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One of the Worst Cases of Physical Abuse in Canada’s History:

Until Randal Dooley was six, he lived in Jamaica with his older brother, Teego, and a number of relatives. Randal’s biological father, Tony Dooley, left when Randal was one year old, moving to Canada with his new wife, Marcia. The couple sent for the boys in the fall of 1997. 

Shortly after Randal started school in Toronto, Randal’s Grade 1 teacher wondered if Randal was maltreated. The first incident that caused her concern was when Randal lost a mitten. He was frantic about finding it. Randal mentioned that he would get a “licking from his mother.” By the end of the same month, Randal had a badly broken elbow. The second incident that led his teacher to notify officials occurred when she noticed Randal had welts on his arm. She took Randal to the vice-principal’s office, where they looked at his back and saw more than 25 welts. They call the Toronto police. No charges were laid at the time, however. 

In April 1998, the Dooley family moved to the east end of Toronto, Mr. Dooley registered Teego at a new school but not Randal. There was no mention of another school-aged child.

Randal was found dead on the lower bunk bed that he shared with Teego on September 25, 1998. Mr. Dooley called 911 to report that his son had committed suicide. Randal’s autopsy, however, raised doubts about a suicidal cause. His autopsy described Randal as a gaunt boy, his entire body almost completely covered with welts, bruises, scratches and U-shaped marks, and with extreme internal damage, usually seen when someone has been hit by a car. Randal had four separate brain injuries, 14 fractured ribs, and a lacerated liver. His elbow had been broken in three places and his own tooth was in his stomach. 

Mr. Dooley explained that in late August he had “flogged” Randal with a belt and was concerned that the Children’s Aid Society would be called. It was also reported that Marcia Dooley made Randal eat his vomit and would not let him use the bathroom. She was reported to have punched him in the head, kicked him, broken his arm by putting her foot in his back and twisting it, and to have thrown Randal against a door where his eye was struck by the doorknob and swollen shut for three days. Moreover, it was reported that Mr. Dooley beat Randal on various occasions. 

Tony and Marcia Dooley were charged with second-degree murder in Randal’s death. At the trial, medical experts suggested that Randal’s vomiting and incontinence were likely a result of a brain injury. Moreover, a pediatric neurosurgeon who testified at the trial noted that in his opinion Randal’s death came from a fatal brain injury that caused a seizure.

After three days of deliberation, on April 18, 2002, Tony and Marcia Dooley were convicted of second-degree murder. Superior Court Justice Eugene Ewaschuk who presided over the case stated that Randal “may very well be the worst victim of child abuse in Canadian penal history.” Marcia received a life sentence without eligibility of parole for 18 years. Tony also received a life sentence without eligibility of parole for 13 years.

Toronto Sun reporter, Michele Mandal, wrote: 

“I will never forget the horrifying sight of Randal Dooley’s body in the open casket, his emaciated frame so wasted from abuse and neglect that the tuxedo hung like clothes on a scarecrow, the purple bruises on his skin still visible despite the undertaker’s best attempts to camouflage them with heavy makeup.

But there was no covering up the appalling truth.

He was just a child, a mere seven years old, and from the moment that poor Jamaican boy landed on Canadian soil for the better life promised him by his father and stepmother, Randy was beaten and tormented, ridiculed and starved, until he was dead.”

(Source: Blatchford, 2002 and Toronto Sun)

Russell Williams

I must post this because after Williams was arrested so many thought he was remorseful! NO - You’ve just been duped by a psychopath!

So, here’s the latest story on him: 

Russell Williams wants victim to pay his legal fees

She survived the killer colonel’s vicious attack, but Laurie Massicotte says she is now being revictimized by him.

“I don’t trust anyone now,” Massicotte said Thursday of Russell Williams’ counter claim against her in court that will also ask her to cover his legal costs.

It adds insult to injury since in the months before Jessica Lloyd and Marie-France Comeau were murdered, Massicotte was heinously assaulted by her neighbour, who hit her over the head with a flashlight and tied her up.

Massicotte has filed her own $7-million lawsuit against Williams and the OPP, who she claims did not properly handle her case.

Although the former commander of CFB Trenton has admitted to attacking Massicotte in September 2009, his counsel is now asking that her case against him be thrown out and that she pay his court costs.

“It is now out of my hands,” Massicotte said of the case, adding sarcastically, “I’m just a silenced poor pathetic victim here, apparently ‘trying to manipulate the justice system or something for my own agenda.’ ”

Massicotte also criticized the system: “My quote of the day! Apparently our government reached sainthood long before Pope John Paul II even announced.”

Corporal Marie-France Comeau, 37, was found raped and murdered in her home on November 25^th, 2009. Two months later, 27 year old Jessica Lloyd went missing. Her body was later found on the side of a road, she had also been repeatedly sexually assaulted.

