Magee, Christian

Murderer: Christian Magee

Alias/Nickname: The Mad Slasher
Type: Serial Killer
MO: Was either acquainted with victims or picked them up hitchhiking
Characteristics: Sexual Assault, Stabbing, Strangulation, Mutilation
Time Span of Killings: 1974-1976
Number of Murder Victims: 3
Number of Sexual Assaults: 2+
Location: Strathroy and Mount Brydges, Ontario
Date of Birth: 1948
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Diagnosis: Personality Disorder with classic sexual sadism including fantasies of torture, necrophilia, cannibalism, and dismemberment.
Outcome: Found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1977, and has been held at the maximum security Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre ever since.

Christain Magee grew up in an emotionally and physically abusive household.

The Victims

Judith Barksey

Judith Barksey, 19, was murdered on March 1, 1974.

She was attacked by Magee as she walked home after getting take-out from a local Strathroy Pizzeria. He threw her to the ground and cut her throat. As she lay bleeding, he undid her pants and fondled her genitals, and then stole any money she had on her.

The next day a man on his way to the mailbox found Judith’s body with her take-out: a pizza box, pop bottles, and a chocolate bar.

Rosalie Winters (survived)

In June of 1975, Rosalie Winters, 18, was walking to Alexandra Park when she was attacked by Magee.

He made known his intentions to sexually assault her and strangled her to subdue her. When Magee tried to rip her pants off, the zipper broke and could not remove them. Instead he strangled her into unconsciousness and groped her vagina before leaving her at the side of the road.

Patricia Jenner

Patricia Jenner, 19, was murdered on October 20, 1975 in her home in Mount Brydges.

She was a friend of Magee’s and had let him into her home when he knocked on the door. Police later reported that photographs were scattered around the crime scene leading them to believe Patricia’s killer was known to her, and that she was showing him pictures at the time of the attack.

While her baby daughter, Rachel, slept in her crib upstairs, Magee pushed Patricia to the floor and tore off her clothes. He then stopped without explanation. Then when Patricia began to redress herself, Magee strangled her with a black bootlace until she was unconscious then cut her throat with his jackknife.

Her husband Denys found her on the kitchen floor at 5 pm with their baby unharmed.

An elderly neighbour reported seeing a man with shoulder-length dark hair pull into Jenner’s driveway in light-coloured, late-model Oldsmobile.

Sylvia Holly Jennings (survived)

On November 3, 1974, Magee picked up Sylvia Holly Jennings as she hitchhiked outside of London.

He drove her to an isolate Mount Brydges road and demanded she take off her clothes. When she hesitated, he ripped them off. She fought back and Magee punched her to subdue her. He then brutally sexually assaulted her.

Afterwards, he choked her into unconsciousness, fractured her skull with a bottle and left her on the side of the road.

Susan Lynn Scholes

On June 15, 1976, 15-year-old Susan Scholes planned to hitchhike to her parent’s cottage in Hillsboro Beach. Her brother dropped her off in Forest to purchase batteries before she left and she was seen walking towards County Road 12 around 1:30 pm.

A forklift driver in the area saw Susan get into a ’75 pickup truck that he recognized as belonging to a Strathroy company that removed road kill. The company’s owner later told the OPP that Magee had been driving that truck on that day.

A farmer found Susan’s body the next day around 2:15 pm. She had been viciously sexually assaulted, strangled into unconsciousness, then stabbed in the throat and chest. She also had a 20 cm laceration above her vagina.

Sources

‘Mad Slasher’ wants to apologize, UPI, January 16, 2006

Murderpedia

Ontario ruling raises ire of mental patients, The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2006

Mellor, Lee. Cold North Killers, Canadian Serial Murder, Dundurn, Toronto

Videos

August 1, 2018August 8, 2018

Johnson, Russell Maurice

Murderer: Russell Maurice Johnson

Alias/Nickname: The Bedroom Strangler, The Balcony Killer
Type: Serial Killer
MO: Would stalk his victims and watch them sleep for hours before attacking them, he would scale the sides of apartment buildings and enter their homes through their balconies. His rape victims were strangled into unconsciousness.
Characteristics: Stalking, voyeurism, sexual assault, strangulation, stabbing, necrophilia
Time Span of Killings: 1973-1977
Number of Murder Victims: 7
Number of Sexual Assaults: 11
Location: London and Guelph, Ontario
Date of Birth: 1947
Hometown: Guelph, Ontario
Diagnosis: Sexual sadism, necrophilia, fetishism, voyeurism, transvestic fetishism and a “personality disorder not otherwise specified.”
Outcome: Johnson was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the murders of Beitz, George, and Veldboom. He has been institutionalized every since.

