Als ich die Nachricht vom Tod von Clifford Olson dieser Tage gelesen habe, kam einiges wieder hoch in mir, was ich / wir in den letzten Jahren dazu vernommen habe, nicht nur zu Clifford Olson. Spontan fielen mir drei Frauen ein, die mir von den Tätern und den schrecklichen Taten, Hintergründe, Begegnungen sehr detalliert berichteten. Eine war die kanadische Schauspielerin Tantoo Cardinal, der ich 2007 begegnet bin. Den Film Unnatural & Accidental, in dem sie eine ermordete Frau aus Vancouver Eastside spielte, haben wir zusammen angesehen und danach hat sie über einen anderen Massenmörder (nicht Olson) und die Hintergründe zum Film gesprochen, auch dass ihre Mutter durch Gewalt ums Leben kam. Bei dem Namen Clifford Olson kam auch wieder einiges hoch und es bewegt mich wieder wie zuvor.
ZitatThe life and death of Clifford Olson
....Olson had already murdered three children: Christine Weller, and Colleen Marian Daignault, both 13 and from Surrey, and Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, from Coquitlam. Within days of his wedding, Olson had abducted and killed Sandra Wolfsteiner, 16, of Langley.
A month later he struck again, murdering 13-year-old Ada Anita Court of Burnaby. His sadistic appetite whetted, he increased the speed with which he sought new victims. In July, 1981, he killed no fewer than six children: Simon Partington, 9 and Terri Lyn Carson, 15 both from Surrey; Judy Kozma, 14 and Raymond King, 15, from New Westminster; Sigrun Arnd, 18, a German tourist and Marie Louise Chartrand, 17, from Maple Ridge..
Clifford Robert Olson was born in Vancouver B.C. on January 1, 1940, one of four children of a milkman, but grew up in nearby Richmond.
Olson was finally arrested on Aug. 12, 1981 near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island on suspicion of trying to abduct two female hitchhikers in his car.
...THE CASH FOR BODIES DEAL
Finding the rest of the victims and extracting a confession out of Olson became the urgent preoccupation for police caught between trying to bring a murderer to justice without any concrete evidence and assuaging the horror of families desperate to know what had happened to their children and to reclaim what remained of their brutalized bodies.
That was the rationale behind the “cash for bodies” deal that was only revealed after Olson was sentenced in January, 1982. The police had agreed to pay Olson $30,000 for evidence on the four bodies they had recovered before his arrest in August, 1981, with an additional $10,000 for each subsequent murder site he identified or body he helped locate. Olson was so chuffed about the arrangement that he provided details about one murder free of charge – “a freebie,” as he liked to boast....
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