Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam and Carol Culleton were murdered by Basil Borutski at their homes in and around Wilno, Ont., the morning of Sept. 22, 2015. (CBC News) For full story Watch on YouTube.... Wilno Murders: Why Didn't We Know? - the fifth estate https://youtu.be/UI5teFbIXXI
Basil Borutski, sentenced to life in prison for murdering three of his former partners in a shocking one-day spree of violence in Renfrew County in 2015, will die behind bars.
In a packed Pembroke, Ont., courtroom Wednesday, Borutski learned he'll have to wait in prison for nearly 70 years before he'll be allowed to apply for parole.
By then, he'd be about 128 years old.
"From time to time, a crime is so deplorable, so devoid of mercy, so cold-blooded, that denunciation, retribution and giving a sense of justice to the many victims and the community at large becomes the paramount and virtually singular consideration," Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger said Wednesday.
"This is one such case."
Just outside, flags flew at half-mast in honour of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Anastasia Kuzyk’s sister wept while bagpipers played Amazing Grace as family, friends and neighbours gathered on Saturday to remember the young woman who was found dead in her Wilno home last month.
“She saw the good in everybody,” said Amanda Rabishaw. “To end so tragically goes against the person she was.”
Rabishaw, who competed at horse shows with Kuzyk when they were teenagers, drove to Killaloe from the Toronto area to attend the memorial for her friend, whom many described as a lover of nature and a friend to everyone.
The 36-year-old real estate agent was one of three Wilno-area women slain in their homes on Sept. 22.
Basil Borutski, who had been released from jail in December 2014 after serving 19 months for choking Kuzyk, faces three first-degree murder charges in connection with her death and the deaths of Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66. Warmerdam had also been involved in an abusive relationship with Borutski while Culleton, who was found strangled at her Barry’s Bay area cottage, knew him.
When Kuzyk kicked Borutski out of her Wilno area home in January 2014, she later told police officers, “I thought he was honestly going to kill me. I could see the switch go off in his eyes.”
The deaths have left the community reeling and many asking why the justice system didn’t do a better job of protecting the women.
Borutski, who had been released from jail in December, had refused to sign a probation order to stay away from Kuzyk and not communicate with her, something many have called a red flag. Warmerdam had a buzzer connecting her to police in case of danger. It is not known whether she was wearing it on Sept. 22. Kuzyk did not have a buzzer.
On a table at the front of the packed Lion’s Hall in Killaloe were pictures of Kuzyk as a child and as a young woman, along with trophies from her equestrian days. There was a prominent, recent picture of Kuzyk next to a horse with her words “More love is the answer ” written underneath.
Next to Kuzyk’s picture, a small sign from the family asked for donations in her memory be made to the local women’s shelter and domestic violence committee. It was one of the few references to the circumstances surrounding her death, or to Borutski.
“We have lots of questions,” said Kuzyk’s mother, Sirpa, but she said they were not ready to talk about it.
“This is what you should know about Anastasia,” she said, gesturing around the packed hall whose walls were lined with ribbons from riding competitions that her horse-crazy daughter had won, and pictures from her childhood. Hundreds of people crowded the community hall in the tiny town where friends shared stories and local musicians played. Many lined up to hug Sirpa Kuzyk.
A neighbour said Kuzyk’s family was so devastated by her death that they closed their front gate and kept to themselves in the weeks immediately afterward. Members of the community kept them supplied with food.
On Saturday, Sirpa Kuzyk thanked neighbours and friends for their support and asked them to take home food from the memorial, saying they had been fed enough by their neighbours. Sirpa, who had moved to the area at her daughter’s urging, said they were both convinced the region was “god’s country.”
Kuzyk, who had been a waitress at the Wilno Tavern and later became a real estate agent, had a lifelong love of animals and the outdoors, the gathering was told. She took long walks and runs along trails in the area with her dogs. A community trail ride is going to be held next weekend in her memory.
Basil Borutski, sentenced to life in prison for murdering three of his former partners in a shocking one-day spree of violence in Renfrew County in 2015, will die behind bars.
In a packed Pembroke, Ont., courtroom Wednesday, Borutski learned he'll have to wait in prison for nearly 70 years before he'll be allowed to apply for parole.
By then, he'd be about 128 years old.
"From time to time, a crime is so deplorable, so devoid of mercy, so cold-blooded, that denunciation, retribution and giving a sense of justice to the many victims and the community at large becomes the paramount and virtually singular consideration," Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger said Wednesday.
"This is one such case."
Just outside, flags flew at half-mast in honour of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Anastasia Kuzyk’s sister wept while bagpipers played Amazing Grace as family, friends and neighbours gathered on Saturday to remember the young woman who was found dead in her Wilno home last month.
“She saw the good in everybody,” said Amanda Rabishaw. “To end so tragically goes against the person she was.”
Rabishaw, who competed at horse shows with Kuzyk when they were teenagers, drove to Killaloe from the Toronto area to attend the memorial for her friend, whom many described as a lover of nature and a friend to everyone.
