Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

394: The Castleton Massacre with Margaret Carson & Sharon Anne Cook


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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, Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret 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.


Their book is called "The Castleton Massacre: Survivors' Stories of the Killins Femicide" and the authors join me to discuss this horrific and very personal tragedy.



Their publisher's book page: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459749863-the-castleton-massacre

Sharon Anne Cook's website: https://sharonannecook.com/

Sharon Anne Cook's faculty page: https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-education/sharon-anne-cook

More about Margaret Carson: https://www.dundurn.com/authors_/t156375/p148940-margaret-carson


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