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В его роду не было сумасшедших. В его детстве отсутствовали какие-либо трагические события, которые сделали бы его тем, кем он, в итоге, стал. Клиффорд Олсон был обычным ребёнком, но с детства очень пристрастился к совершению правонарушений для привлечения внимания. Повзрослев, он перешёл на гораздо более серьёзные и ужасающие преступления…

Таймкоды:
0:00:00 – Вступление
0:00:25 – Понедельник, 17 ноября 1980 года (Кристин Энн Веллер)
0:03:15 – Четверг, 16 апреля 1981 года (Колин Дейно)
0:05:41 – Среда, 22 апреля 1981 года (Дарен Джонсрад)
0:08:31 – Реклама
0:11:07 – Попался
0:14:52 – Теневые жертвы
0:18:31 – Биография Клиффорда Олсона
0:23:58 – Вторник, 19 мая 1981 года (Сандра Вольфтшейнер)
0:25:21 – Я схожу с ума
0:29:44 – Пентхаус
0:32:11 – Воскресенье, 21 июня 1981 года (Ада Корт)
0:35:06 – Четверг, 2 июля 1981 года (Саймон Партингтон)
0:37:59 – Зверь из Британской Колумбии
0:40:23 – Четверг, 9 июля 1981 года (Джуди Козма)
0:44:20 – Больше исчезновений
0:48:21 – Четверг, 23 июля 1981 года (Рэймонд Кинг)
0:50:49 – Суббота, 25 июля 1981 года (Сигрун Арнд)
0:52:16 – Понедельник, 27 июля 1981 года (Терри Карсон)
0:53:17 – Розыск
0:54:52 – Четверг, 30 июля 1981 года (Луиза Шартран)
0:56:33 – Долгое жаркое лето 81-го
0:58:18 – Наблюдение
01:00:54 – 7 -11 августа 1981 года
01:01:13 – 18 августа 1981 года
01:01:30 – 21 августа 1981 года
01:06:03 – Мир Олсона
01:09:23 – Справедливость?
01:15:45 – Эпилог
01:21:51 – Титры

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Clifford Olson Monday, November 17, 1980 by Christine Ann Weller It was an overcast day, with a heavy sky threatening to burst into snow. 12-year-old Christine Ann Weller pedaled her speed bike quickly. The girl was hurrying home to the Bonanza motel, which is located in the rainy outback of Surrey, 25 km from Vancouver. It was normal for the blue-eyed, mischievous girl to play far from home. She loved open spaces. The girl also loved shopping; she was especially attracted to the Surrey Place Mall, which today is called Central City. Just recently, a new section opened in this shopping center, and on that fateful autumn Monday, an inquisitive girl decided to meet her friend here after school. For a couple of hours the girls chatted and wandered around the shopping center – this was their typical pastime. By 5 p.m., already late for dinner, Christine borrowed a friend’s bike to quickly climb the mountain and get to the motel room where she lived with her parents. It usually took the girl no more than three minutes to do everything . However, she never returned home that day . At first, the parents did not panic. They assumed that the daughter decided to spend the night at a friend’s house. Christine has done this trick several times before. Almost a week passed, the girl still did not appear at home. Then the parents finally decided to contact the police and filed a report about the disappearance of the child. However, as in many similar cases, the police initially insisted that the girl had voluntarily decided to run away from home, just need a little patience, and she would soon return on her own. However, when the police discovered a bicycle that the girl had borrowed from a friend before her disappearance, they began to suspect that some kind of trouble had happened. The bicycle was lying behind a veterinary clinic on King George Highway. On Christmas Day, January 25, 1980, one of the local residents was walking his dog along River Road, which stretches along the Fraser River in the city of Richmond, which is neighboring Surrey. At a landfill on the north side of River Road, a man came across the mutilated body of a girl. This girl turned out to be Christine Weller, who disappeared almost a month and a half ago. Multiple stab wounds to the chest and abdomen were found on the body , and the girl was also strangled with a belt. Christine’s death would be the first in a series of brutal murders that would eventually claim the lives of at least 10 more children of both sexes, ranging in age from 9 to 18 years old. All murders will take place in the Greater Vancouver area, an agglomeration whose center is the city of Vancouver. Thursday 16 April 1981 As the police investigation into the murder of Christina Weller continued, another Surrey girl disappeared. Colleen Deino never spoke to strangers ; she was very shy. This 13-year-old girl, 1.5 m tall, with beautiful long brown hair and a sweet face, looked sweetly at passersby from the notice of her disappearance. That day she decided to spend the night with a friend and told her grandmother that she would be back by 4 pm. April 16, 1981 was a warm spring day, and the girl was dressed accordingly. She was wearing a bright red and white jacket, blue jeans and white sneakers. There were two buses on the route to her home on Old Yale Road in Surrey . Both were supposed to drive over the Patullo Bridge over the Fraser River, on the banks of which Christine Weller’s body was discovered. Around one o’clock in the afternoon, when the girl was sitting at a bus stop in the residential area of ​​North Delta, a car drove up to her. The car window rolled down and a man’s loud voice came from there, trying to get Colleen’s attention. Three days later, relatives reported the girl missing. This time, the police also treated the girl’s disappearance as a voluntary escape from home and decided not to waste energy searching for her. During those years, about 300 missing person reports were filed every month in Vancouver. And a statement Colleen’s disappearance became just another statistic . Only almost six months later, on September 17, 1981, in the forest of Surrey, which is located east of 144th Street and near 26th Avenue, very close to the American border, the skeletal remains and skull of Colleen Daino were discovered. Only many years later, Colleen’s sister, named Corinne, decided to tell her that Colleen had always been a diligent student, diligently did her homework and received good grades. And three days before Colleen’s 14th birthday , Corinne was called to identify her sister’s belongings. Among the things there was only half a bra, but the sister could only recognize a red Adidas T-shirt, which she herself had lent to her sister for a couple of days. And just 5 days after Colleen disappeared, a 16-year-old boy went missing. Wednesday, April 22, 1981 During the two-week Easter fall break, 16-year-old Darren Johnsrud also disappeared. He was in Vancouver for only 2 days. As a birthday present, his mom arranged for him to fly to the West Coast. It was a long-awaited trip to Coquitlam to meet my mother, 9-year-old sister and 12-year-old brother. A calm-tempered guy, 165 cm tall and weighing 40 kg, set off from Saskatchewan, where he lived with his father. The boy’s parents were divorced. Darren planned to finish the school year, move in with his mother and get a job. As it would later turn out, his mother’s house was only half a block from the Coquitlam housing complex where his killer had recently moved . Darren was last seen at a pharmacy in the busy Burquitlam Plaza complex, where he decided to buy a pack of cigarettes. That day, he chose one of two shopping centers where local children, who also lived in the same apartment complex as the killer, loved to hang out. There were many other boys and girls younger than Darren living in this apartment complex. Subsequently, it turns out that they repeatedly met this man, the killer, and they did not really like him. Behind his back, they called this man a “creepy ghost” or “candy.” The tragedy was that sometimes just one victim was not enough for this killer. He never lost his smile, and he had fierce brown eyes, but despite this, he also possessed a certain animal magnetism. When the man wasn’t busy driving around in his car trying to pick up someone, he was hanging around following children around Burquitlam and Lougheed shopping centres. It looked like he had a huge, uncontrollable emotional and physical need for small children. Two weeks later, on May 2, Darren’s badly beaten body was found lying next to a dam in Desroches, a small rural community east of Vancouver, and 11 km east of Mission, on the north bank of the Fraser River. His crumpled body lay at the bottom of a rocky embankment. The coroner subsequently reported that the guy died from multiple blows to the head with a hammer. All the murders looked very diverse, and at first they were not combined into one series. The killer constantly varied the gender and age of his victims. This became a serious problem for investigators, who relied on the data that was known about sexual predators in the 80s. At that time, experts believed that maniacs chose people of the same gender and age as victims. Due to this, Darren’s case was not linked to the murders of the first two girls, Christine Weller and Colleen Daino, for a long time. Gotcha As one of the police officers would later say: “I understand perfectly