The Canadian Monster - Joseph LaPage
News of the Times Episode 390 | 1870
1874 Vermont and an absolutely horrific crime has been perpetuated on a district schoolteacher.  She is nude and has been violently assaulted and outraged post death.  Investigations are begun in earnest but their prime suspect has a solid alibi.  With a lack of evidence he is released. He and his family leave the state.

1875 New Hampshire and a young girl on her way to school is forcibly taken, brutalised and outraged.  This is followed by her head being cut off and left wrapped in her waterproof away from the body.  Suspects are taken in and questioned.

However, the horrendous murder is reported in the national papers and spotted by a resident in the town where the school teacher was so terribly murdered.  He puts the two crimes together placing in sight one primary suspect.

These shocking crimes involved such dreadful brutality to the victims that much of it could not be placed in the papers but can be found in the trial transcripts.

We take a look at the man they called the Canadian monster – the background, the crimes, and the capture in today’s episode of Murderous Mondays.

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