When crime reporters kill

Robert Leboef and Yolande Desilets

  Robert Leboeuf  reported crime for Allo Police, Journal de Montreal and Nouvelliste de Trois Rivieres, and was known professionally to be a difficult fussbucket who always wanted to get his way, yet he was also remembered for showing up and leaving his office with a big smile and wave to all around him.
  Underneath that persona lived a murderous maniac who would end up killing three people, including himself.
   Robert Leboeuf, 39, Yolande Desilets, 28,  and their 3 1/2 month old son Donald died February 13, 1979.
   At the time, it would appear that the couple was estranged, as Leboeuf had been living in Longueuil, but Desilets had moved to Toronto.
   On this date she was visiting with her parents on Rang 8 in Saint Wenceslas.
   He agreed to pick her up, along with his son and bring them to Toronto together in his '70 Pontiac.
   As they embarked on the 6 1/2 hour drive, Leboeuf pulled over near on Highway 161, the main strip of Saint Wencelas, and had his wife exit the car.
   He then shot her dead with a .3030 calibre rifle. He then shot his baby son, still inside the car, in the heart. He buried them in snow and then shot himself in the abdomen.
   Cops found the abandoned car but only two days later a farmer, driving by on a tractor came across the macabre sight of three dead bodies in his field.