why all these children agreed to get into his car, he had the gift of talking things out.” “Let me buy you a beer after work.” – He told the teenager. It was one of the traps the killer used to lure potential victims to a secluded location or to persuade them to go to a motel room. He pumped them full of alcohol and drugs until they were vegetables. He raped some and then released them, but most he killed his victims. Even with his small dimensions, 170 cm and 76 kg, it was quite easy for him to defeat teenagers and younger girls. He often resorted to the following trick: he introduced himself as a construction contractor and handed out business cards to the construction company Hale & Olson Construction. He impressed young people, especially with the promise of well-paid jobs. Now some surviving victims of this maniac are writing on Internet forums and talking about other ways in which he lured them to him and convinced them to believe him. For example, he allegedly hired 5 skinny guys, promising to pay $5 an hour for cleaning the territory. At the same time, he refused more physically well-built guys who could clearly bring much more benefit in such a job. He raped some boys, first selecting the eldest among them… and gradually he won the trust and respect of each boy, talking about his adventures in his youth. He also won favor with money or going to interesting places even before he committed sexual acts. Giving gifts was his most common method of ingratiating himself with a child. The killer picked up victims at bus stops while they were walking on the street, riding a bicycle or hitchhiking. Most often, he lured young people with promises of work and persuaded them to get into his car. According to Dr. Kim Rossmo, an expert in geographic programming, he simply drove some home, raped some, and killed some. The maniac himself , it seems, did not fully understand why he preferred to rape some and kill others. In some cases, he stated that he killed some of the victims because they did not report him to the police, and another part because they dared to accuse him of using alcohol and drugs. Subsequently, in prison, this maniac will write a manuscript about serial killers. It will never be published. The text, with a large number of spelling and grammatical errors, is narrated in the third person: “Each serial killer has his own style and manner of searching for victims. A serial killer kills strangers 95% of the time because they are the safest target in the world in terms of stealth. Boys and girls most often become victims of serial killers who set sexual gratification as their goal. Most serial killers choose their murder locations based on the locations the victim asks them to take them to. As for geographical areas, their choice depends on the time of year and other related factors. In fact, most of their victims are strangers, although they sometimes kill family members and acquaintances.” For example, John Wayne Gacy killed little boys, claiming that it was also easy for him to find a victim anywhere : in a motel, in a club, in a parking lot, in a store; and if the target was a child, then he looked for him in a school, a shopping center, playrooms, or just on the street. He believed that he could go to any place, choose any victim he liked and get him without any problems. Shadow victims He targeted Joan Hale at the popular Cariboo Hotel Lougheed pub, known locally simply as the Cariboo. In 1980 , the rural decor, complete with cart wheels mounted on the walls, dim lighting and smoky air, attracted local middle-class people from a wide range of professions. At first, Joan had no idea that he had just been released from prison, but when she realized this, she was not at all embarrassed by this fact. She found him charming, his beautiful brown eyes filled with love. Within an hour she was floored. And just three days later he moved in with her. His name was Clifford Olson. “Then it seemed to me that he was exactly the one I needed. The one who will protect me from my husband’s harassment. Clifford seemed like the perfect man." Joan became pregnant. They planned to get married. A month before the wedding, they had a son, whom his father decided to name, according to tradition, Clifford Olson III. After all, that was his name, that was his father’s name, and now that will be his son’s name. It all started when Clifford caused a scandal in the hospital. He convinced Joan to divorce her ex-husband, as a result of which the ex-husband paid her the amount of $43,000, which Clifford managed to squander in 2 months. He had abusive tendencies, which only worsened when Joan told him she was pregnant. He began to get drunk more often and beat the woman. He needed to throw out his rage somewhere, so in that short period he killed 3 children at once. It’s hard to believe, but the night before his wedding, he was having fun with several children while his bride decided to have a bachelorette party with her friends. He sent the older children to the store to buy gum, and at that time he raped the 5-year-old girl who was left with him. The girl’s mother reported him to the police after her daughter’s complaints. Olson came to the station for questioning and began to deny the girl’s words. The child was too young to testify, and police had no physical evidence linking Olson to the rape, so they had no reason to charge him. The couple married on 15 May 1981 in a church in Surrey. The newlyweds regularly attended a fundamentalist church, but were forced to change parishes when it became known that Clifford was accused of raping several children. The fundamentalist church practices polygyny —marital cohabitation of more than two people. Then Olson was caught raping a little boy in a bathhouse. At that time, the incident was hushed up and no statements were filed with the police. Eventually, police began to suspect that Olson was responsible for many of the rapes and disappearances of children . At the end of May, he was arrested for drunk driving and crimes against minors. He was involved in an accident with his 16-year-old passenger in Agassiz, a village located about an hour’s drive from Vancouver. Olson picked her up in Coquitlam. Although the girl did not accuse Olson of sexual assault, she told police that he offered her a job, bought her drinks and gave her drugs. She hid one of the tiny emerald-colored pills and later gave it to police. The laboratory determined that the composition contained chloral hydrate , one of the first sedatives in the world. It is also popularly known as knockout drops or Mickey Finn. Biography of Clifford Olson But who exactly was this Clifford Olson? Clifford Robert Olson Jr. made headlines on his birthday, January 1, 1940. He was one of the babies born on New Year’s Eve at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. He was born at 10:10 p.m. to Clifford and Leona Olson. Although the parents almost did not have time to give birth to the baby on the night from December 31 to January 1, and they did not manage to receive a large prize from the city authorities in the form of a silver spoon and a box of condensed milk, the authorities still decided to give them a small consolation prize, because technically the baby too born on the night of January 1st. Parents were given a children’s book and a delicious gift from Cunningham Pharmacy. The boy’s parents were the most ordinary people. Leona grew up in the Canadian Prairies region and later moved to Vancouver. There she got a job at a local fish canning factory. Clifford Sr. delivered milk in the same city on one of the horse-drawn carts that were dying out. At the time of Clifford Jr.’s birth, the couple lived in a small house located near the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibition on the East Coast. When the boy was five years old, they moved to the west coast, to Edmonton, Alberta. The family settled in a modest one-story house on Gilmour Crescent, in the booming suburb of Richmond. Area consisted of 80 houses built by the government specifically for World War II veterans. Here little Clifford went to Bridgeport Elementary School. Already early in his life, Clifford earned a reputation as a braggart. “When I told him off,” his former teacher recalls, “he deliberately behaved worse so that he could be the center of attention.” Sometimes it seemed that he wanted to be caught doing some kind of prank. By the age of 10, he began to regularly skip classes, and at the age of 15, he failed his exams several times. Clifford first went to prison right after graduating from 8th grade. If Olson was in the company of people, it was difficult for anyone to get a word in edgewise. His obsessive talking was one of the many ways he used to dominate people. Smarter than everyone else, a loner in life and a hooligan at heart – Clifford never had close friends. He was constantly getting into trouble. For fun, he sold expired lottery tickets to people, stole money for milk that local