The 36-year-old real estate agent was one of three Wilno-area women slain in their homes on Sept. 22.
Basil Borutski, who had been released from jail in December 2014 after serving 19 months for choking Kuzyk, faces three first-degree murder charges in connection with her death and the deaths of Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66. Warmerdam had also been involved in an abusive relationship with Borutski while Culleton, who was found strangled at her Barry’s Bay area cottage, knew him.
When Kuzyk kicked Borutski out of her Wilno area home in January 2014, she later told police officers, “I thought he was honestly going to kill me. I could see the switch go off in his eyes.”
The deaths have left the community reeling and many asking why the justice system didn’t do a better job of protecting the women.
Borutski, who had been released from jail in December, had refused to sign a probation order to stay away from Kuzyk and not communicate with her, something many have called a red flag. Warmerdam had a buzzer connecting her to police in case of danger. It is not known whether she was wearing it on Sept. 22. Kuzyk did not have a buzzer.
On a table at the front of the packed Lion’s Hall in Killaloe were pictures of Kuzyk as a child and as a young woman, along with trophies from her equestrian days. There was a prominent, recent picture of Kuzyk next to a horse with her words “More love is the answer ” written underneath.
Next to Kuzyk’s picture, a small sign from the family asked for donations in her memory be made to the local women’s shelter and domestic violence committee. It was one of the few references to the circumstances surrounding her death, or to Borutski.
“We have lots of questions,” said Kuzyk’s mother, Sirpa, but she said they were not ready to talk about it.
“This is what you should know about Anastasia,” she said, gesturing around the packed hall whose walls were lined with ribbons from riding competitions that her horse-crazy daughter had won, and pictures from her childhood. Hundreds of people crowded the community hall in the tiny town where friends shared stories and local musicians played. Many lined up to hug Sirpa Kuzyk.
A neighbour said Kuzyk’s family was so devastated by her death that they closed their front gate and kept to themselves in the weeks immediately afterward. Members of the community kept them supplied with food.
On Saturday, Sirpa Kuzyk thanked neighbours and friends for their support and asked them to take home food from the memorial, saying they had been fed enough by their neighbours. Sirpa, who had moved to the area at her daughter’s urging, said they were both convinced the region was “god’s country.”
Kuzyk, who had been a waitress at the Wilno Tavern and later became a real estate agent, had a lifelong love of animals and the outdoors, the gathering was told. She took long walks and runs along trails in the area with her dogs. A community trail ride is going to be held next weekend in her memory.
Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam and Carol Culleton were murdered by Basil Borutski at their homes in and around Wilno, Ont., the morning of Sept. 22, 2015. (CBC News) For full story Watch on YouTube.... Wilno Murders: Why Didn't We Know? - the fifth estate https://youtu.be/UI5teFbIXXI
Basil Borutski, sentenced to life in prison for murdering three of his former partners in a shocking one-day spree of violence in Renfrew County in 2015, will die behind bars.
In a packed Pembroke, Ont., courtroom Wednesday, Borutski learned he'll have to wait in prison for nearly 70 years before he'll be allowed to apply for parole.
By then, he'd be about 128 years old.
"From time to time, a crime is so deplorable, so devoid of mercy, so cold-blooded, that denunciation, retribution and giving a sense of justice to the many victims and the community at large becomes the paramount and virtually singular consideration," Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger said Wednesday.
"This is one such case."
Just outside, flags flew at half-mast in honour of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Anastasia Kuzyk’s sister wept while bagpipers played Amazing Grace as family, friends and neighbours gathered on Saturday to remember the young woman who was found dead in her Wilno home last month.
“She saw the good in everybody,” said Amanda Rabishaw. “To end so tragically goes against the person she was.”
Rabishaw, who competed at horse shows with Kuzyk when they were teenagers, drove to Killaloe from the Toronto area to attend the memorial for her friend, whom many described as a lover of nature and a friend to everyone.
The 36-year-old real estate agent was one of three Wilno-area women slain in their homes on Sept. 22.
Basil Borutski, who had been released from jail in December 2014 after serving 19 months for choking Kuzyk, faces three first-degree murder charges in connection with her death and the deaths of Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66. Warmerdam had also been involved in an abusive relationship with Borutski while Culleton, who was found strangled at her Barry’s Bay area cottage, knew him.
When Kuzyk kicked Borutski out of her Wilno area home in January 2014, she later told police officers, “I thought he was honestly going to kill me. I could see the switch go off in his eyes.”
The deaths have left the community reeling and many asking why the justice system didn’t do a better job of protecting the women.
Borutski, who had been released from jail in December, had refused to sign a probation order to stay away from Kuzyk and not communicate with her, something many have called a red flag. Warmerdam had a buzzer connecting her to police in case of danger. It is not known whether she was wearing it on Sept. 22. Kuzyk did not have a buzzer.
On a table at the front of the packed Lion’s Hall in Killaloe were pictures of Kuzyk as a child and as a young woman, along with trophies from her equestrian days. There was a prominent, recent picture of Kuzyk next to a horse with her words “More love is the answer ” written underneath.
