I’m fine with amending my post to say, “Whenever I think of horrible, scary things done by Canadians, I think of Vince Li.”
The fact that he was mentally ill and was successfully treated doesn’t change the fact that what he did was creepy and will continue to haunt me as long as I ride buses and occasionally nod off.
His victim is still headless and dead.
That should be everyone’s concern. He’s not cured, he apparently is being treated successfully to keep it under control but he will never be cured.
People don’t get cured of type one diabetes either, but if monitored and treated they can live full, functional lives.
I’m not OK with murder, just to let you know, but obviously when you hear voices in your head instructing you to saw the head off a fellow bus passenger there’s something wrong.
People like that are insane and deserve treatment, not to necessarily be locked away for life.
“I must say that I didn’t care for him burying his victims on our property, but on the bright side, the cherries are really doing well this year!”
ok, I’ll show myself out.
Burying victims in ornamental planters has to be the most ‘Toronto’ thing a serial killer could do.
Creating horrible secrets while landscaping high-end real estate …
Small comfort to Tim McLean, his family, or Ken Barker and his family (One of the first RCMP officers on the scene who subsequently committed suicide in part due to PTSD). But his risk of re-offending is only around 1% so that’s OK. Cite.
So you’ll rent him a room when he gets out?
He is out.
To the victory garden goes the soils …
Police have added a 7th murder charge:
75 properties!? :eek:
“We really don’t know how deep this is going to go” is, I think, more tone-deaf than “draining” was.
How are they going to “search” 75 properties? Ground penetrating radar?
*god help anyone who ever buried a deceased pet in the back yard.
Sniffer dogs? 12 feet deep is pretty deep.
Good. That’s a start.
I’m struck by the fact that two major crime cases in Canada recently both had defendants simply enter guilty pleas. I can’t recall the last American high-profile case where anyone just pled guilty (the hockey bus crash case is the other, ICYWW), let alone two in the same week. It seems significant to me, even if I can’t quite articulate why and how.
As if the song wasn’t bad enough, I’ll never hear “MacArthur Park” again without thinking of this.
I understand the feeling, and I’m also not sure why.
I can see why MacArthur might have, there was basically no chance he would ever be free again, therefore no point in dragging things out.
The Humboldt bus crash is different though. I can see why the driver would plead guilty, to avoid dragging things out for himself or the family. Yet from the sounds of things, he had a plausible defense based on several problems with that intersection. It will be interesting to see how much jail time he ends up with.
I wonder if the guy the cops found tied to the bed had realized yet that he was in danger. Or was he just having a nice time then, “BAM! POLICE! SORRY!” I mean, he probably thought he was about to get busted by the cops for gay sex and only afterwards found out how much danger he was in.
A now irrelevant question is how admissible was any evidence found in that apartment? Since the guy plead guilty, it sounds like the cops had him dead to rights no matter what. But that may have been through all the other evidence even without the stuff from his residence. Could and did the prosecutors use the stuff the cops got in that raid?
Am I the only one who, upon seeing the thread title, thinks of a commercial?
‘It takes a lot of people to make mulch this good!’
Why would one get “busted” for gay sex?
Believe it or not, that used to be a thing. Back in the dark ages like the 60’s; or in Texas, until 2003. Or in some countries still today (not Canada, of course). People who know their history might still be a little nervous in situations like that.