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January 23, 2023
Canada’s First Mass Murder: The Easby Family
In the rural area known as Drummond Township, near Perth, Ontario, about a mile north of the village of Balderson’s Corners, in the early morning hours of December 10, 1928, what appeared to be an accidental fire resulted in the deaths of Thomas Easby’s wife and four eldest children. Only a month later, it was the word of Thomas’s only surviving son that painted a different, more sinister picture. Thomas was arrested, charged with the murders and tried. Easby’s trial was brief, he was convicted and sentenced to hang for what has been called Canada's first mass murder.
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August 26, 2019
Away Game: Burke and Hare – The Anatomy Murderers
Sixty years before Jack the Ripper, Burke and Hare, murdered 16 people in Scotland. Their victim's corpses were sold off to a medical school.
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