Why did clifford olson kill

Then the bubbles stopped. He kept his foot on her neck for a few moments more, then got off. The body remained motionless. He gathered branches and bits of wood and threw them on the body. He knew that hydro workers would discover the body eventually, but to casual passersby, it would be unnoticed. He drove away. He cut up her brassiere. As he drove he threw various items away at different spots -- the screwdriver handle to one side, the blade half a mile later on the other side.

He took a side road that led to the river. There he hurled the hammer as far out into the water as he could. He took the contents of her purse and tossed the cosmetics in, too, then tore up her ID and burned it. She had seven dollars and some change. He put the money in his pocket. He then removed his T-shirt, washed it, and used it to wipe off the inside of the car. No fingerprints. He got a change of clothes from the trunk, including underwear shoes and socks, and put them on.

The old clothes he cut up with his knife and threw into the river. First he removed the labels. This job done, he opened a beer, took a long swig, and started the drive back to Coquitlam. On the way he felt curiously relaxed and at peace with himself. Yet he wondered. Why am I doing this? He liked having secret power over life and death. No doubt about that. Still, he was mildly puzzled why he did it.

From the moment he first picked up Terri Lynn that morning, he knew he was going to kill her. It added excitement to sex. No point worrying about it now. Perhaps he should take his wife out to dinner -- she deserved a night on the town. They both did. Cheer themselves up, get out of the rut.

As he approached Coquitlam, he spotted a self-car wash, and drove in to clean the car more thoroughly. Then he went home. Before going to bed, he put the blanket in the apartment washing machine.

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Quickly he looked out the car window. The parking lot was empty. Quickly, almost frantically, he pulled down the girl's tight jeans and panties. He undid his own pants and pulled them down to his knees. Without wasting time, he sodomized her, roughly, urgently.

It was over in seconds. He crouched forward and put the screwdriver on the crown of her head. For a second he rested it there, looked at the screwdriver, looked at her, looked at the hammer, as if to see if anything would happen.

All was serene. Then slowly, deliberately, he raised the hammer, held it poised above the screwdriver. In one motion he drove the hammer at the screwdriver which instantly and seemingly without resistance, plunged into the skull, up to the hilt. He dragged Terri over to the shallow creek and placed her face-down in the water.

He stood on her back shoulders to keep her head under the water. He slipped, and fell into the foot-deep water. One of the R. Olson received his first publicity the day he was born which was January the first at pm in St. Paul's Hospital to Clifford and Leona Olson. Young Clifford was not born early enough in the day to win the big prizes which consisted of a silver spoon and a case of canned milk but his parents were presented with a baby book and a dainty gift from Cunningham Drug Stores.

At a later date Olson would rob from Cunningham's, the very store that presented him with the New Year's gifts. Olson was the first-born of a family which soon increased to give Clifford two brothers, Denis and Richard and a sister Sharon. Olson senior with his growing family bought a small one-story house on Gilmore Crescent, in a 80 home community built by the government for its servicemen after World War II.

Growing up near the north arm of the Fraser River Olson quickly eared a repuation as a bit of a con artist, a trait that would stick with him for the rest of his life. According to the Cambie Junior High School, Olson left his studies in for six months to work at the Old Landsdown race track which today is a large shopping mall. While growing up in Richmond Olson boxed in his spare time and had some success at it. Olson quit school and at the young age of 17 entered another school for nine months, New Haven Borstal Correctional Cenre in Burnaby, for breaking and entering.

Olson soon escaped from New Haven and stole a power boat from Richmond but he was soon recaptured and sent to Haney Correctional Centre.

If someone at this point in Olson's life could have sent him down the right path and not to follow the path to prisonmaybe Olson could have ended up leading a different life. And maybe those eleven victims might not have ended up as Olson's victims. While serving time at the Old B. Penitentiary for breaking and entering, Olson pulled a fast scam while working in the hospital. Olson put a little blood in his urinal which got him a trip to the hospital where he soon escaped custody.

