by Dale Brawn
Daily Mail and Empire (8 December 1898) 2.
Globe (12 February 1897) 1; (27 February 1897) 17; (25 November 1897) 1; (27 November 1897) 23; (7 December 1897) 2; (9 December 1897) 1; (6 December 1898) 2; (7 December 1898) 9; (8 December 1898) 1; (16 March 1899) 2.
John “Cobalt” Ivanchuk:
Too Much to Say
Windsor Border Cities Star (17 November 1928) 13.
Fort William Daily Times-Journal (25 August 1919) 1.
Edmonton Journal (3 May 1928) 19.
Kenora Daily Miner and News (27 August 1919) 1; (30 August 1919) 1; (3 September 1919) 1.
Montreal Gazette (18 October 1926) 15.
Cobalt, Ontario Northern News (18 April 1929) 1; (25 July 1929) 13.
Cochrane Northland Post (22 October 1926) 1; (29 October 1926) 8; (5 November 1926) 1; (12 April 1929) 1; (19 July 1929) 1.
Sudbury Star (20 July 1929) 1.
Stanley Donald McLaren:
A Fatal Mistake
Calgary Herald (25 September 1945) 1; (26 September 1945) 1; (27 September 1945) 1; (28 September 1945) 1; (30 August 1948) 1; (31 August 1948) 1; (2 October 1948) 1; (13 October 1948) 1; (14 October 1948) 1; (15 November 1948) 1; (16 November 1948) 1; (17 November 1948) 1; (18 November 1948) 1; (19 November 1948) 1; (20 November 1948) 1; (22 November 1948) 1; (28 March 1949) 1; (29 March 1949) 1; (30 March 1949) 1.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (26 March 1949) 4.
Arthur Kendall:
Killing in Front of Family
Globe and Mail (24 October 1961) 12; (25 October 1961) 3; (26 October 1961) 9; (27 October 1961) 31; (28 October 1961) 2; (23 January 1962) 5; (6 February 1962) 4; (15 March 1962) 8; (16 March 1962) 41; (27 March 1962) 8; (5 April 1962) 25; (11 April 1962) 3; (13 April 1962) 23; (16 April 1962) 6.
Regina Leader-Post (28 January 1961) 29; (27 October 1961) 32.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (4 March 1961) 6.
Windsor Star (27 January 1961) 1; (25 February 1971) 34; (26 February 1971) 6.
5: Suspicions Linger
William Jasper Collins:
Too Much Money
Boston Transcript (4 March 1914) 20.
Calgary Herald (28 August 1913) 1; (11 November 1913) 1; (22 November 1913) 13; (25 November 1913) 7; (26 November 1913) 10; (28 November 1913) 1; (29 November 1913) 1; (19 January 1914) 1; (10 February 1914) 1; (17 February 1914) 15; (18 February 1914) 1, 6.
Nelson, New Zealand, Colonist (20 February 1914) 5.
Quebec Daily Telegraph (24 February 1914) 5.
St. Joseph, Missouri, News-Press (25 November 1913) 1.
Pfeifer, Jeffrey and, Ken Leyton-Brown. Death By Rope, v. 1: 1867–1923 (Centax Books: Regina, 2007) 172.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (19 February 1914) 6.
Toronto Sunday World (15 February 1914) 12.
Marie Beaulne and Philibert Lefebvre:
Poison Does the Trick
Anderson, Frank W. “Marie Viau: Too Much Haste” in A Dance with Death: Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754–1954 (Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1996) 20.
Windsor Border Cities Star (1 August 1929) 12; (24 August 1929) 3.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Desert News (26 August 1929) 4.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Evening Independent (23 August 1929) 1.
Sarasota, Florida, Herald-Tribune (23 August 1929) 1.
Miami News (23 August 1929) 1.
Montreal Gazette (13 June 1929) 6; (21 August 1929) 3; (23 August 1929) 13; (24 August 1929) 3.
Pittsburg Press (27 June 1929) 11; (22 August 1929) 1.
Reading Eagle (24 August 1929) 1.
Vancouver Sun (20 August 1929) 4; (23 August 1929) 1.
Marie Louise Cloutier and Achille Grondin:
Married Too Soon
Anderson, Frank W. “Marie Cloutier: A First-Class Embalming” in A Dance with Death: Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754–1954 (Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1996) 28.
Lewiston Evening Journal (10 February 1940) 2.
Montreal Gazette (30 November 1937) 10; (4 December 1937) 3; (21 September 1938) 11; (22 September 1938) 11; (23 September 1938) 13; (24 September 1938) 3; (27 September 1938) 4; (28 September 1938) 21; (29 September 1938) 11; (30 September 1938) 21; (1 October 1938) 3; (3 October 1938) 15; (4 October 1938) 11; (5 October 1938) 21; (6 October 1938) 10; (7 October 1938) 3; (8 October 1938) 21; (10 October 1938) 3; (3 November 1938) 11; (4 November 1938) 9; (8 November 1938) 11; (9 November 1938) 3; (10 November 1938) 14; (11 November 1938) 2; (15 November 1938) 11; (18 November 1938) 2; (19 November 1938) 9; (22 November 1938) 4; (23 November 1938) 4; (25 November 1938) 2; (26 November 1938) 23; (28 November 1938) 3; (30 November 1938) 4; (20 February 1939) 3; (3 June 1939) 4; (14 June 1939) 3; (23 February 1940) 10; (24 February 1940) 13.