Early Crimes

Russell Maurice Johnson experienced a lot of trauma in his childhood including sexual abuse at 14-year-old. His Juvenile Record showed arrests for several sexual offences.

Johnson was an auto worker from St. Thomas. He was described as obsessed with cleanliness and was a compulsive hand washer. He wore gloves and petroleum jelly at work and at the gym.

He began attacking and raping women as early as 1969, but it wasn’t until the 70s that he graduated to murder.

The “Natural Causes” Victims

Johnson’s murder victims were all between 20-49 years-old. He stalked his victims for days and would break into their homes to watch them sleep for hours. He was able to crawl up the sides of apartment buildings to gain access through balcony doors.

Johnson graduated to murder on October 19, 1973 when he murdered Mary Hicks, a 20-year-old student in London. Her death was attributed to an allergic reaction to medication because she was found in a natural sleeping position with no obvious signs of violence on her body.

Johnson took great pains to methodically clean-up the Hicks crime scene and make her death appear natural. He did the same with his next three victims.

Only a month later, another woman was found dead in a Guelph apartment. Alice Ralston, 27, was also found with no obvious signs of violence. Ralston’s death was attributed to a condition of hardened arteries.

On March 4, 1974, Eleanor Hartwick died at her home in London and, as in the case of Alice Ralston, her death was put down to a reaction to prescription drugs.

Doris (Dodi) Brown, 49, was found dead in August, and although the pathologist discovered minor abrasions to her body, as well as blood in her throat and rectum, her death was attributed to pulmonary edema.

The Vicious Murders

Russell’s next three victims suffered violent deaths and were sexually assaulted postmortem.

Diane Beitz, 23, was found dead in her Guelph apartment on December 31, She had been strangled to death with her bra and sexually assaulted postmortem.

Louella Jeanne George was found dead in her home in April, 1977. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted postmortem. Some of her jewellery and underwear was also missing. The items were later found in a garbage can nearby.

Donna Veldboom, 22, was found dead in her apartment not far from George’s residence. She had been stabbed to death and sexually assaulted postmortem. She was found dead in her London apartment after she didn’t show up for work at Union Gas.

The Victims

Mary Hicks

Mary Hicks, 21, was a senior at the University of Western Ontario when she was found dead in her ground floor Talbot Street London apartment on October 19, 1973.

Johnson had watched her sleep for a long time before killing her.

Mary was found dead the next morning in her bed by her room-mates. She had a pillow partially covering her face

Diane Beitz

Diane Beitz, 23, was found dead in her Drew Street apartment in Guelph apartment on December 31, 1976. She was described as “the girl next door.”

Beitz had just become engaged to her fiance, Jim Britton, on December 30, 1976. Jim and Diane enjoyed an early breakfast at her before he left for work at 5:45 am.

At 10:30 am, Johnson calls police to report a suitcase of clothing has been stolen from his car. He is only a few blocks away from Diane’s apartment.

At 6pm, Jim returns to Diane’s high-rise apartment. He finds Diane under a wad of blankets in her bed. Her hands are bound with pantyhose and her bra was left knotted around her neck. The pathologist reports that Diane was carried to the bedroom and strangled. She was raped and bound post-mortem.

Her building superintendent reports he looked out his window at 3:30 am and saw a brown Buick idling.

Other residents in Diane’s building remembered a brown car in the parking lot from 4-8 am that morning. The car was running with one person in the driver’s seat.

The police are puzzled by how tidy the rest of the crime scene is – no sign of a struggle. At first police believe that Diane knew her killer because there was no sign of forced entry.

A delivery driver says he dropped off flowers for Diane a few days before her murdered. Police then learn that the flowers were not sent by Jim.

It was later learned that Johnson’s ex-girlfriend had been a tenant in Diane’s apartment building at the time of her murder.

Alice Ralston

Alice Ralston, 27, was found dead in her Guelph apartment in November, 1973.

Luella George

Louella Jeanne George was found dead in her top floor London apartment in April, 1977.

George grew up on a farm and moved to London where she worked as a cashier in a hospital on Grand Avenue and lived in an apartment building directly across the street. She was engaged to be married.

When she did not show up for work, a co-worker went to check up on her and found her dead.