When he escaped this time his family were already giving up on him. During an interview with the local paper when Olson had escaped from Shaughnessy Hospital, they had appealed to him to give himself up. He's done bad enough now. Looking back on Olson's long years spent in prison one notices that he was one inmate who was constantly brewing up a way to escape.

In total Olson would escape 7 times, only to have more time tacked on his sentence. Olson's many years in prison were not all easy time, one time in particular he had to be put in protective custody for testifying against one Gary marcoux. Marcoux was a two time loser serving time on two rape charges when Olson testified against him on what he knew about the rape and murder of a nine year old girl named Jeanny Dove.

Olson's testimony resulted in Marcoux receiving a lifew sentence for the murder of Jeanny Dove. Olson, in spite of his many years in prison paid a sentimental visit to the Old B. Penitentiary when it was opened to the public for a last look before closing down in Unfortunately for Olson this one last look at one of his old homes cost him his freedom. Olson trooped into the year old building with thousands of other sightseers for a prison tour, unaware there was a Canada-wide warrant out for his arrest.

So when he peeked into the cell which had been his home for several years, he was recognized by one of his former guards and was quickly arrested by the New Westminster city police. Olson had last been in the B. Pen serving four years and nine months for a variety of offenses including theft, forgery and false pretences.

His nostalgic return to the Old B. Pen cost Olson another month in the Matsqui before his sentence finally expired. When Olson was once again free to walk the streets he headed immediately to his old stomping grounds, the outer municipalities of Richmond-Surrey. Meister said Olson rented at the Surrey Village from August until the latter part of January Meister said he gave no notice when he vacated the suite and she later heard he was in jail, she was right.

Olson was in custody from January 8th to May on a charge of rape that was brought against him by a Surrey prostitute. The charge was later stayed because the girl was not a reliable witness and she failed to appear in court.

This was the first time Olson has ever been charged with a sex crime. When Olson was let out he immediately went looking for the girl who had brought the phoney rape charge against him; and if he had found her she would surely be dead today. Olson often attended church and he was more than an erudite scholar, being extremely learned of the Bible.

This two storey building is also where Olson's lived and managed. They moved around the corner into a modest apartment at Foster Ave to set up household. Debbie Campbell who lived with her two youngsters in the apartment under the Olson's said, "He was good with all the little kids in the complex, giving them candy and things, some of the kids had not many toys but Olson would bring all new toys to the kids she said.

Olson was constantly hustling the girls in the neighbourhood but he didn't appear to do anything. On August 12, Olson's murderous escapades were uncovered. He was taken to the mainland on August 14 and appeared in Burnaby provincial court on two counts of breaking and entering.

The R. It culminated in the most shocking murder spree in Canadian history. During nine months Olson killed at least 11 youngsters of both sexes ranging in age from 9 to His killing spree not only stands as the most shocking in Canadian history but also as the most sorrowful one because of the number of victims involved and their ages.

In one month alone, July , six children were abducted, drugged and believed sexually used and then murdered in the most brutal way. Scores of interviews and hours of research have shown that the R. According to one R. Olson with his average intelligence was able to outwit the best brains of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the better part of nine months. He never received any Psychiatric treatment of any kind behind bars during his many stays in various prisons and the drastic deterioration of his personality never seemed to disturb any of the staff.

This was because the hardened criminal became extremely adept at manipulating the prison system, and also because the prison system wasn't set up to change people like Olson. Prison was simply a place to house him until his sentence expired, whereupon he could be released onto the unsuspecting public.

One just has to read what the honourable David Daubney M. He found them a disgusting depressing school for crime instead of places of rehabilitation; our prisons are regarded as warehouses.

A psychiatric assessment of Olson in prison would likely have saved the eleven lives he snuffed out between to The following is a list of Olson's victims including their profiles and causes of death:.