Vancouver Sun (23 February 1940) 4.
Windsor Daily Star (31 October 1939) 14.
6: The Two Rolands
Roland Asselin:
Fifty-Five Weeks between Murders
Edmonton Journal (5 January 1948) 16.
Montreal Gazette (1 January 1948) 3; (5 January 1948) 11; (9 June 1948) 3; (10 June 1948) 11; (11 June 1948) 3; (15 June 1948) 13; (16 June 1948) 3; (10 June 1949) 3.
Ottawa Citizen (31 December 1947) 10.
“Ranger, Marie Blanche Alice,” Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), various records.
Roland Genest:
He Never Murdered a Woman He Didn’t Love
Montreal Gazette (30 May 1951) 2; (31 May 1951) 3; (1 June 1951) 3; (20 February 1953) 1; (21 February 1953) 17; (23 February 1953) 3; (24 February 1953) 1; (25 February 1953) 3; (26 February 1953) 1; (27 February 1953) 17; (28 February 1953) 17; (20 May 1953) 12; (21 May 1953) 23; (22 May 1953) 1; (26 September 1981) 4.
Ottawa Citizen (27 August 1953) 3.
7: Confessions and Presumptions of Guilt
Poral Stefoff:
Last Minute Confession of a Serial Killer
Globe (23 April 1909) 12; (8 May 1909) 23; (19 October 1909) 14; (25 October 1909) 14; (27 October 1909) 14; (28 October 1909) 7; (30 October 1909) 28; (4 November 1909) 14; (24 December 1909) 5; (25 December 1909) 6.
Montreal Gazette (27 April 1909) 5.
Warsaw Daily Union (24 December 1909) 1.
John Barty:
The Cold-Set Killer
Ayre, John D. “John Barty, 1927” in Felons of Hamilton, Haldimand and Brant, 1828–1953 (Simcoe, Ont.: Ayre, 2000) 94.
Globe and Mail (27 June 1925) 1; (7 July 1925) 3; (11 June 1926) 1; (14 June 1926) 1; (17 June 1926) 3; (19 June 1926) 3; (22 June 1926) 3; (7 October 1926) 3; (8 October 1926) 3; (13 January 1927) 3.
Montreal Gazette (23 December 1926) 17.
Morning Leader (7 October 1926) 3.
Nevada Daily Mail (13 January 1927) 5.
Saskatoon Phoenix (23 December 1926) 1.
John Kooting:
Confessions on the Prairies, Part I
Manitoba Free Press (27 April 1925) 1; (19 November 1925) 2; (20 November 1925) 11; (24 November 1925) 3; (25 November 1925) 6; (26 November 1925) 1; (27 November 1925) 9.
John Pawluk:
Confessions on the Prairies, Part II
Winnipeg Free Press (26 March 1936) 1; (27 March 1936) 1; (28 March 1936) 3; (30 March 1936) 1; (31 March 1936) 3; (1 April 1936) 4; (4 April 1936) 1; (10 June 1936) 1; 11 June 1936) 1; (12 June 1936) 1; (13 June 1936) 1; (22 August 1936) 3.
James Alfred Kelsey:
A Tendency to Talk Too Much
Globe and Mail (18 September 1952) 3; (19 September 1952) 1; (22 November 1952) 2; (13 January 1953) 1; (14 January 1953) 2; (20 February 1953) 32.
Kelsey v. R., 1953 1 S.C.R. 220.
Sam Delibasich. www.taxi-library.org/canada/1-d04.htm.
8: Killers on the Run
Henry Séguin:
From Ontario to British Columbia
Anderson, Frank. The Henry Seguin Murder Case (Frontiers Unlimited: Saskatoon, 1979).
Calgary Herald (31 October 1953) 9.
Edmonton Journal (18 March 1953)
20.
Globe and Mail (18 August 1952) 1; (19 August 1952) 5; (23 August 1952) 2; (28 April 1953) 5; (27 October 1953) 10; (15 December 1953) 5; (18 January 1954) 2; (19 January 1954) 1; (20 January 1954) 1; (21 January 1954) 1; (28 January 1954) 7; (2 February 1954) 5.
Montreal Gazette (21 August 1953) 12.
Ottawa Citizen (23 May 1947) 16; (18 August 1952) 1, 7; (20 August 1952) 1; (22 August 1952) 1; (29 December 1952) 16; (19 January 1953) 2; (27 April 1953) 1; (28 April 1953) 5; (5 May 1953) 20; (18 August 1953) 14; (20 August 1953) 18, 34; (23 November 1953) 34; (15 December 1953) 20; (20 September 1955) 1.
