Serial Killers in Canada Trivia Quiz

Answer: British Columbia

Robert Pickton was arrested in British Columbia, Canada in 2002. The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) served a search warrant at Pickton's pig farm. The warrant was for the possession of illegal firearms.

When the RCMP investigated, human remains were found in one of the slaughter houses on the farm. The complete property eventually was excavated and tagged as one of the largest crime scenes in Canada. Robert Pickton was accused of killing well over fifty women.

These crimes most likely occurred between the years of 1983 to 2002. As DNA from this vast crime scene is matched to victims who have been missing over the years, more charges against Pickton are beginning to stack up.

Answer: Clifford Olson

Clifford Olson murdered 11 children between the ages of nine and eighteen. These crimes took place in 1980 and 1981. He had begun this spree by abducting and slaughtering an innocent little twelve-year-old girl. There may have been even more children who were murdered.

Once caught, Olson made a deal with the police that he would show them where the bodies were, only if they paid his wife $100,000.00. The police agreed, in order to find the bodies and give the families closure over the deaths of their children.

In 1982 Clifford Olson pleaded guilty to the 11 murders and was given eleven concurrent life sentences. He was denied parole in 1997.
Olson had always been in trouble with the law, having had ninety-four arrests between 1957 and 1981.

Gilbert Paul Jordan was a barber, who was linked to the murder of at the least, seven women, between 1965 and 1988.

William Patrick Fyfe killed at least nine women in the area of Montreal, Quebec between 1979 and 1999.

Valery Fabrikant was the gunman who killed four colleagues, Phoivos Ziogas, Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogben, and Jaan Saber at the Concordia University massacre, in Montreal, Quebec.

Answer: Karla Homolka

Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo murdered three teenagers, one of whom was Karla's 15 year old sister Tammy. Homolka and Bernardo kidnapped 14 year old Leslie Mahaffy, who they kept for more than 24 hours before Bernardo killed her by strangulation. He then dumped her body parts in the lake. Two days afterward, the concrete fell apart and evidence floated to the surface. On that same day, June 29, 1991, Homolka and Bernardo were married.

They later kidnapped and murdered 15 year old Kristen French. Bernardo disposed of the body in a garbage dump. The pair was captured in late 1992. Bernardo was sentenced to life in prison because he is the one who actually murdered the teens. Karla Homolka served 12 years in prison.

Paul Bernardo was the accomplice to Karla Homolka.
N
elson Earle Leonard, known as the "Gorilla Man" targeted and murdered elderly women in California.

Peter Kyun Joon Lee was a Victoria, British Columbia restaurateur. He murdered his estranged wife, their six-year-old son and two grandparents, then he turned the double-edged knife on himself, killing himself as well.

Answer: Ecole Polytechnique School

On Dec. 6, 1989, in a state of hatred against feminists, Marc Lepine walked into the engineering classroom of the Ecole Polytechnique School in Montreal, Quebec. When he entered he ordered men out of the room and women into the corner, where he opened fire shooting every single one of the women. He then moved throughout the school shooting at any women he saw, hitting both men and women with bullets.

After an approximate twenty minute rampage, he turned his weapon on himself and died at the scene.

Marc Lepine had murdered fourteen women and wounded thirteen other men and women in this violent attack.

Answer: Saskatchewan

John Martin Crawford committed his first murder on December 23, 1981. He murdered a woman that he had met at a bar, was caught and went to prison.
After he was paroled, he killed again. In 1992 he had murdered three native women in Saskatchewan.

In 1996 he was caught and convicted of these murders, being given three concurrent life sentences. He is also under suspicion of three other murders in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Answer: Alan Legere

Alan Legere was serving time for the horrendous murder of a shop keeper when he escaped prison.

He was on the run for seven months, in a community known as Miramichi. During this seven month period, Legere committed many rapes, arsons and four murders. He murdered three women and a priest.

A large manhunt ensued and he was soon captured. He is imprisoned in a Quebec penitentiary with multiple life sentences. He is held in a Maximum Security Special Handling Unit along with about 90 other prisoners.

Legere has been dubbed the "Monster of Miramichi"

Fyfe, McGray and Cream were all serial killers responsible for separate murders in Canada.

Answer: Shell Lake murders

The Shell Lake Murders is the name given to the mass murder incident that took place in Shell Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada on August 15, 1967.

Victor Hoffman, who was 21 years old at the time, had been released from a mental hospital three weeks prior to the murders he committed. He entered the farm of James Peterson and his family, armed with a .22-calibre Browning pump-action repeater rifle and shot the entire family.

He shot 28 times, hitting victims 27 times. A four year old, named Phyllis, was the only survivor, unnoticed because she was sound asleep, completely under the covers between two of her sisters.

On August 19, 1967, Hoffman was arrested at the home of his parents. Victor Hoffman was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was returned to a mental facility.

Hoffman died of cancer while under custody in 2004.

Answer: Robert Raymond Cook

Robert Raymond Cook was convicted of murdering his father, his step-mother and five of his brothers and sisters.

This monstrous crime took place in Stettler, Alberta, Canada in 1959.

Cook was released from prison not long before he committed these murders. There were two trials needed in order to properly convict him.

Robert Raymond Cook managed to escape soon after the verdict. For several days he was in hiding and managed to elude the hangman's noose. He was soon recaptured and was the last to be hanged in Alberta, Canada. To the very end, he declared his innocence.

Kimveer Gill was the shooter in the Dawson College shooting in Westmount, Quebec on Sept. 13, 2006. He turned the gun on himself and died.
David Ennis aka David Shearing murdered Bob and Jackie Johnson, their children Janet and Karen, and Jackie's parents, George and Edith Bentley. This happened in Clearwater, British Columbia in 1982.

Patrick Whelan was hanged in 1869 for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

Answer: Gareth Wesley Evans

Gareth Evans was hit by a truck when he was nine which resulted in a limp and slurred speech. When he was around ten and a half, he was playing with a cigarette lighter and received burns to over twenty percent of his body. As a result, he grew up believing that girls and later, women were laughing at his scars.

Eventually the rage reached a severe boiling point and on November 24, 1984 he murdered Lavonne Willems, in a home where she was house-sitting, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On March 31, 1985, Beverly Seto was murdered in a home where she was holding an open house for prospective buyers. The police had a suspect, but no proof, so in an effort to learn more about their suspect they held the suspect's friend for questioning. This was Wesley Evans, and he was held on marijuana charges.

Surprisingly, Evans confessed to the murders. He was tried on January 16, 1986 and given life in prison.

Answer: Toronto

In 1956 and 1957 Peter Woodcock, born March 5, 1939 murdered three young children in Toronto, Canada.

He was captured in 1957 and declared legally insane. He was placed in a psychiatric facility in Penetanguishene, Ontario.