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| Raymonde Parent, killed at the Olympic Village 22/10/79 and hubby Fern B. |
Not all murders are sparked by power, sex, jealousy and drugs.
Here's an unsolved murder mystery of another sort, since I've heard you pining.
Raymonde Parent, wife of Fernand Beaudoin was gunned down dead on October 22, 1979 at the Olympic Village.
If you thought her husband did it, you're wrong because he too was shot in the same attack.
Did Beaudoin have any enemies?
Well, glad you asked.
Beaudoin ran a leather clothing company called Ferncraft Leather which had 168 employees.
He needed a bit of financing to get through a rough patch, so he went to get it at a company called Aetna, based in Alexis Nihon.
Well that didn't work out so well as Aetna suddenly pulled the plug on him at around Christmas 1976 and liquidated the company.
Upon learning of this decision to fold his company, Beaudoin flew into a rage, which is always a great idea of course, and rushed to their offices and confronted Aetna boss Gerald Levinson.
Oh, and Beaudoin was carrying a gun too, did I mention?
It went off, Levinson was shot in the leg and recovered.
Beaudoin was sentenced to three months in prison and fined $10,000.
Beaudoin then laid a $25 million lawsuit against Levinson's company.
Meanwhile the Quebec government bankrolled Beaudoin's new business, L'Atelier de Cuir Actor Inc.
His wife Raymonde apparently ran for the Creditistes in the federal elections in the late 70s
She certainly didn't deserve to be shot.
Beaudoin didn't either but there was a better case to be made for him deserving it.
None of this is to suggest that Levinson ordered a hit on Beaudoin out of revenge for the monkey business earlier, indeed that's not what I'm trying to imply at all.