She had been strangled and sexually assaulted postmortem. Some of her jewellery and underwear was also missing. The items were later found in a garbage can nearby.

Again, police note the tidiness of the apartment.

Nurses who live in the apartment building become very afraid.

Eleanor Hartwick

Eleanor Hartwork was found dead in her Westlake Street apartment in London on March 4, 1974. She was found with a book in her hand looking like she had just fallen asleep.

Donna Veldboom

Donna Veldboom, 22, was found dead in her London apartment not far from George’s residence on July 15, 1977. She had been strangled and stabbed to death, and sexually assaulted postmortem. She had also been bathed and posed in her bed.

Co-workers called police after she failed to show up to her job at Union Gas.

The night before, Veldboom spent the evening visiting a friend. That was the last time she was seen alive.

She had moved to Ontario from New Brunswick less than a year before her murder, and had roots in the Chatham-Kent area. She was described as very popular with a great social life.

Johnson, who lived in her building, had climbed through the door of her fifth-floor balcony.

He later admitted her slashed her check with a kitchen knife to “crawl inside her to be safe or warm.”

Doris (Dodi) Brown

Doris (Dodi) Brown, 49-years-old was found dead on August 9, 1974.

Dodi, a mother of two, had just separated from her husband of 30 years and rented an apartment on the 2nd floor. She lived alone with her two daughters, Laura and Colleen. She had also started a new job and was looking forward to a new life.

She was described as a graceful and refined woman who was involved in her church.

On August 8th, Brown’s youngest daughter Colleen was away visiting relatives and her oldest, Laura, was turning 16-years-old the next day. Dodi and Laura had planned to go to the Ministry of Transportation to get Laura’s learner’s permit to drive the next morning. Dodi and Laura go to bed in their own rooms that night.

On August 9th, Laura wakes up to the sound of Dodi’s clock-radio going off. When she entered her mother’s room, she saw her laying with her blankets tucked up underneath her. She knew immediately something was wrong with her mother.

There was nothing to suggest there had been a struggle. There was some slight blood found underneath Brown’s body, but the police were never notified.

Brown’s doctor later told Laura that there was no cause of death they could find and it was like a “crib death” of an adult – meaning, she just died in her sleep.

Sources

Victims’ families still ready to keep watch on unrepentant Bedroom Strangler, Toronto Sun, December 6, 2016

Serial killer Russell Johnson to remain in maximum security mental hospital, National Post, July 30, 2010

Mellor, Lee. Cold North Killers, Canadian Serial Murder, Dundurn, Toronto

Videos

May 6, 2018

Rudavsky, Elizabeth

Murderer: Elizabeth Rudavsky

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The Series

Time span of series: September, 2002 to September, 2002
Number of victims: 1
Location of murders: Chatham, Ontario
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What did murderer confess to?: Killed husband in self-defence
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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

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May 6, 2018May 6, 2018

Cofell, Jason

Murderer: Jason Cofell

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Jasen Pangburn

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April 27, 2018May 7, 2018

Homolka, Karla

Murderer: Karla Homolka

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Timeline

Early Years

Aug. 27, 1964
Paul Bernardo was born to Kenneth and Marilyn Bernardo, as a result of her affair with a former boyfriend, in Scarborough, Ontario.

May 1975
Bernardo becomes close friends with Van and Steve from his neighbourhood and the three begin to start fires.

June 1980
Bernardo is told by his mother that Kenneth was not his real father. Paul begins calling his mother a slut and whore. She begins to call him a bastard.
Bernardo’s mother becomes withdrawn from the family and lives in the basement
Bernardo’s father begins sexually molesting his sister

1982
Graduated from Sir Wilfred Laurier High School

Fall 1983
Bernardo begins classes at the University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, and tells his friend Van about his “Virgin Farm Fantasy” where he would keep women as sex slaves.
The women Bernardo dates describe him as abusive and controlling.

1985
Bernardo’s father is arrested for peeping in neighbourhood windows.

Summer 1986
Bernardo receives two restraining orders: one from an ex-girlfriend and another from his friend Van’s ex-girlfriend to whom he had been making obscene phone calls.

1987
Bernardo graduates and becomes a junior accountant at Price Waterhouse in Toronto.

The Scarborough Rapist

May 4, 1987
Bernardo rapes a woman as she waits at a bus stop, dragging her at knife point into bushes.

May 14, 1987
Bernardo rapes another woman in front of her house.