The killer was Canadian Military Colonel Russell Williams. During court proceedings it was discovered that Russell Williams had broken into over 80 homes where he stole women’s undergarments and photographed himself wearing them while lying on the victims’ beds, and sexually assault two other women. Russell Williams pled guilty to two counts of first degree murder, two counts of sexual assault, two counts of forcible confinement and 82 break-ins/attempted break-ins.

Russell Williams has been stripped of his rank and has been sentenced to two life sentences.

Robert Pickton

Pickton was found guilty in the deaths of six women, although he has been accused of killing at least 20 other prostitutes and drug dealers. Pickton himself, claims to have killed upwards of 49 others.

Robert Pickton, known as ‘Willie’ to his friends, was born on October 26, 1949 on a family farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C.. He was the middle child, with an older sister and younger brother. His childhood was fairly nondescript and he made his living working the farm, buying and butchering the pigs as well as having an interest in refurbishing cars he had bought for scrap. Pickton and his brother inherited the pig farm after his father died in 1978 followed by the death of their mother in 1979. By the mid-1990’s, their land was highly sought after and they parceled out large chunks and sold to both developers and the Port Coquitlam school district alike. In 1995, prostitutes from Vancouver’s red-light district began to go missing at an alarming rate. By 1997, Pickton was already on the authorities radar as a suspect in the disappearances, however no evidence could tie him to any crimes. Pickton was known to local prostitutes as a ‘rough’ date. Robert and his brother had previously set up a non-profit, fundraising organization called ‘Piggy’s Palace’ and many events were held in a hangar-like tin structure on the farm. Witnesses claim that there was a lot of drug use and debauchery going on during these fund-raising events, but since they were well-attended by local politicians and other members of prominent society, nothing was done about it. In February 2002, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms for the ‘Piggy Place’ property. Pickton was taken into custody and a subsequent search warrant was executed for evidence with regard to dozens of missing prostitutes. DNA evidence uncovered at the scene was overwhelming as police found up to 30 distinct samples from missing women. They surmised that the bodies had been butchered, left to decompose or fed to the hungry pigs directly. 

During the trial, in August of 2006, the Chief Justice trimmed the murder indictment down to just six victims in order to ease the burden on the jury charged with deciding the case. In December 2007, the jury returned a guilty verdict to Pickton on six count’s of second degree murder, resulting in a life sentence. Authorities in Canada, to this day, are still determining whether or not to bring charges against him for the other 20+ victims that are attributed to him.

Terry Driver, The Abbotsford Killer

In October 1995, Terry Driver attacked teenage friends Tanya Smith and Misty Cockerill (pictured above) with a baseball bat, while they were walking. Driver raped Smith, then 16, and put her unconscious body in the nearby Vedder River, where she drowned. Misty, then 15, escaped and staggered into the nearby hospital. She survived the attack.

Driver attended Tanya’s funeral with his two preschool children. He later stole the headstone from her grave, defacing it with an obscenity and the cryptic message: “She wasn’t the first, she won’t be the last.” He left the headstone on the news cruiser of an Abbotsford radio station.

He also repeatedly called police to taunt them, warning: “I’ll be cruising around, looking for someone else.”

The calls terrorized Metro Vancouver because it wasn’t known where the killer lived.

The taunting calls were eventually released by police to the media. Driver’s mother, Audrey Tighe, recognized the voice and turned in her son, whose father, Grant Driver, had been a hero cop with the Vancouver police.

Terry Driver was arrested in May 1996 and convicted in 1997 of the first-degree murder of Smith and the attempted murder of Cockerill. He received a mandatory life sentence from the trial judge, Wally Oppal.

Driver was designated a dangerous offender in 2000 after he was convicted of two other attacks on women before the Smith murder. While police were trying to find the killer, Driver had left a note, signed the Abby Killer, suggesting he had attacked three other women before killing Smith. He reportedly confessed to a psychologist that he killed three women before Tanya. 

Driver is reported to have been a regular client of prostitutes. He was a hyper child and spent his school years living in group homes. He was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome and obsessive compulsive symptoms when he was a child.

Terry Driver has been declared a Dangerous Offender, which means that he may never get out of prison.

Paul Bernardo

Paul Bernardo’s parents, Marilyn and Kenneth, married in 1960. Kenneth had been raised in an abusive home and brought that abuse into his new home. The couple had a son and a daughter. Marilyn then had an affair and became pregnant, with Paul, and he was born in 1964.

Kenneth Bernardo was an abusive man. He sexually molested his own daughter and, in 1975, was charged molesting another young girl. It has also been reported that Kenneth was a peeping Tom. Marilyn reportedly suffered from depression and withdrew from her family, basically living in her basement. People described Paul as happy and energetic young boy, and it seemed as though he had somehow escaped the effects of the emotionally and physically abusive home he came from.

When Paul was 16 years old he had an argument with his parents, and his mother told him that Kenneth was not his father. He reportedly called her a whore.