She was stabbed to death on November 19, Weller was driven to an area of Richmond where she was murdered by multiple stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. She suffered 10 stab wounds to the chest and abdomen and two superficial slashes in the neck. She had a double perforation of the right ventricle of the heart, and four penetrating wounds in the liver.

The deceased was picked up in Surrey and driven to a remote area of South Surrey where she was attacked and murdered by repeated hammer blows to the head.

Actual cause of death was two depressed fractures of the occipital region of the skull. Daryn Johnsrude - Johnsrude was sixteen when he was murdered on April 21, in Deroche.

The deceased waspicked up in New Westminster and driven to the Deroche where he was murdered by repeated hammer blows to the head. Cause of death was comminuted skull fracture with right subdural haemorrhage left haemothorax. The deceased was picked up at the bos stop in Surrey and driven to a remote area on the Chilliwack Lake Road where she was murdered by repeated hammer blows to the head.

Few skeletal remains were found and cause of death was determined to be head injuries. The deceased was picked up while walking on North Road in Coquitlam and driven to a remote area near Weaver Lake where she was murdered by repeated hammer blows to the head. Skeletal remains with several depressed skull fractures were found.

The deceased was picked up two blocks fromhis home in Surrey and given a ride. During the course of the ride he was taken to a remote area of Richmond, given a couple bottles of beer and then strangled. The deceased was picked up in New Westminster and driven to a remote area near Weaver Lake where she was murdered by multiple stab wounds.

Raymond Lawrence King Jr. The deceased was picked up at the bus depot after leaving the manpower office in New Westminster and driven to a remote area near Weaver Lake. He was thrown down an embankment and murdered while unconscious by rock blows to the head.

The deceased was picked up in Coquitlam and driven to a remote area of Richmond where she was murdered by repeated hammer blows to the head and then thrown into a ditch with water to be buried. The cause of death was massive head injuries. Terry Lyn Carson - Carson was fifteen when she was murdered on July 27, in a remote area east of Chilliwack. The deceased was picked up on th Avenue bus stop and driven to a remote area past Chilliwack where she was murdered by strangulation.

The deceased was picked up walking to work in Maple Ridge B. Her decomposed body was found with evidence of massive skull fractures. The above facts show Olson preyed on the very young by gaining their friendship and then taking them to a remote part of B. Olson's crime sprees lasted from November to August until he was arrested in Ucluelet in the Vancouver Island area with two female hitch-hikers in his car.

He was at the time under surveillance and arrested when it was thought the two female hitchhikers were in danger. In Olson's car at the time of his arrest was found a notebook with Judy Kozmas' name in it. He was held without bail in Burnaby on two charges of burglary, which he had committed while under surveillance by the R.

Later Olson was charged with eleven counts of first degree murder to which he pled guilty. The recovery of the bodies from such remote and isolated areas would have been virtually impossible without the active free cooperation of Olson. The means used by the R. Olson's Modus Operandi in all eleven murders was to entice the victims into his car with the spurious offer of work at ten dollars an hour, and included the use of alcohol and a drug called chloral hydrate which when mixed confused and overcame his victims.

Submitted with this profile is an affidavit of Robert D. The Attorney General of British Columbia. Locked up with Olson in that great limestone prison in Kingston are a whole series of unanswered questions. How many other children had Olson drugged and murdered? Is Olson keeping quiet about these other murders to use at a later date as a bargaining tool? Would Olson have shown the R. Both the Mounties and B. Attorney-General Williams admitted that Olson came up with another cash for bidies deal in the fall of The Mounties said the offer was rejected because they were acting under a policy directive from the attorney general, not to have any further cash talks with Olson.

When assistant R. Commissioner Don Wilson was asked by the Vancouver Sun whether he believed Olson could provide them with more bodies, "the short answer is yes. They, the R. Did Olson kill more kids?