July 27, 1987
Bernardo attempts another rape of a woman at a bus stop.

Oct., 1987
Bernardo met Karla Homolka, 17, at a Howard Johnson’s Hotel in Toronto where she was attending a pet convention.

Bernardo and Homolka have sex the first night and he takes her name and number.

Nov. 1987
Bernardo and Karla meet again. Paul drives to see Karla twice a week, and gives her
love and attention as their relationship develops. Eventually, he starts to run every
aspect of her life. He tells her what to wear, how to style her hair, what opinions to
have and what to eat. He calls her fat and ugly. He learns that Karla is not a virgin
and he is upset about this, although he is still very interested in her.

Dec. 16, 1987
Paul commits 3rd rape, age 15, getting off a bus, media coins the name “Scarborough Rapist”

Dec. 23, 1987
Paul commits 4th rape, age 27, stalked and attacked her with a knife

1988 Karla’s friends find handcuffs in her bedroom; Karla reveals that Paul enjoys
“playing games” in bed

March 1988
The Scarborough Rapist Task Force is formed by Metro Police.

April 18, 1988
Paul commits 5th rape, age 19, getting of the bus

May 30, 1988
Paul commits 6th rape, age 18, 10 miles from Scarborough

Oct. 4, 1988
Paul attempts 7th rape, she fought him off, stab wounds on thigh and buttock, 12
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Nov. 1, 1988
Bernardo meets a girl named Anna and begins dating her while he is in Toronto, and also continues to see Karla. Paul also begins to become attracted to Karla’s younger sister Tammy. He demands that Tammy not have sex with any guy.
Paul commits 7th rape, age 18, parent’s backyard

Dec. 27, 1988
Paul attempts 8th rape, chased him off by getting neighbour’s attention

June 20, 1989
Paul attempts 8th rape again, she screams for her neighbours, he flees

Aug. 15, 1989
Paul commits 8th rape, age 22, stalked her outside her window

Nov. 21, 1989
Paul commits 9th rape, age 15, at a bus shelter

May 26, 1990
Paul commits 11th rape, age 19, exiting a bus

Nov. 20, 1990
Detectives interview Paul for 35 minutes, Paul gives them hair, saliva, and blood
samples for testing, swears that he isn’t the Scarborough rapist

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Bernardo expressed that he was disappointed that Karla Homolka was not a virgin when they met, so she decided to drug her sister and let him take her virginity as a Christmas present.

Homolka drugged Tammy’s alcoholic beverage with halothane – an anesthetic she had stolen from a veterinarian clinic where she worked. Once Tammy was unconscious, she and Bernardo sexually assaulted and video taped her.

Tammy began vomiting from the drug cocktail and choked to death, leaving a chemical burn on her face.

Before calling an ambulance, Bernardo and Homolka put Tammy’s clothes back on and hide all evidence of the drugging and assault. Bernardo says he had attempted to revive Tammy, but was unable to. Her death was originally ruled accidental due to alcohol consumption.

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Leslie Mahaffy, 14, was kidnapped from her backyard in Burlington on June 15, 1991. She had missed curfew and her mother had locked the door to teach her a lesson. Bernardo happened to see her there and offered her a cigarette from his car. When she entered the car, he kidnapped her and took her back to the Port Dalhousie neighbourhood home he shared in St. Catharines with Homolka.

Bernardo and Homolka video tape the rape, sodomizing and torture of Mahaffy, which at one point features Bernardo smiling into the camera as she screams in the background and also shows Homolka sexually assaulting the girl.

Both Bernardo and Homolka blamed the other for Mahaffy’s murder. Bernardo claimed he was out gassing up his car and that Homolka killed Mahaffy with a lethal dose of Halcion. Homolka said that Bernardo strangled Mahaffey with an electrical cord.

Mahaffy’s body was dismembered, encased in concrete and dumped in Lake Gibson.

On June 29, 1992, the same day that Bernardo and Homolka get married, boaters found the concrete blocks containing Mahaffy’s arms, legs, feet, and head. The next day a boater found her torso floating in the water.

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In one sequence, Bernardo could be seen raping a bound French, who was abducted while returning home from school on April 16, 1992, and held for several days. On the tape he can be heard forcing her to say “I love you” over and over to him, even as she cries out in pain. At one point he ordered Homolka to get him a Kleenex. “Get me a couple, Kar,” he said. Then he barked, “Get me a lot. What are you, a f—king idiot? “

At one point, Kristen, who had been repeatedly raped, told Bernardo, “I don’t know how your wife can stand being around you.”