Bernardo graduated from college and was interested in sales work and liked motivational speakers. He enjoyed going out with his friends and picking up girls - something he was apparently very good at. Bernardo then went to the University of Toronto, and it became routine for him to beat and publicly humiliate women he was dating.

Paul married Karla Homolka, and the couple moved to an upscale neighbourhood in Port Dalhousie (a part of St. Catharines, Ontario), where they rented a house. Bernardo had decided that a day job was not his thing, and he came to the realization that he was going to be the next big rap star. When he wasn’t busy raping and murdering young girls with his wife, or peeping and following women around with his video camera, he divided much of his time between recording his beats at home and smuggling cigarettes across the Canada-US border. 

Dangerous Offender 

In Canada, “Dangerous Offender” is the label attached to offenders who are proven to constitute a significant danger to others. 

Dangerous Offender is a sentencing option for the judge. A prosecutor can submit a dangerous offender application to the court for any offender convicted of a serious personal injury offence who is deemed to constitute a danger to others.  

According to the Criminal Code, the determination of dangerousness in these cases is based on evidence that one of the following conditions is met: 

• the offender exhibits a pattern of unrestrained behaviour that is likely to cause danger
• the offender exhibits a pattern of aggressive behaviour with indifference as to the consequences of his behaviour
• the offender exhibits behaviour that is of such a brutal nature that ordinary methods of restraint will not control it
• the offender shows a failure to control sexual impulses that are likely to harm others. 

If someone receives the dangerous offender designation, that person can be imprisoned for an indefinite period of time. 

Peter Woodcock murdered three children when he was a teenager, in Toronto. He was sent to a psychiatric institution. He legally changed his name to David Krueger. After 35 years in an institution he was granted a weekend (some accounts say day) pass. Within a few hours of being released on his pass (during which he was being supervised by a former psychiatric patient), he killed a fellow psychiatric patient.

Canadian Serial Killers

Clifford Olson

Olson had been in trouble with the law from a very young age. As a child he was known as a bully who was rumoured to have tortured and killed animals. Before he began to kill he spent time in jail for robbery and fraud. In 1980, Olson killed 11 young men and women between the ages of 9 and 18. He travelled across British Columbia to find his victims and was finally caught in 1981 while attempting to abduct two young girls. Olson made a deal with the police to release the whereabouts of the bodies if his wife recieved $100 000 ($10 000 per body, as Olsen deemed the first to be a ‘freebie’). Police made the deal to give closure to the families and in 1982 Olsen was sentenced to 11 concurrent life sentences. He did in prison this year in 2011. 

Robert Pickton

Pickton is, to date, Canada’s wort serial killer. A pig farmer from British Columbia, Pickton kidnapped and murdered prostitutes, allegedly feeding the remains to his pigs and possibly even his dinner guests. Pickton’s farm was being searched by the RCMP for illegal firarms when an officer discovered human remains. Pickton is still in front of courts and so far has been charged with the murder of 26 women. However, Pickton told an officer that his count was ‘one away from 50’.

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

While dating, Bernardo and Homolka drugged and raped 15 year old Tammy Holmoka, Karla’s younger sister. The couple videotaped the night; Tammy choked to death on her own vomit. Their second victim was 14 year old Leslie Mahaffy, who he kidnapped when she was locked out of house because she missed her curfew in June 1991  When she went to use a pay phone at the nearby convenience store, Bernardo lured her into his car with the offer a cigarette. Mahaffy was raped and beaten for over 24 hours until Bernado strangled her with an electircal cord. They body was cut into pieces, encased in cement, and thrown into a lake. The cement quickly broke apart and the body was discovered. The same day that Mahaffy’s body was discovered, Bernardo and Holmoka got married. The third victim was 15-year old Kristen French who, like Mahaffy, was raped, tortured, and strangled with the same electrical cord. French’s body was left in an illegal garbage dump.

Bernardo and Holmoka were caught in late 1992. Bernardo, who is also believed to be the Scarborough Rapist, was sentenced to life in the Kinston Penetentiary. Holmoka made a plea bargain, was convicted of manslaughter, and spent only twelve years in prison.

Other Canadian Serial Killers include:

• John Martin Crawford
• Miachel Wayne McGray
• William Patrick Fyfe
• Alan Legere
• Nelson Earle Leonard
• Dr. Thomas Neil Cream
• Wayne Clifford Boden
• Russel Maurice Johnson
• Peter Woodcock

Canadian serial killer, Clifford Olson, is known to be an avid letter writer since he’s been in prison. He composes philosophical essays and sends letters to professors of sociology. In one letter, he wrote:

“I have always enjoyed sociology myself, as its (sic) a science of human society. In the last 18 months I have been doing some extenive (sic) writings on a vast amount of my own personal reflections on m own views on many subjects which I believe in myself…Some of my topicts (sic) and papers I have completed…are as follows. (1) immortality: (2) good and evil: (3) beauty: (4) emotion: (5) love: (6) logic: (7) happiness: (8) family: (9) knowledge: (10) art: these have all been completed.”