residents left on the street at the entrance to their houses, and also tortured neighbors’ cats and dogs. It was rumored that he once strangled two of the neighbor’s pet rabbits. In 1956, 16-year-old Clifford dropped out of high school and began working at Landsdowne Racecourse, and by the age of 17 his criminal career had gained powerful momentum. Over the next 24 years, Clifford Olson Jr. had a total of 83 convictions, including: obstruction of justice, possession of stolen property, possession of a firearm, forgery, fraud, parole violation, driving while intoxicated, theft. , burglary, armed robbery, escape from prison. In July 1957, 17-year-old Clifford was sent to serve time in prison for theft. Then he managed to escape and steal a motor boat. After which he was captured and sent to another prison. Despite the fact that in his youth and adulthood he was constantly involved in burglaries, fraud and robberies, he managed to remain free for only a few months at a time, after which he was sent back to prison. By the age of 41, Olson had spent a total of only 4 years of his adult life as a free man. Although he committed crimes of minor and moderate gravity, he committed them constantly, which is why prison became his home. Between 1957 and 1968, he escaped from prison 7 times. In 1959 and 1972 he was granted parole. But both times they were canceled due to Clifford’s ongoing criminal behavior. While in Prince Albert Prison, Olson was stabbed 7 times by a gang of inmates for telling prison staff about two criminals planning to smuggle drugs. He was subsequently able to convince the Saskatchewan Criminal Compensation Board that he was entitled to a payment of $3,500 due to his extraordinary degree of mental and physical courage. At the same time, Clifford Olson’s two younger brothers and sister grew up as ordinary respectable citizens, but their older brother constantly had some kind of problems with the law. Like many psychopaths, there was no traumatic event in his childhood that could be said to trigger his murderous rage. His parents eventually became accustomed to regular police visits, the embarrassment of newspaper reports, and their son’s continued lawbreaking. They tried to help him whenever they could, but ultimately gave up any hope of his reformation. They sought only to limit the damage he caused to their lives. Tuesday, May 19, 1981 Just 4 days after the wedding, on May 19, 1981, Olson picked up 16-year-old Sandra Wolfsteiner, who was living with her sister in Langley. Sandra was a pretty brown-eyed brunette. That day the girl was on her way to her boyfriend’s place to take him to lunch in Surrey. After staying with his mother for some time, at about 11:30 am she went to the highway to hitchhike to the auto repair shop located a little further down the highway. Just 50 meters from the house, the boy’s mother watched as Sandy got into a silver-blue two-door car, driven by a man. He may have offered her the job because a friend saw Sandra closing her account at the Royal Bank of Langley. Then she said that she had found a good job washing windows for as much as $13 an hour and that at this rate she would soon be able to buy herself a sporty Pontiac Firebird. Olson persuaded Sandy to go to his cabin in the woods. They drove into a thicket of dense bushes. On the way to the forest, Olson hit the girl in the head from behind. He later admits that he was furious when he found less than $10 in her pockets, although she had previously told him that she had $100 on her. At first, the police considered the girl to be just another runaway. I’m going crazy BC Penitentiary is a federal maximum security prison that is an imposing granite fortress located along the main highway between Coquitlam and New Westminster, overlooking the industrial area of ​​the Fraser River and the Patullo Bridge that crosses Surrey. This prison became the second home for Clifford Olson. Before the BC Penitentiary was demolished in 1981, its buildings were opened to the curious public. In an unpublished manuscript written by Olson, he explained in the third person why he, too, decided to take one last look at the site: “Olson, despite his many years within these walls, sentimentally visited the old BC Penitentiary when it was open to public before its closure in 1981. Unfortunately for Olson, this last meeting cost him his freedom. Olson, along with thousands of other tourists, entered the 102-year-old building for a tour of the prison, unaware that there was already a Canada-wide warrant out for his arrest. So when he looked into the cell that had been his home for several years, he was recognized by one of the former guards and was quickly arrested by New Westminster police. Olson last served a sentence in this prison for 4 years and 9 months for various offenses including theft, forgery and false accusations.” He loved to play with the guards. He demanded constant attention and made life difficult for everyone around him. Everyone hated him , but somehow he managed to survive here. Some law enforcement officials described him as a fraudster rather than a killer. He was considered a thief, a hypocrite, a talker, an extrovert, a selfish person, but not a sex offender. Olson was skilled at fraud and knew how to game the system. Over the years, Olson reveled in petty crime. His record initially stated that he was a thief and a fraudster. His early years, from 1957 to 1974, when he was a teenager, were riddled with break-ins, escapes and robberies. But the matter did not end there. Along with this, Olson’s deviant sexual side developed. Olson began to exhibit more aggressive behavior in and out of prison. While in British Columbia in 1974, he repeatedly raped his 17-year-old cellmate. And in 1978, while free, he raped a 7-year-old girl in Sydney, Nova Scotia. When his murderous rampage truly began, he was out on bail on charges of sexual assault and possession of a firearm, and was about to be charged with child abuse in Nova Scotia, although the warrant only allowed action within the province, but not outside it. Returning to prison in 1978, his deviant sexual side began to emerge while serving a two-year sentence for fraud, possession of stolen property and possession of burglary tools. The Olson Murders , his manuscript, mentions his reputation in prison, as always, in the third person: “Olson’s prison style has changed over these seven years. He was known to some as Bobo, a man who brutally beat and abused young prisoners. He became known to others as the Senator. This was because he honed his skills as a lawyer in his cell, constantly writing to both federal and provincial politicians with a stream of complaints about prison conditions . He was also a "snitch", a person who could inform on anyone for any reason. This trait made him unpopular with both his fellow inmates and the guards, and he eventually required security." Olson was transferred to the Super Maximum Unit (SMU), commonly known as "The Penthouse", a rat and rapist unit where the most despised criminals were kept. It was here that he met accused child murderer Gary Francis Marcoux. Penthouse Olson was an informant on the outside and a snitch on the inside. While at the Penthouse, he lured rapist-murderer Gary Francis Marcoux into discussing the murder of a little girl in writing and eventually used the messages as evidence against him in court. These letters and maps exchanged between Olson and Marcoux not only helped convict Marcoux, but also taught Olson his own future modus operandi. Markou dumped the body of nine-year-old Jeanne Douve at Weaver Lake, a popular camping spot in the coastal mountains overlooking a valley east of Vancouver. Letters between them detailed how Marcoux lured a little girl to his car from her trailer park, then he bought her ice cream, then raped, strangled and mutilated the girl’s corpse, leaving her tied to a large tree near Lake Weaver. He also described the nearby country road leading to Pemberton and Whistler. He even provided maps on how to get to the murder site. The girl was found during the Canadian holiday of July 1st. By January 1981, especially after Olson’s release to mandatory supervision, a more sinister and frightening personality emerged within him . He has been charged in various jurisdictions. The Squamish charges included rape, sodomy and gross indecency; the charges in Richmond were cheating and indecent assault on a man; May incident involving a young girl in Agassiz; and indecently assaulting another girl in July. Early in Olson’s criminal career, after he escaped from Shaughnessy Hospital, his parents spoke to the media: "I wish he would turn himself in, " Olson Sr. said. “But he knows what this threatens him with.” He may have to serve 10 years. If he doesn’t give up, I hope they catch him before he does anything really bad. He’s already done a lot of bad things." “He’s a coward himself,” said the mother, knowing that her Clifford was a show-off. – “He needs an