Canadian Crime Investigations
Hunting Down Serial Killers
- Publisher
- Folklore Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2006
- Category
- Criminology, General, Serial Killers
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894864602
- Publish Date
- Sep 2006
- List Price
- $18.95 USD
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Description
The Mounties always get their man, or so it seems. Canada's police forces work tirelessly to solve major cases. Read about the efforts of the RCMP, OPP and Sûreté du Québec to investigate some of Canada's most notorious cases:
•The seven-month pursuit of escaped killer Allan Legere, The Monster of Miramichi •The investigation leading to the arrest of John Martin Crawford, who was convicted in 1992 of killing three Native women in Saskatoon •The massive search of Robert William Pickton's Port Coquitlam pig farm, involving police, anthropologists and forensic specialists •Clifford Olsen's attempts to manipulate the police during the investigation of a string of killings in the Lower Mainland •How police tracked down the twisted criminal pairing of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka •The capture of Thomas Neil Cream, the doctor who was Canada's possible link to the Jack the Ripper killings and was hanged for the murders of five prostitutes in 1899. And more…
About the author
Award-winning and bestselling author Peter Boer has a background in journalism having served as co-editor and reporter for the St. Albert Gazette. Peter is a graduate of the journalism program at Concordia University in Montreal, and he has a degree in psychology from the University of Alberta. He has a dozen other books to his credit including the bestseller Bush Pilots: Canada’s Wilderness Daredevils, as well as Canadian Spies and Spies in Canada, Canadian Crime Investigations: Hunting Down Serial Killers and Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
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