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| Suzie Hunt, 20, in 1984 |
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| Suzie Hunt in a more recent photo |
Suzie Hunt, 20, was a buxom young stripper working a classy peeler joint called Le Couloir in Laval back in the early 80s.
She was dating Guy Daze, 25, a bad news 6'4" 235 lb tough guy who managed to piss off a rival named Jean Martin, 29, who believed that Daze had smashed up his car with an axe.
So Martin went to find Daze at the Vincent Brasserie on Pont Viau. The two fought and Martin stabbed ad killed Daze on June 30, 1983. He fled.
Hunt had witnessed the murder of her boyfriend. This got her feeling a little bit scared, so she bought a gun off Michel Beaudoin, 32, at his apartment at
9950 St. Lawrence #208.
Police eventually found Martin in September and he was convicted of murder with no chance of parole before 10 years.
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Hunt's acquaintances, all dead: Guy Daze, 25, Michel Beaudoin, 32
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But Hunt, who had a drug issue, a cocaine issue specifically, kept the gun even though the man she feared so much had been locked up.
Soon after, Beaudoin, the gun-dealer, was found dead at his apartment on 8 September 1983.
Then on Friday October 21 1983, Hunt was at the Golden BBQ on Concorde in Duvernay after her shift, hanging out with another stripper named Bambi.
She saw a businessman named Paul-Pierre Dubois flashing what appeared to be a nice fat wad of cash of Canadian cash money.
Dubois was a dodgy character who owned several struggling companies and had been convicted of fraud.
Hunt found him particularly vulgar and her may or may not have made an indecent proposition to her and her friend. She and her friend Bambi decided to go with him to party.
Hunt went home, got her gun and the two drove to a dead end street where he was found dead with three bullets in his head outside
589 Terrasse Saint Tropez, in Laval des Rapides.
Hunt later admitted that she fled with his cash but said that she had been motivated to kill the man because she was scared for her life.
After killing Dubois, the panicked young stripper met up with her friend Real Menard, 29, who had no idea that she had shot a man to death earlier in the evening. The friend noticed that Hunt seemed terribly distraught and depressed, so he worried that she would kill herself and had her toss the pistol into the river.
Hunt was sent to prison and is now free and participating in an art program for former female detainees.
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| Andre Krysiewski killed Marie-Francoise Hanriat |
Andre Krysiewski, 55 didn't react well to Marie Francoise Hanriat's attempt to seize his restaurant furnishings.
He had fulfilled his dream by opening a French restaurant at
1202 Bishop (now home to the Mango Bay restaurant) in 1983.
He called it the Colibri and the Monagasque-Canadian (ie: from Monaco) leaned upon his experience as a
maitre d' at Drapeau's old Vaisseau d'Or restaurant. (Have we discussed that place here? It was an extravagant flop because protest groups would target the joint and it eventually went belly-up).
Marie-Francoise Hanriat, from France, living in Saint Leonard (
is St. Leonard a bad luck place or what? -- Chimples) ran her own small company that seized assets of failing businesses. So she got a legal writ of seizure and came to claim the furniture on January 4, 1984.
Krysiewski - who lived upstairs with his wife Ida and 19-year-old cutie daughter Isabelle - disagreed that she should have the right to take the stuff.
So he got angry and knifed her in the alleyway next to his place. Police came and he was charged.
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This charming man is Denis Lagace, 25. He was stabbed 17 times in a bizarre half-naked chase outside of his Sacre-Coeur St. apartment in Ahuntsic by a 17-year-old white boy from a wealthy family whose name cannot be revealed because he was a minor on 21 September 1983.
The boy started his evening with had a date with his girlfriend. He then brought her home. He stayed out, going solo to grab a burger at a Harvey's.
But he was still bored so he called up Lagace who he later claimed that he hung out with socially on occasion.
The two just sat on a couch at Lagace's home and listened to music, including classical music, which Lagace loved.
The kid said he was too tired to go home, so he'd sleep over but Lagace said the couch was too expensive for him to sleep on so he got him into his bed. Lagace then made an unwanted pass at the youth.