accomplice. Clifford never does anything alone." With the passage of time, we can say that Olson’s mother was partly right. During his prison interactions with Marco, Olson developed a taste and methodology for murder. In his unpublished manuscript, Olson boasted that he started out as a petty thief and ended up in the hierarchy of the Canadian prison system as a prolific killer. Sunday, June 21, 1981 13-year-old Ada Court of Burnaby spent an uneventful Saturday evening babysitting her nephews at her brother and sister-in-law’s apartment in Coquitlam, the same family apartment complex where the Olsons lived and where Olson Sr. and Leona worked as caretakers. She nursed her brothers’ two babies so often that neighbors often called the babies Ada’s babies. On a sunny Sunday morning, Ada boarded the bus and went to meet her boyfriend. From that moment on, she simply disappeared. Burnaby police were baffled. Nothing was missing from the girl’s locker at Cascade Heights Elementary School , and there was no evidence that she took some things from the house. Jim Parranto, 52, of White Rock, thought he saw Olson disposing of Ada’s body. Interestingly, this was not the first time someone saw Olson disposing of a body, but the people involved did not understand what they had witnessed. It was later discovered that Olson’s car had gotten stuck in the mud at least twice while he was disposing of the two bodies. In one case, he even called a tow truck. Olson’s memoir describes the events surrounding Parranto as follows: “At about 8 p.m. on June 21, a logging camp chef was driving through Weaver Lake, a popular picnic spot. He turned the corner and saw a man standing next to a black pickup truck, bending over the body of a young girl in a multi-colored sweater. I thought he had some problems and stopped. I got out of the car and started talking to him, and he turned around and looked at me. He didn’t answer me when I talked to him. He just looked at me and I knew something was wrong here. I got back into the car and thought: “We have to get out of here.” After fleeing Olson, Parranto turned onto a logging road leading to the Eagle River logging community where he worked. A month or two later, he reported what he had seen to the White Rock police.” Two months after Olson’s arrest, dental records confirmed that the skull and maxillary bone found by searchers near Lake Weaver in the Agassiz area belonged to Ada Court. Parranto was then asked if he was sure he had seen a serial killer. He replied that he was sure it was Olson. By the end of June 1981, Olson had killed five children, but only two bodies had been recovered: Christine Weller in Richmond and Darren Johnsrud in Desroches, near Mission. But the murder of Christina Weller was not linked to Darren Johnsrud, and Olson’s other victims had not yet been found. In early July 1981, Olson was already on the police radar as a prime suspect as they investigated the disappearance of Ada Court. He was a suspect based on his previous record of assault and sex crimes, the detective said . He was perfect for the role of suspect. Thursday 2 July 1981 A turning point in the case of the missing children from the Lower Mainland was the disappearance of a nine-year-old Surrey boy, Simon Partington. The police could hardly classify him as a fugitive, given his young age and angelic appearance. Police were confident that the thin boy, 130 cm tall and weighing 36 kg, had clearly been abducted. At about 10:30 a.m., after his usual heavy breakfast of cornflakes, Simon dressed in blue jeans and a blue T-shirt, got on his bike, put his brand new orange Snoopy book in the bike basket, and headed to his friends’ house. He never arrived there. He disappeared just a few blocks from where Christine Weller was last seen alive. One of his school projects, a story he wrote called "The Hungry Tiger and the Gullible Duck", foreshadowed his death as a boy. The emotional public outcry forced police to step up their efforts. Police have launched the largest manhunt in Canadian history. At the height of the case, up to 200 officers were working on the investigation. Police were forced to admit that Simon was the victim of murder, and the media began to note that news editors had underestimated a spate of previous disappearances in the Vancouver suburbs. It was the tragic disappearance of this adorable child that ultimately symbolized the horror of the series of child murders. Clifford Olson has not been in the media spotlight . Five days after the murder of the nine-year-old boy, he became acquainted with a 16-year-old girl and her friend. After the usual offer to clean windows for $10 an hour, he convinced one of the girls to go solo with him. Olson gave her alcohol and began to fondle her. When the girl began to resist, Olson stopped. Later, when he was charged with indecent assault on that girl, police never linked him to Partington’s disappearance or the Johnsrud and Weller murders. However, Simon Partington’s death did not fit the mold. The reluctance of police officers to link cases related to serial murders is a very common practice. Several reasons for this reluctance are commonly suggested : an over-reliance on generalized patterns and profiles provided by experts, a tendency to assume that most missing children are runaways , and a fear that acknowledging that there is a serial killer at work in society will have serious negative consequences. consequences. impacts police resources, budgets and will attract unnecessary media attention. This reluctance allows serial killers to continue killing for months and sometimes years because the police are slow to warn the public about the dangers of an active serial predator and to mobilize police resources to catch the killer. The Beast of British Columbia Children are easy prey. Well aware of this, Clifford Olson took advantage of their naivety. He later told police that he quickly realized that the teenagers were alike and that they would tell you anything if you looked and sounded like you were interested in hiring them. Most of them were eager to get a job. As a classic con artist, he was able to control many situations. The trust game gave him the opportunity to hide his true motives. He is used to getting his way by any means necessary. He seemed pleasant, friendly, even charming, approaching children openly. However, his less than friendly goal was to gain their trust until he was able to overcome any resistance. Olson meets the children and offers them jobs. He tells them that he is a building contractor and takes them to construction sites to show them the work. This is the same red line. He gains their trust and remembers that he is good at it. He’s insightful. He’s smart. He looks good. He could easily be someone’s father. These kids would follow him and he would offer them drugs, drinks or beer. This happens after he feels them and realizes that he can certainly do his dirty work with a certain degree of safety. Robert Shantz, who would serve as Olson’s lawyer in the child murder case, intended to show that his client had adopted Markou’s identity. Some evidence supports this theory: – Olson left the bodies of five children in the same area in which Marku operated. – One of the children was found not far from the place where Marcoux’s victim, Jeanne Douve, died. – Olson used the same ruse to lure some of his victims. – Olson killed one of the victims in Whistler, connected to Lake Weaver by a dirt road that Mark had mapped. – Like Mark, Olson used strangulation to kill some of his victims. – After Olson’s interactions with Marcoux in prison, Olson developed an insatiable appetite for child pornography. Most likely, Olson wanted to experience the same thing as Mark. According to the forensic psychiatrist, he went from “nobody” to “man.” In his own eyes he had celebrity status. He considered himself a real serial killer. Thursday, July 9, 1981 Clifford Olson was driving down North Road toward downtown New Westminster, passing BC Penitentiary along the way, as he had done many times before on this main street through the quiet residential streets of Coquitlam. He also gained access to one of his favorite places, Caribou, where he often bought beer on sale. He liked to drink and drive, and also forced his passengers to drink. It was not unusual for him to travel the streets with young men in his car. This time with him was 18-year-old Randy Ludlow. Ludlow knew that just a week ago Olson had killed Simon Partington, and two days earlier he had been charged with indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl. Meanwhile, Ludlow’s memories of the last few hours of Judy Kozma’s life flashed before his eyes. “Between eleven and noon on July 9, I was with Olson, ” Ludlow confirmed. We drove towards the center of New Westminster. Olson noticed a girl leaving a phone booth on Columbia Street in front of the hospital. He clearly knew her because he waved at her . She smiled and seemed happy to see him. He