Murderer: Elizabeth Rudavsky
About
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- Sex: Female
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McDonald Triad
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- Sexual preference: Heterosexual
- Marital status: Married
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The Murders
The Series
- Time span of series: September, 2002 to September, 2002
- Number of victims: 1
- Location of murders: Chatham, Ontario
- Victim profile: Husband
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Profile
- Murderer category: Domestic killer
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Murder Method
- Murder method: Stabbing
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Arrest
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- Did killer confess?: Yes
- What did murderer confess to?: Killed husband in self-defence
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- Sentence: The second-degree murder charge against Ms. Rudavsky was dismissed courtroom after the judge, Crown prosecutors and police investigators all agreed she had acted in self-defence.
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Timeline
February, 2002: Elizabeth Rudavsky meets Angelo Heddington after visiting the farm where he worked while she was selling dog tags
May, 2002: Elizabeth and Angelo get married. The two were together for seven months during which Elizabeth never saw her husband in the light after he told her his genitals had been burned and deformed by a previous girlfriend.
Angelo becomes increasingly controlling and violent. He threatens to kill her family, pulls guns on her and violates her body with a metal pipe.
September 21, 2002: Elizabeth stabbed Angelo with a 12-inch butcher knife. When police found her trying to stop the bleeding, she blamed her husband’s injury on a burglar.
But he was still conscious and yelled: “She stabbed me! My wife!”
Elizabeth was arrested and charged with murder after Angelo died on the operating table.
Psychologist and domestic abuse expert Dr. Paul G Jaffe was brought in by police and had sessions over seven months, coming to the conclusion she had “prisoner of war” syndrome – withdrawal and utter hopelessness as a reaction to imprisonment.
During these sessions she revealed the pair had never married – and she was never pregnant. She explained: “It was all a hoax. Angelo wanted me to wear a ring so he could say I was all his.”
Over the course of the investigation, police learned Angelo had a history of abuse and stalking in at least three past relationships.
The Victim
Angelo Heddington (Maureen)
Date of birth: 1973
Date of murder: Sept. 21, 2002
Age at death: 30
Sex: Transgendered
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Location of murder: Chatham, Ontario
Relationship to killer: Husband
Original location of interaction with killer: Met while Rudavsky was selling dog tags to farmers, Heddington was a farm worker in February of 2002
Cause of death: Stab Wounds
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