A young woman named Pamela in fact was listed amongst the victims of the Highway Murders. Her full name was Pamela Lorraine Darlington and her stripped, raped and sexually mutilated body was found floating face down November in the Thompson River at Kamloops, British Columbia.

At least 14 young women were murdered between and on the Trans-Canada Yellowhead or roads feeding into these main highways over the beautiful Canadian Rockies. The body of a 15th victim, Monica Jack, a twelve year old Indian girl who was bicycling home on a country road when she went missing, was never found.

All these women were fresh-faced, innocent looking girls with young petite bodies that appealed to Olson. Many were sexually used and all were hitch-hiking. There were other murders, not included inthe Highway Murders which the R.

Verna was working the night-shift as a waitress at the Godfater, a steak and pizza restaurant in Hope, B. Yale is about 15 miles from Hope and Verna, who didn't have a car, often got off work very late. So instead of waking up her family when she came home she frequently stayed at a friends house. Verna disappeared on May 2, while hitch-hiking from Hope. Yale, being a close-knit community, Verna's mother and father were able to mount a massive community search. On October 9, more than five months after Verna went missing, soem personal articles of Verna's were found in what police call an area of mountain, bust and river beside Highway 7, just three miles weast of Hope B.

Superintendent Larry Poke of R. Another slaying which the R. The pretty, blue eyed, blonde was last seen hitch-hiking on Highway at Davis Bay on Vancouver Island. Mary was on her way home after having dinner with her boyfriend, 18 year old Adrian Dixon in Sechelt. Her family knew something was terribly wrong when she did not return home by 11p. Her body was found nine days later by three family friends off a logging road near the bay, about 12 miles from her home. But a 17 year old named Todd Redman had a feeling this was the spot.

They stopped the car and he grabbed a shovel and started digging in the gravel alongside the road. Even though there were no signs that the ground had been disturbed, the youth was convinced that Marney was there. She was lying fully clothed with bruise marks around her neck where she had been strangled. Clifford Olson knew the Vancouver area like the back of his hand and threeof his known victims had been strangled.

He also liked to leave his victims like Marney on backroads. The horror never really ended for the parents of the eleven kids Olson murdered. They suffered through the anguish of waiting for their children to return and living with the truth that they never would.

Most of the victims came from broken families where the parents had already been through ugly divorce proceedings or painful separations. The parents said the R. Only through a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the nororious childrens deaths can recommendations be made to the police and others to try and prevent a similar even from ever happening in British Columbia.

On June 4th, Coroner Alan Askey released his report on the murder of the eleven children. Despite a probe of more than three months, Askey appeared to do little more than simply reproduce the official R. At first the families seemed stunned. But when they read more carefully the greater was their sense of betrayal. Askey was billed as a tough and very outspoken veteran of the coroners service for the province of British Columbia.

But his eight page Olson report was far from hard hitting. The parents called it whitewash. The parents charged that Askey gave the famed R.

Marguerite Partington, the mother of Olson's youngest victim said "There is no justice. The families believe that the R. As for the Askey investigation it was clear that it started out as on thing and ended up as quite another. Both Chief Coroner Galbraith and Askey promised that there would be an examination on whether any of the murders could have been prevented.

It turned out the report virtually ignored what went wrong. It only talked about how to prevent furture murders and how to set things right in the future. The report said the cash for corpses deal was justified, but it failed to say why, other than, "The recovery of the bodies from such isolated and hidden locations would have been virtually impossible without the active cooperation of Clifford Olson, and the means used to gain cooperation were justified.

They realized they were not going to get satisfaction from the authorities without marshalling public support. They demanded the resignation of Allan Williams and they planned to sue him along with Olson, his wife Joan and Jim McNeney, trustee of the fund and also Robert Shantz.

They charged that Williams had offered but failed to provide free legal advice and had ignored their letters about their childrens deaths. In a writ filed April 19th, they sued Olson for damages in a seldom used provision of B. The applications were heard on Thursday the 24th of March, before the Honourable Mr.