stopped. She crossed the street and spoke to him. Judy Kozma was heading to Richmond to see a friend and apply for a job at a Wendy’s restaurant. A shy, pretty brunette, she was desperately looking for a second job. She met Olson at McDonald’s, where she was already working as a part-time cashier. Olson asked her to get in the car to drive her. Once in the car, Judy exclaimed, “This is good. It will be faster than taking the bus. I would have to drive through all of Vancouver to get there.” Olson offered the two young men the beer that was always present in his car when he drove to Richmond. They arrived well before Judy’s interview time, but it was too late for her to meet her friend, so they stopped at the Richmond Inn to buy more beer. At one point, Olson handed Ludlow a large wad of money to impress Kozma, but took it back once the men got out of the car. “When we got back to the car,” Ludlow later explained, “Judy was sitting in the front passenger seat. I sat in the back. Olson offered Judy a job cleaning windows at ten dollars an hour." The three then returned to New Westminster, where Olson bought a bottle of rum. He returned to the car with rum, cola and plastic glasses. At Olson’s direction, Randy mixed drinks for all three. Olson offered Judy another drink, but the girl refused. Olson insisted. Randy secretly decided to slip Judy a glass of just cola, no rum. He caught her eye and explained it to her. Judy took the glass, took a sip and decided to play along with Randy, saying that the drink was very strong. Olson looked at Randy and nodded, indicating that he had done the right thing by giving the girl a strong drink. Olson then gave Judy some tiny green pills, saying, “Here, take these, these will help you.” They keep us from getting drunk." And the girl took the pills. Olson parked in the underground garage of the complex where he lived. Ludlow and Judy stayed in the car while he went to his house. Ludlow thought, “That was the only time I saw any concern on her part. She was nervous and fidgety. I explained this by saying that she was only fifteen years old, she was drunk and was about to miss a long-awaited interview. She cried and I wiped the tears from her eyes. Olson soon returned, and she calmed down a little. Olson then dropped Ludlow off at the Lougheed Mall. The next time I saw Olson, he said he dropped Judy off in Richmond. Much later I learned that he killed Judy, and the next day he went on vacation with his wife and son to Los Angeles, where he stayed until July 21. More disappearances A serial killer is on the loose, and residents of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley are gripped by fear. In a short period of time, from November 1980 to July 1981, several children went missing and were later found dead. Parents in suburban Vancouver complained that police were not taking reports of missing youths seriously enough. In those two years, 200 police officers from the Surrey detachment handled approximately 2,000 missing persons cases and investigated approximately 18,000 criminal offences. Many of the minors ended up running away from home and gathered in the center city ​​on Granville Street, while some stayed with friends or went out partying after curfew without telling their parents. The police believed that the missing children would turn up, and in most cases that is what happened. The book The Final Reckoning explains how the police worked then: the provincial law enforcement system consisted of about six thousand traffic wardens, fraud investigators, homicide detectives, political bodyguards, analysts and administrators. Each unit was a separate and distinct entity with its own internal bureaucracy, but they were expected to act in concert. However, this happened quite rarely. Unfortunately, during the spring and summer of 1981, dramatic upheavals occurred in the Canadian police chain of command. The West Coast ranks were experiencing widespread staffing shortages and low morale, which affected day-to-day operations, which coincided with Olson’s killing spree. On July 15, 1981, Olson’s name was mentioned for the first time at a law enforcement conference. As the person in charge of the Ada Court case, Les Forsythe continued to build the case against Olson. As part of a more coordinated effort, a meeting was planned for police officers and local police departments in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland communities of Richmond, New Westminster, Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Mission, Langley, Agassiz and Maple Ridge. When he met with Mishnah investigators on July 15, he prepared a five-page report on Olson: it described Olson’s known and suspected recent criminal activities , his pattern of offering his intended victims jobs for ten dollars an hour, his penchant for loans or rental cars, and his known recent residential addresses in Surrey and Coquitlam. The meeting, Les explained, was simply a brainstorming session between investigators from across the region who had a common interest in missing persons investigations. As the story aired, viewers took note of growing police concerns about missing children in the Greater Vancouver area. Police have decided to consider Olson as a suspect in the Lower Mainland missing children case. A briefing document prepared by police outlined the story of the crucial meeting on 15 July. It was emphasized that at this point, although Olson was considered a possible suspect in the disappearances and murders, there was considerable uncertainty. It is unclear whether all the children reported were actually missing or whether it was a homicide. The question of whether the disappearances themselves could be linked or whether they were individually or collectively linked to previous unsolved murders was also open to speculation, although under active analysis at the time . It should be emphasized here that Olson was previously considered a possible suspect in the murder of Christina Ann Weller (whose body was discovered in Richmond on December 25, 1980) and in the murder of Mary Ellen Jamison, which occurred in the Sechelt area on August 7, 1980. He later stepped away from the spotlight in the Weller investigation when a more obvious suspect emerged, but Olson was still of interest to the Major Crimes Unit in the Jamison case. Thursday, July 23, 1981 "He just couldn’t escape," Raymond King’s father said. He was not a fugitive. Thin, red-haired Ray King Jr. was enjoying summer vacation and looking for his first real job. He made his usual trip to the Canada Youth Employment Centre, chaining his bike behind the building. Eager for any job, he came to the center so often in the summer that the staff began to recognize him. That day, young Ray met Olson. Lured by the promise of a job, Olson took him along a route he often took: Route 7 toward Harrison Mills and Lake Weaver. He turned off the highway and headed toward a popular camping spot and then down a rough dirt road that led to a BC Forest Service campground near Alpine Lake. There he smashed the boy’s head with rocks and then threw his body down a steep hillside path. The police did not believe that a 15-year-old boy would have abandoned his bicycle. Typically, if a child is going to run away, he will do one of three things with his bike: leave it at home, use it to run away, or sell it to a friend for a few dollars. On the night Olson killed the boy, he drove 403 kilometers in a car he rented in Port Coquitlam. Always on the lookout for potential victims, he spoke to the car rental clerk and offered the employee a job washing the carpets in his home. He came to pick up the car only on those days when he knew that this particular woman was working. The job he offered cost $16.60 an hour, more than she was making here. But the woman refused. Just two days later, on July 25, Judy Kozmas’ body was found near Weaver Lake. And then the killer struck again. Death toll rises Plastic black and yellow tape with the message "Do not cross police lines" was strung between trees near Weaver Lake, a recreation area east of Vancouver. Forensic experts exhumed the remains of a 14-year-old girl. She was stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck, chest and abdomen and dumped near where Daren Johnsrud’s body was found and near where Marcoux abandoned his victim five years earlier. The girl was a tourist, and at first no one knew that she was missing. Saturday, July 25, 1981 Sigrun Arnd, a visiting student from Weinheim, a small town in the Rhine Valley, was seen with the killer in a Coquitlam pub, and then by a couple of passengers on a passing train she had boarded with a middle-aged man. It turned out to be Olson. Herr and Frau Arnd received terrible news by long-distance telephone. As Frau Arnd later told the Vancouver Sun, the phone rang on August 28. Her sister from Vernon called and said they had the police. The police found a dead girl who could be Sigrun. The mother couldn’t believe it was her