Quebec Chronicle Telegraph (15 December 1953) 16.
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (28 April 1953) 12; (21 August 1953) 2; (30 October 1953) 2; (14 January 1954) 4; (21 January 1954) 1.
Henderson, North Carolina, Times-News (20 January 1954) 1.
Vancouver Sun (14 January 1953) 2; (20 January 1953) 13; (21 February 1953) 1; (28 February 1953) 8; (22 April 1953) 1; (24 September 1955) 48.
Windsor Daily Star (24 December 1952) 15; (22 November 1955) 6.
Walter Pavlukoff:
From British Columbia to Ontario
Macdonald, Ian and Betty O’Keefe. Canadian Holy War: A Story of Clans, Tongs, Murder, and Bigotry (Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House, 2000) at 204–07.
Montreal Gazette (9 July 1953) 1.
Vancouver Sun (26 August 1947) 1, 2; (27 August 1947) 1; (28 August 1947) 1; (29 August 1947) 1, 3; (30 August 1947) 1; (2 September 1947) 1; (3 September 1947) 8; (4 September 1947) 2; (5 September 1947) 3; (8 January 1953) 1; (9 January 1953) 1, 2; (10 January 1953) 1; (12 January 1953) 1; (26 January 1953) 1; (27 January 1953) 1; (24 March 1953) 2; (25 March 1953) 9; (26 March 1953) 1; (27 March 1953) 1, 18; (28 March 1953) 1, 3; (30 March 1953) 1; (31 March 1953) 2; (1 April 1953) 1; (4 July 1953) 10; (8 July 1953) 1; (9 July 1953) 1; (10 July 1953) 23; (14 July 1953) 3; (21 July 1953) 34.
Windsor Daily Star (10 July 1953) 25.
9: Pictures on the Dash
Owen “Mickey” Feener
Boyd, Neil. The Last Dance: Murder In Canada (Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1988) 269–278.
Globe and Mail (8 October 1960) 5; (10 October 1960) 1; (11 October 1960) 1; (12 October 1960) 4; (13 October 1960) 1; (14 October 1960) 8; (27 October 1960) 9; (3 November 1960) 9; (10 December 1960) 5; (21 January 1961) 4; (7 March 1961) 9; (8 March 1961) 4; (9 March 1961) 1; (10 March 1961) 3; (16 May 1961) 1; (13 June 1961) 38; (14 June 1961) 12; (15 June 1961) 37.
The Man I Never Knew. http://mfather.blogspot.ca.
Ottawa Citizen (14 June 1961) 18.
Reynolds, Ruth. Reading Eagle (28 April 1963) 96.
Sudbury Star (11 October 1960); (28 October 1960) 2.
10: Skeletons Resurface
John Munroe:
Nobody Asked About Mother and Daughter
Black River Road Tragedy, 1869 (Saint John: G.W. Day, 1870), CIHM no. 11172.
Lawton Family. “Murder of Sarah Vail” at www.lawtonfamilynb.com/page/Murder+of+Sarah+Vail.
Little, Peter. “Ghost Stories: The Sad Tale of Maggie Vail” at: http://new
brunswick.net/newbrunswick/ghoststory/ghost2.html.
Maurice Ryan:
Bones of a Brother
Globe and Mail (24 March 1909) 1; (3 June 1909) 5; (4 June 1909) 7.
Montreal Gazette (25 March 1909) 11; (4 June 1909) 8.
Pfeifer, Jeffrey and Ken Leyton-Brown. Death by Rope, v. 1: 1867–1923 (Centax Books: Regina, 2007) 144.
Marcel Bernier:
The Bodies Came Back
Montreal Gazette (14 August 1961) 3; (26 August 1961) 3; (28 August 1961) 3; (12 September 1961) 21; (8 August 1964) 3; (12 August 1964) 14; (3 November 1964) 1; (21 January 1965) 13; (11 May 1965) 17; (15 February 1966) 3; (16 February 1966) 37; (17 February 1966) 3; (19 February 1966) 3; (22 February 1966) 3; (25 February 1966) 1; (10 October 1981) 4.
Ottawa Citizen (15 August 1961) 1.
Quebec Chronicle Telegraph (3 May 1965) 3.
Regina Leader-Post (18 August 1961) 35; (6 September 1961) 34; (11 May 1965) 10; (9 November 1977) 8.
Saskatoon Phoenix (29 August 1961) 1; (1 May 1965) 2; (3 May 1965) 12.
Shawinigan Standard (23 August 1961) 1; (20 January 1965) 5; (7 April 1965) 1; (14 April 1965) 17; (5 May 1965) 1; (12 May 1965) 1; (19 May 1965) 4; (2 March 1966) 1; (16 April 1969) 1; (25 February 1970) 2.
Windsor Star (8 April 1965) 62; (10 January 1968) 18; (8 November 1977) 18.
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