Castleton Massacre

Survivors' Stories of the Killins Femicide

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2022A 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-06
Mått:152 x 228 x 25 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Dundurn Group Ltd
ISBN:9781459749863
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 2023 (Canada)

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Mer om författaren

Sharon Anne Cook is a distinguished professor emerita at the University of Ottawa. She is the author and editor of twelve books on Canadian women’s history. The recipient of many teaching awards, she teaches graduate courses in the history of education. She lives in Ottawa.Margaret Carson is the eldest of two children who survived the Castleton massacre. A retired college instructor, she is accomplished in creating and adapting workplace programs as well as classroom delivery. She lives in Mississippi Mills, Ontario.

Recensioner i media

A gripping true tale of a man’s spiral into murderous rage and a woman’s vulnerability — but it also explores the power of oral history and asks how childhood traumas can ever be alleviated.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPrologueChapter 1 The Great Migration West, 1900–1920: The Backstory of Robert’s FamilyChapter 2 Two Canadian Families: The Killinses and the Frasers, 1920–1931Chapter 3 Pursuing New Paths: The 1930sChapter 4 Reality Strikes: 1940–1956Chapter 5 A Perfect Storm, 1956–1963Chapter 6 Murder PremeditatedChapter 7 AftershockChapter 8 Taking Stock After the FamilicideChapter 9 Gathering the Fragments: Addressing Childhood TraumaEpilogue: Sober ReflectionAcknowledgementsEndnotes