daughter. She was a smart and suspicious girl. They often discussed how she should never get into someone else’s car, let alone hitchhike. But, obviously, in Canada she decided to break the taboos. Sigrun left a diary. Irmgard Arnd said she enjoyed the boat and horseback rides, but what she liked most was the friendliness, openness and helpfulness of the locals. Her body was found in Richmond, partially buried in peat in a trench, about 400 meters from where Simon Partington’s body had been dug up the day before. And two days later another girl disappeared. Monday, July 27, 1981 Terri’s mother Lyn Carson ended up sitting in the courtroom as the wheels of justice began to turn. Heartbroken , she was a sad sight as she mourned the murder of her 15-year-old child. Terry left the family home around eight o’clock on Monday morning. A thin girl, weighing about 47 kg and just over 150 cm tall, she was no match for Olson, who stopped and offered to give her a ride, treating her to drink laced with drugs. She was just another student looking for a summer job, so Olson’s ploy worked this time too, and the drinks became a sort of celebration of her finding a job. As on several other occasions, Olson again left the city for the desert 7 miles east of Agassiz, on the north bank of the Fraser River. He turned into the countryside . In the forest, he strangled the girl, burned her clothes and threw her purse and shoes into the Fraser River. Search The police have established contact with only two of those found by that time the children’s bodies: Daren Johnsrud and Judy Kozma. However, police were convinced that Simon Partington and Ada Court had also been murdered. The case of Christina Weller was still not considered relevant, and the remaining missing people remained unaccounted for. About 200 police officers took part in the search activities . Constable Fred Mayle of the Serious Crime Squad had a simple strategy. His idea was to secretly tape a conversation with Olson hinting at some kind of payment. He figured that if Olson was the killer and he thought he could make some money out of it, he could go back to the crime scene to find some physical evidence. If he wasn’t the killer or knew who the killer was, maybe he would have told them. Olson agreed to meet detectives at the restaurant. Their conversation lasted 30 minutes and was recorded from beginning to end on tape. Eventually, he said he wanted to be hired as a police officer with a salary of $3,000 a month. In return, he said he would provide information about the disappearances. Olson’s eyes lit up at the thought that the detectives had come to him for information. With a casual, "Well, I’ll call you back if I hear anything," the officers watched as the killer walked out of the restaurant and into the sunlight. For some reason, no one followed the man suspected of killing several children. Thursday, July 30, 1981 After meeting with police that evening, Olson went to meet with his lawyer, Bob Schatz. On the way, he noticed 17-year-old Louise Chartrand, who was described as very petite and young-looking for her age. The youngest of seven children, she emigrated from Quebec with her three sisters and settled in the Fraser Valley town of Maple Ridge, about 30 km from Vancouver. She often worked as a waitress on the night shift. Reconstructing the events, the police suggested that Louise hitchhiked part of the way to work with a man. After being dropped off, she headed to the store to buy cigarettes. The store was just a 10-minute walk from the restaurant where she worked. At this time, Olson put her in his car, drugged her and headed to Whistler. On the way, he even stopped at the Squamish police detachment to pick up the confiscated weapon, but he was turned away because the officer in charge of forensic evidence was not at his desk. Olson then headed toward the treacherous Killer Highway, so named by locals because of the numerous fatal car crashes that followed the snowfall. Olson drove to a gravel pit, where he smashed the girl’s skull with numerous blows with a hammer, after which he buried her in a shallow grave. Louise’s colleagues at Binos restaurant contacted her family when she failed to show up for her 8pm shift. The next morning, one of Louise’s sisters called the police. The police took action, immediately suspecting that the girl was the victim of a crime. The Long Hot Summer of ’81 The summer heat did not help the investigation. By the first week of August, panic had spread throughout the surrounding area. News reports and newspaper headlines fueled the fear: “The Cunning Killer with Burning Eyes” and “Hot Summer” helped the killer elude the police. Political pressure increased every day. Meanwhile, a disappearances task force was working under the leadership of Superintendent Bruce Northorpe, who was responsible for the Olson case. A coordinated investigation was launched in hopes of quelling the brewing public panic. British Columbia was covered in a structure of separate police jurisdictions, including a dozen independent city forces and over a hundred police-staffed detachments . This multi-faceted organization includes itself policing functions at the federal, provincial and municipal levels. Two issues affecting the Olson investigation were transfers of key personnel and staffing shortages that led to overworked police officers. Some left the province, others were transferred to new positions… Back in 1981, there were also problems of jurisdiction and prejudice, with subordinates criticizing those in charge. In serious cases, the investigator may seek various advice from colleagues, but the overall investigation can rarely be carried out by consensus. There must be a decision maker. This was evident from the scattered efforts undertaken before Bruce Northorpe was appointed task force coordinator in 1981. Once Northorpe became involved, police began keeping an eye on Olson again. Watching Olson wasn’t easy to follow. Observers said he would stop in the middle of the street, make sudden, unexplained U-turns, drive down one-way lanes , stop and back up. He also had a habit of constantly changing rental cars. Olson was constantly on the move. Investigators estimate that over three months he drove more than 20,000 kilometers in 14 different rental cars. And, for example, in mid-July 1981, he drove 5,569 kilometers in an Escort in just two weeks. Olson took a ferry to Vancouver Island and, after robbing two residences in Victoria, headed north towards Nanaimo, an old coal mining town. He stopped on the side of the road to pick up two young women hitchhiking . Hitchhiking was a popular method of transportation among young people in 1981. About three hours later, the car had already crossed the highway on the other, sparsely populated side of the huge island. At the bottom of Hydro Hill, just before the turn into Long Beach, the car slowed. He turned onto a dirt road, kicking up a cloud of dust and gravel. Moments later, two local police vehicles stopped at the entrance to the road, blocking the vehicles from leaving. Two police officers followed the car, making their way through the fir and spruce trees that lined both sides of the isolated road. In the distance, they saw three people standing near a car passing a bottle and heard Olson. They came closer. Clifford told one of the women to take a walk. He started screaming. The police decided it was time to move. Olson spotted officers emerging from the brush and ran back to the car. He put the car in gear and sped off in the direction he had come from, but was stopped at a checkpoint . The women were confused, but were already safe. Olson said they only stopped so he could relieve himself. The police charged him with breaking the rules and dangerous driving, confiscated his car and took him to a local detention center. Police searched his rental car and found a green address book with the name of a 14-year-old New Westminster girl , Judy Kozma. By that time, Olson had 11 victims. It was not the largest number of victims among the many murders in Canada, but it was the Olson murders that caused the greatest fear and horror. At the time of his arrest, only three bodies had been discovered and identified. The police did not yet know how many children were killed. August 7 – 11, 1981 Widespread coverage of missing children cases across the country was compared by some in the media to the Yorkshire Ripper case in the UK and the Atlanta child murders of which Wayne Williams was accused (a large-scale investigation had already been aired on the channel earlier). On August 18, 1981, Olson was charged with first- degree murder in the Judy Kozma case, which ultimately led to his full confession. On August 21, 1981, Superintendent Bruce Northorpe led the task force for three weeks without any real instructions to follow. He had to gather about 150 officers who were working on the case at the time , digest all the information accumulated before he began the mission, plan