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Bernardo, Paul

Murderer: Paul Bernardo

About

About

Birth name:
Alias/nickname: Scarborough rapist, Schoolgirl killer, Ken & Barbie killers
Sex: Male
Date of birth: August 27, 1964
Location of birth: Scarborough, Ontario

Physical Description

Ethnicity: Caucasion
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6'
Weight:
Build: Medium
Other descriptors:

Early Life

Birth order: Third, baby of the family
Number of siblings: 2
Parent’s marital status: Married
Father’s occupation: Accountant\
Abuse by father?: Not directly, witnessed father's abuse of mother, father sexually abused his sister
Mother’s occupation: Homemaker
Abuse by mother?: Yes, psychologically. Called him a bastard.
Parental substance abuse issues: N/A
Traumatic family event: Told his father was not his real father, his mother got pregnant through an affair
Age at traumatic family event: 16

McDonald Triad

History of starting fires: Yes
History of animal abuse:
History of bed wetting:

Relationships

Sexual preference: Heterosexual
Marital status: Married
Number of children: 0

Living arrangements during series:

Lived with spouse: Lived with children: N/A Lived with parents: No Lived with room-mate(s): Lived alone: Traveled for a living: Transient:

Psychological History

History of substance abuse: No
Had received psychological therapy?:
Institutionalized for mental illness?:
Psychological diagnosis:

Potential Contributors

XYY: N/A
Physically attractive: Yes
Physical defect: No
Speech defect: No
Head injury: No
Physical abuse: No
Psychological abuse: Yes
Sexual abuse: No

Education

Highest grade completed: 12
Highest degree achieved: B.A. in Commerce
Grades at school: Good grades, good student
IQ:

Employment History

Military service: No
Attempted career in law enforcement: No
Worked in law enforcement: No
Types of jobs worked: Accountant, sold Amway
Fired from jobs?: Yes

The Murders

The Series

Time span of series: December, 1990 to April, 1992
Number of victims: 3+
Location of murders: Her parent's home in St. Catharines, Ontario
Victim profile: Teenaged girls
Accomplice?: Yes
Name of accomplice: Karla Homolka
Relationship to accomplice: Husband

Profile

Murderer category: Serial killer
Serial killer sub-type: Hedonistic, Power-Oriented
Serial killer characteristics:
Domestic killer sub-type: N/A

Criminal History

Committed crimes previous to series?: Yes
Description of previous crimes: Rape
Previously convicted of a crime: No

Murder Method

Murder method: Strangulation
Characteristics of crime: Dismemberment
Types of sexual assault: Forced sexual acts: victim forced to perform sexual acts, such as oral sex or penetrating the perpetrator’s body, Rape: Penetration of the victim’s vagina with sex organ, Anal rape: Penetration of the victim’s anus with sex organ, Oral rape: Penetration of the victim’s mouth with a sex organ

After Death Behaviour

Disposal of bodies: N/A

Arrest

Date of arrest: February 17, 1993
Did killer confess?: Yes
What did murderer confess to?: Confessed to kidnappings and rape, but not to murders which he blamed on his then wife Karla Homolka
Date convicted: September 1, 1995
Sentence:
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Timeline

Aug. 27, 1964
Paul Bernardo is born to Kenneth and Marilyn Bernardo, as a result of her affair with a former boyfriend, in Scarborough, Ontario.

May 1975
Bernardo becomes close friends with Van and Steve from his neighbourhood and the three begin to start fires.

June 1980
Bernardo is told by his mother that Kenneth was not his real father. Paul begins calling his mother a slut and whore. She begins to call him a bastard.
Bernardo’s mother becomes withdrawn from the family and lives in the basement. Bernardo’s father begins sexually molesting his sister.

1982
Graduated from Sir Wilfred Laurier High School.

Fall 1983

Bernardo begins classes at the University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, and tells his friend Van about his “Virgin Farm Fantasy” where he would keep women as sex slaves. The women Bernardo dates describe him as abusive and controlling.

1985
Bernardo’s father is arrested for peeping in neighbourhood windows.

Summer 1986
Bernardo receives two restraining orders: one from an ex-girlfriend and another from his friend Van’s ex-girlfriend to whom he had been making obscene phone calls.

1987
Bernardo graduates and becomes a junior accountant at Price Waterhouse in Toronto.

The Scarborough Rapist