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A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten?
On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen's University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them.
Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening. While they situate this murderous rampage in the literature on domestic abuse and mass murders, they also explore how the two traumatized child survivors found their way back to health and happiness. Told through vivid first-person accounts, this family memoir explores how a murderer was created.
Contents
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Great Migration West, 1900-1920: The Backstory of Robert's Family
Chapter 2 Two Canadian Families: The Killinses and the Frasers, 1920-1931
Chapter 3 Pursuing New Paths: The 1930s
Chapter 4 Reality Strikes: 1940-1956
Chapter 5 A Perfect Storm, 1956-1963
Chapter 6 Murder Premeditated
Chapter 7 Aftershock
Chapter 8 Taking Stock After the Familicide
Chapter 9 Gathering the Fragments: Addressing Childhood Trauma
Epilogue: Sober Reflection
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