a strategy, deal with the media and handle many other details. He was shocked by this turn of events. That same day, Olson offered to reveal the locations of 11 of his victims’ bodies for $100,000. But could Olson really be so stupid as to enter into an agreement that would likely result in him spending the rest of his days in prison? However , there was no concrete evidence that the missing children and the murders were linked . The bodies of Weller, Johnsrud, King and Kozma were discovered. Olson proposed a plan to search for the missing bodies of the dead children one at a time in a certain order, after which money would need to be transferred to his account. The secret deal was concluded in 1981, but a year later it became known to the media. “Olson Paid to Find Bodies” was just one of the headlines on the front page of the January 14 , 1982 Vancouver Sun. The Jan. 15 Sun headline read: Olson deal disgusts. Police did not disclose the deal for fear of harming Olson’s right to a fair trial. At some point, the dispute will involve the Attorney General of British Columbia, the federal Solicitor General, the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police in Ottawa, and the Prime Minister of Canada. Many found it disgusting that Olson profited from his crimes. "I find it incredible that he was paid to provide evidence," said Bruce Northorpe, the task force’s leader. The offer to pay Olson’s wife was simply a ruse. She was not divorced from him, and Olson would have won even if the money had been paid to his wife. The situation might be different if the wife were divorced and providing information about past criminal activity. However, Northorpe had to admit that he felt enormous relief that the murders had been solved and children were no longer dying. Asked what evidence was found, Northorpe replied: "I won’t go into detail." Essentially, it was the personal belongings of each of the four victims whose bodies were found without Olson’s help, which led to the identification of him as the killer. Only the killer could know where these things were hidden. British Columbia Attorney General Allan Williams also questioned how such a horrific deal was reached. However, the good news was that in exchange for $100,000, the Attorney General could secure a first-degree murder conviction, ease the worries of parents of missing children, quell terror in British Columbia, and end an expensive police investigation. There was no hard evidence , and Olson, an experienced criminal, could hardly speak without it. The day before Clifford Olson was charged in the death of Judy Kozma, he made a two-hour visit with his wife, Joan, and their young son. “I couldn’t stop crying for those two hours,” Olson wrote in a Feb. 5, 1982, letter to Genevieve Westcott, a CBC television reporter in Vancouver, about why he pleaded guilty. “I told my wife that I was responsible for the death of the children and that I could not live with this and have peace of mind until I confessed to what I had done and returned the bodies to their families for a proper Christian burial. My wife told me that if I told the police what I did, they would lock me up in prison for the rest of my life and I would in all likelihood be killed in prison. She said she would tell our son everything when he grew up and everyone at school would bully him for his father’s actions. I told her that I would have to tell my son what happened. I knew deep down that I had to give up my wife and son for the rest of my life. My wife will tolerate my mistake for the rest of her life. She told me that I should do the right thing, and that she would always love me, and that someday we would be together in heaven, praising the Lord together." Olson may have been trying to bolster his image because he was heard saying, "If I didn’t care about my parents, I wouldn’t kill the child." Olson’s World Clifford Olson is a classic case of an extreme psychopath. A true psychopath is a thrill seeker with pathological glibness, an antisocial desire for power and a lack of guilt. It conjures up images of Anthony Perkins or Anthony Hopkins, who played such psychopaths in Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs and its sequel Hannibal. Penetang Mental Health Center’s chief psychiatrist, Dr. Russell Fleming, explains the nature of an extreme psychopath: a person with severe antisocial personality disorder that leads to criminal behavior. Although he has never interviewed Olson, he speculated on why Olson maintains his composure and exudes serenity: “There is a core group of psychopaths, of which Olson clearly belongs, who can be intriguing, charismatic, charming, predictable and sinister, capable of manipulating others. Recent research suggests that psychopathy may have a genetic component – a malfunction in the brain. If anything, their brains are definitely different; it is doubtful that we will ever fully understand this disorder. The point is that a psychopath has insufficient affective responses to people. Combined with Olson’s pedophilia and sadism, it is not surprising that he turned to serial murder of his most vulnerable victims. The following examples of Olson’s sadistic behavior further support evidence of psychopathic behavior: he injected air bubbles into one victim’s arms, missed a vein, and ended up beating the victim to death with his hammer; he drove a nail into the head of one of the victims for no apparent reason, since this was not the cause of death; he called some of the families of the victims, playing a tape recording of the screams of the murdered woman, called and wrote letters to others, enjoying their pain; hit one victim with a rental car; and his behavior included abuse, control and manipulation of his wife. In less than nine months, Olson committed 11 murders. There were also four other victims in whose murders Olson was suspected: Verna Bjerki, 17, was reported missing in the Hope/Yale area and never found; Pamela Darlington, Monica Jack, Marnie Jamison. The fact that he killed both girls and boys confused the investigation. In the 1980s, the phenomenon of serial killers was poorly understood. Police relied too much on their previous experience with pedophiles, believing the cases were unrelated because the victims were of different genders and ages. Pedophiles who prey on prepubescent children typically have no gender preference, while those who prey on older children focus on a specific gender rather than both. While models of criminal behavior based on both police experience and the expert opinions of criminal profilers are very helpful in understanding criminal thinking and targeting police with the right suspect, police departments must think outside the box. Because criminals do not feel compelled to behave in a manner consistent with what other criminals have done in the past and as described by experts, police should also not limit their investigations to these artificial limitations.” Justice? “I have no words to describe the enormity of your crimes, nor the grief and suffering that you hurt so many people,” Judge Harry McKay, the trial judge who worked on the Olson case, said on January 14, 1982 . “No punishment that a civilized country could inflict on you could come close to being adequate… You should never be given parole. It would be foolhardy to let you go free." (Canada abolished the death penalty in 1976). The trial began three days earlier, on Jan. 11, and quickly ended on the third day when Olson changed his plea to guilty just hours after the trial began. It was rumored that, judging by the recordings of Olson speaking in his high-pitched whine, it was obvious even to him that he seemed weak and not very smart. Either way, it didn’t live up to his own delusions that he was the big, powerful, and elusive serial killer portrayed in the media. Olson pleaded guilty to 11 murders and was sentenced to the same number of concurrent life sentences, to be served at the maximum security prison in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, where many of the country’s most dangerous criminals are housed . Prosecutor John Hall told reporters that it was the saddest and strangest case he had ever seen. When asked about Olson’s motives, he replied, "Who knows? It is difficult to look into people’s minds. He is insane in the broad sense, but not in the legal sense. He is an inadequate psychopath. He could go to church, beat his chest and say, “I love my wife and my child.” He may believe that he has some real feelings, but it’s all on the surface. He has no conscience." According to forensic psychiatrist Stanley Semrau, who interviewed Olson at length in prison, Olson scored 38/40 on the Psychopathy Checklist, outperforming many far more famous serial killers. While Olson was behind bars, the parents of the murdered children wrote an open letter to Attorney General Kaplan: “We now suffer even greater harm knowing that Clifford Olson benefited financially from the murder of our children. The