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Castleton Massacre: Survivors' Stories of the Killins Femicide
Castleton Massacre: Survivors' Stories of the Killins Femicide | Sharon Anne Cook, Margaret Carson
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A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten?On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen's University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them.Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening. While they situate this murderous rampage in the literature on domestic abuse and mass murders, they also explore how the two traumatized child survivors found their way back to health and happiness. Told through vivid first-person accounts, this family memoir explores how a murderer was created.
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Wow! First a bit of advice – don‘t read the chapter that describes the murders close to bedtime! It was terrifying and violent. With one of the authors having been there and the oral histories given by her brother who was also there and a couple of other people who tried to help, all put together, you get an awful feeling of being hunted (as I‘m sure both Margaret and Brian felt)! Cont in comments...

LibraryCin That being said, I am a fan of true crime, and I do like biographies, so all put together, a very very good book. And murders I had never heard of before this. 1y
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I thought this was a moving account of a tragic story. Starting with the lives of Robert's parents, the authors take the reader through the early history of the family, to the events of that night, & the aftermath. It was sensitively done, keeping the shocking nature of the murders but not sensationalising them. 4🌟

TW: stalking, violence, domestic abuse, death of a child, death of pregnant women, death of a pet.

OutsmartYourShelf My thanks to NetGalley & publishers, Dundurn Press, for the opportunity to read an ARC. #NetGalley

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4657771164

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Wow! Don‘t read the chapter that describes the murders close to bedtime! It was terrifying and violent. With one of the authors having been there and the oral histories given by her brother who was also there and a couple of other people who tried to help, all put together, you get an awful feeling of being hunted! I am a fan of true crime, and I do like biographies, so all together, a very good book. And murders I had never heard of before this.