The kid ran out and Lagace ran after him. Both were half naked and the kid was terrified and stabbed him to death in the street.
He ran home and confessed to his dad who brought him to the police immediately.
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| Laporte and Pigeon, killed |
Simone Laporte, 36, and Gaetan Pigeon, 30, were shot dead at their home at
3447 Iberville on January 9, 1984.
He was a career criminal thief and she was an aging stripper who had just returned to the peeling trade..
She had invited the killer into the home and he waited until Pigeon returned.
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| Jocelyn and Denis Julien |
Pigeon then told Laporte to go to the other room while he and the visitor discussed some business, as was their custom.
While Laporte was gone from the room, the killer shot Pigeon dead and then came and shot her in turn, likely to eliminate a witness.
Investigators believed that the killing might have been the result of a drug burn.
Pigeon was also a suspect in a double gangland slaying in a Montreal tavern at 427 Rachel East on Tuesday December 21, 1982.
On that evening a hooded man walked in and shot the unemployed Jocelyn Julien, 30 and his waiter brother Denis Julien, 32, to death just before closing time.
***DDO resident Allan Wasserman,a 35-year-old co-owner of a fledgling car restoration business, was shot dead with a dozen bullets from a Sten gun as he sat in his car in the parking lot outside of his business at
3465 Royalmount on 19 December 1983.
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| Gad Bitton |
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| Allan Wasserman, killed dead |
His business partner, Gad Bitton, who would have been about 20-years-old (I happened to go to Westmount High School with him and he was a nice, quiet guy) was on the scene and expressed extreme shock at the traumatizing situation.
Bitton appears to have recovered from that shock and is now a well-known luxury car dealer not far away from that scene.
Motive for the murder wasn't clear but it seems to have been an organized gangland slaying.
The only motive anybody could think of was the fact that Wasserman had a mistress and somebody imagined that there might've been a jealous husband somewhere but that seemed unlikely.
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| Roland Lord |
Roland Lord, 47, was a criminal living in a halfway house at 6970 15th in Rosemont when he decided that he wanted to hunt down and kill all of Montreal's prostitutes.
So he went down to the Lower Main and hooked up with a woman who was not a prostitute and killed her.
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| Claire Alarie-Desjardins and 2 of her 8 kids |
Claire Alarie-Desjardins, 45, of 1820 Sanguinet, was the mother of eight who went to bars to participate in singing contests.
On Sunday January 26, 1984 she sat down with Lord and the two continued their drinking at Peter's, the Rialto, Cleopatra's and the Alouette.
The two got pretty hammered and he brought her to the hotel at
57 St. Cat E. room 407. He left early and told the cleaning lady that she'd be sleeping in until 11 a.m. Staff found her dead body in the room with the words "slut, thief prostitute" written in lipstick on the mirror.
The next morning, Tuesday March 28, Lord picked up transvestite hooker Mario Poulin at St. Catherine and St. Dominique and went back to her place at
1908 Dufresne He plunged a knife into her back when she turned away but she managed to flee his further attack.
Her alert friends Jean Lafortune and Jean Legault caught Lord a block away and brought him back until police could come.
Lord is believed to have attacked and stabbed many other street prostitutes who chose not to file complaints.
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| Richard Riopel, killer |
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| Denis Riopel, victim |
Petty drug dealer Richard Riopel, 38, who lived at 9213 A Lionel Groulx in St. Leonard killed his younger brother Denis Riopel, 21, at
5635 Henri Bourassa E. Apt 4 over a $50 debt on a Tuesday evening, January 31, 1984.
That evening he boasted to two others that he killed his brother over $50.
One of the two, Alain Nadeau, 25, was buying $5 worth of hashish off of Riopel, who threatened him with a knife to force him to help carry his brother's dead body out into a field about 300 metres away.
At his trial Richard Riopel denounced all the witnesses as "bullshitters."
Denis was the third child in the family that had died a violent death by that point.
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| Johnny Plescio at 19 and brother Daniel Plescio |
The next day Riopel decided to sell his stuff, probably in an attempt to get out of town.