situation is made worse by the fact that Mr. Olson may once again benefit from the publication of his disgusting, evil, twisted story. "Clifford Olson takes obvious personal pleasure in the publicity afforded him and knows no moral bounds that would prevent him from raising money, directly or indirectly, from the sale of his memoirs." Although the call was supported by approximately one hundred thousand signatures, it made no difference. Bureaucratic mechanisms turned a blind eye to the plight of families. The federal government even suspended family benefits, which created additional difficulties when children were reported missing. However, growing public support strengthened families. About 60% of those surveyed, about 600 eligible voters chosen at random, agreed. After a long struggle and failing to get satisfaction from the government, the seven families decided to sue Olson, his wife Joan, and his two plea bargaining lawyers. Both lawyers took the case, waiving their fees. Further outrage arose when police secretly brought Olson back to British Columbia on November 16, 1981 , which was arranged after Constable Fred Mayle filed an affidavit in the British Columbia Supreme Court that Olson would provide the location of additional bodies. But he was escorted back to Kingston Pen empty-handed. Finally, almost three years later, in the fall of 1984, the British Columbia Supreme Court heard a deal to exchange Olson’s information about the location of the bodies of the victims he had killed in exchange for a payment of $100,000. The money was to be transferred to Joan Olson’s trust fund, Clifford’s wife. No sympathy was shown for Joan Olson or her child. It was a difficult ordeal for her and her young son. At some point, Joan stated decisively, while the trembling did not leave her body: “It kills me that someone would think that I had anything to do with this. I cried, at first I cried a lot because of it. I don’t know how to explain it… I don’t really think about them too much right now. I’m glad the children are buried. I had nightmares about the ghost of Simon Partington begging me for help. My life was a real hell, full of alcoholic beatings and bullying. Oh, I hate him. I hated him for the night he held the knife to my throat. He terrorized me, scared me, beat me. There was no one I could turn to for help." However, not all her feelings for Olson were negative: “he is a real seducer. He has a way with words and I’ve never met a woman who wasn’t attracted to him. I don’t know how this is possible. I’d like to say it’s his brown eyes, but it’s not just them.” Although the judge ruled that the Olsons’ lawyers and spouses must return $100,000 plus interest and pay legal costs, on March 11, 1996, the British Columbia Court of Appeal overturned the judge’s decision, saying he had erred. A few months later, five and a half years after the first boy was killed, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the parents’ appeal. Joan and her child could keep the money. “I think I got my money rightfully,” she once said on camera. “I have no remorse. I can look at myself in the mirror and say, “You are a good person, don’t be ashamed.” When asked what it was like for her three-year-old son, she replied: “He knows who his father is. He learned this from TV. I just can’t believe it. I simply explained to him that his father was a bad man and he would have to spend the rest of his life in prison and that we would never see him, and he accepted that.” In 1983, politician Gordon Taylor introduced a private bill in the Canadian House of Commons to have Olson executed, despite his 1982 conviction and Canada’s abolition of the death penalty in 1976. Numerous petitions were signed in support of the bill , but the House of Commons refused to pass it. Epilogue In August 1997, after serving 16 years, Olson filed a plea under Section 745 of the Criminal Code, the faint hope provision. This article allows prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment who have served 15 years to apply for parole. The parents of the dead children were heartbroken; they had to return to this nightmare again. At 57, Olson looked even slimmer than he did in 1981 , when he was 41. Wearing a tattered red T-shirt, his legs shackled, behind a bulletproof partition, Olson occasionally leaned over the railing of the prisoner’s bench to make his point. Acting as his lawyer, he addressed the jury of six men and six women hearing his bid for parole, arguing that he needed to confess to many unsolved crimes: some murders he committed alone, others with an accomplice. He said they were involved in an unsolved string of murders in Green River. A local newspaper reported that the officer in charge of the Green River case scoffed at the claim, saying Olson would have to be a wizard who could build a tunnel from a prison in Canada to Seattle to kill any of the women. According to Bruce Northrop, "nothing he said or will say can be believed unless independently verified." The witness, Dr. Tony Marcus, a court-appointed psychiatrist, testified that Olson is still the same. is as cunning and resourceful as he was when he was convicted in 1982, and shows no signs of burnout. This actually makes him more dangerous since he spent most of his life in prison. The second witness said much the same thing: that there was no safe way to free Olson, believing he was essentially unchanged. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Stanley Semrau called Olson completely incurable and more dangerous than in 1981 because he enjoys celebrity status and attempts to lay claim to the title of serial killer. He told the jury that Olson was addicted to murder and was the most dangerous sexual deviant, the most disturbing and the most pathological person he had ever encountered. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Olson said in his address to the jury, “you have seen me before.” Do I look like a raving madman? The jury members remained calm, but the victim’s family members laughed loudly and loudly exclaimed "Yes!" At the end of the trial, amid applause and shouting, during which some interjected, the judge dismissed the proceedings against Olson, and the parole application was denied. Although Olson was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison without parole, he believed all along that he would be up for parole in 15 years. But the jury took just 15 minutes to reach a verdict denying Olson’s motion. His next opportunity to apply for parole came in 2006. He was held in a maximum security facility in Quebec. During the Section 745 or Faint Hope Clause hearings in 1997, he was prohibited from communicating with the victims’ families, including making phone calls and sending them letters. During Olson’s second parole hearing on July 18, 2006, he was again denied. Olson then made many strange and false statements, including that the United States had pardoned him for providing information about the September 11 attacks. Under Canadian law, Olson was now eligible to apply for parole every two years. In November 2010, Olson was again denied parole . In March 2010, controversy broke out over the issue of paying Clifford Olson an old-age pension. At the time, media reported that Olson received two federal government benefits from Canada totaling C$1,169.47 per month while in prison . Olson was eligible to receive an old-age pension. All individuals who meet the Canadian residency requirements for length of stay in Canada are eligible to receive this pension starting at age 65, and Olson turned 70 on January 1, 2010. Olson also qualified for the Guaranteed Income Supplement, awarded to low-income retirees. The money in question was held in trust by Olson. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has appeared before the federal standing committee on human resource development to force MPs to pass Bill C-31, which would eliminate pension benefits for prisoners. The organization also presented the government with 46,000 signatures on a petition asking that Olson’s benefits be revoked. Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked government officials to look into the matter; On June 1, 2010, the government decided to stop payments to Olson, calling the fact that he was receiving them "outrageous" and "offensive." In September 2010, Olson sent one of his pension checks to a Sun Media reporter with a note asking that the check be given to Stephen Harper’s re-election campaign. In September 2011, media reports appeared that Clifford Olson is diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer and is admitted to the hospital. He died on September 30 , 2011 at the age of 71. When family members of the victims he killed learned of Olson’s death, they felt relieved, and some could not hold back tears of happiness. The last time Constable Mayle saw Olson, he asked him, “What would you do if you got out, Cliff?” Olson grinned and replied, “I would pick up where I left off.” 1