Justice Paris of the B. Supreme Court. The court ordered the judgement be entered in default of the defence by Olson with damages to be assessed and also cost to be taxed. Too late, the families won but could not obtain any money because Olson had no money and didn't have any control over the trust fun, it existed completely independent of Olson.

In the writ filed against Olson it turned out that Olson was prevented by the then Warden Andrew Graham of the Kingston Penitentiary from allowing Olson to use his personal money to file and mail documents to the B.

Supreme Court in defence of the eight writs filed April 19th, against Olson by the eight families. After nine years Olson has now filed a federal court action in the city of Ottawa on February 20th, against the Correctional Service of Canada under the Canadian Charter of Freedoms, claiming they infringed or denied him his rights under a number of sections of the charter.

Olson is claiming that the Correctional Service of Canada be ordered to pay the full amount of money that was ordered to be paid by Olson for the default judgements handed down by Justice Paris. This money would then be paid into the court to pay the parents that brought the legal action against Olson in the B.

Supreme Court filed April 19th, There were six families that were awarded the default judgement as two families withdrew their actions. The victims' parents awarded are Mr. It should be pointed out that the six parents of Olsons victims that were awarded this money soon found out they could not collect from Olson because he had no money. They then filed another civil law suit against E.

Justice Trainor of the B. Supreme Court pronounced judgement on December 7, in favor of the victims families. The judgement was as follows; "The fund which came into existence on the 26th day of August, must be surrendered or delivered up to this court. By operation of law, it was, that day, impressed with a constructive trust to remove it from the wrongdoer and those collaborating with him. If equitable tracing is necessary it would be an appropriate tool to assist in the collection process.

I would not think Morrison would hesitate to return the money under his control to McNeney so that the latter could comply with this order. The reasons underlying the establishment of the fund were that it would likely result in the conviction of a mass murder, Olson, that it would bring to a conclusion a lengthy and expensive investigation, that there would be a lessening of public anxiety and that the finality would bring some solace to the parents of the murdered children.

That describes the character of this fund and directs its future use. In equity, the parents of the children murdered by Clifford Olson must have a right to claim". The parents were happy that they won the case against Olson, but there were further unforseen court actions being taken to the local B. Court of Appeal by the defendants Joan Olson, E.

They appealed the Supreme Court of B. The B. Court of Appeal heard the case on March 11, and the court was fast in their reasons for judgement, the Honourable Justice Hinkson speaking for the Court of Appeal. In an eight page judgement the final outcome was that the judge fell in error in the way he dealt with the number of requirements to be satisfied before the principle of unjust enrichment would apply.

In meeting that requirement, the families must show that they were deprived when the funds were paid to McNeney. The appeal Court went on to say on page 8, it is clear on the face of this case that the payment by the R. As I have indicated it was authorized by the Attorney General primarily to obtain evidence to convict Olson of the murders of the children.

The payment to McNeney did not result in any corresponding deprivation of the plaintiffs. They had no right to claim the money from the R. For these reasons I would allow the appeal and dismiss the claims of the plaintiffs families.

The money was returned from the court to McNeney but a further devastating judgement was yet coming to the parents of Olson's victims. They filed a motion for leave of appeal from the judgement of the Court of Appeal of B.

On June 23, the judgment was upheld. They dismissed the appeal of the families for leave to appeal the B. Court of Appeal Judgment. It may be asked of Olson what he thought of the court decision not to hear the parents appeal. Clifford Olson agrees with them fully. Olson has been given immunity from prosecution in Washington State in return for him offering to reveal the whereabouts of five bodies that were sexually raped then murdered.

The U. Olson claims he was on vacation in each of these states while on parole from the B. This unprecedented immunity deal with Washington State Justice authorites was confirmed by Olson's trial lawyer Robert Shantz and the letter dated April 18, from lawyer Roonald Kessler attorney at law in Seattle, Washington. That letter is attached to this profile.