He sold a piece of furniture to Johnny Plescio, 19. Small world: Plescio went on to become a founder of the Rock Machine biker club. He was killed about 15 years later when he came to his window after assassins cut his cable TV as a lure to get him to the window.
Plescio's older brother Daniel Plescio, who also served as witness, later attained notoriety when he and boxer Alex Hilton blasted bullets from a shotgun through a St. Leonard motel window a few years later.
*** Jocelyne Dagenais, 29, was a transsexual living at
3551 Lyon in Longueuil, when on December 16, 1983 she was found dead on her sofa while partying with two friends.
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| Jocelyne Dagenais |
An autopsy suggested that the death was not a suicide.
Louise De Haerne, 24, and Lise Bergeron, 39, were both brought to explain the events but were not convicted of any crime.
Bergeron was a single mother who lived with Dagenais.
De Haerne was a mother of a 21-month-old baby and under questioning said that she had been drinking with the others all day and went to her parents house in Pointe Claire and fell asleep in a taxi. Police checked her pockets and found hashish so she was charged with possession.
Anyway after that Bergeron and De Haerne decided to spend some quality drinking time together but Dagenais kept talking about her friend's suicide attempt.
Dagenais said she felt guilty for not helping but her fear of blood kept her back.
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| Louise De Haerne, 24, and Lise Bergeron, 39, |
De Haerne got bored with the neverending nazel-gazing speech and decided to leave the room but Dagenais objected and grabbed her by the hair.
Eventually the hostilities quelled and all calmed down.
The two friends went into the the other room to listen to music, leaving Dagenais alone.
They returned to see blood on the couch and Dagenais on the floor of the living room, lifeless with a knife in her left hand.
The two freaked out, called the cops but Dagenais was dead.
A neighbour reported that he had heard some vigorous fighting but the women both told the same story and so it was ultimately corroborated and the two were cleared of charges.
*** Bayfield Silvea, 21, an unemployed man from Nova Scotia, had recently arrived in Montreal and was doing whatever he could to find work.
He was living at the now-demolished Province Hotel, a sort of welfare hotel at the southeast corner of Mackay and Dorch.
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He went out for a beer and a man talked to him on the street near Guy and De Maisonneuve at about 3:30 a.m.
The two went in a taxi to the man's apartment at
4814 Fulton, apartment 4, a home the man shared with an invalid.
Silvea explained that he was flat-broke and desperately needed money. The two had sex, something Silvea wasn't very proud of and he stayed up all night while the man, named Gilles Asselin dozed.
Asselin, 51, an oft-fired newspaper ad salesman whose homosexuality was a closely-guarded secret, could be charming but was known to be incredibly obnoxious while drunk.
When he woke, he refused to pay Silvea and even hit him in the stomach with his arm. Silvea freaked out and stabbed him 20 times and fled.
A bus driver noticed that Silvea had blood stains and appeared to be acting erratically, so he tipped off police who arrested him at his hotel.
Silvea had a paper in his pocket that read, "I am going to kill my first man on the 25th of February nineteen eighty four. He's a fag who gave me head. I know he has lots of money is the only reason why I Bayfield Silvea am going to kill him."
Silvea was punished and these days is a free man, with a steady job and wife and living in New Brunswick.
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| Claude Martineau, 21, killer |
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| Aline Primeau, 77, killed |
Aline Primeau, 77, who had run a small depanneur at
1006 St. Ferdinand for over 40 years in St. Henry was killed for $197, murdered with a baseball bat and a knife on October 27, 1983.
The killers had stabbed the well-loved old lady nine times and smacked her eight times on the head with a bat.
Claude Martineau, 21, who lived next door and had no prior criminal record, was charged along with Richard Beaudoin and Robert Benoit.
They bought a bit of hash and beer with their hefty $62 cut.
The trio had smoked a lot of hash before committing the crime and had it in their minds that she had $2,000 in the till.
Credit to the ever-resourceful Kate McDonnell who helped compile these lurid tales to whom I owe a great deal of gratitude.
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