Rob Tripp

The Parole Board of Canada says the 85-year-old murderer, who is serving five life sentences, remains a threat, despite his age, because of his history of scheming to hire criminals to carry out murders, abductions and other crimes at his behest. In 1973, Demeter hired a hitman who bludgeoned his fashion model wife Christine to death in the garage of the family’s upscale home in Mississauga, Ontario. In a decision dated March 6, 2019, the Parole Board told Demeter that “on balance, your negative factors outweigh your positive and your risk is not considered assumable at the community level. It is the Board’s opinion that you will present an undue risk to society if released and that your release will not contribute to the protection of society by facilitating your reintegration into society as a law-abiding citizen.

In 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was beaten by a group of teens and drowned near Victoria, B. C. Ellard was convicted of murder after a trial heard that she held Reena’s head under water until the badly injured, struggling girl fell limp. The Parole Board of Canada recently released another document (read it below) explaining why Ellard (who has changed her name to Kerry Marie Sim) can continue to live beyond prison walls despite years of lying about the murder of Reena Virk. I will still say I did not kill Reena Virk until the day I die. The written record of the decision by the Parole Board of Canada in July 2018 to extend Ellard’s day parole:

“cured” himself of the aberrant thinking that drove him to rape and murder young women and girls, and that’s why he should be set free. Bernardo also claimed, in an October 17 parole hearing that, although he may have once been considered a psychopath, sexual sadist and narcissist, now, he’s a “nice and compassionate guy. The outlandish claims are documented in the written record of the hearing (read the full doc after the jump). The Parole Board rejected Bernardo’s assertions and denied him any form of release.

The last time Micky McArthur was free from prison, he armed himself with a high-powered rifle, robbed a bank in a small central Ontario town and tried to kill three police officers blocking his getaway. Now, 24 years after the bloody bank heist, the career criminal has convinced authorities to give him unsupervised release from prison. It is well known publicly that investigators believe McArthur kidnapped and murdered a man, 24-year-old Tom Gencarelli, in Kingston, Ontario, in 1982. Cancrime learned that McArthur is a suspect in a second unsolved homicide, a 35-year-old case long shrouded in mystery and tied to the federal prison system.