Next to Kuzyk’s picture, a small sign from the family asked for donations in her memory be made to the local women’s shelter and domestic violence committee. It was one of the few references to the circumstances surrounding her death, or to Borutski.
“We have lots of questions,” said Kuzyk’s mother, Sirpa, but she said they were not ready to talk about it.
“This is what you should know about Anastasia,” she said, gesturing around the packed hall whose walls were lined with ribbons from riding competitions that her horse-crazy daughter had won, and pictures from her childhood. Hundreds of people crowded the community hall in the tiny town where friends shared stories and local musicians played. Many lined up to hug Sirpa Kuzyk.
A neighbour said Kuzyk’s family was so devastated by her death that they closed their front gate and kept to themselves in the weeks immediately afterward. Members of the community kept them supplied with food.
On Saturday, Sirpa Kuzyk thanked neighbours and friends for their support and asked them to take home food from the memorial, saying they had been fed enough by their neighbours. Sirpa, who had moved to the area at her daughter’s urging, said they were both convinced the region was “god’s country.”
Kuzyk, who had been a waitress at the Wilno Tavern and later became a real estate agent, had a lifelong love of animals and the outdoors, the gathering was told. She took long walks and runs along trails in the area with her dogs. A community trail ride is going to be held next weekend in her memory.
Basil Borutski, sentenced to life in prison for murdering three of his former partners in a shocking one-day spree of violence in Renfrew County in 2015, will die behind bars.
In a packed Pembroke, Ont., courtroom Wednesday, Borutski learned he'll have to wait in prison for nearly 70 years before he'll be allowed to apply for parole.
By then, he'd be about 128 years old.
"From time to time, a crime is so deplorable, so devoid of mercy, so cold-blooded, that denunciation, retribution and giving a sense of justice to the many victims and the community at large becomes the paramount and virtually singular consideration," Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger said Wednesday.
"This is one such case."
Just outside, flags flew at half-mast in honour of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Anastasia Kuzyk’s sister wept while bagpipers played Amazing Grace as family, friends and neighbours gathered on Saturday to remember the young woman who was found dead in her Wilno home last month.
“She saw the good in everybody,” said Amanda Rabishaw. “To end so tragically goes against the person she was.”
Rabishaw, who competed at horse shows with Kuzyk when they were teenagers, drove to Killaloe from the Toronto area to attend the memorial for her friend, whom many described as a lover of nature and a friend to everyone.
The 36-year-old real estate agent was one of three Wilno-area women slain in their homes on Sept. 22.
Basil Borutski, who had been released from jail in December 2014 after serving 19 months for choking Kuzyk, faces three first-degree murder charges in connection with her death and the deaths of Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66. Warmerdam had also been involved in an abusive relationship with Borutski while Culleton, who was found strangled at her Barry’s Bay area cottage, knew him.
When Kuzyk kicked Borutski out of her Wilno area home in January 2014, she later told police officers, “I thought he was honestly going to kill me. I could see the switch go off in his eyes.”
The deaths have left the community reeling and many asking why the justice system didn’t do a better job of protecting the women.
Borutski, who had been released from jail in December, had refused to sign a probation order to stay away from Kuzyk and not communicate with her, something many have called a red flag. Warmerdam had a buzzer connecting her to police in case of danger. It is not known whether she was wearing it on Sept. 22. Kuzyk did not have a buzzer.
On a table at the front of the packed Lion’s Hall in Killaloe were pictures of Kuzyk as a child and as a young woman, along with trophies from her equestrian days. There was a prominent, recent picture of Kuzyk next to a horse with her words “More love is the answer ” written underneath.
Next to Kuzyk’s picture, a small sign from the family asked for donations in her memory be made to the local women’s shelter and domestic violence committee. It was one of the few references to the circumstances surrounding her death, or to Borutski.
“We have lots of questions,” said Kuzyk’s mother, Sirpa, but she said they were not ready to talk about it.
“This is what you should know about Anastasia,” she said, gesturing around the packed hall whose walls were lined with ribbons from riding competitions that her horse-crazy daughter had won, and pictures from her childhood. Hundreds of people crowded the community hall in the tiny town where friends shared stories and local musicians played. Many lined up to hug Sirpa Kuzyk.
A neighbour said Kuzyk’s family was so devastated by her death that they closed their front gate and kept to themselves in the weeks immediately afterward. Members of the community kept them supplied with food.
On Saturday, Sirpa Kuzyk thanked neighbours and friends for their support and asked them to take home food from the memorial, saying they had been fed enough by their neighbours. Sirpa, who had moved to the area at her daughter’s urging, said they were both convinced the region was “god’s country.”
Kuzyk, who had been a waitress at the Wilno Tavern and later became a real estate agent, had a lifelong love of animals and the outdoors, the gathering was told. She took long walks and runs along trails in the area with her dogs. A community trail ride is going to be held next weekend in her memory.
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