Practically Perfect: Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While

Practically Perfect: Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While

by Dale Brawn
Practically Perfect: Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While

Practically Perfect: Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While

by Dale Brawn

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Overview

Twisted tales of killers who almost got away with perfect murders.

A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim’s wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of his victim into little pieces and gets away with the crime until he slaughters another neighbour six years later.

Practically Perfect details the crimes of killers who very nearly got away with perfect murders, including the tale of Marie Beaulne, who laced her husband’s food with poison, only to be found out when a priest recalled someone else dying that way in his village. Each tale provides specific details on the planning of each murder, the events leading up to the discovery of the criminal, and the results of the trial, usually resulting in an execution.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459709720
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 07/06/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 280
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Dale Brawn is a law professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury. His previous books include Last Moments: When the Penalty for Murder Was Death, Every Stone a Story II, and The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba 1870–1950.

Dale Brawn is a law professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury. His previous books include Last Moments: When the Penalty for Murder Was Death, Every Stone a Story II, and The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba 1870-1950.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  They Got Away with It Before
• Gervais, Carmel & St. Germain (Saskatchewan — 1919)
• Fred Stawycznyk (Manitoba — 1933)
• Larocque and Lavictoire (Ontario — 1933)
• William Bahrey (Saskatchewan — 1934)

Chapter 2:  Beating the System: Free to Kill Again
• Michael Farrell (Quebec — 1879)
• Emerson Shelley (Ontario — 1915)
• Rocco Ferranto (B.C. — 1916
• Leo Betrand (Quebec — 1934)

Chapter 3:  Reprieved to Kill Again
• John Boyko (Quebec — 1949)
• Albert Westgate (Manitoba — 1944)
• Garry Barrett (Saskatchewan — 1909)

Chapter 4:  Lovers and Family Tell All
• John Ivanchuk (Ontario — 1929)
• Oliver Prévost (Ontario — 1899)
• Stanley Donald McLaren (Alberta — 1949)
• Arthur Kendall (Ontario — 1960)

Chapter 5:  Suspicions Linger
• John Wilson (Saskatchewan — 1920)
• Marie Beaulne (Quebec — 1929)
• Thomas Jasper Collins (Alberta — 1914)
• Ulric Germain (Quebec — 1927)
• Grondin and Cloutier (Quebec — 1940)

Chapter 6:  The Two Rolands
• Roland Asselin (Quebec — 1949)
• Roland Genest (Quebec — 1953)

Chapter 7:  Good Police Work and Good Luck
• William Oscar King (Alberta — 1910)
• Ragmal Singh (B.C. — 1915)
• the McLeans (Alberta — 1933)
• Stanley Illerbrun (Saskatchewan — 1940)

Chapter 8:  Boasts, Confessions, and Presumptions
• John Kooting (Manitoba — 1926)
• Poral Stefoff (Ontario — 1909)
• John Alfred Kelsey (Ontario — 1952)
• Elizabeth Tilford (Ontario — 1935)
• John Barty (Ontario — 1927)

Chapter 9:  On the Run: Elusive Killers
• Henry Séguin (Ontario — 1954)
• Walter Pavuloff (B.C. — 1953)
• Racette and Gaddy (N.W.T. — 1888)

Chapter 10:  Practically Perfect
• Vincent Macchione (British Columbia — 1938)
• Owen Feener (Ontario — 1961)
• William Bahrey (Saskatchewan — 1934)

Chapter 11:  Skeletons Re-Surface
• Maurice Ryan (Ontario — 1909)
• John Munroe (New Brunswick — 1870)
• Marcel Bernier (Quebec — 1965)

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