1898) 2.
5. Daily Journal (8 December 1898) 1.
6. Ibid. (17 March 1899) 1.
7. Ibid.
8. Cochrane Northland Post (5 November 1926) 1.
9. Ibid. (12 April 1929) 1.
10. Northern News (25 July 1929) 13.
11. Calgary Herald (25 September 1945) 1.
12. Ibid. (18 November 1948) 1.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid. (19 November 1948) 1.
16. Ibid. (15 November 1948) 1.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid. (20 November 1948) 1.
21. Ibid. (19 November 1948) 1.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid. (22 November 1948) 1.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (26 March 1949) 4.
27. Globe and Mail (25 October 1961) 3.
28. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (4 March 1961) 6.
29. Globe and Mail (25 October 1961) 3.
30. Ibid. (27 October 1961) 31.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid. (26 October 1961) 9.
34. Ibid. (16 April 1962) 6.
35. Windsor Star (25 February 1971) 34.
5: Suspicions Linger
1. Calgary Herald (25 November 1913 7; and (28 Novemb
er 1913) 1.
2. Ibid. (28 August 1913) 1.
3. Ibid. and (29 November 1913)1.
4. Ibid. (29 November 1913) 1.
5. Ibid. (19 January 1914) 1.
6. Saskatoon Phoenix (18 February 1914) 1.
7. Quebec Daily Telegraph (24 February 1914) 5.
8. The Deseret News (26 August 1929) 4.
9. Montreal Gazette (27 September 1938) 4.
10. Ibid. (23 September 1938) 13.
11. Ibid. (4 October 1938) 11.
12. Ibid. (5 October 1938) 21.
13. Ibid. (24 September 1938) 3.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid. (27 September 1938) 4.
17. Ibid. (29 September 1938) 11.
18. Ibid. (7 October 1938) 3.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid. (10 October 1938) 3.
21. Ibid. (15 November 1938) 11.
6: The Two Rolands
1. Montreal Gazette (15 June 1948) 13.
2. Ibid. (20 February 1953) 1
3. Ibid. (21 February 1953) 17.
4. Ibid. (20 May 1953) 12.
5. Ibid. (21 May 1953) 23.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid. (26 September 1981) 4.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
7: Confessions and Presumptions of Guilt
1. Globe and Mail (23 April 1909) 12.
2. Ibid. (27 October 1909) 4.
3. Ibid. (28 October 1909) 7.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid. (8 October 1926) 3.
6. Manitoba Free Press (24 November 1925) 3.
7. Winnipeg Free Press (4 April 1936) 1.
8. Ibid. (11 June 1936) 1.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid. (22 August 1936) 3.
11. Globe and Mail (13 January 1953) 1.
12. Ibid. (18 September 1952) 3.
13. Ibid. (14 January 1953) 2.
8: Killers on the Run
1. Ibid. (20 January 1954) 1.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid. (21 January 1954) 1.
4. Frank W. Anderson, The Henry Seguin Murder Case (Saskatoon: Frontiers Unlimited, 1979) 73.
5. Vancouver Sun (9 January 1953) 2.
6. Ibid. (26 August 1947) 1.
7. Ibid., 2.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid. (27 March 1953) 18.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid. (29 August 1947) 3.
15. Ibid. (30 August 1947) 1.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid. (9 January 1953) 1.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid. (8 January 1953) 1.
22. Ibid. (28 March 1953) 3.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid. (27 March 1953) 1.
25. Ibid. (12 January 1953) 1.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid. (27 January 1953) 1.
29. Ibid. Ian Macdonald and Betty O’Keefe, Canadian Holy War: A Story of Clans, Tongs, Murder, and Bigotry (Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House, 2000) 206.
30. Ibid.
31. Vancouver Sun (9 July 1953) 1.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid. (10 July 1953) 23.
9: Pictures on the Dash
1. Neil Boyd, The Last Dance: Murder in Canada (Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall, 1988) at 270.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., 277.
4. Globe and Mail (14 June 1961) 12.
5. Last Dance at 271.
6. Globe and Mail (11 October 1960).
7. Last Dance at 272–73.
8. Ibid., 273.
9. Ibid.
10. Ruth Reynolds, Reading Eagle (28 April 1963) 96.
11. Last Dance at 274.
12. Ibid., 274–75.
13. Ibid.
14. Globe and Mail (9 March 1961) 1.
15. Last Dance at 276.
16. Ibid.
17. Reynolds.
18. Ibid.
19. The Man I Knew at http://mfather.blogspot.ca/.
10: Skeletons Resurface
1. The Black River Road Tragedy, CIHM no. 11172. Testimony of William Douglas, 44.
2. Ibid., 67.
3. Ibid., 67–68.
4. Ibid. Testimony of Robert Worden, 45.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid. Testimony of Edward Price, 103.
7. Ibid. Closing argument of W.H. Tuck, 104.
8. Ibid., 108.
9. Ibid., 105.
10. Ibid., 107.
11. Ibid., 108.
12. Ibid. Confession of John Munroe, 130.
13. Ibid., 130.
14. Ibid. The Execution, 130.
15. Globe and Mail (24 March 1909) 1.
16. Ibid. (4 June 1909) 7.
17. Ibid.
18. Montreal Gazette (14 August 1961) 3.
19. Ibid. (16 February 1966) 37.
20. Ibid.
21. Shawinigan Standard (23 August 1961) 1.
22. Ibid.
23. Saskatoon Phoenix (29 August 1961) 1.
24. Regina Leader-Post (11 May 1965) 10.
25. Shawinigan Standard (20 January 1965) 5.
26. Montreal Gazette (21 January 1965) 13.
27. Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph (3 May 1965) 3.
28. Montreal Gazette (10 October 1981) 4.
29. Ibid. (19 February 1966) 3.
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