Olson didn't confess to the murders his lawyer stated, all he said was that he had information on the whereabouts of five murdered bodies in return for transactional immunity. Robert Shantz said Olson felt that such immnity was necessary because if he was ever extradited to face trial in the U. Can Olson produce these bodies like he claims? An affidavit sworn and dated the 15th day of November is evidence of Olson's knowledge of murders in the U.

A letter dated April 21, addressed to the Honourable Victor Atiyeh, Governor of Oregon with the attached affidavit dated April 10, seems to prove Olson does have the information he claims. Olson will not discuss the U. Green River killer or the murders unless he gets the deal he had tried to put together with different ambassadors evidenced by the enclosed letters to ambassadors to Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany. Special attention must be given to the report dated July 25, with regards to other murders Olson has knowledge of here in Canada.

The Prime Minister thinks with regards to Olson that it is better to let people be killed or raped than make a deal with him. Then Attorney General of Alberta the Honourable Neil Crawford received a letterdated March 25, from Olson claiming he had information pertaining to three young girls that were raped and murdered and that one of their bodies had already been recovered.

Olson also sent letters to Peter Lougheed the Premier of the province of Alberta dated April 5th, concerning the three murder victims. Olson also swore an affidavit on June 29, stating that he had knowledge of the three murder victims. Gary Forbes, R. Statements were written on April 14th, and signed by Olson and G. Forbes of the R. These statements cannont be made public by Olson because of the R.

It can be noted, however, that one of the victims was Oahn Ngoc Ha a 19 years old Vietnamese who was then employed at the Baniff Hotel where Olson stayed. Olson was to appear in the Vancouver City Court on a couple of charges in but as he was on parole he skipped court and left the night before for Alberta, leaving from the Vancouver Greyhound bus station with his girlfriend Evelyn.

In the summer of on August 12th, 21 year old Deborah Silverman who lived in the apartment block building on Bathhurst Street in Toronto went missing.

Her car was parked in the northwest corner of the lot behind the apartment block and her purse, lace trimmed panties and a broken gold necklace were found inside the back door.

On Sunday Novermber 12th, her body was found in a lot on a farm at an intersection of Highway 7 at Durham Regional Road 13 in the Brock Township about 42 miles east of York.

Her hands were tied behind her back with the sleeves of her blue and white shirt and her black halter top was around her neck. Her brassiere was still on but she had no shoes or underpanties on.

Olson informed various people on his knowledge of Silverman's murder. Liberal Leader of Ontario by letter dated May 4th, ON August 9th, Olson swore an affidavit with photos taken at the murder farm grave along with photos of Silverman being buried.

In the following years up to a number of police officers interviewed Olson in Kingston Penitentiary on the Silverman case. Olson says he was present and can name the killer and give photos. On December 9th, two detectives interviewed Olson regarding the letter he sent to Ian Scott and informed him there would be no deal. Olson now refuses to talk to any of them. Olson accessed four seperate departmens obtaining all the information held on him. Access was also granted to alld epartments with regards to all information held on Deborah Silverman.

Olson will not identify the killer of Deborah Silverman because there is no deal which will benefit him. A profile of a serial killer can only be written by the serial killer himself. He must be truthful with himself first, and then with the facts he writes about. In my own case, I will only try to make a short profile, a profile of myself. I have not gone into the reasons why I had pleaded guilty to the murder of the eleven children in British Columbia in and and I don't feel I have to; I will save that for a mroe trained individualin those particular fields.

The purpose of this profile is to be no more than a short introduction ofmyself. I have taken the reader step by step through each and ever case as to what happened in each murder.

I used what took place during the murders and what was said between the children and myself. I tried to tell the facts as I recall them and have added nothing of fiction to enhance them. I also had the foresight to tape all the interviews in and with the three top psychiatrists of Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. These tapes are for my personal use and are only avialable to myself and my lawyer Robert Shantz for my own writing and for study purposes for Criminology students.